CREATIVES

Rachel Brooks Richardson Design, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Other, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts Rachel Brooks is a seasoned illustrator, painter, and muralist. She has worked in the art and design field for over 14 years. She obtained her BFA in Design at The Art Institute of San Francisco and immediately entered the fashion industry, where she started her career in apparel design and illustration. She has worked as a successful Art Director for various Bay Area companies while pursuing her passions in painting and public art. Her work has been showcased in San Francisco, throughout the Bay Area and Yekaterinburg, Russia. Rachel is currently a Resident Artist at Fulton Street Crossing in Santa Rosa, CA.

Ryan Richardson Film Office, General Services, Music, Photography, Recovery Fund Grantee, Visual Arts Rockin Ryan Richardson 🎸Guitar, Bass, and Drums, Hat Crüe 🎩🎩 📷📷Published Photographer Music Junkie Press Photographer📷🎥☕️👑📷📸😝🎩📷Canon Film Polaroid 📷🎩 FAMILY R'N'R COFFEE ☕️

Mina Rios Acting, Audio, Ballet, Children's, Choreography, Dance, Fiction, Literature, Media, Modern, Other, Photography, Theatre, Video, Visual Arts Driven by a passion for the arts, freelance journalist Mina Rios found inspiration in dance through film and exposure to live performance during her youth in San Francisco. Trained in music, theatre, and dance; followed by Journalism & Mass Communications – Rios’s decade long career path down Marketing, Advertising, and Public Relations avenues spanned from 1997 until 2007 – when she found both opportunity and her true calling in arts journalism.

Nick Robles Artisan, Ceramics, Functional Art, Other, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Visual Arts Originally from Southern California, I first found myself in Sonoma Country to attend Sonoma State University and am excited to have recently relocated to Petaluma. Taking inspiration from my Hispanic roots, playful spirit, and a modern aesthetic I use bold colors, organic forms, and an appreciation for imperfection to create a cohesive body while creating both functional and fine art. With the addition of functional ceramics and textiles I founded, Technicolor Dino. After years of dedicating both time and effort to starting a small business, I plan to use the funds from Sonoma Creative to have a space dedicated to fine art. A place devoted to drawing and painting so I can leave the worries and to-do lists of running a small business at the door to focus on creating.

Beverly Todd Rose Photography, Visual Arts When I was a young woman, I found the semi-wild beauty of the James River Park in Richmond, Virginia so magnificent, that I decided to take up photography in the hopes of capturing and sharing what I saw. Since then, I have continued my efforts to reflect back to others the beauty, the grandeur, and the wonder that I encounter. My photographs originate from the San Francisco Bay area and Northern California Wine Country, from the East and West coasts, from Yosemite, and from anywhere and everywhere else that I have visited. I offer these photographs to you, in an effort to share the calmness, beauty, humor, and joy that I see.

RONNIE ROSENBACH Photography, Visual Arts I am a Sonoma County photographer, living and loving life in Santa Rosa.  Originally from New Jersey, I moved to Sonoma County in 1991. Art has always been an important part of my life. My mother was an artist and my father was an art collector.  Although I have taken photography classes, I am primarily self-taught.  The catalog from the1955 seminal exhibit, Edward Steichen’s “The Family of Man,” was a major reason why I became interested in photography. Flowers are my special love, as you can tell. I’d like to think Georgia O’Keefe would be proud.  Landscapes and other genres interest me as well.   The San Francisco Bay Area, with its temperate climate and spectacular views, offers me a seemingly endless list of subjects.  And don’t get me started about sunsets.  As Imogen Cunningham said when asked which of her photographs was her favorite, she replied, “The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” Please email me at ronnie.rosenbach@icloud.com if you have questions about my work.  I welcome commissions. Thank you for looking.  

Janeane Rose Sanborn Photography, Visual Arts Janeane Rose Sanborn As an artist, I am fascinated by the emotions explored in transformation and my work follows along general themes of journey, awakening, healing, and acceptance. Images I create are usually set in nature, utilizing the elements of the landscape to illuminate the subject. It is my intention to capture mood through natural lighting, movement, or props that symbolize the story I am telling. In the editing room, I can take an image and add elements to strengthen a concept, with the use of color toning, texture, and image compositing. When I am creating a particular composition, I am exploring the emotion that I feel as I envision the possibility of relating to my audience. Connection to my audience is what inspires me to create; to tell a story that compels the viewer to be curious about the deeper meaning and to participate in a fluid way. I want the viewer to find a bit of themselves that perhaps they hadn’t known. I am passionate about being an artist that nurtures and invites others to join the journey to a place of openness, with strengthened resolve toward compassion for ourselves and others. I recently became an exhibiting member of the Arts Guild of Sonoma and was chosen to exhibit my image "Awakening" in a juried exhibition for "she", with Juror Joyce Tenneson.  

Francesca Scalpi Photography, Visual Arts I capture emotional memories in nature. My goal is transport the viewer deeper into the scene, exposing their relationship to the natural world and to rediscover our sacred connection. Whether it's through the magnificence of the night sky, the vibrant colors of a sunset or the soulful twinkle in the eye of an owl.

Abraham Schroeder Children's, Design, Graphic Design, Literature, Mixed, Photography, Sculpture, Visual Arts I am an artist, designer, and author living in Petaluma. My art includes digital, mixed media, and sculpture, electronics, metal, clay, collage. I also do freelance graphic and web design. My children's picture books are The Gentleman Bat (http://www.TheGentlemanBat.com) and Too Many Tables (http://www.TooManyTables.com). Before moving to CA, I worked for 7 years in the Asian Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During that time I managed a massive 5-year project to catalog, digitize, and rehouse the MFA's spectacular collection of 50,000+ Japanese prints. An 1880’s woodblock print of bats by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi in the MFA collection was the seed of inspiration for The Gentleman Bat. Read more about the hidden art historical references and book production process at http://www.TheGentlemanBat.com. My second book, Too Many Tables, features fun, colorful illustrations and a comically entertaining story, with a subtle message of generosity and community woven throughout. I do school, library, bookstore, and children's museum visits with large and small audiences. Depending on age and interest, I adjust the presentation to the group, often including interactive drawing activities, amazing bat facts and science, and introductions to Japanese woodblock prints. As an artist who worked closely with the illustrators of my books, I am always happy discuss the book making and illustration process, as well as writing, rhyming, and editing, and I do Skype/FaceTime for schools and groups around the country.

Larry Sheradon Artisan, Design, Functional Art, Furniture, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Jewelry, Multi-Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Visual Arts, Woodworking Larry has recently been manifesting a long dream of creating whimsical CNC light sculptures and functional festival deco. With experience in 3D algorithmic design, illustration, woodwork, programming, electronics and altar creation, he draws on inspiring plant forms and the radiant spirit of nature in his designs. He currently lives in the redwoods of Northern California.

Cathy Stancil Photography, Visual Arts Sonoma Valley Photographer. Intimate Weddings and Elopements

Hugh Steimle Photography, Recovery Fund Grantee, Visual Arts Hugh Steimle has worked with Photography and many aspects of Visual Arts during his creative career. When photographing both Natural Light and Night Photography subjects, Hugh focuses on capturing images of fleeting moments with thought provoking qualities. He studied Photography at the Academy of Art, San Francisco and more recently completed the Applied Graphics Certificate Program in Santa Rosa at the SRJC. He works with both Fine Art and Commercial applications depending on the project at hand.

Cathleen Swanson Ceramics, Dance, Folk Art, Improvisation, Media, Mixed, Painting, Photography, Recovery Fund Grantee, Sculpture, Teacher/Instructor, Video, Visual Arts I am not limited to one medium nor style. My art is an exploration, an adventure and a spiritual journey.  I love to share art-making with others. The Spirit Houses are made by hand from clay.

Colin Talcroft Mixed, Photography, Printmaking, Visual Arts About the Artist I am self-taught and active in a range of media, including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and photography. I got interested in photography at the age of eight and began drawing at an earlier age. Figure drawing has been a life-long interest, and the nude has figured prominently in my photographic work as well. In the realm of abstract art, I have worked extensively as a printmaker and more recently in collage. My printmaking has included traditional methods such as etching and woodblock printing, but many of my prints use methods of my own—for example, printing from corrugated board and from found objects such as twine, bubble plastic, and paper cutouts. My collage work is abstract and painterly, using monotypes I make myself and, less commonly, found paper artifacts. Since around 2014, collage has been my main artistic pursuit.

Dawn Thomas Artisan, Audio, Ceramics, Dance, Design, Fiction, Film, Folk Art, Functional Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Literature, Media, Mixed, Other, Other, Other, Other, Other, Other, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts Dawn A. Thomas 707.245.4735 cloudsdriftingby@gmail.com   Objective: To help build a vital Sonoma County Arts community as an experienced artist, and a teacher who provides a competitive and comprehensive Arts/Maker education for my students.   Education and Credentials: Single Subject Art Credential - Sonoma State University - NCLB  1/2007 CLAD Multiple Subject Teaching Credential - Sonoma State University  5/2004 Medialink Web Design/Technology Certificate - Bay Area Video Coalition  6/2000 5th-year Graduate Certificate in Art, U.C. at Santa Cruz    6/1990 Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art, U.C. at Santa Cruz    6/1989   Kinetic Artist Event Awards: SFMOMA's soapbox derby, Best Pun trophy, 2022 Best Theme Cart Design, the Cotatitarod, Cotati, 2019 1st Place Engineering for Team Pineapple, Kinetic Grand Championship, Eureka, CA 2018 Grand Champion for Team Pineapple, Obtainium Cup, Vallejo, 2019 1st place speed for the Pineapple Handcar, Willits Kinetic Carnivale, Willits, 2015 Best Engineering for the Whittaker Paddlewheel, Rivertown Revival, Petaluma, 2014 2nd Place for Red Couch Pedal-powered railcar, Wunderkammer Handcar Races, Santa Rosa, CA 2013   Teaching Experience: Santa Rosa City Schools, 2006 - current Art/Maker/Teen Living/Digital Media, Santa Rosa Middle School, 2007-2022 Students explore the foundations of Art and Making, and develop a personal portfolio. Teen living/culinary involves cooking, career exploration, interior design, sewing, and communication and conflict resolution skills. Digital Media explores digital storytelling and culminates in movies, webpages and other digital fulfillment. From 2007-2015 we produced a weekly cable news broadcast for the school.   Art 1, Montgomery High School,  2014-2015 Our beginning Art curriculum asks students to develop their drawing skills, and to utilize the Elements of Art and Principles of Design. Exercises lead to projects which offer student-selected content, but hold students accountable to develop technical skills.   Art / Project Make Teacher, Hilliard Comstock Middle School, 2007-2013 In 2013, we launched our district’s first middle school Project MAKE! elective, which is an award-winning (2014 Jack London Award) interdisciplinary, exploratory STE(A)M class (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math.)   Art Teacher, Piner High School, 2007-2008 Art Teacher, Summer School, Montgomery site, 2007 Art Teacher, Elsie Allen High School, 2006-2007   Educational Awards: Jack London Award for Educational Innovation (Project Make!) 2014   Other Experience: A practicing Artist, I have shown with Art Trails, and at various Sonoma County venues. I have been an exhibitor at Maker Faires for 4 years.  

Nestor Torres Lupercio Photography, Visual Arts Nestor Torres Lupercio was born in Sonoma County during the nineties in a family that immigrated from Aguascalientes, Mexico. He was raised in Sebastopol, California where he would wander the apple orchard where he grew up. When he was eighteen years old, an interest in photography was sparked. After that, he decided to take a couple of photography classes at Santa Rosa Junior College; as Nestor transitioned from school to entering the workforce, he decided to study light, composition, and equipment on his own.  While spending years practicing capturing portraits, nightscapes by the coast, and street photography in Mexico, he noticed that photography was a healthy outlet to deal with unresolved depression, chronic pain, and bicultural identity crisis. For the last three consecutives years, Nestor has taken solo trips to different parts of Mexico to practice street photography and as a way of honoring his Mexican roots. In 2016, He was featured in the bilingual newspaper La Prensa Sonoma  by his work inspired by the Mexican board game La Loteria. In 2017 the Press Democrat named him as a “Notable Sonoma County artist.” He has presented his work in a variety of art exhibitions such as Dia de los Muertos in Petaluma for the last two years  and more recently a solo art exhibition, Paleteros De México in Santa Rosa.  Photography has become Nestor’s go to medicine to cope on different aspects in his life physically and mentally. Nestor continues documenting in Mexico capturing various traditions and aspects overlooked or culturally appropriated and give a deeper look and appreciation from a perspective from a first generation Mexican American artist. 

Charles Versaggi Literature, Non-Fiction, Photography, Visual Arts Like an insatiable moth, I've been a light chaser for many years. I love photography for its science, craft, art, and power to expand our vision. But most of all as a tool that enables us to see and share novel perspectives, informing stories that evoke feelings of awe, empathy, and community with the world around us. Charles Versaggi is a native San Franciscan of Italian heritage, who now lives in Petaluma. Earning a doctorate in marine biology, he learned to appreciate the wonders of nature both under and above the water — often with camera in tow. A mass-media science fellowship writing for the Milwaukee Journal paved the way to science writing, life science communications, and photojournalism. He has participated in juried group photo exhibitions and has published numerous articles and photoessays. He is currently working on North Beach Light (© 2018), a collection of photoessays that reflect on his early years of living in North Beach when it was the City’s “Italianita” and the center of Beat lifestyle, topless bars, and jazz clubs, leading to flower power and the Summer of Love.

Barbie Watts Artisan, Creative Sonoma Grantee, Functional Art, Illustration, Mixed, Multi-Media, Other, Other, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Teacher/Instructor, Teaching Artist for Youth, Visual Arts Living through some iconoclastic times, I feel like the truth seeker and the magician, asking viewers to see what I see in my drawings, paintings, sculpture, video’s and writing about it all.  I grew up in a family of exceptional people.   Trained in painting and ballet from a young age, I would move on to different mediums and styles of art for the the rest of my life. I would pour myself into every style, medium and philosophy I could afford. Having to find alternative sources for the necessities of, say, painting, I scoured alleys and dumpsters at businesses, looking for and finding paper for drawing or mat board, wood for stretching canvas, sometimes the canvas.  I also found canvas and more, not at the art store, but discount fabric stores or hardware store.  I still reuse today, making paper mache containers, boxes and pencil cups, using plastic clamshells, soup cans, as molds.  Old aluminum foil makes great armatures for my smaller pieces, the mermaid candlestick holders or boxes and such. Water is my current interest and being able to make air to water collectors in a way it would catch the public s attention. I think there power in having some control over those things that are normally out of our control, like the drought in California.  Water from Air collectors on’t depend on anyone or any company, to work. They can be made from the simplest materials. WHY aren’t there more?

Asherah Weiss Arts Administration, Creative Sonoma Grantee, Folk Art, Illustration, Improvisation, Mixed, Multi-Media, Muralist, Other, Other, Other, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Puppetry, Sculpture, Teacher/Instructor, Teaching Artist for Adults, Teaching Artist for Youth, Theatre, Visual Arts Asherah Weiss is an educator, community artist, and organizer.  Since graduating from California College of the Arts in 2011, she has helped start many projects that bring people together around arts and placemaking, in Sonoma County and the Bay Area, including the PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland, and womb space collaborative arts in Santa Rosa.  Her belief in the democracy of the arts has inspired her to bring creativity to people of all ages and abilities, including as a credentialed art teacher at Healdsburg Junior High through the first school years of the pandemic.  In 2022, she co-created the globally known project Peptoc, a hotline and series of posters with uplifting messages from kids (call 707-8PEPTOC), and is now continuing the project with Jessica Martin in the form of a book full of young people’s wisdom and humor from around the world.  Her excitement lies in what creativity can do for the world— making things more collaborative, sustainable, beautiful and meaningful.   Current Projects include:

• Co-creator of the Peptoc Project, currently taking submissions for a book of uplifting messages from young people around the world.  See peptoc.net
• Programs Director at Artstart
• Coordinator of Earth Protector Parade at the 1st Climate Fest on April 22nd, 2022 in the Healdsburg Plaza
• Artist in Residence at West Side Elementary School

Becky White Audio, Composition, Film, Instrumental, Media, Music, Photography, Video, Visual Arts, Vocal Becky White  (she/her) is a musician (vocalist, guitar & synth), music producer and videographer/photographer artist based in Petaluma, CA.  She has been a lifelong activist for social and environmental justice, and runs her production company MakeARTNow.org which is focused on creating media for a changing world.   Becky White has published four original CDs and has been performing her whole life. A dedicated student of music from diverse locations such as Berklee College Of Music, The Ali Akbar Khan College, and gamelan masters in the jungles of Bali Indonesia.  She also studied conservation biology and wildlife ecology, which has been a major influence In her music and support of social and environmental justice. Becky continues to learn and experiment with singing, field recordings, found and created instruments, vintage guitars, pianos & synths, computers, MIDI, and the study of indian classical music.  Along with various client projects, Becky records and produces music and videos for her band FIREKEEPER,  for her label and production company MakeARTNow.org. 

Richard Wizardsky Audio, Design, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Media, Mixed, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts

I have been illustrating and painting all my life and have been painting on glass for about 20 years.

I graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania USA. I graduated with a triple majors in Graphic design, Illustration, and 3 dimensional design. With that education I embarked on a carrier as a graphic designer for Mellon Bank, Bd&E, A.Magazine, In Pittsburgh newsweekly, and produced and Edited Further Magazine,and then short stint into movie graphics for Disney and Lions GateFilms. I have been showing in galleries since 1989 from One Taste Gallery in San Francisco, a group show at the Buddha"s Palm Gallery, Coffee Bizarre, Frame of Mind Gallery, Main Street Coffee,Coffee Bazaar and Slice of Life, Peace in Medicine Gallery, The Pine Cone, Aubergine Emporium, Tiny Town, Hardcore, Guyaki to name a few in West County.. Then in Pittsburgh At Lascquax Gallery, The Beehive, City Books the Zenith Gallery, the Pittsburgh regional history museum as well as the Bloomfield Gallery, my works also adorn Theresa Heinze's foundation for fine arts, More recently showing at Tiny Town, hardcore, Guyaki,Fat heads Gallery , Polk street Gallery, Aubergine after Dark Emporium, Live painting at Festivals and local concert venues such as hop Monk and Lupin Lodge. I focus my artistic sights on the Images and objects of nature, using vivid color to convey their most exuberant form. Through my art I hope to bring people closer to the spiritual relm of the natural world they are immersed in.

Artist Highlights

• ArtWanted.com Gallery:    Fine Art
• Represented By:    FurtherImages
• Past Clients:    Mellon Bank, Disney, Inn Pittsburgh Magazine, Further Images and words, Film Joey coyle, Heinz Foundation, DDf&m etc

Sandy Young Glass, Graphic Design, Illustration, Media, Mixed, Multi-Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Video, Visual Arts AWARDS 2018 Honorable Mention, Memory & Perception, Nat’l Juried Show, Marin MOCA 2017 Third Place, Altered Book & Book Arts Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art 2017 Third Place, Hidden, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art 2013 Best of Show, ABZ Etcetera, Sebastopol Center for the Arts 2012 Sacramento Fine Arts Center Award 2012 Merit Award, California Fine Art, California State Fair 1998 First Place, New Media Art, Sausalito Art Festival 1998 Merit Award, California Works, California State Fair 1998 Second Place, Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) 1998 Honorable Mention, Digital Print Exhibition, California Museum of Art 1998 Merit Award, L’eau Exhibition, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery 1997 First Place, New Media Art, Sausalito Art Festival 1996 Top 10 Award (from almost 1500 entries), Fractal Design Art Expo 1996 Second Place, New Media Art, Sausalito Art Festival 1996 Merit Award, Winds of Change Exhibition, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery 1995 Merit Award, Small Format Exhibition, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Sandy Young– “BEING” Solo Exhibition, Alley Gallery, Sonoma, CA 2018 Sandy Young– “Dimensions” Solo Exhibition, Parkpoint Club, Sonoma, CA 2016 Sandy Young– “And the Show Goes On” Solo Exhibition, SYX Gallery, Sonoma, CA 2015 Sandy Young– “About Time Solo Exhibition”, SYX Gallery, Sonoma, CA 2015 Sandy Young– “Perceptions of Time” Solo Exhibition, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 Sandy Young –Featured Artist, Arts Guild of Sonoma, Sonoma, CA 2006 Sandy Young –Featured Artist, M. Gabriel Fine Art, Sonoma, CA 2003 Art by Sandy Young, Klein’s, San Francisco, CA 1999 Sandy Young –Prints, Saffron, Glen Ellen, CA 1999 Sandy Young –New Work, Arts Guild of Sonoma, Sonoma, CA 1998 Sandy Young –Featured Artist, Arts Guild of Sonoma, Sonoma, CA 1996 Expressions, San Mateo County Library Art Gallery, San Mateo, CA 1996 Carte Postale, LaDiDa Ltd. Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA 1995 Another Time & Place, LaDiDa Ltd. Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA 1995 Dimensions, San Mateo County Library Art Gallery, San Mateo, CA 1994 Sandy Young, Beckton Dickinson Corporate Art Gallery , San Jose, CA 1994 Paint Pixels & Prints, LaDiDa Ltd. Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Black, White and a Hint of Color, Nat’l Juried Show, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 2018 Memory & Perception, Nat’l Juried Show, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA 2017 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA 2017 The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 2017 Art Market San Francisco, Represented by Seager Gray Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017 Altered Book & Book Arts, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA 2017 Hidden, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA 2016 Palm Springs Art Fair, Represented by Sandra Lee Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 2015 Group Show, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2015 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA 2015 Art Silicon Valley, Represented by Sandra Lee Gallery, San Mateo, CA 2015 LA Art Show, Represented by Sandra Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Celebration of Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ 2014 Group Show, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2014 Silicon Valley Contemporary, Represented by Sandra Lee Gallery, San Jose, CA 2014 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA 2014 Celebration of Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ 2013 December Invitational Show, Arts Guild of Sonoma, Sonoma, CA 2013 Group Show, Eminent Design Gallery, Sonoma, CA 2013 ABZ Etcetera, Sebastopol Center fr the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 2013 Celebration of Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ 2012 California Fine Art, Sacramento, CA 2012 Group Show, Arts Guild of Sonoma, Sonoma, CA 2011 Group Show, Arts Guild of Sonoma, Sonoma, CA 2005 Sandy Young and Cheryl Burnett –Two Person Exhibition, The Simmons Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Group Show, Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Group Show, Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Group Show, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2002 Group Show, Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 Space Between Thoughts, Bucci’s & Heritage Square, Emeryville, CA 1999 Light Sensitive II, Traveling Exhibition, Sponsored by Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ 1999 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA 1998 ASCI Award Winners Exhibit of Digital Art –Three Person Traveling Exhibition Brook Center of Design at Cooper Union, New York, NY Technology Gallery at the New York Hall of Science, New York, NY 1998 Multiple Images –Two Person Exhibition, Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford, CA 1998 Light Sensitive, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ 1998 Altered Visions –Two Person Exhibition, Alta California Gallery, Sonoma, CA 1998 California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA 1998 Print Exhibition, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA 1998 L’eau, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA 1997 Fractal Design Art Expo Top 10 Award Winners International Traveling Exhibition 1997 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA 1996 Winds of Change –New Media, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996 Local Color, Gallery 27, Glen Ellen, CA 1996 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA 1995 8th National Computer Art Invitational, Eastern Washington University 1995 Small Format Work, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994 Convergence: Art Merging with Technology, Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County, CA LITERATURE 2017 The Art of the Book, 12th Annual Exhibition, Seager Gray Gallery, 2017 2003 Writing with Images: Toward a Semiotics of the Web, George L. Dillon, University of Washington, 2003 2002 Photoshop 7 Magic, Grossman & London, New Riders Publishing, 2002 2000 Pixel Perfect, Edited by Kathleen Ziegler and Nick Greco, Harper Collins Internat’l, 2000 Also published worlwide by Nippon Shuppan Hanbai, 2000 1998 WIRED News, “It’s Digital, But is it Art?”, Judy DeMocker, September 1998 1997 Painter 5 F/X, London, Grossman & Evans, Ventana Communications Group, 1997 1997 PRINT Magazine 1997 Art & Design Annual, 1997 1997 Design Graphics Magazine, Australia, Issue #21,1997 1997 MAC Art & Design Quarterly Magazine, Sweden, Vol. 5, Edition 19, 1997 1997 A Review by Jonathan Bock: The 45th Annual Sausalito Art Festival, 1997 RELATED EXPERIENCE 2015 Juror, Sausalito Art Festival Entries 1998-2005 Photo-Illustrator. Clients include: TIME Magazine, Simon & Schuster, Bantam Books, Random House… 1998 Juror, Sausalito Art Festival Entries EDUCATION Printmaking Courses, University of California at Berkeley Extension, Berkeley, CA One year Full Fellowship, Stanford University: Product Design, Stanford, CA B.S. “Materials, Techniques & Form”, Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Artists & Technology Series, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA

Ron Zak Mixed, Photography, Visual Arts Ron Zak is a photographer, teacher and traveler based in Sonoma who works to reveal moments of irony and interconnectedness in his images of diverse cultures and environments. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Zak served in Vietnam from 1965-67. He then left the Steel City to attend college in San Francisco. He earned a Masters in Art from SF State University in 1976 and presented his first solo exhibition titled “The Human Condition” at SFAI’s Walter and McBean Gallery. In 1979, Zak moved to Sonoma and started doing photography for newspapers and magazines. He went on to start Zak Photographics, which specialized in advertising, book illustration, fashion and portraiture work. He is well known for his photo ad campaign used for decades by Gundlach Bundschu Winery. His teaching career began in 1979 at Napa Valley College where he mentored many students who became professional and established photographers. From 2005-2017, he lead the photography department at Solano Community College and for the past thirty years Zak has coordinated travel courses for photographers to such locations as China, India, Cuba, Indonesia, Burma, Argentina, Paris, New York, and Vietnam. The travel study program was inspired by his own experience as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia (1989). Ron Zak has exhibited frequently throughout Northern California and Pittsburgh and has work in many private collections, at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa Valley Museum, and the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art in Macedonia.