Mia Mya Dawson
Mia Mya Dawson About: Mia Mya Dawson is an artist with NIAD Art Center who works in pencils, watercolors, ceramics and fiber. “It’s so challenging not to think so much and just to do the work. I create work from different experiences in my life. They show up in my mind.” Website: niadart.org/arista-dawson More info: […]
Lorraine Bonner
Lorraine Bonner About: Lorraine Bonner turned to art to deal with personal trauma. Her work has moved from personal/political betrayal, in the Perpetrator series, to a vision of humanity beyond socially defined “color” in the Multi-Hued Humanity series. She calls her current series Mending, creating new beauty from our scars and broken places. Lorraine Bonner […]
Genesse McGaugh
Genesse McGaugh About: Genesse McGaugh is a 1999 graduate of Oakland’s California College of Art. The words “and Craft” had been removed from the name. As a precocious 5 year old, she certainly did her share of craft making, while attending Berkeley Child Art Studio. Though a child with extensive sight impairment, she participated in […]
Elmarise Owens
Elmarise Owens About: I am an artist and a photographer. During this pandemic and subsequent quarantine, I decided to learn something different but still within the art world. I decided to learn how to do acrylic pours and alcohol ink. I have watched countless numbers of YouTube videos and decided to give it a try. […]
Raymond L. Haywood
Raymond L. Haywood About: I am an abstract expressionist painter. Improvisation and color are the essential elements of my abstract seascapes and landscapes. Dominant motifs and inspiration for my work are land, sea and sky. I have recently begun incorporating cowrie shells as emotional avatars into my paintings. Painting is the praxis that facilitates an […]
Derrick Bell
Derrick Bell About: Cincinnati, Ohio native and Oakland based Fine Artist, Educator, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. His work is thought provoking and capable of arousing strong emotions that cut across ethnic, national and generational barriers. The artistic renderings convey a deep sense of emotion, spirituality, dignity, history, strength and grace. Bell’s works are inspired by his […]
Donna Meke’da Bradley
Donna Meke’da Bradley About: Art for me has always been a vehicle to escape through imagination and creates excitement for me in the process. I was born in Texas, and raised in Gardena Ca, Although I started out as a poet/writer, mentored by the Legendary Watts prophets of Los Angeles, visual art became another way […]
Naomi Floyd
Naomi Floyd
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Jason Powell-Smith
Jason Powell-Smith About: Places are important to Jason Powell-Smith who regularly expresses pride in being a Bay Area native, explaining “I like the Bay Area because it’s where I grew up.” Bus lines and regional transit stations remind him of specific films and television shows which reappear throughout Jason’s art works. Printmaking is also of […]
