Janet Brugos

Though born in Chicago, Brugos has lived in Calirornia, Colorado, Hawaii and France. She now resides in Oakland, California. Her art training was at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN with studio classes at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Chicago Art Institute. Brugos is a mixed media artist She uses paint, fabric, found objects, suminagashi and

Jenn Doyle Crane

Jenn Doyle Crane is an artist, curator, creative connector and maker, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has spent her life working in the visual arts. Her paintings and mixed-media installations are imaginary entanglements of the natural and made world. Always based in wonder and awe. Sometimes mixed with wax. She curates and

Kim Thoman

Artist Bio Kim Thoman has been exhibiting nationally and receiving grants for more than 35 years. She has art degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University and was an art professor in the Peralta Community College District for over 30 years. Selected grants include the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of

Jillian Shea

Jillian Shea (she/they) is a realist painter who is interested in light and classical painting techniques. Shea looks to 19th century painters such as Sargent and Waterhouse for inspiration. Their practice evokes a sense of nostalgia, working from personal life and experiences to translate memories into paint. These translations live on as art objects, an