Shawna Kinard
Website: niadart.org/artists
More info:
1. “After African Mask 1″ colored pencil on paper 9.5 x 13” $40
2. “After African Mask 2″ colored pencil on paper 9.5 x 13” $40
3. “After African Mask 3″ colored pencil on paper 9.5 x 13” $40
Yolanda Holley
About: I savor moments and reflecting on experiences. That is why my work is drawn from memories of my grandmother’s quilts, kinship and passions of identity.
Website: www.ydholley.crevado.com
Tomye
Special events:
Art Tag involves about 10 Artists who create Art based on an agreed theme, with input from one of the Artists. This link shows the visuals …https://www.ncwca.org/arttag-history.html
Rhythmix Cultural Works’ K Gallery’s link
https://youtu.be/ICekDSAzKiA to the AOTAD’s first 2021 Satellite exhibit on-line reception.
Thur. April 22, Take Your Daughter To Work coincides with the start of masked in person Art Engagement/Tea and Talk within my Art Studio. Mom’s with daughters at least 10 years old, welcome by appointment (510) 823-9150
About: My connection to nature, after returning to my Art Studio, are fabricated Fused Glass transparent and opaque sculptural landscapes. Each offers a very compelling variation of window dressing, finished with simple maple color wood frame.
Depending on your placement within your window, these stunning glass scenes delightfully diffuse bright light, block unwanted views, inspires a sense of comfort, and often starts appreciative conversation. Each measures 12″ sq.
These are for non-conforming people who enhance their environment with unique items.
Website: tomye4arts.wordpress.com
More info: As an avid photographer, very observant while walking along various marinas and within regional parks, inspiration for my sculptural Fused Glass scenes can also be from your photo(s).
I welcome commissions. We can discuss sizes much larger than my 12″ sq. series. I also fabricate life size sculptural heads.
The best way to connect with me is text (510) 823-9150.
Jennifer Inez Ward
About: Writer and Photographer Jennifer Inez Ward uses both these art forms to document the myriad of voices in each community she has lived. That’s 20 years and counting after graduating from University of California Berkeley School of Journalism. She is the author of a collection of poems and a short story entitled “Compared To What”. Her current community is the vibrant Oakland California.
More info: The relevance of my documentation is for informing myself and the interested public, to widen our viewpoints. My photos and literature are not for sale. I will accept emails.
Stephanie Thames
About: Stephanie Thames was born and raised in Illinois, and has lived in Oakland, California for more than thirty years. She is mostly self-taught, but she studied for a year and half at California College of the Arts and Crafts during her early years.
In 2018, Stephanie Thames received the Jan Hart Schuyers Creative Merit Award through The Art of Living Black, establishing her as one TALOB’s Spotlight Artists and Featured Speakers. She has exhibited at The Richmond Art Gallery in conjunction with The Art of Living Black, Jingletown Art Gallery, Merritt College Art Gallery and Float Center & Art Gallery.
She is an emerging painter and sculptor who is deeply rooted in daily spirituality and uses art as part of the healing process for herself and others. In her experience of working with clay Stephanie has learned that, while it is a beautiful thing for our minds to be open to new lessons, creativity is innate, subjective and needs to be nourished on the artists terms.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/stephanie_spiritualart
James Gayles
About: James Gayles is committed to cultivating artists and sharing his work. His vision is to put beautiful, uplifting, and enlightening work out there in the world. He sees art as a vehicle to educate, by portraying ancestral icons who youth and all people can be proud of.
He attended Pratt Institute in New York where he studied under Jacob Lawrence and realist Audrey Flack. He simultaneously pursued careers in both fine art and commercial art. As a commercial artist, he established himself in New York as a graphic designer and illustrator, becoming
assistant Director of Graphics at News center 4, NBC-TV. For his work at NBC, he won a TV Emmy Award for design and illustration. James is also a two-time winner of Art Director magazines Creativity Award, one for the News Center 4 logo redesign, and the other for an editorial illustration for the New York Times. He won first place for illustration art at the California Newspaper Publishers Award. He has illustrated of McGraw-Hill, Random House, Essence Magazine, Black Enterprise as well as several advertising agencies on both East and Wests Coasts.
As a Fine artist his paintings have been exhibited in galleries in the Bay Area, through out the U.S’. and abroad. He has won public art commissions from the City of Oakland, the City of Richmond, and the Alameda County Arts Commission. In addition he was three time recipient of the City of Oakland Individual Artist grant and has been selected twice to show at biennial California Watercolor Competition and Exhibition at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara. Most recently he designed a mural in west Oakland, the was honored to be one of four artists portrayed in West Oakland on Fourth street.
These are just a few of his accomplishments, as an Emmy Award winning artist of Oakland, now presiding in Reno Nevada.
More info: Photos for sale as prints: 18″x24″, $200 each, signed
Please call for further information (510) 207-6420
Zwanda
Special events: A video tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxvFFOhJxAM
About: I begin each ceramic sculpture with a commitment to either create new ideas or to expand on the ideas that were created in my on-going series. My art is influenced and inspired by my love and appreciation of the human figure, dance, and music, including my fascination with the instruments themselves.
Website: mcartsandculture.com
VirgiNia Jourdan Fine Art
About: My new series “Heart of Gold” is inspired by my desire to live in peace and harmony with everyone. I love to go to the beach, which is my place of serenity and peace. My paintings are an accumulation of symbols that express my feelings above.
Website: www.virginiajourdan.com
More info: The “Heart of Gold” series are paintings of meditation and are for everyone. It can also be given as a gift to someone you value for their goodness. To purchase one of these serene meditation pieces, email virginiakjourdan@gmail.com or go to www.virginiakjourdan.com The prices range from $250 – $3,000
Christian Vassell
About: Materials used: art sticks, inks, paint, and paper. “I’m inspired by Art Sticks. I’m Inspired by Ink. I’m Inspired by Nature Encyclopedias.”
Website: niadart.org/christian-vassell
More info:
1. “Sun, Igloo, Art” (D8745), mixed media on paper 20 x 12” $80
2. “Sun” (D8582) mixed media on paper 13 x 19” $40
3. “MVA” (D7194) mixed media on paper 11 x 14” $40
JaeMe Bereal
About: This era of disillusionment with our leaders and our country has inspired what I consider to be my biological imperative to practice art. My art tells stories, with my narratives, political cartoons and portraits to help people feel more connected and grounded in reality. Many people in urban communities don’t often follow the continuity of events and political processes around them. One of the goals of my art is to offer a bit of substance and background, and bring people closer to issues and circumstances that affect us all.
Music, people and politics are integral aspects of my art, sources for precious bits and ideas which I incorporate into my work. Music elicits deep graphic visuals, politics and social change present constant challenges, and people’s faces are multi-colored landscapes full of rich experiences. I blend all this with our history, events and happenings from years gone by that are never really gone from us. I am flooded with a wealth of multicultural inspirations, and this is what I bring to my art.
Aware that role models are in short supply in my cultural world, I see myself as an individual who uses her work to reach across boundaries, both race and societal, in order to give back power to those who feel marginalized and somehow short-changed. By creating art from an all-inclusive perspective, regularly featuring and focusing on people of color, my hope is that empowered individuals will find personal value in my work.
Website: www.jaemebereal.com
