Adam Jahnke is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Santa Barbara. Adam’s work explores cultural narratives about Southern California’s culture, geography, transit and labor. Adam furthers this research as a Lecturer within UCSB’s Art Dept where he explores Applied Geography - a practice that seeks to research and respond to cultural and spiritual implications of natural and man-made landscapes.
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Adriana is a Peruvian-American artist studying Art at UCSB. Besides painting and illustration, Adriana writes stories and illustrates comics. She is also interested in theater and journalism and enjoys researching social issues and history, such as Black Lives Matter, the Holocaust and climate change. She applies her research into creating art and creating comics.
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Alexandra James is a Latina sculpture artist and welder working in clay, metal, wood, found unnatural materials and foraged natural materials. Alexandra received a Bachelor's of Fine Art and minor in Visual and Performing Arts at UCLA. Her work is themed around nature, mental health, social justice, and the climate crisis and is often accompanied by videos, performances, and books.
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Santa Barbara based visual artist, Brett Schoonderwoerd works are in a spectrum of creations related to light. Originally studied photography, theater and studio art Brett creates with tools that use light like lasers, Stereolithography, RCT TV’s, Camera’s and sculpting EL Wire. Brett currently as a TV installation of shown at Lodo studios. The reason why Brett creates with light, it’s an essential source to life and it’s a symbol to God.
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Caroline is a painter and illustrator based in Ventura, California. Her main area of focus is environments from cities to landscapes using watercolor and/or digital illustration. Inspired by American Romanticism, she aspires to create landscapes and cityscapes that invoke a connection with the atmosphere and presence of the subject within.
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Catherine Jenks is an artist using paint as a tool and language to express, examine and understand the human experience. She is interested in influencing the viewer’s perception and psychological responses through manipulating color, rendering and composition. Her paintings provide opportunities for reflection and reminders that everything is worthy of a close look. Catherine has a B.A. in Art, with an emphasis in Painting, from UCSB.
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Colleen M. Kelly is a Santa Barbara-based artist, with a MFA in Painting. She double majored in Printmaking and Religious Studies developing interests in myth, symbolism, and mysticism and became immersed in environmental, social-justice, and feminist issues. She worked with prominent iron fabricator David Shelton to create iron guardrails, Giant Brown Kelp and Big Gate at SBA in 2011. Then public art in LA, Dream Portal: Once Upon a Time, (2017). For the Debris Flow, she created Healing Hut for Soul Repair, (2018).
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Dan Sulzberg is a Santa Barbara-based illustrator. Staying true to his roots, he named his illustration studio "Danvillage" after his hometown Danville, where it all started. Dan works on projects that span the worlds of editorial illustration, packaging, album art, children’s books, sports art, brands, and advertising. Comic books became a writing gig on the Superman themed t.v. show "Smallville"; Nintendo games turned into a concept art job for Pandemic Studios; and Saturday morning cartoons have turned into a Creative Director job at Red Bull.
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Originally from Mexico City, Diego Melgoza (aka Melgo) is a Santa Barbara-based visual artist and graphic designer whose inspiration comes from Mesoamerican and Mexican culture. His mission is to create quality visual work about environmental and social issues, to evolve the consciousness of the viewer and progress as one.
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We are a group of progressive, psychedelic, surreal artists looking to infuse our creations with Spirit and Style.
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Movement, the law of cause and effect suggesting that the universe is always in motion, is at the core of Irene Rinta’s representational abstract work. It's the driving force that engages her to move her brushes until the potential speaks to her and leads her to what it wants to represent.
Irene’s work is a long meditative process. Each painting is a whole experience to itself that makes her work unique. Irene worked as an Architect and taught Architecture to kids in Santa Barbara.
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Isaac Anguiano is a welder and artist living in Santa Paula and working in Santa Barbara. Isaac has been working with metal for over 15 years. He gets his inspiration from the ocean, mountains, and plants with the aim to make his work feel and look organic. He often incorporates glass into his work.
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Jami Joelle Nielsen is a disabled self-taught artist based in Santa Barbara with an Environmental Science degree. She’s influenced by her passion for art and science education, ecology, poetry and advocating for the disabled community. Jami Joelle creates sustainable art using recycled materials. Her work combines a reverence for nature, science and the human experience. With a degenerative joint and neurological disease, she constructs her “Otherworldly Landscapes” in bed, and invites viewers to explore new worlds.
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G Roslie is a Korean-American textile artist, natural dyer and slow clothing maker. She creates her own, bespoke palette for each work of art by hand dyeing linen textiles with botanical plant and earth mineral pigments. Her compositions are stylized and evocative with simple, contrasting shapes of cut and sewn panels. The imagery is reminiscent of modernist abstraction, the stillness of zen minimalism and 1970s craft revival. Her work seeks to encourage slow, quiet, contemplative reflection.
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As a photographer of many subjects, Jeffery Sipress' first passion is natural light on the landscape. He seeka the early and late magic light in the winters and chases the monsoons in the southwest summers for weeks at a time. The perfect light on his chosen landscape may last for just minutes, but he spends hours traveling and planning.
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Jenna deBoisblanc (b. 1989) is a net artist and teacher from New Orleans. She received her undergraduate degree in physics from Pomona College and her MFA in digital art from Tulane University. She has shown work at The Front, Good Children, the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, Luna Fête, Light Up Albuquerque, and on digital platforms including The Wrong Biennale and SIGGRAPH. Her clients include Toyota, the Aloft Hotel, the Florida Aquarium, and NASA.
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John Zarate-Khus is a visual artist based in Santa Barbara. His work is inspired by experiences with the early political movements of the California Indigenous People, poverty, homelessness, and the military. His medium is whatever he can afford at the time - a ballpoint pen on a paper plate or high-quality ink washes on studio quality paper. John’s earliest inspirations were drawn from street art, political art, and his ancestors' art (Chumash). John worked as a print and web graphic designer for two decades and broke free to pursue his own visions. He has sold his art worldwide and won various awards.
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After being an art teacher and gallerist, Kathy decided it was time to devote herself to art making. She paints personal portraits that reveal themselves in non-objective abstracts and sometimes solitary female figure. She is a firm believer in the power of visual expression to connect us to one another and to create an emotional resonance that is broadly universal.
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Katie, born and raised in Santa Barbara, is currently living locally with her husband raising two amazing little humans (River 5 years, Rain 3 years). She is a natural light photographer who loves capturing the light and magic in everyday moments.
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Kellen Meyer is a Contemporary Artist focused on Large Scale Fiber Art Installations, Sculptures, and Collaborations with Galleries and Boutique Hotels. Kellen’s Art is Rooted in Nature and influenced by the colors, shapes and textures in the wild outdoors. This influence weaves a common thread throughout her work. She entwines a variety of natural fibers to create hand-woven works of fine art that integrate knitting, crochet, and various weaving techniques.
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Larry Vigon is an award-winning art director and designer who is credited for some of the most iconic album covers from the 70’s and 80’s for Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, Counting Crows, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Chicago, Pat Benatar, Carol King, and many more. Vigon has partnered with some of the greatest photographers of the late 20th century including Helmut Newton, George Hurrell, Joyce Tenneson, William Claxton, Peter Beard, and numerous others. Corporate clients include IBM, Epson, The City of Los Angeles, Paramount Television, The Hard Rock Hotel, The House of Blues, also Broadway posters and books, including C.G. Jung’s Red Book.
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Lucia has lived in Argentina, Italy, Switzerland and since 2013 calls sunny Santa Barbara her home. She is always creating and draws inspiration from her years living abroad, her travels and her favorite place, the beach. She has always been passionate about art and loves playing and exploring with different mediums. Her studio work focuses on acrylic paintings and collage on paper.
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Marco Pinter creates artwork and performances which fuse physical kinetic form with live visualizations. Marco has a PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the UCSB, and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He has exhibited around the world, including Dubai, NYC, Montreal, Tehran, Hong Kong, Anaheim, San Diego and Santa Barbara. Marco has over 70 patents in the areas of live video technology, robotics, interactivity and telepresence. He is also Curator of Interactive Media at MOXI, and MSME.
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Meghan Woodbury is a seascape and landscape photographer from Ventura County. Meghan volunteers and collaborates with the Surfrider Ventura chapter on photographing beach clean-ups and the local community in action. She is a certified UC-Climate Steward through the Community Environmental Council (CEC). As a climate steward alumni, she uses her photography to inspire communities to protect their sea, coast and land by showcasing the natural beauty that surrounds us in Central California.
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Meiya Sidney studies Book Arts and Chinese at College of Creative Studies, UCSB. Her practice involves oil painting, book arts, watercolor/ink, and letterpress printing. She marries image and text in the telling of personal narratives, often interweaving English and Chinese poetry with traditional Chinese calligraphy scripts. Her recent work explores Taiwanese culture, the nature of enduring love, and creating an intimate, loving presence.
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Mia Franco was born and raised in Santa Barbara, where she continues to live and work today. The local landscape and different forms of biodiversity inspire her work, ranging from oil and acrylic paintings to print and sculpture media. In 2021, she received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
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Piper Crabtree grew up in a creative household. After taking welding classes at Bellingham Technical College, she spent the following year welding and fabricating ferry boats and fishing boats at Mavrik Marine in La Conner, Washington. Piper’s background in metal work started by learning the skills to build strong foundational pieces in both aluminum and steel. Her skill set ranges from industrial marine welding, to ornamental and functional artistic pieces.
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Award-winning artist and a 5th generation Santa Barbaran, Rod Lathim creates neon sculptures. Often incorporating vintage objects and marrying various artistic styles and epochs. His work references pop, minimalism, retrofuturism and deconstruction, becoming playful and deeply spiritual. He is fascinated by light created by combusting gas with electricity. This ethereal, radiant light is the closest thing he has found in our physical world to our soul’s light. @rodlathim
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“Survival is the overarching theme of my work. The environment, and our relationship to it, inspires a body of work that ranges from large-scale installations to photographic-video-graphic series to music to painting and whatever creative vehicle I deem fit to get her point across.” Livingston’s various archives: University of California Santa Barbara Library’s Special Collections.
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Sean O’Brien is a visual artist, designer, and educator who works across a wide range of media. Whether it be his kinetic drawing sculptures, street art, or printmaking the common thread is an invitation to pause, reflect, and be grounded in the moment. When he is not creating art he is working with schools and teachers to empower our students to be creators themselves by helping school administrators and teachers design spaces and curriculum that fosters innovative, hands-on learning and art for our students.
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Tai Rodrig is a multimedia artist based in Santa Barbara. Since studying computer science and art at UCSB, he has been creating artwork using the power of computers, usually reserved for boring and sterile applications, to turn artistic visions into reality. Tai’s projects blur the line between digital and physical art, letting the computation work its magic behind the scenes without getting in the way of experience. Tai uses the computer as a tool, not unlike a paint brush, to create unique artwork that escapes the screen.
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Ted Werth is an artist, organizer, entrepreneur, and event producer, working primarily in LED light installations and interactive experiences. His work has been shown at events and festivals across the US west, including the Coachella Music Festival, Burning Man, Lightning In A Bottle, LA's Create:Fixate, Autumn Lights, and Hard Festivals, and San Diego's Xylogen Qi and YouTopia.
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Udo Gyene is a mathematician, visual artist, programmer and educator based in Santa Barbara. Driven by the power of the universal language of mathematics, he strives to share that inspiration with the world through artistic expression and education. Udo explores the fields of Geometric Abstraction, Surrealism and Op-Art, drawing guidance from the likes of Kandinsky, Miro and Vasarely. He has harnessed the power of vector calculus, differential geometry and implicit modeling to develop a vast body of mathematical artwork in a variety of media.
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