Eli Africa
Pronouns: he/him
A multimedia artist by choice and educator by accident, Eli Africa has created illustrations, graphic design, photography and short-form videos for nonprofit, for-profit and educational institutions on both sides of the Pacific. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Communications from the University of the Philippines and a Master of Arts degree in Multimedia Communications from San Francisco’s Academy of Art University. www.elicreates.com
Fredericko “Fred” Alvarado
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Fredericko “Fred” Alvarado has been a teaching artist at Richmond Art Center for over ten years. Fred is an interdisciplinary artist who collaborates with communities through the school system, community centers, and spontaneous community happenings. Fred Alvarado was born in Chicago, IL, grew up in Long Beach, CA., received his Undergraduate Degree at the San Francisco Art Institute and his graduate degree from the College of the Arts, with an emphasis in Social Practices.
Ned Axthelm
Pronouns: he/him
Ned Axthelm has an MFA from Academy of Art University. He works primarily in oil paint, depicting scenes of contemporary urban life, and exhibits his work throughout the Bay Area. nedaxthelm.com, @nedaxthelm
Paulo Buencamino
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Paulo Buencamino is an artist and woodworker based in Richmond, who uses photography to explore themes of identity and memory. The work he made while travelling as an art installer led to his first photobook and a solo exhibition in Sacramento. Now, Paulo focuses on personal projects that integrate photography and interviews, aiming to connect with the local art community and support fellow artists.
Marisa Burman
Pronouns: she/her
Marisa Burman is a ceramic artist from San Francisco. She has been making things out of clay for the past 15 years and continues to find it a source of incredible joy and wonder. She currently lives in Richmond with her tiny parrot, Louie. In addition to being a teaching artist around the Bay, Marisa manages the ceramics studio at the Richmond Art Center. She loves making and using handmade objects, working with porcelain, and teaching people about all things ceramic, especially colored clay. @marisaburman
Maggie Burns
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Maggie is a queer disabled artist based in the East Bay. After receiving a BFA in Animation at California College of the Arts, they have been dedicating their time to teaching art and continue to practice their own art skills. They are passionate about providing accessible art, and being part of an artistic community. maryevburns.wixsite.com
Mary Campbell
Mary Campbell is a 2023 MFA candidate at California College of the Arts and received her BFA from the University of Oregon in 2014. Her work spans media including papermaking, mold making, installation, and photography. She has exhibited regionally at Incline Gallery and Borderline Art Collective in San Francisco, and Stelo and Littman Gallery in Portland. Her work has been featured by Bay Area’s collective On/Offsite, and Deanna Evans’ Curated Studio Visit program in New York. In the community, she has taught papermaking classes at Open Windows and Wassaic Project and works as an assistant prop stylist. www.maryccampbell.com, @maryccampbell
Anjelica Colliard
Pronouns: they/she
Anjelica Colliard is a queer artist based in Oakland, specializing in mixed media drawing and painting as well as mural work and printmaking. They hold a BFA from University of California, Berkeley, and are inspired by a hope for a more peaceful and sustainable world. They have shown across galleries and museums in the greater Bay Area and West Coast, including Hashimoto Contemporary (SF), Root Division (SF), and the Oakland Museum of California. They were an Artist in Residence at Google in 2022, a featured artist for Target Pride and Plunge Towels in 2023, and a guest instructor at Berkeley Art Museum in 2025. www.anjelicacolliard.com, @jellicore
Michael Dadayan
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Michael Dadayan is an artist with experience in lost wax bronze casting. He has worked in a foundry for two years and has been an assistant to multiple casting artists based in Santa Cruz.
Shani R. Ealey
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My name is Shani R. Ealey and I am a writer, visual artist, and spiritchaser living on sacred Ohlone Land/Oakland, CA born and raised in Stockton, CA. I spend a lot of time dreaming up new worlds through painting, the written word, and zine making as a way to heal and transform intergenerational patterns of harm and disconnection. My work seeks to unearth what has been buried and pushed aside as a result of assimilation and honor, celebrate, and affirm the ancestral practices that help folks of the African Diaspora to remain grounded and connected to our sacred paths. @ani_igboya
Beth Fallon
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Beth begin her journey as a glass artist in the late 1980s in the Potrero Hill district in San Francisco. She has experience in lead and foil stained glass, fusing, gilded glass, glass painting, silk screening and stenciling, however, her true passion is large scale leaded stained glass pieces.
Amy Flynn-Curran
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Amy Flynn-Curran is a maker and artist who lives in Richmond California. She enjoys textiles: namely quilting and sewing. When she isn’t making art she’s mothering, biking, writing, and teaching classes on folklore and storytelling. Find her on the Bay Trail or at the Richmond Public Library.
Colleen Garland
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Colleen Garland grew up in Richmond and works as a potter and ceramics teacher in the Bay Area. She enjoys making functional pottery and absolutely loves teaching! @colleenandclay
Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez
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Rebeca García-González is a painter and muralist interested in social justice issues. She earned her BFA at the University of Puerto Rico and has been painting representationally ever since. Some of her recent work includes portraits of people underrepresented in the cannon and lately, dystopian visions of our government. www.rebecasart.com, @rebecathepainter
Courtney Griffith
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Courtney Griffith is an artist and educator who enjoys teaching at local nonprofits and colleges in the Bay Area. She received her MFA from Mills College and works across media from drawing and painting to sculpture and installation, but has always had an affinity for charcoal. She not only uses charcoal for drawing but also uses the medium sculpturally, occasionally making her own charcoal or sourcing charcoal from local ecosystems. Griffith’s artwork has been displayed in museums and galleries including Bedford Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, and Florina Museum of Contemporary Art. www.courtgriff.com, @courtgriffith
Annie Gwathney
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An East Bay-born and raised, multimedia artisan Annie Gwathney is a rockhound and nature lover with a hyper focus on lapidary, silver jewelry design, and working with organics. She specializes in crafting custom pieces for clients. stonedogartistry.com
Ilah Jarvis
Ilah Jarvis has exhibited her watercolors nationally and has taught watercolor and fiber arts all over Northern California since the late 1990’s. She received a residency at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain in 2003. She is a patient and caring teacher who wants her students to develop their own creative voice. www.ilahjarvis.com, @ilah_jarvis
Anna Kingsley
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Anna Kingsley is a teaching artist from Oakland California. She has taught book making and print making to adults and students for over seven years in the East Bay and beyond. She also teaches origami to very young children in after school programs in local schools. Since 2011 she has owned and operated Brick Factory Designs, a letterpress studio and bindery, and has happily produced customs designs for even happier clients. She is Queer and Assyrian. www.brickfactorydesigns.com
Della Koreia
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Della Koreia weaves, spins, dyes, knits, stitches, and sews to investigate material culture, global histories, and the ecological relationships that sustain them. Her practice is especially rooted in local fiber networks, natural dyes, and the social politics woven into textile and agricultural production. koreia.net
Julia LaChica
Julia LaChica is a Queer Japanese/Filipino multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Oakland, CA. She holds a BFA in Industrial Design from California College of the Arts, where she honed her skills in furniture, lighting, and decorative accessory design. In 2020, she shifted her focus to Fine Arts, expanding her practice to include painting, printmaking, collage, and assemblage. Her work explores themes of identity, culture, and the intersectionality of Queer experiences, aiming to provoke thought and inspire dialogue. Julia is also passionate about education, regularly teaching printmaking workshops that empower individuals to develop their visual language and express themselves creatively. Through her art and teaching, she strives to build a supportive and inclusive community. jlachica.art
Jennifer Linderman
Jennifer Linderman is a multidisciplinary artist and educator with a passion for blending nature-inspired subjects with bold, saturated colors. Her practice spans colored pencil art, botanical illustration, and mixed media, where she experiments with acrylics, ink, watercolor, and more. Most recently, she has embraced portraiture and fiber arts, combining hand embroidery with mixed media to create richly textured pieces. Through her teaching and art-making, she inspires others to explore their creativity. www.jenniferlindermanart.com
Avé-Ameenah Long
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Oakland raised and Vallejo based, Avé-Ameenah Long is a multidisciplinary artist and crafter committed to uplifting Black+Brown artistic expression. She uses photography, video, and textiles to document the cultural practices of Black communities across the African diaspora through her project; Keep It Diasporic. Rooted in the Bay Area, her work supports creative resilience in the face of adversity. @keep_it_diasporic
dani lopez
dani lopez is a textile artist working within weaving, embroidery, and textiles sculpture to explore queer desire, non-linear narratives, and femme identity. She received her MFA in Textiles from CCA in 2019 and her BFA from the University of Oregon in 2016. She was awarded two teaching assistantships at CCA and received a diversity and merit scholarship. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Surface Design Journal, and Other People’s Pixels. lopez has shown at Bedford Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, Tropical Contemporary, Amos Eno Gallery, Collar Works, and the Frank Ratchye Project Space. In 2022 she received The Money For Women Grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and a Puffin Grant for her project “3 Dykes Walk Into a Bar…”. She most recently taught Intro to Weaving at San Francisco State University in Fall 2022. www.danilopez.us, @dani___lopez___
Ralph McCaskey
Ralph McCaskey has been flameworking glass for over 20 years, and gleefully teaching it for over a decade.
Erin McCluskey Wheeler
Erin McCluskey Wheeler is a third generation Richmond resident who works in painted paper collage, writing, and found materials. Erin is a faculty member at the 92nd Street Y in New York and teaches at the Richmond Art Center and other Bay Area art centers. Her work has been licensed and sold with West Elm, Samsung, Target, and Minted. Erin has been an Artist in Residence for the City of El Cerrito, the City of Walnut Creek, Nick’s Cove, and Creighton University. Her work was included in the 2024 Right Here Right Now Richmond Biennial exhibition. Erin is a co-founder, serves on the leadership team, and is the curator for the Visual Artists of Richmond. www.erinmwheeler.com, @erinmwheeler
Vyjayanthi Malladi
Vyjayanthi Malladi is a textile artist whose journey began in India, where she studied Fashion Design at NIFT, Bangalore. Her deep love for traditional tectile techniques led her to Batik during her time in Dallas and Singapore, where she trained in the Malay Tjanting Technique. Now based in the Bay Area, her work blends heritage with experimentation—layering wax, dye, and fabric into expressive, wearable art. For Vyjayanthi, Batik is a meditative process and a means of storytelling. Her scarves, jackets, and artworks reflect cultural vibrancy and personal reflection. As an educator, she creates immersive workshops that invite students to slow down, connect with the process, and discover their own artistic voice. www.artbyyj.com, @art_by_yj
Alex Martinez
Pronouns: she/her
Alex Martinez is a second-generation Queer, Mexican-American, Chicana, raised in Watsonville, California. She began her Arts Education at San Francisco State University, where she fell in love with printmaking and painting processes. She is based in Oakland, California, and feels very privileged to spend her days developing and teaching her multi-medium art curriculum in Bay Area schools. Using vivid acrylic hues, texture and pattern, Alex explores themes of Queer POC identities, intergenerational trauma/wisdom, Wild Women archetypes, spirituality, ritual, healing, transition and growth. @hechoporalex
Viviana Martinez Carlos
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Viviana is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses photography, film, and archives to create large-scale installations exploring connections between land and memory. She earned her BA in Visual Arts from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, and holds a certification in Art and Anthropology from LATIR with CIESAS in Mexico City. She is currently pursuing an MFA at UC Berkeley. Viviana has worked as a teaching artist at the Las Fotos Project in Los Angeles and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, as a museum educator at BAMPFA and Richmond Art Center, and as a GSI at UC Berkeley. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico and the U.S. @viviana_carlos
Travis Meinolf
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Travis Meinolf has been a weaver since stumbling upon the loom room at San Francisco State University while pursuing a degree in Industrial Design. He now produces fabric at home in Lagunitas with his wife, Iris, and their young son, Louis. A practitioner of action weaving, Travis teaches weaving whenever he is called, using available looms or weaving tools he designs and builds. Meinholf has an MFA from California College of the Arts. actionweaver.com, @actionweaver
Rachel-Anne Palacios
Rachel-Anne Palacios is an Oakland native, multi-cultural arts educator, and self taught folk artist. She has been creating and sharing art that reflects her respect for culture, spirituality, traditional values, elders and the cycle of life and death with the community for more than 20 years. Palacios has been teaching art workshops and classes at Bay Area schools and libraries for over a decade-her lessons and projects are inspired by indigenous cultures and traditional art from around the world. @devikaspalacio
Moonji L. Pickering
Pronouns: she/her
Moonji Pickering is a Bay Area artist whose work explores landscape, memory, and observation. Trained in Architecture Design, she began her art career after moving to the U.S. in 2015. Her practice gained early recognition in 2018 with an Honorable Mention at the Marin County Fair’s Plein Air Competition and the acceptance of her work into the De Young Museum’s exhibition The De Young Open. Since then, she has exhibited at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens; the Foyer Art Gallery at the Albany Community Center; and most recently held a solo exhibition at Abrams Claghorn Gallery. www.moonjilee.com
Tatiana Ortiz
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Tatiana Ortiz is a local artist from Richmond. She studied arts education at Academy of Arts, and has written and illustrated her own children’s book. In 2016 she received a grant from the Richmond Arts and Culture Commission to advocate for Children’s Art and Literacy. She has since started her own non-profit organization devoted to the advocacy of Children’s Art and Literacy in Contra Costa County. When she is not teaching, you can find Ortiz creating her own art, using polymer clay or acrylic paint. She continues to find innovative ways to challenge her art skills and support the community she serves.
Alice Rice
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Alice Rice is an artist, designer, and educator. Over the course of her life and education she has become well versed in many different mediums all of which she loves to share with others. She received her bachelor degree in Art and Design from University of Michigan and a Masters in Art in Education from Harvard University.
Keena Azania Romano
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Keena Azania Romano received her BFA from Pomona College then returned to her native Bay Area to pursue a career in the Arts. Her Murals can be spotted from Sacramento, California, to Richmond, Virginia to Oaxaca, Mexico. Inspired by cultural practices, Romano combines spirituality with urban experience to produce work that draws upon the quest for a greater understanding of intersectional beauty in this world. She fuses traditional native arts with contemporary inner-city techniques to reflect a new language that encourages the healing and empowerment process between community members and their environments.
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Rikki Smeltzer
Pronouns: he/him
Rikki Smeltzer is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is shaped by a lifelong love of magic, video games, and popular culture. He states, “Creating a connection between my idea and intent and the item I’m making is always a story—fictional, legendary, or inspiring. The story is always created during the making of the art, which gives the item life, in my opinion, and drives the viewer to interact with it, forming a connection with both the piece and me.”
Betsy Streeter
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Betsy Streeter is a longtime cartoonist and illustrator. She has created work for kids at 826 Valencia and Chapter 510, illustrated Bicycle Sentences, a collaboration with Grant Petersen, and co-created Sofa Stories with Mike Monteiro. Her work has been published around the world, appeared on refrigerator doors, and even inspired a few tattoos. www.betsystreeter.com, @betsystreeter
Jason Stern
Corey Wolffs
Corey is an artist and designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has experience in design and fabrication, Jewelry Metal/Arts, 3D modeling, and creative arts education. jewelry.coreywolffs.com, @coreywolffsdesigns
Kaya Wurtzel
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Kaya Wurtzel is a multi-disciplinary artist and scrap worker interested in moving slowly through questions of entanglement. Their practice is situated in a politic of use, making precious objects meant to be touched, worn, changed. She sees all creative work as inherently collaborative and seeks opportunities for collectivity, emergence, and surrendering control.
Fumiyo Yoshikawa
Born in Kyoto, Japan, Fumiyo Yoshikawa specializes in the Japanese brush painting methods sumi-e and nihonga. Currently, Fumiyo is on the board of The Sumi-e Society of America, Inc. Since moving to San Francisco in 2004, her work has also incorporated elements of American art. She has exhibited widely at art museums and galleries in Japan since 1984 and in the United States since 2006. Yoshikawa also has an interest in different cultures; she lived in Guatemala for a year where she researched Guatemalan Mayan culture and was fascinated by the parallels she saw between the ancient cultures of Central America and East Asia. As an instructor of Japanese Arts and Culture with a focus on Calligraphy and Sumi-e, she has worked with audiences of diverse backgrounds and ethnicity. www.fumiyo-y.com
