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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
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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. He seeks to promote community activism through the rediscovery and creation of alternative stories that are based on the experiences of the communities he works with. Past projects include creating trading cards based on the identities of the students in his classes, coloring books based on yoga poses learned in a workshop held at an HIV prevention center, and murals painted and designed in cities by the community members that live there. 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.
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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
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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
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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 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. Campbell has been an artist in residence at Wassaic Project (New York), Stelo Papermaking (Portland), Open Windows (San Francisco), and Vermont Studio Center. 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
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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. shanirealey.com, @ani_igboyansan_biomi
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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
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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
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
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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 teachers 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
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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 teachers 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
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Leah Yael Levy is a visual artist, storyteller and teacher based in Berkeley, CA. Born and raised in Israel, she first moved to New York City in 2002 to attend the Art Students League of New York, and later gained a BFA of Illustration from Parsons the New School for Design (2011). She moved to California to pursue an MFA in Comics at California College of the Arts (2017). Levy is a teaching Artist for Richmond Art Center, Kala, and JCC of the East Bay. www.leahyaellevy.com, @yaelefly
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 has been flameworking glass for 21 years, and gleefully teaching it for 11 years.
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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. alexandriamartinez.squarespace.com, @hechoporalex
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Viviana Martinez Carlos is a transdisciplinary artist born and raised in Mexico and currently based in San Francisco. Her work is located at the intersection of multi-media installation, artist books and research. @viviana_carlos
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Travis Meinolf 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 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
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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.
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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.
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Keena Azania Romano exercises her creative mind through the exploration of diverse artistic mediums as a way to engage and understand individual and collective purpose. 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. Her style is described as “vibrant and insightful”. She aspires to travel and create a colorful trail of art by exploring the modern Diaspora based on her multi-ethnic experience.
Betsy Streeter is a cartoonist and illustrator and East Bay native. Her work has appeared all over the world in print and other forms, including a traveling Smithsonian exhibit, a Hollywood movie (barely), and tattooed on a person. She’s currently illustrating a history of the bicycle and creating a series about local animals putting on their own plays as a benefit for California Shakespeare Theater, where she is a board member. She has taught classes for all ages and at many venues including the Schulz Museum and the Cartoon Art Museum, and illustrated books for 826 Valencia and Chapter 510. She studied Art at Stanford, and has worked in film, video games, web design, and software. www.betsystreeter.com, @betsystreeter
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
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