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  • Sunny Chancellor
    Sunny Chancellor
    Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Sculpture
    Sunny has been experimenting with and around the digital arts realm for many years. With  the digital realm comes a great vast expanse of possibility, and Sunny has enjoyed the expansive  nature to it’s fullest. From digital photo-editing, to animation, to computer controlled routers,  the endless possibilities reflect from his work. Color, shape, design; all interplay in this new, modern medium expression.
  • Rita Crane
    Rita Crane
    Visual Arts: Photography
    As the daughter of LIFE magazine staff photographer Ralph Crane (whose photos were published in LIFE from 1936 to 1972), I came to the arts in a natural way. My bio is available here: www.ritacranestudio.com/biography.html In Mendocino my Fine Art Portfolio of oceanscapes and landscapes, including an exclusive line of photos on metal, are represented by Prentice Gallery on Main Street. The Mendocino Art Center offers a selection of my Old World Europe Collection, monochrome images, and new tide pool series. These tide pool pieces printed on metal. As for local commercial projects, since 2003 I have been providing high quality photos of interiors, grounds, food, and people for many of our fine restaurants and inns, as well as other small businesses. I am delighted to announce that my photos are included in the Albion River Inn’s cookbook, released in 2016. In addition, many of my large framed prints have been purchased by the MacCallum House Inn to decorate their rooms. Photography is a wonderfully open-ended art form that allows one many opportunities for exploration and expression given the tools of the trade: exceptional cameras, lenses, filters, and plenty of brilliant software that, in the digital world, now replaces the darkroom. Plans for the future include photographing historic Italian, French, and English gardens, experimenting with urban night photography, and creating new images of the ocean in all its beautiful moods. To view my entire portfolio visit: RitaCraneStudio.com, which will take you to my work that is posted and updated regularly on the international photo sharing site Flickr. Rita Crane Photography P.O. Box 91 Albion, CA 95410 All photographs copyrighted by Rita Crane Photo
  • Suzanne da Rosa
    Suzanne da Rosa
    Visual Arts: Crafts, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Textiles; Knitting
    I am a knitting historian and master lace knitter.  The last 7 years I’ve been researching the earliest knitting manuals from the 1840’s cataloging, reviewing, knitting, updating and charting patterns from these early handwritten lace patterns.  In 2021 I created a deck of Victorian Lace Knitting Cards to be used by knitters who want to practice their lace knitting skills, practice designing their own pieces and use them along with their favorite simple patterns to make them their own.  The cards are available through my website and will be available for shipping in late January 2022.   Along with the cards I’ve designed four Victorian Long Shawl knitting patterns. With this project complete, my 2022 plans are to work with these cards in different mediums than yarn and create outdoor sculptures.  I would like to collaborate with other artists to combine lace knitting with other mediums. Other interests include linoleum block printing, solar plate etching and felting and to continue working with Pacific Textile Arts in whatever way I can to increase participation and encourage support of he fiber arts community in the Mendocino/Fort bragg area. Bio:  suzannedarosa.com Mendocino Art Center artist in residence (2019-20) bio: https://www.mendocinoartcenter.org/air-20192020/suzanne-da-rosa
  • William de la Mare
    William de la Mare
    Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Photography, Sculpture
    Growing up in the vicinities of London and New York, and coming from a family of artists and art lovers, I’ve been exposed to the arts all my life. I received my first camera as a child and developed the interest through high school. I was scouted in high school and given a scholarship to attend art school. Transferring into a more photography-specific path, I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with high honors from RIT. By that time, I was concentrating on photographing water and glass as a means of visually depicting spiritual/philosophical ideas pertaining to concepts of infinity. Along the way, I became a lawyer, ultimately focusing on global risk management, but continued to photograph, wrote the first book in a trilogy of epic novels on the theme of life, and also picked up practices in wood sculpture and porcelain pottery. More recently, I have returned my primary focus to art and water, concentrating on water’s various forms – snow, ice, rain, stream, sea, mist, steam, fog, cloud – and, for more than two years now, the Pacific Ocean from the Mendocino Headlands. Since being in Mendocino I have written the second part of my trilogy called Archetypes (Books I and II are now for sale in the Water Gallery) on the theme of death, and am currently working on the third –  on the theme of Rebirth.
  • Judith Edwards
    Judith Edwards
    Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Glasswork, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Works on paper
    My relationship with clay began at Grove Street College in Oakland in the 1970s and at Chico State I received a BA in Ceramics. My work is influenced by Mayan Art, Botany, my Marine Science studies & an attraction to Mysticism. Some of my early work also incorporated ceramic sculpture with textiles. Currently, the figurines, tiles and decorative pieces I have been working on are inspired by nature and the mystical use of spirit totems.  
  • Melissa Eleftherion Carr
    Melissa Eleftherion Carr
    Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Performers and Writers, Photography
    Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Bluestockings bookstore (NYC), & the Kensington Public Library (CA), as well as a group show at MEDIUM Art Gallery. She is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & ten chapbooks including: huminsect (dancing girl press, 2013), prism maps (Dusie, 2014), Pigtail Duty (dancing girl press, 2015), the leaves the leaves (poems-for-all, 2017), green glass asterisms (poems-for-all, 2017) little ditch (above/ground press, 2018), trauma suture (above/ground press, 2020), & abalone (poems-for-all, 2021). Her poems & prose have been widely published in over 100 journals and anthologies, & nominated for various awards including the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net. Most recently, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Berkeley Poetry Review, Paperbag, & On the Seawall. Born & raised in Brooklyn, Melissa is an alumna of Brooklyn College (BA), Mills College (MFA), and San Jose State University (MLIS). She founded and co-curates The San Francisco State University Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange with Elise Ficarra. Melissa now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library, curates the LOBA Reading Series, and serves as the Poet Laureate of Ukiah. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com
  • Perry Hoffman
    Perry Hoffman
    Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Painting, Photography, Sculpture; Mosaics
    I am Perry Hoffman, artist, photographer, mosaic maker, tile maker and creator of the Tile House in the Mojave desert… specifically in wOnder valley, east of Twentynine Palms. Born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, at the Queen of Angels Hospital.  My parents were New York Jews, Rose & Ben, who always taught, peace, love, understanding and compassion for all people and had a love of art and music. You learn these things early. Grateful. Studied art in first grade and got in trouble for drawing a nude. Studied art at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in the early seventies. Played with Paul Reubens and David Hasselhoff. Causing a ruckus, with a few regrets but otherwise a fun time. Migrated in 1975 to San Francisco, doing color xerox collage and mail art, photography and clay and small backyard gardens. Great classes with Toby Klayman in San Francisco, who taught Business and Visual Artist. Forever grateful being introduced to POSTCARDS… Participated in a few group shows with copy art artists in the Albany State Museum and a few in various locations in San Francsico, like La Mamelle Gallery. Those were the days. This part requires a book. Now on the Mendocino Coast in Gualala, with bees and garden and forest mushrooms.
  • Deborah Hunter
    Deborah Hunter
    Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Photography, Works on paper; Digital art; Digital collage; Encaustic
    …will be one of six artists in the Endangered Planet exhibit at the Corner Gallery, in Ukiah, January 3 – 25, 2019. I have been involved in the arts, in one way or another, for most of my adult life. Straight out of high school I started attending Pierce Community College, known for their art and agricultural departments. I took double class loads for four years majoring in art, with a minor in biology. I have had works in some group exhibitions including Barnsdall Park, Pierce and the now-defunct Site Gallery in Los Angeles, mostly in the period of the late 1980s through early 2000s. I spent much of the 1990s working closely with artist Lun*na Menoh to assist her in materializing her artistic vision. In 1997 I started a handmade card business making multiples as well as a good deal of miniature originals. In more recent years I’ve spent part of my time freelancing as a graphic designer. In recent years I’ve become increasingly concerned about political and environmental issues and devote what time I can to activism. Our ongoing global environmental crisis has inspired this series which I’ve entitled Nature in Turmoil. All work I’ve contributed to the Endangered Planet show was created by means of digital collage and alteration of existing photographs. Displaced fragments, photo-negative effects, elements of our shared visual language such as rings that might suggest wave transmission or oversized pixels as a reference to modern technology, menacing shards, the juxtaposition of the beautiful with the cautionary, and other graphic devices are intended to create an unsettling undercurrent. Works in this series consist of a single encaustic panel and a series allowing up to 200 giclees of each work, printed on archival rag paper (typical substrate used for etchings and lithographs). Both the encaustic panels and prints and large in size. The panels are images printed on a translucent paper embedded in an encaustic layer. Part of the beauty and expressiveness of encaustic wax are the drips and swirls occurring as the wax is spread which reveal the hand of the artist. As with all visual art, any intrinsic value must be of a visual nature. If the work itself does not document or suggest any issue or convey anything of visual worth, then excessive verbal explanation given to prop it up is fairly useless. As stated concisely by Edward Hopper “If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” It is my hope for this body of work to appear pretty straightforward -for it not to require a lot of narration and that it can offer something that stays with the viewer rather than a mere passing diversion. I am an artist from L.A., currently residing in Ukiah, CA. Concern about the ongoing global environmental crisis has inspired my recent work.
  • Happy/L.A. Hyder
    Happy/L.A. Hyder
    Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Photography
    I am celebrating 48 years of making images. My desire to photograph began in the 1950s as I became aware of the power of photographic imagery (although I wouldn’t have been able to articulate it at the time) through the Life magazines that came through our door weekly. A self-taught photographer, I count Margaret Bourke-White, W. Eugene Smith, and the myriad other pictorialists in Life’s pages, as my mentors. Shortly after moving to San Francisco in 1969 and two days after using a friend’s 35mm camera, I had my own Nikkormat with a 105mm (portrait) lens. At a camera store, I learned about film and how to load the camera. I joined the SF Photo Center, and, following their two-hour fundamentals in developing and printing class, was let loose in a darkroom. Within two years, I began working with a Hasselblad medium format camera (the negative is 2 ¼” square and there are 12 shots to a roll of film) with a 150mm lens (equivalent to the 105mm) and had my own darkroom. I grew to love the square format and credit the twelve shots per roll of film with the honing of my style of shooting – I spend much time setting up my shot, using my negative as a painter would her canvas, in order to print full frame. I walk away without shooting if my framing cannot achieve what first attracted me to look through the lens. I still credit those Life photographers for helping me hone my visual perspective. While the Hasselblad remains my most cherished tool, in 2009 I was dragged kicking and screaming into the digital age. I find the lightweight digital cameras I’ve been using feed my creativity. Able to carry one at all times, I am able to capture those images that earlier would only be captured in my mind since the heft of the Hasselblad meant I would only carry my camera when I was focused on photographing. With digital, I am also enjoying, and getting very interesting results, working with movement to produce abstract images. I also work with mixed-media assemblage, most often using my own images within the piece. Although taking more images using a digital format, I retain the habit of setting up shots with precision and printing my images full frame, and continue to retain a strict sensibility when choosing what to print. I also use an Epson 1400 printer and the immediacy of these digital tools is truly a wonder to my years of working in film, first in a darkroom during my 22 years working in b&w, and, with a switch to color exclusively in 1997, in having film developed and working with a professional printer.
  • Mary Rose (Redwood Mary) Kaczorowski
    Mary Rose (Redwood Mary) Kaczorowski
    Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography
    Mary Rose “Redwood Mary” Kaczorowski resides on the Mendocino Coast. She studied photography at Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine; fine arts at Mason Gross School for the Arts/Rutgers University; at U.C. Berkeley Extension and at College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg. At San Francisco Art Institute she studied photography with Larry Sultan and Linda Connors. In the 1980s Kaczorowski co-curated/produced “Artists at the Rock Project and Exhibition” in cooperation with the National Park Service Golden Gate National Recreation Area. This interpretive exhibition was the first of its kind in the Western U.S. Kaczorowski was a member of several artists’ groups including ArtLab (San Francisco), Secession Gallery (San Francisco), Ft. Bragg Center for the Arts (Gallery Artist) and the Women’s Caucus for Art. She took part in the San Francisco feminist protest group known as the Guerrilla Girls–originally formed in NYC to protest discrimination against women artists and artists of color in the art world. Kaczorowski’s works range from large scale to smaller paintings, photographs, oil pastels, drawings and watercolor. She states, ” My art delves into another way of seeing. I push beyond the boundaries between what is considered “fine art” and abstract expressionist-style.” She is a published poet & is a member of The Fort Bragg (CA) Poets. Her photos/art cards are available at Indigo in Mendocino Village and at the Frame Mill in Fort Bragg.
  • Jim Moorehead
    Jim Moorehead
    Visual Arts: Photography
    My artistic vision is best conveyed through the photographic image; the goal being that the image speaks directly to the viewer, preferably without the use of written or spoken language. Since childhood, I’ve looked at the world through a viewfinder, sometimes figuratively, sometimes literally, trying to capture on film or digital memory, that image that best records my impression of a scene, experience, person, whatever. I’ve traveled extensively and like to think that I’ve collected a record of my life through the camera lens. Although the methods and equipment have changed radically from my first Brownie Hawkeye with its paper-encased roll film to the Canon digital SLR, my artistic skills are inherent, not tech dependent. The camera, software, printer, website are merely the tools used for expression of my art.
  • Blake More
    Blake More
    Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Dance, Spoken Word, Theatre; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers
    A 1987 graduate of UCLA and a lifetime member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Blake More is an artist with many creative voices and expressions. Blurring the boundaries between disciplines, her work embraces visual art, poetry, video, performance, costume design, teaching, functional mixed media art/life pieces and hand-painted art cars, including her newest artcar, a Mercedes SL500 painted with a metallic palette she calls “Star Yantra” (staryantra.life). Blake first stepped on stage in Japan in 1994, when she agreed to recite poetry with a friend’s jazz band at a Shinjuku music club in Tokyo. Since then, she has performed her spoken word art in a range of venues—from cafes, art galleries and museums to 1000 seat theaters—in major cities all over the world, including Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, Amsterdam, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Her performance art is a fusion of spoken word, music, yogic contortion, dance, trapeze, clowning and costuming. She creates to reveal, questions to inspire and shares to engage the audience in soulful expression. Among her performance highlights are the time she shared the stage with jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and beat poet Tony Seymour in a Bob Kaufman tribute reading at the Main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, and the International Poetry Festival in Amsterdam (sponsored by the Provost Poets). She has traveled cross country on a performance tour with a group of San Francisco performance artists and musicians that then became the movie “Head Trip”. But her favorite project to date is a multimedia play called Boxing Pandora, which she wrote, produced, costumed, directed and stared in; 75 minutes long, the play itself involved the efforts of over 20 local artists and included an original score, original video (both live and prerecorded), a 13 member Greek-inspired chorus, poetic monologue, dance, audience participation and a trapeze (no monkeys though). A freelance writer for 15 years, Blake’s work appeared in Utne Reader, Yoga Journal, Intuition Magazine Alternative Medicine Digest and Tokyo Time Out. To date, she has written two non-fiction books, one fiction book, and three poetry chapbooks. Her most successful book is a holistic health book entitled Alternative Medicine’s Definitive Guide to Headaches, which has sold over 100,000 copies sold to date. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals and books, including Heart Flip (CPITS anthology), The Alchemy Of The Word: Voices At the Edge, San Francisco Poets Live At Venue 9, Wood, Water, Air and Fire: Anthology of Mendocino Women Poets, Hard Love: Looking at Violence & Intimacy, The Toaster Broke, So We’re Going To Get Married. Author of five books of poetry, her book godmeat is a collection of poetry, prose, color artwork, and a DVD compilation of poem movies (available at godmeat.com), and her chapbook Up In the Me World is available on her website. In addition to her writing, she teaches poetry, multimedia art and performance to K-12 youth. A California Poets In the Schools (CPITS) poet teacher since 2000, she is also the Mendocino County Area Coordinator for CPITS. She organizes two annual Mendocino County High Schgool Poetry Slams and serves as the coach of the Point Arena Youth Poetry Slam Team. She also writes grants to do special, longer residencies, including: One of these projects was entitled “The Poetry Of The Blues”, in which she and New Orleans blues pianist Nelson Lunding guided 2nd thru 8th grade students in the writing of original 12 bar blues songs (with titles such as “Rocks in my Shoes”, “Our Bus Life” “Soap Opera School”), which were then arranged by Nelson and sung by the kids. These recordings were compiled into five original Kids Blues CDs, and one compilation CD entitled “We’re Playing Blues”, which is currently on sale as a fundraiser for “Gualala Arts In the Schools”. In another especially noteworthy youth project, she and videographer Christian Birk guided six Native American youth in the creation of a documentary film about living on the Pomo Reservations of Kashia, Point Arena, and Manchester in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. Because of its raw power and unadorned honesty, the youth film crew became one of 14 youth groups in the nation to be invited to participate in the 2003 Reel Studio Young Filmmakers Workshop at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; the film has been widely shown to diverse audiences, from schools to art centers, from tribal centers to businesses and social service organizations. It even managed to land a spot on the shelf in the Smithsonian Cultural Heritage Library. She hosts an hour-long public affairs program called Women’s Voices on KZYX&Z FM Mendocino. She is also sits on several non-profit arts and education boards, and volunteers with many local organizations. For an extensive list and exploration of Blake More’s creative world please visit her website: www.snakelyone.com
  • Bill Mulvihill
    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. Mendocino Coast Music Archives Dedicated to preserving the rich music heritage of the Mendocino Coast…is where you can listen to some amazing historic local music. Dirty Legs, Judy Mayhan, Lenny Laks, & Charlie Remer music tracks have been uploaded so far. Contact bill@artsmendocino.org with comments & questions. Enjoy!
  • Chris Pugh
    Chris Pugh
    Visual Arts: Photography, Printmaking
    Chris Pugh (b. 1971, Ukiah, Ca) is an award-winning documentary photographer from Ukiah, California. He is a member of the Partial Arts photography collective, co-founder of the Ukiah Photography Club, and the Deep Valley Arts Collective. He is currently the editor of the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and the Mendocino Beacon. Outside of photography, Pugh is known for his love of loose leaf tea, locally brewed craft beer, 80’s heavy metal music, and his fondness for useless trivia knowledge.
  • Button Quinn
    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.
  • Lillian Rubie
    Lillian Rubie
    Visual Arts: Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Performers and Writers, Photography
    Owner/Artist at Lillian Rubie Photography & Illustration and co-founder of Deep Valley Arts Collective. Lillian is a photographer and illustrator. She has a love of children’s books, costuming, Old Hollywood photography, and all things Halloween.
  • Serge Scherbatskoy
    Serge Scherbatskoy
    Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Photography, Printmaking
    Reclusive.
  • Catherine Vibert
    Catherine Vibert
    Visual Arts: Photography
    I’m an artist with a camera and a commercial photography business. I specialize in working with people to reveal their stories and capture imagery that promotes them and their work. While I’ve been a picture taker since I was 8, when I began using a digital camera in 2008 I excelled in skill and technical ability at a rapid rate due to an unstoppable addiction to learning my craft. That’s when I became a picture maker. I mentored with master photographers and took classes online and pretty much lived and breathed photography 24/7 in order to gain the technical skill and control to be able to pretty much realize any vision I wanted using my camera, lighting gear and sometimes Photoshop. Once I got past the technical stuff, it was time to figure out what I wanted to shoot. My love of working with people and of learning who they are leant me to choosing lifestyle and portraiture as a focus for my work. I specialize in telling people’s stories through dynamic and vivid imagery. Whether winemakers, artisans, executives or the lone wolf running a business from their cabin on the coast, everyone has a story.  I reveal those stories through lifestyle photography and portraiture. My work is all about visualizing together with my subjects and playing together to make the images they need to promote themselves, their work and their brand. People use these images for websites, brochures, magazine and jury submissions, social media, and anywhere someone would need to be represented professionally and artfully. My college degree via Sonoma State University is in music and vocal performance. I have worked in the arts throughout my career as a performer, audio technician and through self expression in various artistic media.  I chose to pursue photography after working many years as a sound designer and audio editor. My ears were not able to hear intricate tones anymore and I needed a different career path and had always been passionate as a photography hobbiest, so it was a natural choice. I worked as a journalist for a local newspaper near Asheville, NC, writing exposés and in depth articles with accompanying photos about local community members. I went freelance as a photographer in 2011 and after trying and failing to maintain interest in many genres, I found that commercial photography specializing in people, portraits, and what people do (lifestyle) was my passion — and I am very passionate about what I do and how it can help others reach their goals. I also enjoy and pursue landscape and still life photography when I don’t have my lens pointed at a person. As an educator, I teach Photoshop and Digital Photography, most recently at the Miami Ad School in San Francisco. I offer occasional workshops in basic photography and simple art captures and am available for one on one lessons.      
  • Larry Wagner
    Larry Wagner
    Media; Visual Arts: Photography
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