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Alex Noble

Alex Noble is a Santa Barbara based fine art photographer with ten years of experience behind a camera. He has found it challenging to articulate his thoughts and feelings through words alone so photography has became his chosen medium for self-expression. He is passionate about creating images that leave a lasting impression and tell a story that words simply can't.

Ali Williams

Ali Williams is a storyteller, researcher, and creative practitioner. She engages across textual and visual mediums to explore her endless curiosity in human beings. As a full-time lecturer in the Writing Program at UCSB, Ali’s courses focus on composition and communications in media, culture, and the arts. Ali is a PhD candidate in Creative Research at the Transart Institute, and her work has been published and exhibited in mainstream and academic spaces.

Amun Levy

Amun Levy (aka. Altarbeast) lives and works in Southern California. A graduate from the graphic design program at California Institute of the Arts, his love for music and art have evolved into a progressive multi-faceted creative force. Altarbeast creates projection visuals that synthesize environments in harmony with audio, blurring the lines between visual and audio. Altarbeast performs all live, original content, creating a distinction between out of the box VJ’s and projection as an art form.

Ben Grace

Ben Grace is an interdisciplinary designer and creative technologist living in Ojai, CA. With a foundation in architecture, Ben’s interdisciplinary approach allows his passion for experience to reach a contemporary audience. Specializing in spatial design where digital processes meet the real world, Ben works from concept to implementation in order to bring ideas to life. The goal of these works are to illuminate realities beyond our perception through experience. His aim is to make the settled, strange.

Birgit Leleu

Birgit Leleu was born in Ypres, Belgium in 1979. She graduated in 2002 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, as a Master in Visual Arts, 3-Dimensional Art, Jewelry and Silversmithing. She has exhibited her work across the globe in prestigious galleries.

Brett Schoonderwoerd

Brett Schoonderwoerd is an artist fueled by a deep connection to creation. From a young age, he found joy in tinkering and unraveling the mysteries of old electronics, discovering the magic within their workings. College brought him the opportunity to study photography and art. Brett pours his heart into crafting meaningful works for individuals, events, and the community. Each creation is an invitation to explore the extraordinary, to evoke emotions, and to connect with the world in profound ways.

Cevins McCullah

Cevins' work exploring the junctures of memory and form become portals to the past, encouraging introspection about our own experiences and the ever-shifting nature of time. Through every creation, Cevins unveils fragments of the human soul, seamlessly intertwining the tangible and intangible in a harmonious dance of nostalgia and artistic expression. Having earned an AA in Studio Art from Santa Barbara City College, Cevins is currentluy pursuing a BA in Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jami Joelle Nielsen

Jami Joelle Nielsen is a Santa Barbara based self-taught artist with a degree in Environmental Science from the University of Kansas.Jami Joelle's body of work combines a reverence for science, nature and the human experience. She strives to develop powerful art that speaks to social and environmental concerns while encouraging dialogue, education and collaboration in an inclusive community, connecting us to each other and the broader universe. The result pays homage to symbiosis, transformation and hope.

Jenna deBoisblanc

Jenna deBoisblanc 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.

Justin Gunn

Justin Gunn is an award winning filmmaker whose journey to sculptural artist was first inspired by his many visits to the Burning Man festival. Inspired by the giant art cars known as Mutant Vehicles which shuttle participants across the vast desert expanse, he started building artistic personal vehicles based on electrical tricycles. Along with his frequent collaborator, Torin Curren, he continues to build these fantastical Tiny Art Cars.

Kellen Meyer

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.

Lucia de Miguel

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.

Marco Pinter

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.

Rebecca Zendejas

Rebecca Zendejas has had a lifelong fascination with the creation of sacred space within daily routines and community spaces. With a background in art installation, theater production and woodworking, in 2018 Rebecca began designing and constructing one of a kind personal altars for the home and office. For everyone, the altars provide a place to reconnect with what matters most to them.

Richard McLaughlin

Richard McLaughlin was educated in both arts and sciences. He studied in the physics department at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and shifted his attention to painting and sculpture at UCSB upon arriving in Santa Barbara. Richard also spent a year abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Italy, where he studied painting, performance, and puppetry. For several years, he worked in downtown Santa Barbara and collaborated with local artists on what was to become the Summer Solstice Parade and Celebration.

Rod Lathim

Award-winning artist and a 5th generation Santa Barbaran, Rod Lathim creates neon sculptures exploring matter and light. Often incorporating vintage objects and marrying various artistic styles and epochs, his work references pop, minimalism, retrofuturism and deconstruction. 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

Shaune Lundstrom

Shaune Lundstrom is a multimedia artist studying Art and Communications at UCSB. She grew up in Orinda, CA, and has been pursuing art her whole life. Nature is a large inspiration for Shaune’s works. She also loves the flow state of longboarding, and finds it similar to her creative process. As a large believer in experimentation, she often changes her medium.

Tai Rodrig

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.

Torin Curren

Torin Curren is a multi-talented craftsman and artist living in the Central Coast.  His skills as a master carpenter, welder and metal fabricator all are brought to bear in the kinetic sculptural vehicles called Tiny Art Cars.  Whether pedal powered or electrically propelled, Torin’s creations have taken the shapes of bunny rabbits, Guinea pigs and even a glowing snail.

Timothy Wood

Timothy Wood is a media artist and somatic movement artist committed to creating practices of balance. His work in creating immersive and dynamic spaces for improvisational performance and playful interaction explores new ways of learning from the rich stories of living natural systems to empower our own embodied storytelling practices. Timothy aims to create works that promote imagination, creativity, and play as a healing force for both the physical body and the community.

Tori Louise

Tori Louise is an artist and poet residing in Santa Barbara. Tori weaves her connection with the natural world into her artistic expression. Enveloped in an aura of mysticism and reverence, her art reflects an exploration of human emotions. Tori's artistic practice spans an array of mediums, including poetry, fiction, painting, and installation art. Tori's art aims to inspire empathy, foster connections, and encourage viewers to perceive the world from fresh and meaningful perspectives.

Udo Gyene

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.

Bethany Sutherland Sakoda

Bethany Sutherland Sakoda is a multi-disciplinary artist, dance instructor, choreographer, and educator residing in Santa Barbara. She has a fundamental desire to bring people and concepts together in a unified way. With over 10+ years of experience in leadership across for-profit and nonprofit industries, her versatile background includes initiatives in arts education, social emotional learning, health and wellness, medical technology, diversity, and STEAM. She graduated with honors from Westmont College with a BS in Engineering Physics and a minor in Art.

Bethany Sutherland Sakoda

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. She has been awarded a scholarship to attend Anderson Ranch Arts Center, selected for several community mural projects, and continues to build upon her artistic and botanical knowledge. She is currently a studio technician at Clay Studio SB and a scenic painter at Santa Barbara City College.

Meiya Sidney

Meiya is an interdisciplinary artist based in Santa Barbara. Through her lived experience of hybridity being Taiwanese-American, she cultivates a practice that invites deep looking, wisdom, and community well-being. Meiya’s work combines calming colors, Traditional Chinese characters, and allusions to nature to create a peaceful, grounding energy that brings us back to the present moment. Meiya studies at College of Creative Studies, UCSB as a Book Arts major and Chinese minor. She is the 2023-24 Artist Visionary of UCSB Mindfulness Club and Gallery Assistant at Maune Contemporary.

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