Asherah Weiss

Arts Administration; Creative Sonoma Grantee; Folk Art: Other, Puppetry; Multi-Media; Teacher/Instructor: Teaching Artist for Adults, Teaching Artist for Youth; Theatre: Improvisation, Other; Visual Arts: Illustration, Mixed, Muralist, Other, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture; Community Organizer, Creative Facilitator

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

MORE ABOUT THIS ARTIST

Artist Medium: Visual Arts : Collage , Drawing Media , Earth , Fiber/Fabric , Photography , Plastic , Printmaking , Video , Watercolor ; Upcycled, found objects, trash art

VIDEOS

Peptoc video describes the Call for Submissions from young people for Peptoc Posters!