Dr. Laura Basha is a professional artist, author, and organizational psychologist. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and a PhD in psychology. An Oakland resident for over 30 years, she has taught workshops on transformation and leadership development through her transformational arts practice. Her recent paintings focus on expressing the symbolism inherent in archetypal images of the basic roles in essence of the physical plane, expressing such universal truths as Joy, Choice, Creativity, and Knowledge. Her work has been shown in a variety of venues and is in private and public collections across the states and in Australia.

Jane Elliott is a builder and artist with a background in video game production. Her works stem from a love of building worlds and deconstructing reality, only to re-create it in 2.5D. Jane often works with dioramas, with each telling a story of a world not so different from our own. Beginning with layered plywood, robots, and enamel painting, her work has evolved into the deep shadowboxes featuring characters in the midst of their adventures. As a mechanic, graphic artist, woodworker and metalworker, Jane brings all her skills together in her fantastical art practice.

Terry Furry is a painter living in Oakland. With the eye of a voyeur, Terry’s recent work focuses on the isolated yet intimate behaviors of self exploration. He also considers iconic objects used to bring pleasure, and perhaps comfort, with its effect on examining one’s own identity. In contrast to the solitude of his studio practice, Terry directs communal art and film experiences for a local independent newspaper.

Emmy Award winning artist James Gayles attended Pratt Institute in New York, where he studied under renowned painters Jacob Lawrence and Audrey Flack He simultaneously pursued careers in both fine and commercial art. In New York he illustrated for NBC, CBS, major magazines, publishing houses and ad agencies. James has exhibited in galleries throughout the US. He has won a public art commissions from the City of Oakland, Alameda County and the City of Richmond. He has been selected three times to receive City of Oakland’s Individual Artist Grant.

Kathy Graddy is a teaching artist, graphic artist, book artist, printmaker, carpenter, farmer, partner, parent, activist, adventurer and roamer. Studied at UC Davis, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and is a  graduate of the School of Hard Knocks. Loves spending time in her back yard with her chickens whenever she can and talking with her 2 & 5-year old neighbors.

Kristen Jensen is a Bay Area native who has been painting professionally since 1999. Her abstract and representational paintings are composed of organic textural elements superimposed with a conscious linear structure.  Kristen’s work is shown in a variety of local venues, and appears in private and corporate collections across the country. Her studio is open by appointment.

Kristina Basgen earned her undergraduate degree in Marketing with a Specialization in International Business from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After taking a slew of photography and multimedia courses at the Peralta Colleges, she began creating art that critiqued consumerism and globalization. Screen printing courses, coupled with her part-time farmers’ market gig inspired the fruity functional art packaged in recycled berry containers that became the brainchild of her business, Tina Produce. Her reusable napkins, kitchen towels, and apparel can be found on Etsy and in gift shops locally and nationally. She is currently printing for Anthropology’s Summer 2013 inventory, and soon plans on studying pattern design and creating more abstract representations of produce.

Cleo Vilett is an east bay native who brings her passion for the natural world into her paintings. She works outside and from life as much as possible and is drawn to just about any subject if the light is hitting it right. Cleo is particularly interested in representing how people use outdoor spaces and the intersection of urban and wild landscapes. With degrees in marine biology and science illustration, she has also worked on many large scale murals, illustrations and sculptures for natural science institutions.  She is currently working on exhibit fabrication and renovation for the Oakland Museum of California.

Masako Miyazaki’s work reflects her interests in the transient and inevitable imperfection of forms. Her primary subjects are of open energy systems such as fire and traffic jams. Much of her recent work focuses on examining the language of movement through animation. Masako has lived both in the U.S. and Kyoto, Japan and is similarly influenced by Japanese psychology and aesthetics, and the Super Bowl culture. Her film work has won numerous awards and is included in public collections at the New York Public Library and the Pacific Film Archive.

Sharaine Bell is a graduate of San Francisco Art Institute who lives and works in Oakland, CA. The increasing imbalance between civilization and nature compels her to explore the artificial and planned placement of nature within urban settings. Her compositions are meant to communicate aspects of human intervention as well as nature’s attempt to assert its inherent randomness within its increasingly structured incasement; commentaries on the disruption and resilience of natural systems. 

Gary Comoglio, a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, works in the Printmaking Department of the School of Fine Art at the Academy of Art University, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the California Society of Printmakers. He is dedicated to creating unique images mastered by precise technical skills in painting and printmaking. Inspired by existential inquiry, his creative expression bounces between abstraction and surrealism. Comoglio’s main objective is to expand the dialogue and definitions that answer the question, “What is printmaking?” Relief woodcut is his primary medium, and his prints are all made the old fashioned way, by hand, one at a time.