Adam Hunter Caldwell was born in Framingham Massachusetts. He received a BFA with honors from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1998 and has been a full-time fine arts instructor there since 2001. His paintings mix elements of abstract expressionism and classical figuration. Caldwell starts with an abstract background

Adia Millett takes things apart, removes, replaces, cuts, pastes, sews, and builds in order to discover the space where transitions occur and where stories of impermance are told. Through the placement of solitary objects, she inserts her own inflection into a language of craft, empowered by symbolism and technique. Originally from Los

Adrianna Bamber is an artist, illustrator, toy designer, and former puppeteer who draws kooky characters.

Alec Huxley is a painter based in San Francisco. His work, primarily representational, is filled with contrast. Simultaneously stark and colorful, it focuses on landscapes of the American West Coast. Cinematic scenes serve as imperfect records of place, time and architecture for space travellers and wild animals. A self taught artist, his

Aleksandra Zee is a San Francisco-based artist who illuminates her many disciplines - installation, display design, sculpture, and construction. She is inspired by the juxtaposition of natural elements and man-made materials working together to tell a story.

Alice Koswara is a graphic designer and contemporary artist who paints delicate ladies, animals, and plant life.

Alice Wiese is an emerging textile artists based in Berkeley. She draws inspiration from patterns found in architecture as well as themes of grief, loss, change, and the process of rebuilding oneself. Her highly repetitive and detailed work is simultaneously chaotic and calming. Wiese received her BFA in textiles from the California

Aline Setton is a painter who was born and raised in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her abstract work is a result of an intuitive process and use of multiple expressive techniques. She seeks inspiration in the harmony between living unconscious process and intentional human interference.

Amandalynn is a Bay Area-based muralist, fine artist, conservator, and art director. Inspired by the female form and spirit, she depicts strong, seductive women and illustrates their strength through line work and decorative patterning. Her work can be found in galleries and streets all over the world. She began developing her distinct

Andy Diaz Hope earned his BS and MS from Stanford University’s Joint Program in Design—a collaborative program between the engineering and art departments. Diaz Hope’s work began to find its voice while working as an engineer and designer for companies such as Apple and Microsoft. Realizing the notion of progress had lost its luster for

Andy Stattmiller is an illustrator and painter living in San Francisco. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio and has a degree in illustration from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Inspirations include cartoons, pop culture, food, life, and the city of San Francisco.

Anthony Holdsworth was born in England and embarked on a painting career while working as Head of Outdoor Restoration for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. He continued his studies at the Bournemouth College of Art in England, and then the San Francisco Art Institute. Originally a landscape artist influenced by the Bay Area

Apexer AKA Ricardo Richey is a San Francisco-born and -bred artist who creates colorful abstract patterns with spray paint for a style that is both typographic and architectural. Having begun his career as a kid tagging MUNI buses, Apexer moved to the wall, then the canvas, in careful exploration of abstract letter forms. His pieces are crafted

Ariel Gold's work revolves around color and how we associate, interact and interpret it. Her art is about relationships between people and their environment, whether it is a physical place or a feeling created by an experience in that space. Raised in Metro Detroit by an editorial cartoonist and a writer, Ariel Gold was exposed to many mediums and captivated by colors and textures from an early age. She passed away in 2020 at the age of 35.

Born in Asia. Raised in New York City. Lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Berisford creates large-format realism and abstract paintings that highlight his impasto brushwork and bold design. He studied graphic design in his native London before embarking on a 25-year career in advertising. Soon after moving the the San Francisco Bay Area, he quit to become a fine artist. Drawing on his heritage as an art director, his composition is strong and graphic, using negative space to offset his subject matter.

Beryl Landau is a San Francisco-based artist who describes her work as “symbolic landscape”. Her acrylic paintings depict geographical locations rendered in a manner that evokes feelings about them. Born in New York City, Landau moved to Santa Monica CA at the age of 15, then arrived in San Francisco in the 1960s to attain BFA and MFA

Bill Zindel is an independent artist, illustrator, and designer who creates collages that are structured yet unrestrained, employing bold colors and patterns with geometric leanings and retro-futuristic tendencies. He draws inspiration from typography, signage, old records, and sacred geometry. His work as a designer informs his art

Blaine Fontana is a Portland-based artist who imbues his vision with the divine symbolism of religious myth, worldly folklore, and current social dynamics.

Brett Amory is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is based on the intersection of quotidian and habitual engagements with the everyday world. His pieces consider moments of visual perception that precede interpretation. Working primarily in painting and installation, he uses the ordinary as a vehicle for extending the familiar into

Brett Crawford is a painter, metal sculptor, street artist, printmaker and illustrator based in Southern California. His work features a wide variety of subject matter including surreal animals, typography, and pop cultural references.

Brian Barneclo was born and raised in Indianapolis, then studied painting and art history at Indiana University. He moved to San Francisco in 1996 and began working as a commercial artist and sign painter. He also started to show his paintings in local galleries. His professional and artistic careers merged when he began to receive

Bunnie Reiss is a muralist and fine artist whose work is heavily influenced by her Easter European background, with its tradition of folk art, saturated colors, animals, nature, and community engagement. Her extensive travels add an extra layer of conversation, which make her creations extremely unique. Her murals and larger installation

Caia Koopman is a pop surrealist artist whose appealing symbols evoke fundamental human emotion in exquisite surreal detail. A second-generation conservationist, loving the environment and being acutely aware of human pollution, nature is often woven into the haunting fabric of her images. Often depicting feminine energy, her dazzling

Calixto Robles is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor from Oaxaca, Mexico. Inspired by the myths, symbols, colors, and ancient traditions of Meso-America, he mixes the silkscreen techniques, which enhance texture and brilliant color, with drawn and found images. Robles’ paintings explore magical realms while his ceramics allow him to reconnect with earthly materials.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Chad Hasegawa became enthralled with graffiti and the art of the Mission School. He moved to San Francisco in 2000, received a BFA in advertising from the Academy of Art University, and worked for top agencies before deciding to concentrate on creating art. He paints murals on the streets and canvases for both commercial and non-profit gallery exhibitions.

Chor Boogie is an artist, a street romantic, and a master of illusion and technique. His works have been said to have healing effects, displaying unique and unmatched use of color, form and movement. Chor Boogie's intention is to create timeless dynamic moments of imagination, creativity, meaning, style, self-expression, and taste. Originally from San Diego, he travels extensively to create and exhibit his work around the world.

Chris Stokes uses mixed media to interlace and layer unassuming combinations of color, lines and found materials. Elements from literature, cultural symbols, and architecture meld together to become art that equals more than the sum of its parts. Born in Philadelphia, the long-time San Francisco resident’s recent work is a reflection of

Christian Rothenhagen, AKA deerBLN, is a fine artist and muralist who is known for conceptual, architecture-based drawings and installations of his two favorite cities – his hometown and base of Berlin and San Francisco, which he has frequently visited since the mid-1990s. He documents his personal view of these cities and their

Damon Soule was born in Atlanta, GA but spent the majority of his childhood in New Orleans LA. In 1993, Soule moved to San Francisco with a packed bag of clothes, a small box of art supplies, and $300. Inspired by physics, chemistry, music, and universal knowledge, his work incorporates a bold use of saturation and composition, and is a

Daniel Chen is an oil painter based in San Francisco. His body of work explores the way technology has affected our visual language and shapes the way we think and remember the past. He holds a BFA from Academy of Art University and an MFA from California College of the Arts.

Daniel Fleres experiments with paint and mixed media on a variety of surfaces to create streamlined portraits of mournful, colorful, and often imaginary creatures against skillfully rendered backgrounds. His creativity is fueled by his childhood fascination with Saturday morning cartoons, video games, and comic book super heroes. Born in

Daniel James Burt is a San Francisco-based sculptor whose intuitive style integrates mixed media to create installations and stand-alone sculptures. His use of body parts to create a series of landscapes as a means of portraiture garnered a commission that rests alongside a Ruth Asawa sculpture. He has a BFA from the University of

Daryll Peirce is a San Francisco based artist fascinated by the metaphysical connective magic that binds us together. He has shown works in galleries and exhibitions nationally and internationally for the past 20+ years.

David Ball is a San Francisco-based artist interested in discovery and happenstance, making mythical, otherworldly pareidolia in collage and mixed media works at once outlandish and familiar. Ball has been exhibiting his artwork throughout the US, selling to collectors here and abroad for over 20 years.

David Chacon was born in Phoenix, Arizona and was raised on cartoons, comics, and cinema. His work is playful and provocative, often laced with political and social satire. Chacon has a Bachelors in Media Arts and Animation from the Art Institute of Phoenix. He passed away in 2022 at the age of 39.

David Choong Lee combines elements of graffiti, collage, graphic design, portraiture, and classical realism. He was born in Seoul, Korea and moved to the US in 1993 to pursue traditional fine art at the Academy of Art. His first major body of work depicted San Francisco's homeless in the Tenderloin, then evolved to depict the

David Crook is an artist and astrologer based in San Francisco's Mission District. He holds an MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute.

David Garvey was born in New York City and attended Pratt Institute, from where he graduated with a BFA. He has had an eclectic career in the arts, having done illustration work for websites, publications, pharmaceutical giants, and entertainment conglomerates. His paintings and drawings are on display in restaurants, hotels, and casinos throughout the country.

Dean Fleming draws inspiration from the ancient art of the Americas, particularly how it fuses different forms into a single entity. Originally a shipping clerk at a printing company in Portland, he discovered his talent as an artist when asked to complete a simple drawing at work. He soon found steady freelance work as an illustrator and

Delphyne V is a self-taught painter who arrives at visual art from a background in dance, theater, and fashion design. Primarily organic, her work is surreal in its deviant perspective of realistic imagery. She hails from Paris.

Dogpaw Carrillo, born in San Francisco's Mission District, has been part of the neighborhood's ever-changing pantheon of cultural caretakers for almost sixty years. Surrounded by artists, poets, musicians, and creative people of all kinds, his work explores the connection between art and music. Dogpaw grew up next door to Fantasy

Breakdancing, Graffiti, Fine Art, Metaphysics

Duser is a San Francisco artist and DJ. Visual art has been a long-standing passion of his, heavily influenced and rooted in graffiti, illustration, and graphic design. While active in the world of street art, he also studied fine art at Whittier College, New York University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. From outdoor murals to cafes,

D Young V has been a working artist in San Francisco since 2003. After earning an MFA from the Academy of Art University in 2006, he has been engaged in gallery shows, installations, muraling, and global street art projects. Known mainly for his meticulous pen drawing and post-apocalyptic themed projects, he has transitioned into creating an

Emily Fromm is a visual artist and muralist in San Francisco, California. Her style draws inspiration from traditional sign painting techniques, cartoons, and comic books to create a nostalgic yet contemporary lens with which to view iconic city locales. The scenes in her paintings highlight treasured city businesses along with public

Eric Johnston uses academic realism, traditional surrealism, and abstract approaches to contemporary topics to create paintings that are direct manifestations of the way humans perceive nature and the environment in which they exist. The driving force behind his creativity is his search for meaning in our existence by connecting with the

Erik Otto has a passion for creative exploration. He balances his time between painting and design, blending multiple influences into one distinct style that has been presented in distinguished galleries, film/theater sets, street corners, and even a parklet . Often improvising with a growing list of mediums and reclaimed materials, he

Erin Yoshi is a community instigator, harnessing her creative power to tell compelling stories and spread messages of hope. With a practice deeply rooted in historic cultural memories and current global conditions, her visual art utilizes abstract and figurative color vibrations to uplift culture and ecology. She has over 20+ years

Evan Venegas uses imagery that is loosely based on the urban, industrial landscape that surrounds him. His creative process is rooted in the recognizable world but expressed by abstract shapes and vibrant colors. He seeks to create an experience that inspires a change in perception for the viewer. Venegas began painting with oils at a

Ezra Li Eismont was born in 1974 in the black mountains of North Carolina and spent his formative years growing up in the dense asphalt maze known as Brooklyn, New York. The spawn of an artistic environment, his mother was a painter and poet, his stepfather a painter, his father a potter and designer, his stepmother a designer and

Felicia Ann is an artist and designer based in Oakland CA. She blends her Southeast-Asian heritage, love of lore and mythology, together with her enthusiasm for astronomy, science and technology. Her art is expressed in ethereal portraits, celestial objects and graphic shapes that represent an exploration of human identity and our place and time in the universe.

Fernando Reyes has evolved from a self-taught artist into a formally trained one, and from being purely representational to having a broad portfolio including abstract work. He received his BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and has lived and worked in Oakland since 1988.

Ferris Plock is a San Francisco-based artist whose work portrays both dedicated focus and wild originality. Through a variety of mediums including acrylic, watercolor, spray paint, India ink, gold or silver leaf, and collage, he creates highly-detailed works, often character-based paintings that combine contemporary pop culture with the

Gage Opdenbrouw is a painter whose works bridge representation and abstraction. He aims to distill his imagery to a point of powerful emotional resonance while maintaining a deep sense of mystery, allowing the viewer's experience to be an important part of completing the picture. While his works span many outward subjects, the

Geoff Campen explores the interaction between constructed reality and the natural world. His work addresses these themes through architectural and construction imagery. He has a degree in Architecture from Philadelphia University.

Gianluca Franzese was born in Italy and raised in New York, where he studied painting at Pratt Institute before transferring to the Florence Academy of Art to learn the skill and technique of the Old Masters. After a few moves back and forth between the United States and Italy, he has settled in San Francisco to pursue art.

Gloria Muriel is a San Diego-based artist and muralist whose work celebrates the inspiration of divine feminism with a surreal, whimsical, and psychedelic connection to Mother Earth and the four elements. She is influenced by her inner child and guided by the beauty of innocence and wonder. Raised in Baja, California, she has a degree in Graphic Design from Universidad Iberoamericana in Tijuana.

Grant Gilliland is an artist and musician known for his peculiar renderings and vibrant color combinations.

Greg “Pnut” Galinsky is an artist, muralist, and clothing designer in San Francisco. His work work depicts elements of nature or images of music and skate culture.

Heather Robinson has an indiscriminate love of pattern and color, adores the handmade and the accidental, and possesses a great fondness for the imperfect. Beginning her art practice in collage and mixed media, she transitioned to painting to have more control over materials. Robinson studied environmental design and architecture at

Born and raised in Shen Zhen, China, Helice Wen studied traditional illustration in Academy of Art University. Currently she lives and works in San Francisco.

Ingrid V. Wells fancies the fantastic and humorous in theme, and the charming, kitschy, and celebrity in subject. Her paintings investigate the world of gendered consumerism and the ethics of fascination. She has exhibited in San Francisco, New York, Miami and South Korea and been featured in publications such as The Huffington Post,

Ivy Jacobsen, a California native, settled into the San Francisco Bay Area while studying art at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute. She began her career as a full-time artist in 2005 and quickly emerged as a prolific fine artist with a unique process of incorporating magical realism into her whimsical

Jaclyn Rose is a self taught textile artist, using a basic sewing machine and recycled household linens to create her fine line illustrations using a technique called free-motion. Her ongoing commentaries and criticisms about herself and modern society are presented with a sense of humor and delicateness, underlined by eroticism and female

Jamie Pavlich Walker is a collage artist living and working in Sonoma County. Coming from a background in drawing and painting, experimentation with new mediums, styles, and techniques led to the discovery of torn paper collage, and her unique creation of paintings using found paper from recycled magazines, maps, labels, and newspapers.

Jeff Hantman is a mixed media artist with a studio/woodshop full of weathered objects and plywood scraps with old dry cracking paint. He received a BFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and has since evolved his techniques through artist residencies and fellowships.

Jenn Porreca is a modern contemporary artist with studios in Los Angeles and London. Claiming marked influences from surrealist art and film, vintage fabric patterns, comics, religious iconography, and silhouette animation, she paints a delicate world of intricately layered styling. A creative alchemist of sorts, she spends days in the

Jessica Eastburn received her BA in Liberal Studies from Portland State University and her MFA in Pictorial Art from San Jose State University. She is currently a Lecturer at Santa Clara University.

Jet Martinez reinterprets Mexican folk art into a distinctive urban contemporary style that is manifested in both large-scale murals and fine art. Flat and graphic in manner, his use and application of color create vibrant, static imagery that celebrates life at its most ecstatic. Originally from Veracruz, Mexico, he is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and currently lives and works in Oakland CA.

J.L. King portrays anonymous figures and everyday objects in curiously extraordinary perspectives. Her paintings reveal vivid scenes through layers, windows, and portals into domains that inspire wonderment and nostalgia. She is heavily inspired by urban nature, her biracial heritage, and the pleasures and experiences of youth. King is a San Francisco native and practices art from her studio in the SOMA district.

John Breiner is a New York native with a love for the ephemeral surface of the state. Rooted deeply in both nature and the city's environment, he chooses found surfaces for his artwork, such as discarded paper and books, as they provide him with a starting point of inspiration. By employing a variety of techniques including illustration

John Casey started inventing creatures as soon as he could hold a crayon. Figures from his early works demonstrate a fascination with skulls, teeth, spirographic eyes, and invented body parts—an interest reflected in his current painting and sculpture practice. Casey lives in Oakland with his wife, artist Mary Kalin-Casey.

Johnny Siu is an illustrator and aesthete who specializes in darkly darling drawings on perfectly-packaged paper or subtly-stained surfaces.

John Vochatzer is a collage artist, street artist, illustrator, painter, designer, graphic artist, tattooer, blogger, investigator, journalist, historian, art collector, curator, gallerist, and community organizer living and working in the San Francisco Tenderloin.

New York-based artist Jose Arenas creates works that explore dual identities, personal ritual, migration, and the displaced feeling that occurs from growing up in both California and Guadalajara. He combines decorative patterns, culturally-assigned symbols, and familiar abstract forms to create an emotionally resonant narrative that

Joshua Coffy draws inspiration from the natural world, scientific illustrations, his love of animals, and how humans relate to them. His work includes multiple layers of texture including paper patterns, maps, newspaper articles, and acrylic paint. He passed away in 2023 at the age of 47.

Joshua Lawyer is a self-taught artist with a background in painting on walls that didn’t belong to him yet offered him a place to escape to when his world was too chaotic. Determined to become a good artist, he realized he needed to hone his skills in sketchbooks, a habit he still practices daily. Lawyer shifted from graffiti to fine art

Joshua Mays is an Oakland-based painter, muralist and illustrator. Born in Denver CO, he studied illustration at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and graphic design at Community College of Denver before moving to Philadelphia, where he lived and worked for eight years before exhibiting and traveling nationwide. He has created

JS Weis is fascinated by nature, natural history, and human beings’ relationship with it. His work combines realistic rendering of flora and fauna with organic yet meticulous colorscapes built up from ink and cut paper. Currently based in Oakland CA, he holds a BFA in printmaking from James Madison University.

Jud Bergeron was born in 1972 on a Navajo reservation in Winslow, AZ and raised in Guilford, Connecticut. A seventh generation artist, he became the first sculptor in his family, studying at Lyme Academy in Connecticut under a student of French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who was a student of Rodin. Thereafter he worked at foundries

Julia Lucey earned a BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has focused on traditional etching techniques and aquatint to create images dealing with the evolving issues of wildlife, its dissolution and the attempt by many to direct its path. Lucey is based in Fairfax, CA and has exhibited her work throughout the United States.

Julie West is a painter and illustrator whose work is heavily influenced by people and their environments.

Justin Lovato is a California-based artist whose abstract, op-art landscapes reflect his perception of beauty in nature. Working under the influence of the purest art forms found in nature, and the realization that micro and macro exist simultaneously, he strives towards a theory of chromatic vibration. Contrasting multi-dimensional

Katy Atchison is a certified Intentional Creativity instructor who specializes in helping people learn more about themselves and heal old wounds through art. Each of her pieces are layered stories of her past and future self. She lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Kelly Ording creates artwork that blends organic and geometric shapes with exact lines, pairing intuitive and mathematical mark-making. In doing so, she attempts to create and find beauty in simple things. Her pieces are as much about their creation process as the resulting imagery. Ording is a graduate of San Francisco Art Institute. In

Kelly Tunstall's portraits are stylized female figures in adapted environments: nests built of painted boards held together by drawn nails or far off planets. The physical form and its accompanying exterior become a mirror for internal thought processes and turmoil. Working in acrylic, collage, spray paint, pencil, pen and ink, gold

Ken Keirns is a self-taught oil painter whose subject matter includes female portraiture and anthropomorphic creatures.

Kevin Earl Taylor is an oil painter who examines the chaotic and incomprehensible human paradigm through the exploration of animals and nature. He studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Kim Cogan paints the many moods and environs of American cities.

Lady Henze is a San Francisco artist whose only art requirement is: color. She works in two distinct styles — abstract and geometric — as these processes allow her to be the dichotomous person she is. Henze is inspired by street artists, neon signs, tile work, pop culture, movies, music, the candy aisle, and the bizarre reality show that is

Lady Mags began her art career as a graffiti writer in 2006, when she started painting tracksides in Chicago while pursuing a degree in education. She has travelled throughout the world, painting street art and large scale murals in many of her destinations. She began exhibiting her fine art in galleries while also practicing her PhD in International Comparative Education at Stanford University. She currently resides in Petaluma CA.

Lee Harvey Roswell is a self-taught artist from Freefall, New York, whose work is noted for its blend of angst and humor. Themes of death and entropy, tribulation and futility run amok in his distinctly surreal, often-slapstick/ often-nightmarish world. The result is at once mocking and melancholic. Lee now lives in San Francisco, and his work is shown, collected and published internationally.

Lela Shields, who was born and raised in London, attended several fine art institutions before graduating from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. She crafts subtle narratives exploring the ultra-fine balance between human, animal and spiritual realms while simultaneously playing with chance, technique and pure

Leon Loucheur is a San Francisco-based artist who specializes in acrylic painting. His compositions are visual allegories of the relationships between the natural and human-made worlds, populated by creatures of the wild in various phases of remix. Without formal training, Leon has nurtured a singular voice from years of exploration and

Linda Larson layers glazes of oil paint to create another frame of consciousness, an in-between place just beneath the surface of another world hiding in plain sight. Her process is ultimately one of exploration: a search for depth, mystery, and a heightened reality for both the painter and viewer. Linda Larson hails from Edinburgh

Lori Nelson is a Utahn living in New York. She is influenced by the spirit of self-sufficiency and the homemaking of her Mormon upbringing. She believes that refuse is relic, and that the human story is written in garbage.

Lucien Shapiro creates art that dances between life and death. His work is rife with found objects, textures, cast forms, manipulations, raw substances, oddities and multiple personalities. Treating forgotten objects and memories as treasure, he creates a kingdom under which new life is born through sculpture.

Madeleine Tonzi explores underlying themes of memory and place, and our relationship to the environment while living through the Anthropocene. Her work takes into consideration the concept of solastalgia, which describes a person's emotional state when experiencing the feeling of loss and longing for one's environment that has been

Margaretta Grazier enjoys the texture, color and unique physical properties that materials have to offer. With nature as her subject matter, she seeks to evoke movement, light and atmosphere through representational shapes that encourage the viewer to bring one’s memories and feelings into each piece.

Mark Farina is a modern day minstrel and one of the most ubiquitous DJs in dance music, best known for his blend of house, jazz, and downtempo, called “Mushroom Jazz”. He began his DJ career at the age of 16 in Chicago, and soon joined forces with Derrick Carter to create an underground house music scene that has influenced parties and

Martin Hsu is a Taiwan-born artist based in San Francisco. He strives to create New Traditional Art by fusing Western narrative with Eastern sensibility. He hopes his art brings you a sense of ease and some peace of mind. His work has been shown all around the world, including the Japanese American National Museum, Art Basel Miami, and Art Kaohsiung in Taiwan.

Maureen Shields creates mixed media works on wood that combine paint, collage, handmade stickers, gold leaf, and glitter. Her printed matter and source material range from vintage LIFE magazines from the 1950s to vintage Playboy magazines from the 1970s and 80s. Born and raised in Southern California, she earned a BFA in Drawing and

Megan Shaffer is an accomplished surfacing artist who has shown in galleries for over 15 years. She holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Ringling College of Arts. Based in Dallas, Texas, Shaffer has worked in the animation industry for the last 18 years.

Melanie Alves focuses on current social and cultural issues, such as gun violence, refugee crisis and the "Culture of Fear". She addresses how society is losing its core human values by focusing on power, greed, the individual, and deception. Alves was born in California, but raised in Portugal. After stints in London and San Francisco, Alves has returned to Portugal to live and work.

Micah LeBrun is a self-taught San Francisco artist who considers his understanding of art to be derived from what he visually identifies in everyday life. His influences range from the line-oriented work of Picasso, the bold graphic nature of Warhol, and the dominant colorful brushstrokes of Peter Max to modern-day movements such as car

Michael Gillette is a multimedia artist who translates the excitement of popular culture into engaging art. Born and raised in Swansea, Wales, he spent his teens infatuated with art and music. After attending Kingston College, he began creating images for the emerging Britpop scene, including video and graphic work for Elastica and

Michael Moncibaiz meanders through the purely gestural and technical applications of abstraction, utilizing his training in street and studio art to create compositions that address perception and matter. He explores the most fundamental elements of art and design, in color and form, and how they relate to each other and the viewer.

Michael Rios is a native of Oakland CA. He attended the San Francisco Academy Of Art on scholarship in the 60s, then worked as an illustrator for mens clothier Roos Atkins before opening his own design studio in North Beach. Rios turned to fine art in the 70s as well as moved to the Mission, where he became involved in the burgeoning

Millie Benson is a New York-based artist from Cleveland Ohio with a BA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MA from Hunter College. Her work combines fantastical geometry and a surprising color palette in order to mirror her own processing of information. She seeks to satisfy her own curiosity through repetition and deviation, producing paintings whose structures achieve nearly organic patterns of growth.

MJ Lindo-Lawyer paints her dreams, fantasies, and nightmares in the expressions of the women in her pieces. They attempt to evoke emotion, celebration wonder, yet also provide insight into the contemporary feminine story. Lindo-Lawyer is a self-taught, self-motivated, self-inspired creator of whimsical alternate universes, endlessly

Monty Guy is a painter and illustrator whose earliest memories are drawing in the entryway of his parents' home in Southern California. A true artist, he is constantly compelled to create and hone his craft, seeing beauty and inspiration in everything around him. He appreciates timelessness in his subject matter as well as in his often-used black and white color palette.

Mykola Bereza, originally from Ukraine, has an art career that spans ceramics, portraits, sculpture, interiors and monuments. He earned a bachelor’s degree in art from Dnipropetrovsk Educational & Production Center #2 and an MFA from Kirovohrad Volodymyr Vynnychenko State Pedagogical University.

Nathalie Fabri is a San Francisco artist that specializes in surreal urban landscapes. Using a variety of bright contrasting colors, she makes city streets come alive with her paintbrush, surrounding cityscapes with giant flora. She is influenced by books and paintings from Africa, the Middle East and Haiti.

Nathan "Nate1" Tan was born in England and then immigrated to San Francisco as a child. A self-taught artist, he became a local graffiti legend in San Francisco and Daly City while a teenager. After earning a degree in graphic design at San Francisco State University, he worked professionally before starting a kids' hip hop clothing line

Nicole Hayden was born in Skokie IL, and brought up in Chicago. She attended art programs during her youth -- including Marwen Foundation, Gallery 37, and The Art Institute of Chicago — that influenced her education at the University of Kansas, where she focused on painting and printmaking. She continued her fine art education at The

Ninjagrl started painting her eponymous character in Chicago back in 2005. Her cat, Turtle, has proved to be loyal companion and unending source of inspiration, while her time spent as a volunteer at the Seattle Aquarium opened her eyes to the wonders of the ocean world. She hopes to inspire conservation of our marine environment by providing glimpses of the amazing creatures that live there in her unique ninja style.

NoMe Edonna is a self-taught artist born in California. Known for his smooth-sided biomorphs that combine the organic and the mechanical, his work is an obscure interpretation of contemporary urban life. In recent years, it has become increasingly focused on social, political, and environmental concerns as well as inquiries of science, technology, and study of ancient civilizations.

Norm “Nomzee” Maxwell was a visual artist whose education came via the streets and the Hussian School Of Art. His combination of urban upbringing and fine art training resulted stylistically in an esoteric combination of color, light, and subject matter. Politics, mythology, popular culture, street life and his own biography were

Oliver Vernon was born in New York City in 1972. The son of artists, he grew up in Albany, NY surrounded by art historical work and earned a BFA in Fine Art at Parsons School Of Design . His paintings draw upon an incredibly varied pool of influences, from abstract expressionism to post-pop surrealism to the polished finish of figurative

Paul Lewin has found joy in the process of creating art since he was a child in Kingston, Jamaica. His paintings, which he likens to the ancient art of storytelling, are inspired by nature, science, ancestors, and dreams. The resulting visions include trees, animals, insects and foliage intertwining with human figures to represent the

Paul Madonna writes and draws the weekly series All Over Coffee, which is published in the San Francisco Chronicle and The Rumpus. He has authored two books, been published internationally, exhibited in galleries and museums , and printed large-scale murals for Tacolicious restaurants and Starbucks. Madonna has taught drawing at the

Peter Daverington completed an MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia in 2006. He has showed in galleries extensively, including twelve solo exhibitions, and has been commissioned to paint public murals in Argentina, Australia, China, Egypt, Germany, Guatemala and Turkey. The recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, he has lived New York since 2011.

René Yañez was a Mexican-born painter, assemblage artist, performer, curator, and community activist. Having moved to the Bay Area in 1966, he help to found the Mission Cultural Arts Center and Galeria de la Raza, where he served as the director for 15 years. He was also one of the first people to introduce the Day of the Dead celebrations in the United States. He passed away in 2018 at the age of 75.

Reuben Rude is the child of hippies who met in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. He grew up in the woods of Northern California and came back to San Francisco to study at the Academy of Art. He utilizes his expertise in drawing, painting, and illustration in both the creative and commercial realms, having shown in galleries, comic

Reza Alhosseini is a San Francisco-based artist who was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. Painting is his perennial exploration of everyday life. He begins with a concept and a mood, then aims for dynamic composition through a series of studies as he builds up to a final piece that is a harmonious balance between vision and technique.

Rich Fonseca is a self-taught painter and illustrator who uses geometry and color to convey how memories change, distort, and fracture with the passage of time. The placement of color arranges pattern over rhythm, utilizing op-art techniques to convey different layers of perception and interpretation. He lives and works in San Francisco.

Ricky Watts is a Sebastopol-based illustrator, painter, and muralist whose love for art was prevalent at an early age, from coloring in his mother’s bubble letters, to creating comic strips depicting epic battles between nuclear dinosaurs and the US Army, to discovering his first graffiti magazine in the 8th grade. Fascinated with aerosol

Robert Bowen is a San Francisco-based visual artist fascinated with the conflict of man versus nature, rendered via his animal and machinery hybrids. Bowen got his start through graffiti and street art, briefly attended art school and continues self-schooling to obtain a classical education as a painter. Bowen has been exhibiting his

Robert Moya is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose practice consists of making sculptural abstract paintings. His love of travel has inspired and informed his work. He holds a BA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Rob Reger is the creator of "Emily the Strange", an illustrated character featured in several comic books, graphic novels and in various merchandise and clothing lines.

Romanowski is a Swiss-born, self-taught artist, musician, and DJ who has made San Francisco his home since 1988. His keen sense of style and extraordinary talent for vintage shopping has made him one of the most sought-after collectibles hustlers this side of Zurich. His artwork includes top-notch spray stencil pieces and found object assemblages that are coveted by music and design aficionados around the world.

Ryan Bubnis has clean yet chaotic paintings, installations, and design work that have been described as "urban folk." Working intuitively, he incorporates a range of mediums and draws inspiration from life, graffiti, Saturday morning cartoons, and outsider art from diverse cultures. He received a BFA in Illustration from Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Santos Shelton is a self-taught artist based in Oakland, CA. He uses bold colors, shapes, and textures to imagine distant worlds and civilizations.

Sarah Coleman was raised in towns in Texas, Minnesota, and California, and noticed that each landscape possessed a unique effect, mood, and sky. These environments and their cultures shaped Sarah's early life experience and began her interest in the emotional and intellectual impacts of atmosphere, weather, and illusion. She studied art at UC Santa Cruz.

Sebastian Wahl, a Swedish artist residing in New York, combines traditional, labor-intensive collage with digital processes to create multi-layered, concentric resin compositions. His source material has been collected and cataloged for over 20 years, including images from all walks of life, pop culture, and religious iconography.

Seibot is a queer, trans-masc muralist and painter based in San Francisco. They are the co-owner/founder of Mothbelly Gallery , a community art gallery located in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Seibot's work relies heavily on acrylic and latex house paint but also includes meticulously detailed pen and ink drawing, digital drawing, and

Simone Star is an artist and psychotherapist who seeks to communicate diverse human experience, themes of social justice, and traces of the ineffable through the language of visual art. Her work includes painting, sculpture, and beadwork among other media. With no formal art training, she has developed her artistic voice through a process

Sirron Norris is a San Francisco-based artist, muralist, designer and educator. He graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, then moved to San Francisco to begin his career. Best known for his public art projects, his murals can be seen in Balmy Alley, Clarion Alley, at the corner of 18th & Bryant in the Mission. He has been an

Sparkles Positron creates art, sparked by love, humor, and gratitude, that celebrates the interconnected complexity of life and material impermanence. She is an alchemist, a hunter and gatherer practicing reverence for all life, knowledge, love, experience, materials, and wisdom. She is a self-taught artist currently based in Grass Valley CA.

Sunshine Jones, a San Francisco native, has been producing electronic music since 1985. One half of Dubtribe Sound System, their brand of house music toured worldwide throughout the 1990s, epitomizing a west coast sound for a generation of underground music lovers. He continues to produce music in solo projects, tour internationally as a DJ, and perform a few times a year with Dubtribe.

Tatiana Suarez is a mainstay in the world of pop surrealism and muralism, showing in galleries throughout the United States. Her murals are in locations as extensive as Hawaii, Detroit, Los Angeles, Okinawa, Mexico and Sweden. Suarez received a BFA in Illustration from the University of Miami. She currently lives and works in Miami.

Telopa, the father and son of artists, paints women in an elegant Mannerist style that combines classic beauty and mythological, symbolic allegory. A San Francisco Bay Area native, he received a scholarship in painting from the Academy of Art.

Tina Basich Haller is a Renaissance woman, known both as a visual art and a groundbreaking pro snowboarder. After nearly two decades as one of the prominent women in the sport, an injury shifted her focus to her other passion. Since childhood, Haller has created work daily, using layers of acrylic paint and paper in mixed media

Treasure Frey is a Los Angeles-based artist who communicates thoughts and relationships abstractly. She has traveled around the world and lived on both U.S. coasts, having earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

t.w.five works with just one material — vinyl — and focuses largely on process. All shapes are hand-cut to size from large rolls of solid color vinyl, and then carefully applied to a surface of the work. Each work is made of intricately repeating patterns, which require hours of rigorous work. The finished product is a labor of love, weaved

Ursula Xanthe Young is a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer whose urban fairy tale images have become a trademark of street culture in San Francisco and beyond. Her fine-lined illustrations and colorful modern paintings exude a style that is unique and appealing to art lovers of all kinds. Young grew up in the green rural