Yolanda Patton ThaSun
Yolanda Patton ThaSun About: About:My canvas is Life, so that could be anything from cotton, wood, tile or leather to name a few. I use acrylics as my medium and find myself adding different textures such as rocks, metal and anything that allows my imagination to flow. I do custom pieces based on your wish […]
Ester M. Armstrong
Ester M. Armstrong About: I realized at a very young age that I had the innate ability to capture visual images through artistic expression. Eventually my parents took notice of my gift and encouraged me to further develop my gift as an artist. My very first technical artistic instruction came in the form of a […]
Joseph Robinson
Joseph Robinson About: Joseph Robinson was born in Oakland and grew up in the East Bay. Mr. Robinson grew up spending time in the dark room with his late father, who was an active professional jazz photographer in the 1960s and 1970s. Mr. Robinson participated in The Art of Living Black for more than a […]
The Art of Justice
The Art of Justice About: My journey as an artist began in 1977 when I was enlightened by my uncle Nolan on a unique wood carving technique that his older brother Donald learned in prison. My first efforts were exact duplicates of my uncles’ work. After a few pieces, I altered their designs to add […]
Charles Curtis Blackwell
Charles Curtis Blackwell About: Legally blind poet, painter, playwright and teacher who guides us on an intimate journey of his past and present. Blackwell reveals stories of survival, memories and poetry, with fine art interspersed, social justice in motion, speaking powerfully his poems and music. Each of these media expose Blackwell’s challenging upbringing in both […]
Julee Richardson
Julee Richardson About: I have always known that my imagination could take my aesthetic experience anywhere I wished to go. My formal undergraduate art training began in Buffalo at the State University of New York. My work is inspired by what I feel and what I see. Seeing, expressing and creating art, which is influenced […]
Dulama LeGrande
Dulama LeGrande About: “My works are prayers. Marks and strokes of paint serve as invocations.” Bio: Dulama LeGrande is a visual artist born and reared in the Bay Area with a current studio practice in Oakland, CA. He has been making art with professional intent for the past seventeen years and taught art for a […]
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 […]
