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Marta Alonso Canillar

Visual Arts: Murals, Painting

I was born in Spain but have made my home in California since 1991. As a young girl growing up in Spain in the seventies and eighties I was never encouraged to pursue a career in the arts so my artistic inclinations were put in the background as something I did on occasion, never a priority. I am an emerging artist with no formal academic training in the arts. Nevertheless, art has always been an important focus in my life. Over the years, I have taken occasional classes either in Junior Colleges or private studios in photography and ceramics. In 2014, I took oil painting lessons for the first time, from Cynda Valle in Willits, and soon after I got a commission to do a large painting at Mariposa Market portraying a collage look of rural Mendocino. A year later, the newly built hospital in Willits commissioned me to do another painting of the same scale. This time, it depicted a more representational look of their kitchen garden. Early on, portraiture became a favorite of mine and got a few commissions, some of which are in San Diego and Spain. I have been working very “diligently” over the past 3 years to produce a body of work ready to show at some venue. I started the year 2018 presenting three paintings at the Mendocino Art Center, in Mendocino, for their juried exhibit and took Best-in-Show for one of them. I had an exhibit in Willits at the Brickhouse Coffee for the months of February, March and April of 2018 and am currently showing at Edgewater Gallery in Fort Bragg. This year too, I am going to venture into doing Murals in Fort Bragg for the newly established Mural Project and have already lined up a commission for that. Working with Cynda Valle was a reawakening experience. Not only did she teach me the technicalities of oil painting but has encouraged me to look at my art as part of my self, and extension of my being, allowing me to understand that there are no wrongs in the process of making art, helping me to discard those insecurities and replacing them with confidence, as a woman and an artist.

Svetlana Artemoff

Visual Arts: Painting

I was born and raised in San Francisco and took for granted the great art programs in my public school and the ability to access local museums free. As a child, I took classes at the SF De Young Museum and could wander the galleries with sketchbook in hand. Art had to take a back seat while I worked and raised a family. Now that I’ve retired, I am able to take inspiration from the beautiful scenery of Sonoma and Mendocino County and enjoy their supportive artist communities. Although I started painting in oil, and still offer pet portraits in that medium, I also work in watercolor, colored pencil, pen/ink and collage. Most recently, I’ve tried pastels and came to love their texture and softness, especially when used for painting outdoors. Whatever medium I use, I try to capture the emotional essence of what I’m painting.

Susan Barnes

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting

I began in the mid-1970s doing watercolor paintings of landscapes. I love people, so it was not long before I began doing portraits in watercolor also. In the mid-1980s, I moved to Hawaii with my husband Jim, and there started painting in the bright colors I saw in my subjects every day. This continued when I focused more on oil impressionist painting as I moved to the Mendocino Coast in 1992. I moved around Northern California as my husband relocated for his work, but he retired in 2016 and we returned to the Mendocino Coast, which we love. I presently show in the Highlight Gallery in Mendocino.

Susan Blackwelder

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Painting

I am primarily a painter but enjoy dabbling in ceramics, especially clay sculpture. I specialize in portraits of people and pets in oil or pastel though I also enjoy doing landscapes and still life painting. My training in drawing has given me skills that I use in every medium. See more on Susan Blackwelder’s Corner Gallery web page.

Garry Colson

My creative work includes landscape paintings of what I see around me every day. To capture the experience and mood of the subject, I may choose either watercolor, pastels, acrylic, or ink to express what I see and feel.

Laura Diamondstone

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper

SF Bay area native with many hairpin turns and destinations, currently rooting as a small homesteader in Anderson Valley. Inspired from a lifelong absorption of a spectrum of visual, writing and performing arts by extraordinary and ordinary creatives. My art making is expression, giving tangible form to what sustains inner to environment exchange and dialogue as well as how materials/color/creative process/experience informs and shapes the process. It is an act of indulgence, necessity, and evolution. Abstraction is challenging, experimenting with materials is research, representational and figurative work exercises neurotransmission. I believe in all of it and nature and giving back.

Margo Frank

Visual Arts: Painting

Making art is my compass, guiding me through the challenges of living in an aging body, in a chaotic world threatened by climate change, injustice and despotic rulers. My work is often a visual expression of a sensory experience- the smell of smoke, the heart-pounding fascination of watching a fire on the next ridge, the weight of hopelessness. in my twenties the creative force that had been squashed at an early age by a shaming teacher was re-ignited, taking me initially into the world of fabric arts and basket-making. Being part of the MendoDada group helped me see that art could be fun, irreverent and political. In the early part of this century I turned from mixed media to painting, first working in acrylic and then, when I discovered the luminosity and versatility of encaustic, working in that medium. At a certain point I noticed that I just wanted to paint on the surface of my encaustic pieces and returned to painting on canvas, using water soluble oil paints. More recently, I’ve found a happy medium between encaustic and oil painting by incorporating cold wax into my work. My relationship with art-making is continually informed and inspired by my work as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, my deep connection to the natural world and the delight of grand parenting two young, creative souls.

Sunny Franson

Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Painting; author, publisher, digital formatting including photos,

Sunny Franson Currently I live on a small walnut acreage where you feel connected to earth and surroundings. With degrees in wildlife biology and cultural anthropology, minors in language and music, and graduate work in ethnomusicology, I tend to see ecosystems, because that’s how nature works. This planet has so much beauty and intelligence, the scale is infinite and inspiration is a given. Adaptation, oil, 24x18x0.5, ©sfranson, $1300 Like everyone I continue to evolve as a person, for me in ecology, art, and writing. Time is a precious commodity as it is for everyone, and sometimes life and its pitfalls overtake you. Then you have to choose priorities carefully. It’s vital to remain committed because after all it’s your lifetime. See a video of some of my artwork at https://youtu.be/_GMKa3QYKwY Chicken society is part of The Secret Lives of Chickens or Tales from the Chickenyard and Beyond. My dad called the book he wrote when in his late 80’s Second Age. He had hoped to see it formatted and published, and it was an honor to do that for him. Dark Water is about healing from posttraumatic stress by Opal Rose. Reflections: A Modest Collection of Short Stories includes stories that are complete fiction although some include ecology. Every experience becomes a teacher and every painting, book, or woodland pool adds to that, but most of all, they underscore the importance of humility. Best not to put your moments off. Once they’re past, they’re gone forever. Never forget to be grateful and to share. Contact: sunny@pacific.net Webpages at pixels.com: https://pixels.com/profiles/sunny-franson/shop www.rootlets.com Web Gallery Representation: Personal http://www.rootlets.com Artists for Conservation Foundation http://gallery.artistsforconservation.org/artists/1334 Fine Art America https://pixels.com/artists/sunny+franson Professional Affiliations, Art Current member: Artists for Conservation http://www.artistsforconservation.org Current member: Oil Painters of America http://oilpaintersofamerica.com Current member: Lake County Arts Council http://lakearts.org/default.htm Current member: Gualala Arts Council http://gualalaarts.org Current member: Arts Council of Mendocino County http://www.artrsmendocino.org Art Exhibits, Galleries Main Street Gallery, 325 Main St, Lakeport, CA 707.263.6658, www.lakearts.org Dolphin, 39225 Hwy 1, Gualala, CA 95445 707.884.3896, http://gualalaarts.org/dolphin-gallery Gualala Arts, 46501 Old State Highway, Gualala, CA 95445 707.884.1138, http://www.gualalaarts.org Art Center, Corner Gallery, 201 South State St, Ukiah, CA 95482 707.462.1400, http://www.artcenterukiah.org Author, Publisher Books and ebooks are available online and at brick and mortar stores. More information and links are at http://www.rootlets.com The Secret Lives of Chickens by Sunny Franson www.rootlets.com/chickens/chickens.html Second Age, by Carl Franson www.rootlets.com/secondage/secondage.html Dark Water: Healing from Stress after Trauma, by Opal Rose www.darkwaterrippling.com Reflections, by Sunny Franson www.rootlets.com/reflections/reflections.html

Patti Harney

Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Painting; colored pencil drawings

What inspires me to paint is a deep reverence for the innate beauty that surrounds us. I look beyond the obvious and find the beauty within the ordinary. It’s always with humility that I strive to paint that essence into being. From The Girls 27×23 colored pencil on paper, custom framed $1250 I paint with oils, mostly on plywood panels. This allows me to sand, scrape and burn to create rich layers of color and texture. Recently, I have introduced colored pencil drawings to my body of work. My daughter, Lisa, works with me in the business of art and one of the things we love doing together is making hand painted dish towels. We call it “Functional art made with love”. I am a full-time member of the Northcoast Artists Gallery in downtown Fort Bragg. It is here that I show my work (including the dish towels!) year-round. Journey 20×26 oil on wood $1050 This August (8/3-8/29/2022) I will be the featured artist for a solo show at the Northcoast Artists Gallery. I’ll be displaying a wide range of original works, including many new pieces and, matted prints. The name of the show is “Convergence”. Opening night is Friday, August 5th – please come by for a glass of wine and a chat. The show will otherwise be running during normal gallery hours, open every day except Tuesdays. See more of Patti Harney’s artwork at her website. August 6th and 7th Lisa and I will be selling our dish towels at the 29th annual “Art in the Gardens” at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens in Fort Bragg. We’ve even designed a new dahlia motif for this special event. Come enjoy this beautiful setting filled with art, music, food and drink.

Diza Hope

Visual Arts: Murals, Painting, Works on paper

Diza Hope is a Northern California painter working in oil, acrylic and pencil. She studied at California College of the Arts and draws inspiration mostly from natural forms. Lately she has been interested in investigating the architecture, rigidity and beauty of animal skulls juxtaposed against the delicate, undulating and graceful shapes found in flower petals. Besides the formal interest; the distillation of the skull becomes a symbol of our universality and basic oneness, being that we are all made of the same carbon, calcium and stardust and the flower, a symbol of our impermanence, but also the beauty we all have the capacity to create and share. Color plays an important role in her painting process as well and she enjoys pushing the boundaries between harmony and discord through her use of it.

Sanna Koski

Visual Arts: Painting

Painting and drawing have been a lifelong pursuit for me. I focused on realistic portrait drawing in black and white for many years, before deciding to dedicate myself to learning to paint landscapes and the figure from life in watercolor and oil. I also paint portraits of people as well as animals in both mediums. You can see more at my website: SannaKoski.com I show my artwork at the Prentice Gallery in Mendocino, and I welcome commissions.

Larain Matheson

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting; Encaustic wax and oil

These recent paintings I’ve done reflect my love and inspiration from nature, and abstracting the forms I see in the universe. I have been working in ENCAUSTIC WAX and OILS for over 8 years. I have been an artist for over 35 years and received an M.F.A. from U.CL.A. I am captivated by the medium of encaustic which reveals new space and depth, colors, transparencies and surprises. Use of multimedia and collage in my work to experiment with the pigmented wax , I can pour, paint, monoprint and texture the paintings. My work spans abstract to realism. I am always connecting with the energy of the four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. See more at larainmathesonart.com Encaustic is an ancient medium dating back 2000 years, and was used by the Greeks and Egyptians. I am a member of the Encaustic Art Institute in Santa Fe N.M. and have exhibited my work in Mendocino Art Center, Dolphin Gallery , Cirrus Gallery in Marin, Sebastopol Art Center, Berkeley Art Center, and numerous other galleries and shows throughout California and Colorado. My work is published in the EAI catalogue in Santa Fe, and in “Art Takes Miami “book for 2012. I have taught art at Riverside City College, Santa Ana Jr. College and Marin JC . in California. I continue to teach Encaustic Workshops at my ocean studio twice a year, in Fall and Spring. The process I use takes many turns and as long as I am open to the way the paint moves and the process of heating each layer with a torch to “fuse” the paint, the patterns and images begin to emerge. I paint to discover the unseen, make it visible and return to the connections that nature inspires.

James Maxwell

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Multi-media Artist, Author, Arts Educator, James Maxwell moved to the Mendocino Coast in 1973. A few examples of his prolific creative work can be seen below. Top of The Fen (From Visual Essay on Our Local Wilderness) 2’ X 4’ acrylic paint Some details: James E. Maxwell Born: June 15, 1941 Riverside, California Drew and Painted at an early age Riverside School District 1946 thru 1959 Childhood summer vacations with immediate family: 1949 thru 1958 Pacific Northwest and Western Canada Joined US Air Force 1959 After military testing for skills Studied Pattern Recognition and types of Military Codes Assigned Bremerhaven, Germany US Security Service Three years duty. My own one room painting studio in Germany 1960-1963 Traveled extensively throughout Western Europe Museums, and artists’ open studios College: BFA, MFA Art Center College of Design 1963 -1969 William Zacha’s Geranium (Brought Home) 3’ X 4’ oil paint w/copper and faux gold leaf Work: The Hollywood Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Los Angeles Area Television Academy Awards 1970 Honors JAMES MAXWELL Graphics For Contributions to the winning of an Area Television Academy Award OUT OF THE SHADOWS KNBC-TV june 26, 1970 PBS-TV Staff Artist Los Angeles 1974-1976 One Man Showings: La Cieniga Blvd – Hollywood, CA each year 1973-1976 1976 Moved to Mendocino, Northern California Fine Arts-illustration Painting/Sculpture instructor Mendocino Art Center & College of the Redwoods Retired at 68 years of age Returned to Europe when 70 for six weeks visiting friends in England, France, Switzerland, Northern Italy. At 72 returned to England and Northern Scotland, Isle of Sky Traveled with painting supplies South Pacific, Hawaii, American Samoa, Western Samoa, Kingdom of Tonga, and New Zealand, Ireland East West and South for six weeks spring Summer 2016 Returned home overlooking Fort Bragg, CA’s Pudding Creek “I focus on what I can learn from images that question me as much as I question them.” JM

Performing Arts: Spoken Word, Storytelling, Vocal; Visual Arts: Film, Illustration, Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

JAYE ALISON MOSCARIELLO, MFA, Transart Institute/Plymouth University Cell/Studio: 310.970.4517 artisall@earthlink.net www.chasethemonkey.org BORN New Haven, CT RESIDE Redwood Valley, CA SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 2007 “The Last Show,” Asto International Art Festival, Asto Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA “Simultaneous Multiplicity,” Asto Museum, Los Angeles, CA Gwangwhamoon Int’l Art Festival, Korea National Assembly Library of Korea GIAF, Korean Cultural Center, Bejing, China 2006 “15th Lantern of the East LA International,” Asto Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2002 “Mane Manebu,” Kid’s Plaza Museum, Osaka, Japan. 2000 “Bridging Two Milleniums,” Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India 1999 “Group Show,” Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India. Rutman, Howard, “What’s Up & Coming,” LA City Search.com, January 2002. Emenegger, Ashley, “How to Get Unstuck,” Artline Newsletter, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2001. Etkin, Jay S., “Body & Self – A Hit in Memphis,” I.A.S.G. Newsletter, vol.7, num.2, Mar 2000. Lalit Kala Akademi, Catalog, I.A.S.G. Invitational, March 1999. Shaw, David, “1nE Review,” Memphis Flyer, Memphis, TN, December 1999. Shay, Daniel, “7th Street Int’l: Round Up the Usual Suspects,” I.A.S.G. Newsletter, vol.4, num.10, Washington, DC, December 1997. ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCIES 2006 – 2008 SEA, Montebello, CA Berendo Middle School, Los Angeles, CA La Vida West Pregnant Minor Program, Lawndale, CA Sponsored by Theatre of Hearts/Youth First, Los Angeles, CA PUBLIC ART 2008 Walgrove Elementary School – Courtyard Mural , Mar Vista, CA Hillcrest Elementary School – Outdoor Mural, Los Angelels,CA 2007 99th Street Elementary School, Library Mural, Los Angeles, CA 42nd Street Elementary School, Outdoor Mural, Los Angeles, CA ART WORKSHOPS 2000-2005 “Breaking Out”, Art Bootcamp for Blocked Creatives, Santa Monica, CA “One Minute Storytelling” Sister Corita Art Center, Los Angeles, CA “Sending a Message,” Sister Corita Art Center, LA, CA EDUCATION MFA, Transart Institute/Plymouth University, Berlin, Germany and Plymouth,UK

Jaye Alison Moscariello

Performing Arts: Storytelling, Vocal; Visual Arts: Film, Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

JAYE ALISON MOSCARIELLO 12400 Bakers Creek Rd. Redwood Valley, CA 95470 310.970.4517 artisall@earthlink.net www.chasethemonkey.org www.jayesite.com @jayepo BORN New Haven, CT RESIDE Redwood Valley, CA EDUCATION 2013 – 2015 Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany and New York, New York Masters of Fine Art 2012-2013 Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA 2004 Santa Monica Community College, Santa Monica, CA 2000 University of California Los Angeles, CA 1993 Art Students League of New York, New York, NY 1977-1978 Creative Arts Workshop Studio, New Haven, CT 1972-1976 Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 “The Anthropocene Show”, Redwood Valley Grange, Redwood Valley, CA* 2015 “Transient Transgressions”, Somos Gallery, Berlin, Germany* 2015 “Loose Ends”, Somos Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2014 “Pop-Up” Show, Transart Institute at Somos Gallery, Berlin, Germany (July) 2014 “Fifth Annual Altered Books Exhibition”, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA (Apr.) 2013 “Pop-Up” Show, Transart Institute at SuperMarket, Berlin, Germany 2012 “Food for Thought” Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA 2012 “Anderson Valley Artists” Oddfellows Hall, Mendocino, CA 2010 “Anderson Valley Artists” Oddfellows Hall, Mendocino, CA “Artist Collective at Elk at Gualala” Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA 2009 “Artists Collective at Elk” Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA* “113th Annual Open Juried Exhibition” Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, National Arts Club, NY “Art in the Redwoods,” Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA 2007 “The Last Show”, Asto International Art Festival, Asto Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA “Simultaneous Multiplicity,” Asto Museum, Los Angeles, CA Gwangwhamoon Int’l Art Festival, Korea National Assembly Library of Korea GIAF, Korean Cultural Center, Bejing, China 2007 “Paris Open 2007” Atelier Grognard, Rueill-MalMaison, France/Espace, Villpinte, France 2007 “THE Swimming Pool Show” ROARK, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “15th Lantern of the East LA International,” Asto Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “15th Lantern of the East LA International,” Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “10 Points of View,” ROARK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA * 2004 “Hollywood Bowl Sphere Art Project,” Cause & Effect Gallery, Torrance, CA. 2003 “From Korea to Iraq…” Anti War Posters Show, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. 2002 “Reactions,” The Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA. “Naughty Bits & Pieces,” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA. curated by Christopher Miles “Reactions,” Exit Art, New York, NY 2002 “Mane Manebu,” Kid’s Plaza Museum, Osaka, Japan. 2001 “California Open,” curator, Christopher Miles, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA. “Watermedia,” Bigfork Art & Cultural Center, Bigfork, MT. 2001 “It Figures,” Key Club Video Billboard Show, Los Angeles, CA.4- Person Show, 1st LA Billboard art show. page 2/Moscariello 2001 “Lust & Revenge in the Year of the Snake,” Josephine Butler Center, Washington, DC. 2001 “I.A.S.G. at MOCA,” Museum of Contemporary Art DC, Washington, DC. 2000 “Bridging Two Milleniums,” Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India 2000 “Invitational,” MOCA-DC, Washington, DC. 2000 “California Open,” curated by Carol Ann Kloneides, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA “Reflections of Humanity,” Marlboro Gallery, Largo, MD. “Body & Self,” Cooper Street Contemporary Gallery, Memphis, TN.* 1999 “1nE,” Vertigo Gallery, Memphis, TN. 1999 “I.A.S.G. Group Show,” Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India. 1998 “Downtown Lives_,” Downtown Artists Development Association, Los Angeles, CA “Erotica,” Olympia Hall, London, England. “Speak Out_,” Matrix Arts Gallery, Sacramento, CA. 1997 “Generations,” A.I.R. Gallery -25th Anniversary Invitational, New York, NY. 1994 “Art of Northeast America,” curated by Holly Solomon, Silvermine Artists Guild, New Canaan, CT “Group 1V,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY. 1993 “Art of Northeast America,” curated by Eliza Rathbone, Silvermine Artists Guild, New Canaan, CT “Group Annual,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Armory, Brooklyn, NY. 1992 “Salon of the Mating Spider,” Testsite, Williamsburg, NY. “Annual Show,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York, NY. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 “Politic-OH!”, Willits Center for the Arts, Willits, CA, Oct. 2011 “Chase the Monkey,” Scharffenberger Cellars Art Gallery, Philo, CA 2010 “Mendocino Coast” Lauren’s, Boonville, CA “Land and Sea,” Artists Collective at Elk, Elk,CA “Ocean Series,” Canele, Los Angeles, CA 2003 “Narrative Works,” Flynn Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2002 “Inside/Out,” Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA SELECTED ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Reith, Sarah, “The Anthropocene Show”, Ukiah Daily Journal, April 2016 Museum of Contemporary Art – KIASMA Studio,“In the Middle of a Movie,” Catalog, Helsinki, Finland, November 2004. Dickson, Laurie, “Artists Interiors…,” Rockport Publishing, November 2003. Mastbaum, Blair, “Art Pick,” DigitalCity.LA, Los Angeles, CA, November 2002. Emenegger, Ashley, “Drive-by Art,” Artline Newsletter, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2002. Rutman, Howard, “What’s Up & Coming,” LA City Search.com, January 2002. Emenegger, Ashley, “How to Get Unstuck,” Artline Newsletter, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2001. Etkin, Jay S., “Body & Self – A Hit in Memphis,” I.A.S.G. Newsletter, vol.7, num.2, Mar 2000. Lalit Kala Akademi, Catalog, I.A.S.G. Invitational, March 1999. Shaw, David, “1nE Review,” Memphis Flyer, Memphis, TN, December 1999. Shay, Daniel, “7th Street Int’l: Round Up the Usual Suspects,” I.A.S.G. Newsletter, vol.4, num.10, Washington, DC, December 1997. . SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA Library of Congress, Washington, DC National Archives, Washington, DC Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bob Hope Wing, Los Angeles, CA *Co-curator

Bill Mulvihill

Graphic Arts; Media; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper

Bill Mulvihill has lived on the north coast since 1970. In the early seventies he worked with Mendocino Art Center instructors Charles Stevenson and Dorr Bothwell. He was also involved in theatre productions performed there, doing posters, stage managing, costume and set design. In the years since then, Bill has worked in many art mediums, drawing, portraiture and printmaking being particular favorites. After completing the College of the Redwoods Graphic Communications Program, he received the certificate in May 2007. Currently, in addition to working with the Arts Council of Mendocino County, he is assistant editor for the Fort Bragg – Mendocino Coast Historical Society newsletter, “Voice of the Past”. Bill also does other design/layout work, digitizing analog audio, & CD and DVD disc design and duplication.

Gene Avery North

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting

Leopard Woman and the Teachers ©2013, 30 x 48 Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Gene Avery North studied painting and photography with Burton Callicott and William Eggleston, respectively. She currently resides in the hill country of Northern California. Strongly influenced by the realism of the fifteenth century Flemish and Italian masters, Gene uses her technical capability, combined with spiritual symbolism, to create a very realistic dreamtime world. For Gene, the creative process begins with an impression, a fully developed image which is the inspiration itself. Little or nothing is done to change or interpret these original “ideas” or lucid dreams. The meaning of these symbols is up to the viewer. “One reason I paint is because I was unable to go to veterinary school, and the art school let me go there for free. Then I mostly painted for rich Texans, which left me indelibly outraged. Now that I am on some hard-won social security, I no longer have to do commissions of things that I would not do otherwise. Painting is the best way I know how to express myself, without using language. I talk way too much. I have always wanted to be a cartoonist, who could paint like Bronzino. Back in those days, if the powers that be did not like what you painted, you would be drawn and quartered by four laughing horsemen. I do not like to talk about art, because the personal reasons I have for painting, are completely irrelevant to the viewer. When I say my words about the paintings, they influence the people who read these placards. Sometimes when I go to a museum, I realize that I just spent more time reading the message than actually looking at the picture. And while it may be true that the meaning is what fascinates, I would wish that the paintings could just speak for themselves. For this reason, there are no cards for you to read about these paintings. Sometimes when you dream, or “see” something interesting, you would never dare to put it into words. There’s something very libelous about words in America, but happily, it’s still safe to be a “crazy artist”. There is no explanation for spending about 500-1,000 hours on each picture. Doing something with my hands, and focusing my attention on that, makes me stop thinking. Which is very quiet, and peaceful. I like to paint heroes and goddesses, with plenty of horses. I like to make graven images and pray to them while I paint them! I want the world to be happy. I am an artist because it prevents me from exploding.”

Button Quinn

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture

I have been an Artist or rather I have been painting and drawing since i was seven years old. You could say I was born into it. From a large Irish/English family, art was a main pastime in every sense of the word. Button has lived on the Mendocino Coast for 45 years, raised three daughters and has seven Grandchildren. Owns Cobalt gallery promotes her work and offers Guest Artist‘s one man shows. 2022 Button was guest artist at Art in the Garden, which is held every year at the Botanical Gardens.

Janet Rosen

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Works on paper

Why make art? For many of us it is a way to mediate reality, to integrate and make sense of the world and then put it “out there” for others to experience. My aim is to create a narrative with enough space for the viewer to enter and find their own story. See more drawings & paintings in the gallery below and at www.janetrosen.com I enjoy working in series, some of which may be completed within weeks while others encompass years of intermittent work. Most projects end up being meditations on time, whether it’s capturing the play of light on moving water, the distortion of time created by illness or isolation, the passage of the sun and the seasons across an oak-studded hill, or the temporality of human life. During the pandemic I began a daily drawing practice focused on the faces of fellow artists on the Sktchy app and more recently this has led me to picking up water-soluble oils for portraiture. You can reach Janet Rosen at mendojanet(at)gmail.com

Micah Sanger

Visual Arts: Painting

Visionary Arts Gallery 45004 Albion St. #8, Mendocino At the Gallery paintings from my Traveling Museum Exhibit (https://www.perception4u.com/museumexhibit) are displayed along with the theoretical physicist quotes that accompany each painting. The exhibit is to encourage viewers to explore in depth the meaning of the words of these great insightful, intuitive physicists and to allow the paintings to lift them into new ways of looking upon their world, revealing its mystery and wonder. An enriching experience awaits the visitors to the Gallery who come with a curiosity and a wish to live life to its fullness and who know that there is much more going on here in this world than first meets the eye. New Video: “The Art of Theoretical Physics” FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD of “TOBE and the RIVER IS” In celebration of our courage and compassion during these times, and because, for many, it is also financially challenging, I would like to offer everyone a free download of my award-winning book https://www.perception4u.com/bookgift ____________________________________________________________ If You Feel Inspired to, please make a donation to the Arts Council of Mendocino County Explore with Tobe the power and wonder of the great River Is. Go on an adventure which is the discovery of yourself. Reviews: “Sanger has succeeded in writing the modern-day Siddhartha: an intricate tale of a deep spiritual journey, within and without. His artistic use of words and illustrations gently opens the door to truth and carries you to the living River; you will be hooked.” Joe Kittel, author of Spiritual Principles in Strategic Alliances and founder of SPiBR.org LLC. “Gorgeous phrasing, fully entrancing and sparkling with freshness. The author has a fine instinct for wowing the reader at the start, and throughout, with beautifully crafted sentences. Even better, the effect hides the effort. Nothing about this book seems forced which is what elevates it. And the wow factor of this book is masterfully-written. Beautiful visuals…engage our senses and place us in the scene. Well done. Stays with the reader.” Writer’s Digest Judge, 24th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards ____________________________________________________________ Biography I have been an active artist producing paintings since 1970 when I changed my major at Clemson University from engineering to art studio. That was when I discovered my true passion for art. I have been diligent and dedicated to my calling as an artist ever since. I continued my development as an artist when I apprenticed under the nationally known artist Richard Goetz in the early seventies for a brief time, followed by attending the University of Santa Barbara and Chico State University, CA, from 1980 to 1985. Plums – Unified Field, 7″ x 15″ mixed media In 1996 I pulled away from the gallery art scene to go deep into a contemplative life—a life of open-eyed meditation, studying the world 8 to 12 hours a day and often more for many days of the week while taking notes, making sketches, and developing paintings about what I was observing. Out of this exploration into perception and awareness, a rich new way of looking at my world and a new approach to painting arose. Besides objects becoming more alive and energetic in my perception, a sense of this world existing in a dimension, and what I call a “unified field” arose. These perceptions, I found, do not subtract from this physical experience but only add to its mystery and wonder. They also parallel, in many ways, the ideas of theoretical physics. Beyond Form to the Light, 56.5″ x 106″ mixed media I started working on an educational website, (www.perception4u.com) to pass on to others through the text and exercises the experiences and insights I was having. I used my paintings to give visual expression to the ideas I was relaying. Through the exercises on the website, I was attempting to open up to others their own revelations of deeper levels of perception. Over time a substantial number of paintings were created. I knew that one day they would be the source of future exhibits. Barn Jackson Hole, 54.5″ x 61″ mixed media As I watched people interfacing with the exercises of the website, I realized that some individuals needed a more emotional approach to exploring perception. So, in 2013 I began writing and illustrating my book, “Tō•bē and the River Is,” with the idea that through the life of the protagonist, people could experience new ways of looking at their world. The Dream of a World in a Holy Mind It is a whimsical fairytale full of living metaphor. The “River Is” is itself a metaphor for the matrix of the unified field that surrounds us. It was published in 2016 and has already won two Global eBook Awards, one for illustrations, The New Apple Book Award, followed by the prestigious Ben Franklin Award and the Nautilus Book Award. (The book website is www.4riveris.com ) Turtle Rock and Back View of Artist-Dimension, 28″ x 34″ In September of 2017, I started to exhibit my work publicly for the first time since 1996. It started with the Sausalito Art Festival, then the HarmonyUs Festival followed eventually in 2018 by the HarmonyUs Festival again and the Edgewater Gallery in Fort Bragg, California. Now my focus is on displaying my art as a cohesive whole in a traveling museum exhibit with the same purpose it shares with my website, my book, as well as my public speaking engagements—to inspire people to explore the life-enhancing nature of deeper levels of perception. It really is an exciting project of combining my paintings with the words of theoretical physicists to create a very powerful effect. I also mention in my museum proposal that I will give a presentation at a couple of the local high schools. Clear perception opens up a new and exciting world, creating a new enthusiasm towards living, something many of the students can use nowadays. FlatRock – Dimension III, 63″ x 82″ mixed media Visionary GALLERY OPEN DOOR HOURS Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 11:00 to 5:00 11:00 to 5:00 And open by appointment. Please call number below. Open throughout the week for events and classes. Phone Numbers: Visionary Arts Spiritual Center Micah Sanger Sally Wells (505) 455-2867 (707) 357-3466

Virginia Sharkey

Visual Arts: Painting

Featured Exhibit at the Mendocino Art Center through October 29: Sublime to the Canine I’m an abstract painter because I love what is elemental and essential. I’m interested in creating a realm of mystery, surprise, serenity, and beauty. I use color, either oil or acrylic paint, for its feeling tone, each hue having a distinct emotional component, and line for its rhythmic possibilities and the awareness of gravity to indicate a possible intention, as in a “going toward.” I want to create a sense that there is in a work a “presence” that has its own life in a pictorial space that seems, however flat, empty and monochromatic, “full.” — Virginia Sharkey Also see my work at Partners Gallery, located at 335 N. Franklin Street in Fort Bragg, open Wednesday through Monday 10 am to 5 pm and Sundays 10 am to 4 pm. 707 962-0233 PartnersGallery.com Virginia Sharkey Box 20, Mendocino, California 95460 Telephone (707) 937-3021 virginiasharkey.com ~ vs@pacific.net Born: Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan Education: Vassar College, B.A. cum laude Aspen School of Contemporary Art Exhibitions: If you are in Fort Bragg, CA you can see my work at Partners Gallery, 235 N. Franklin St, open every day except Tuesdays and the first Wednesday of each month. The website is http://partnersgallery.com Exhibitions: 2016 Chautauqua 59th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Chautauqua, NY, juried by Stephen Harvey and Jennifer Samet, Directors, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Bellringer Prize Archaeology, Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA The Yosemite Series, Solo Show, Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA 2015 Crossing the Line, Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA Size, Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA 2013 ACCI Gallery, Hallowed and Haunted, Berkeley, CA 56th Annual Chautauqua Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Chautauqua, New York Juried by Janne Siren, Director, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2011 Confrontational Art, Gualala Art Center, Gualala, CA 2010 Imagining California, Curated by Philip Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum, Kevin Milligan Gallery, Danville, CA Mendocino Art Center Open Studio Tour Exhibition, September Yosemite Renaissance XXV, Yosemite Museum Gallery, Yosemite National Park and subsequent Traveling California Exhibition. 2009 Naturally Inspired, July 22-August 16, Flockworks, Mendocino,CA 2007 Tsunami of Recollections, Art @3G, Ft. Bragg, CA America’s Landscape,Art @3G, Ft. Bragg, CA Yosemite Renaissance XXII, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park and subsequent,Traveling California Exhibition , Animal Art, Mendocino Art Center, Nichols Gallery, Mendocino CA Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA 2006 Waterfall Paintings, Solo Show, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA 2005 Members’Juried Exhibition, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Wet Paint, Juried Exhibition, Gualala Art Center, Gualala, CA Friends Show Northcoast Artists Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA Yosemite Renaissance XX, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park and subsequent California Traveling Exhibition 2001 Gamel Fraser Gallery,( 3 person show) Mendocino, CA 2000 Members’ Juried Exhibition, Mendocino Art Center 1999 Members Juried Art Exhibition. Mendocino Art Center Fifth Annual Warehouse Artists’ Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA Yosemite Renaissance XIV Art Exhibit, Yosemite Museum, and subsequent California Traveling Exhibition, Yosemite, CA, 1998 Galerie Elecktra, Sausalito, CA Bartlett Fine Arts, Pleasanton, CA North Coast Printmakers: An Invitational Exhibition, Northcoast Artists Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA Sly Dog Gallery, Portland, OR Members Exhibition, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA 1998 Gallery Glendeven, Solo Show, Little River, CA Scharffenberger Winery, Solo Show Philo, CA 1997 National Juried Exhibition Curated by Marisol,” Gallery 84, New York, NY Prints and Paintings, Art Hansen and Virginia Sharkey, Gallery Glendeven, Little River, CA Fourth Annual Artists’ Warehouse Sale, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Spring Loaded, Gallery Glendeven, Little River, CA ART a visual reality, Left Coast Art, Cyberworld Cafe, San Francisco, CA. Members’ Show Mendocino Art Center 1996 Artists’ Registry Exhibition, The Dog Museum, St. Louis, MO 1995-6 The World’s Women On-Line,Video/Internet Gallery, Commons Gallery, Arizona State University, Computing Tempe, AZ The World’s Women On-Line!, United Nations Fourth World Conference On Women, Beijng,China (Touring Version). ADA: Women and Information Technology, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago Ill 1995-6 Oakland Museum Main Lobby, Oakland Museum Women’s Board Collectors GalleryOne 1995 Abrahamson Gallery, Solo Show, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino,CA Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA Fort Bragg Center for the Arts Members Show, Ft. Bragg, CA Art Alive in ’95 Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Gallery Glendeven, Little River, CA Tangents Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA Fort Bragg Center for the Arts, Fort Bragg, CA 1994 The Dog Show, Los Gatos Company, Los Gatos, CA Different Strokes, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA From the Heart of Women, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA 1993 What’s Afoot Gallery, Solo Show, Caspar, CA Prints on Purpose, Village Theatre Gallery, Danville, CA Fish Schticks, What’s Afoot Gallery, Caspar. CA From the Heart of Women, What’s Afoot Gallery, Caspar, CA 1992 What’s Afoot Gallery, Solo Show, Caspar, CA Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA Mushrooms for Paper, Traveling Exhibit, Mendocino, CA Gallery Glendeven, Little River, CA Faculty Art Exhibit, College of the Redwoods, Fort Bragg, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA, What’s Afoot Gallery, Caspar, CA Tangents Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA The Artists’ Registry Exhibition, The Dog Museum, St. Louis, MO 1991 What’s Afoot Gallery, Caspar CA 1990 Winona Gallery, Solo Show, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA The Magnificent Seven, Calloways, Santa Rosa, CA Tangents Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA 1988 Emerging Mendocino, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1987 Gallery Fair, Mendocino, CA Fort Bragg Center for the Arts, Fort Bragg, Ca 1986 New Work from Los Angeles, LAART, New York, NY 1980 Vorpal Gallery, New York, NY 1979 Berge und Volken um Meran, Solo Show, Amerika Haus Munchen, Munich, Germany Tanglewood Gallery, Solo Show, New York, NY 1978 Kuperion Gallery, Merano, Italy Bilder, Briefe, Noten, Autoren Gallerie, Munich, Germany 1977 Art Workers’ Guild Gallery, Vineyard Haven, MA 1976 Painted Images: Virginia Sharkey, Solo Show, College Center Main Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Vassar College Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Auction 393, New York, NY Eight from Vassar, Vassar College Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 1975 Lotus Gallery, New York, NY 1974 Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY Bibliography: Artists Speak Part 2.mov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWg22ekl-k Auction 393, Auction Sale #5, Contemporary Art, June 12,1978,Art Bidders GalleryCorporation, #61, #62 Flugel, Rolf, Berge und Volken um Meran, Munchner Merkur, Sept. 8/9, 1979. Gilbert, Mervin, Artists Shared their Studios with the Public,Mendocino Beacon, Sept. 5, 1991. Gilbert, Mervin, The MAC Membership Show :Almost Everything for Almost Everyone, Arts and Entertainment, February, 1997. Halle, Howard, 59th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art at Chautauqua Showcases “Lively,Engaging” Works, The Chautauquan Daily, July 8, 2016. Lambert,Leeann, Tuesday People ,The Ukiah Daily Journal, Tuesday, April 7, 1998. Outlook. Cover Artist. February, 1996. Parsons Memorial Lodge Summer Series, Yosemite National Park, Poster,Image, Summer 2009 Rice, Miriam C., Mushrooms for Paper, Video, David Marks and Oleg Harenar Productions,1993. R.M.B. Austellungs Spiegel, Munchen: Virginia Sharkey, Die Welt, Sept. 21, 1979. Sharkey, Virginia, The Artists’ Registry Exhibition at the Dog Museum, St. Louis, MO 1/8-3/8,1992, p.39. Sharkey, Virginia, Rose Fellow, 1976, Vassar Quarterly,Winter, 1981, p. 15. Residencies: 2011 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy 1981 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY 1979 Cummington Community of the Arts, Cummington, Mass Awards: 2016 Bellinger Award, Chautauqua Institution 2010 Yosemite Renaissance XXV Exhibition , People’s Choice Award Yosemite Renaissance 2007 XXII Exhibition, Second Place 2005 Yosemite Renaissance XX Exhibition, Second Place 1999 Yosemite Renaissance XIV Exhibition, First Place 1976 W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Fine Arts Collections: Private and Corporate Collections in the U.S., Germany, Italy and Japan

Antoinette von Grone

Visual Arts: Murals, Painting, Works on paper

Born in 1954. Studied textile design and high fashion. Interneship in window decoration at Hermes-Paris. Currently working mostly in oil on canvas at my studio in Boonville. Represented by Erickson Fine Art in Healdsburg.

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