Root Division 15 Year Anniversary Catalogue by Root Division

ANNIVERSARY CATALOGUE

ROOT DIVISION IS A VISUAL ARTS NON-PROFIT THAT CULTIVATES A DYNAMIC ECOSYSTEM BY CONNECTING ARTS EDUCATION, EXHIBITIONS, AND STUDIOS. Root Division’s mission is to empower artists, promote community service, inspire youth, and enrich the Bay Area through engagement in the visual arts. Since its founding in 2002 by three MFA graduates of the San Francisco Art Institute, Root Division has brought together artists, teachers, curators, local schools, audiences, individuals, and foundations, to achieve its mission. Root Division runs four interconnected programs – Studios, Youth Education, Adult Education, and Exhibitions & Events – which link diverse audiences and interests in mutually beneficial relationships. Our Studios Program acts as hub for interaction and development for promising emerging artists, while empowering them to give back to the community. Currently we host 29 artists in 22 studios at below-market rates in exchange for their volunteer hours towards the organization.

In our Youth Education Program, we recruit, train, and place volunteer artists to teach free art classes in one of our nine after-school partner programs, creating a link between practicing artists and the schools community. Root Division provides free art classes to over 1000 underserved youth ages 5-24. Our Adult Education Program offers dozens of inspiring and affordable courses for adults interested in expanding their artistic skill-set. We also offer Professional Development Workshops that provide artists support and direction in composing portfolios, building websites, and developing practical business skills. Our Exhibitions & Events Program provides a platform for innovative artwork in an engaging environment. Our Second Saturday Exhibition Series presents a fresh show each month featuring an innovative collection of painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance. In the past year Root Division showcased the work of over 400 artists, fostered 6 curatorial visions, and welcomed over 6000 visitors to our gallery. Our programs not only nurture creativity, but also foster volunteerism and community engagement that is vital to the social, economic, and cultural health of the Bay Area.

Root Division was founded in 2002 by three MFA graduates of the San Francisco Art Institute to constructively address 3 main challenges facing emerging artists. A need for: 1. Low-cost studio space 2. Exhibition opportunities 3. Income-generating professional experience

Root Division’s Exhibitions & Events Program provides a platform for innovative artwork in an engaging environment. Over the past 15 years we have inspired over 500 new works, presented over 85 curatorial visions, sold over $720,000 of artwork from our gallery, and paid emerging artists over $650,000 through artist fees, sales, and commissions. The Second Saturday Exhibition Series, launched by Michael Krouse in 2005, presents a fresh show each month featuring innovative and diverse work by emerging Bay Area artists. Over the past 15 years Root Division has produced 146 monthly 2nd Saturday events.

TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS

In the Fall of 2010 Root Division launched the Latinx Teaching-Artist Fellowship (LTAF) . The LTAF receives a free studio space in exchange for teaching at Mission Education Center, a K-5 public school which serves students who recently immigrated from Latin America. The success of the program allowed Root Division to expand the fellowship to two artists annually in 2012. The LTAF’s are offered a free studio, artist stipend and teaching stipend in exchange for teaching at Mission Education Center. In 2014 Root Division launched the Blau-Gold Studio / Teaching Fellowship (BGSTF), made possible by a gift from the estate of the late Lonny Darwin, a supporter of education and the arts. The Fellowship, named for Ms. Darwin’s late mother, Emmy Blau- Gold, is designed to support an emerging artist for one year by providing free studio space and a monetary stipend. In keeping with Root Division’s mission, the Fellow will teach in Root Division’s Youth Education Program and be an active participant in the Studios Program. In 2016 Root Division announced a new partnership with The Growlery, a privately run artist residency centrally located in San Francisco’s historic Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Root Division’s BGSTF and LTAF fellows are eligible to live rent-free in a beautifully restored 6 bedroom Victorian-era home and have the opportunity to work with a small, diverse group of peers for 4 months as part of their fellowship.

WHAT 15 YEARS OF RESIDENT STUDIO ARTIST SUPPORT LOOKS LIKE:

Resident Artists

Service Hours

183

20,425

SPECIALIZING IN

TO SUPPORT

Painting/Drawing

Youth & Adult Education

Mixed Media/Other

Event Production

New Genres

Exhibition Installation

Sculpture

Fundraising Events

Film/Video

Administrative Support

Photography

Curatorial Support

Performance

Review & Selection

*These numbers reflect the 79% of Studio Artist Alumni that responded to the voluntary survey 6

WHAT ROOT DIVISION ALUMNAE ARE DOING NOW*:

Still produce studio art

98% WORKING AS Educator (Higher ed, K-12, museum, art centers): 49% Arts Professional (Arts Administrator, curator, preparator): 15% Other Creative Field: (Graphic Designer, writer, art related small business owner): 8% Student: (MFA Candidate or other): 11% Artist (Full time): 14% LIVING IN Bay Area: 78% Elsewhere in the US: 17% Elsewhere in the world: 5% STUDIO PRACTICE Yes, maintains an active studio practice: 85% Occasionally makes art: 13% Has moved on to other types of work: 2%

FOUNDERS

IN THE BEGINNING Taking risks was easier when we had nothing to lose. Magical thinking was part of the business plan. Making payroll wasn’t a challenge when there was none. We cooked up our own version of radical ideology in a loft under the freeway. Root Division was a name related to horticulture, plucked from a dictionary as we grasped for meaning.

With only $32,000 in the bank, Root Division rented 7,000ft of warehouse space - we still don’t know why they agreed to rent to us. We were fortunate to have a community of great, resourceful, generous artist friends who made this possible. Root Division was a tenuous, ambitious, improvised dream that we shared with these great people. Now the name Root Division has built its own meaning, that community has exploded, and those friends have all gone on to creative success - along with 183+ Root Division artists.

THINGS WE KNOW NOW Nothing ventured, nothing gained. There is strength in numbers. Revolutions start small and are built on relationships. Collective effort can turn raw space into community. Everyone wants meaning in their lives. Creativity and persistence will get you through. Trust each other.

Our roles now as founders are mere shadows of those first efforts. The Root Division of today and tomorrow is built on the professionalism of its leaders, the resilience of its supporters, and the grit of legions of artists past, present and future. This persistent revolution that is Root Division belongs to them, to the communities it touches and those it creates. It belongs to you as you read this, and you help shape its future. Take the next risk. That is the future. Nathan Suter, Dennis McNulty, & Mitch Temple Founders Root Division

BOARD OF DIRECTORS As Root Division celebrates fifteen years, imagine the progress of our vibrant organization as a simple line graph. The first ten or eleven years are represented by a slow but steady incline, with the occasional little dip along the way. Following that, a dramatic zigzag. And then…the line shoots straight up and into the stratosphere! Root Division has achieved so much since we took stock of our organization on the occasion of our ten-year anniversary. As we celebrate our recent triumphs—a successful capital campaign, a beautiful new home and the ability to serve more artists and more public school partners—we recall that these successes were forged in the fires of San Francisco’s dynamic economic environment and its complex relationship to the arts, artists, and arts organizations. Root Division’s growth these past few years is astonishing in the face of predominant trends in San Francisco: an economic surge, increasing commercial rents, and decreasing studio space and opportunities for artists. The success of the tech and biotech industries, along with the Bay Area’s global influence, has resulted in the endangerment of San Francisco’s rich cultural fabric. As we watched other non-profit arts organizations shut their doors and said our goodbyes to artists who decamped to Los Angeles or New York, Root Division found itself priced out of its original home in The Mission. Our Board of Directors faced what can only be described as a crisis of the first degree. It required much of us, not least: deep soul searching, in which we doubled down on our commitment to our core program of affordable artist studios, dynamic exhibitions, and arts education for adults and youth. After intensive study and planning, a period in which we were advised and cheered on my many talented, experienced friends, colleagues and arts leaders, we took a tremendous leap of faith. Root Division’s Staff, Board and Studio Artists, past and present, hunkered down and did the work that needed to be done. We held our heads high, and somehow kept our little ship afloat as we navigated from our original space to temporary digs on Market Street, and then on to our beautiful new home on Mission Street.

Looking back at our trajectory, I am in awe. The force of our determination is still palpable to me, and I can’t help but smile when I think of the conditions that defined the inevitably of our success: timely and extremely generous gifts from supporters, invaluable support from civic leaders, a sense of stability from the owners of our building, and the hard work so many wonderful, creative people, under the steady, unwavering leadership of our Executive Director, Michelle Mansour. We rode a veritable tsunami of goodwill and enthusiasm as we made 1131 Mission Street our home, and are now happily settled in, with gorgeous studios, exhibition space, and classrooms. We have increased our capacity for Studio Artists, and concurrently increased our service hours and the number of public schools that we partner with in our community. Our Staff is a welloiled machine; their dedication, good humor, and ability to produce miracles is now nothing less than legendary. Our Board is wildly generous, talented, and committed. Our current Studio Artists are passionate, energetic, and full of promise. Our alumni are thriving, and we proudly watch them succeed in their careers as artists, educators, and leaders in the arts. At 15, Root Division has matured into an established, steady, valued part of the arts community in San Francisco, and I am exceedingly proud to celebrate this milestone with Root Division’s 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Performances and Print Project. Amy Ellingson Chair, Board of Directors, 2012– present Root Division

“AT 15, ROOT DIVISION HAS MATURED INTO AN ESTABLISHED, STEADY, VALUED PART OF THE ARTS COMMUNITY IN SAN FRANCISCO.”

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR As I look back on the past 15 years, it’s impossible not to reflect on how much change and transition Root Division has endured. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for my hard-working staff, a core of extremely talented Studio Artists and Alums, a passionate Board of Directors, and an undeniably generous community. When faced with displacement in 2014, Root Division took what could have been a devastating moment for the organization and transformed it into a forward charge. We hit the ground running and barely slowed to a jog to maintain our presence and programming in an interim space on Market Street, and then ultimately to secure, renovate, and move into our new 13,400 square foot facility at 1131 Mission Street. This new home is bigger, better, and brighter than we could have ever imagined 15 years ago. We are delighted that our multi-use space is quickly becoming a bustling center for art and arts education in the heart of the city. There is a wonderful exchange between artists of various backgrounds that takes place here. Meaningful conversations, enriching partnerships, and unlikely friendships are forged. Out of these exchanges come poignant, expressive statements of our time in the form of new artwork and fresh curatorial visions. Our Studio Artists watch and participate in the exhibitions that are presented outside their doors. Our Adult Education students take classes surrounded by the inspiring work of emerging artists. When youth from our partner schools visit the space for events and workshops, they not only see art on the walls but also meet the artists who make it. When visitors come to the gallery to see our exhibitions they have a much fuller experience of what it looks and feels like to be an emerging artist today. We envision a San Francisco where artists remain a vibrant part of our community, and where all are able to experience the power of the visual arts. In these 15 years, Root Division has surfaced as one of the primary venues in San Francisco that supports emerging visual artists. Existing as a dynamic hybrid of the alternative space, commercial gallery, art center, and studio facility,

Root Division is contributing to making life as an artist in the Bay Area a sustainable practice while cultivating artists who give back to the community. Our programs not only nurture creativity, but also foster volunteerism and engagement that is vital to the social, economic, and cultural health of any area. One of the most precious things about Root Division for me personally is bringing people together around the creation and appreciation of art. As an artist myself, I’m continuously inspired by the talent, the generosity, and the dedication of the artists and community we have built here. It’s oftentimes difficult to look back in time and capture the full extent of our reach or the depth of our impact, but having worked with the organization since its beginnings, I have had the privilege of helping Root Division grow from a tiny seed of an idea into a flourishing network of relationships, opportunities, and experiences. As we launch into our next 15 years of supporting artists and arts education, I invite you to take a look at our history and become part of our future. Michelle Mansour Artist, Educator, Curator Executive Director, 2012 - present Root Division

“WE ENVISION A SAN FRANCISCO WHERE ARTISTS REMAIN A VIBRANT PART OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND WHERE ALL ARE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF THE VISUAL ARTS.”

STAFF & ALUM It’s hard to say how and when a community is built. Piece by piece, individuals come together over shared experience, interest, or dedication to a cause, and somewhere along the line, those pieces become something much stronger than the sum of their parts. I haven’t been around for all 15 years of Root Division--I wasn’t there when the seed of the idea was planted by our three founders, as the programs were developed, and our first space secured-- but I have had the honor of watching for over 12 years both from the perspective of a Studio Artist and staff member, as the community and impact of Root Division have grown and evolved. Over the years, the structure of what we set out to do has remained the same, but the growth, evolution and enrichment of this organization has come with each artist, student, curator, and supporter that engages with our programs. Whether it’s a guest curator bringing a compelling idea and new group of artists to exhibit in the gallery, a Studio Artist proposing a new workshop or class offering to our students, or a teaching artist using their practice to connect with student populations in deep and meaningful ways, Root Division is simply the conduit for community to continue to develop and enrich itself. This organization belongs to our community, because it is the sum of our community. Our diverse programming and wide reaching impact would not be possible without each of the individuals and perspectives that have shaped our offerings. As we worked to gather the data for this catalogue, I have been struck by not only the volume of our community growth, but the deepening of relationships over the past 15 years. These elements have been the core strength that have stabilized and supported our continued expansion. Being a part of Root Division is an investment, but one that gives back to the individual tenfold. My own story with the organization began with a cross-country move, a need for space to paint, and a serendipitous introduction to a community that would become a guiding force in my path for over a decade. Through my time as a Studio Artist, I developed and honed administrative and curatorial skills that led me to pursue commercial gallery work, complete advanced graduate studies, and ultimately land full circle back in arts advocacy and cultural production by returning to Root Division to lead the Exhibitions Program. I am not alone in having been shaped by my time in the Studios Program. I have seen artists use the skills and connections gained to chart their paths to teaching in higher education, public schools, community centers, and museums. I have cheered as alumni take up the cause themselves -- opening new arts spaces and providing the highest caliber exhibitions and programming. And I have watched in amazement as so many galleries, museums, and arts institutions in the Bay fill up with the passionate and dedicated artists who are a part of Root Division’s community. The ripple effect of this incubator program has had a wide reaching and stabilizing effect on keeping artists living, working, and creating in the Bay Area and beyond. We are inspired by Alumni returning to support Root Division’s exhibitions each 2nd Saturday, their generosity in supporting our Auction and fundraising efforts, and grateful for those who continue to share their skillsets by teaching courses in our new facility.

There’s a strength in having a home base for a community to revisit, and a collective space is vital. Our hybrid gallery, studios, and educational facility has always been a gathering place for diverse communities with varied roles and interests to come together. It’s the overlapping of artists, students, curators, supporters, and families in our space that broaden our reach, expand our community, and make our work meaningful. When Root Division faced displacement in 2014, our own stability was tested, but the strength of a community is never known until it is tested. The grit and tenacity of the staff and leadership of this organization is something that you’d have to have experienced to truly understand, but suffice it to say that this group of individuals held the importance of Root Division’s community above all else in a time of crisis. Like a mother lifting a car off of a child, the team was able to find the strength to do the impossible. Through blood, sweat, and tears, and with the help of the incredible supporters that rallied behind us, we were able to secure a space for this valued community to continue to gather. We will be in our current home through at least 2030, providing a path for artists, students, curators and supporters to become a part of this organization’s legacy. I cannot wait to see the 20-Year Anniversary Catalogue -- and beyond. Thank you to the vibrant, diverse, and creative group of individuals who have become my friends and family over the past 12 years. You are what keeps us going. You are Root Division -- the legacy and the future. Congratulations on being a part of something so big and so beautiful. Happy Anniversary! Amy Cancelmo Studio Artist Alum, 2005 - 2008 Art Programs Director, 2011 - present Root Division

“THE RIPPLE EFFECT OF THIS INCUBATOR PROGRAM HAS HAD A WIDE REACHING AND STABILIZING EFFECT ON KEEPING ARTISTS LIVING, WORKING, AND CREATING IN THE BAY AREA AND BEYOND.”

STAFF & STUDIO ARTIST I got involved with Root Division after accepting the 2013-2014 Latino Teaching Artist Fellowship (LTAF). I was drawn to the organization because it aligned with my practice and aspirations. As a recent Latinx MFA graduate I wanted to continue the development of my practice by simultaneously contributing to my community, and Root Division provided me with both of those things. As I got to work and learned more about Root Division, I fell in love with its community, its mission and the dedication/passion of all the Studio Artists and staff members. After completing my second year as one of the Latinx Teaching Artist Fellows, I became part of the staff by assisting with the installations for our monthly exhibitions. Currently, I am the Installations & Site Manager, and I lead our installations team on a monthly basis to make our exhibitions a total success. I get to work with over 400 artists and over 10 curators a year. Throughout my time with Root Division, I have witness to how much we have grown. I was lucky to have been able to help with the transition to our Bigger and Brighter space and the growth of the organization as a whole. On a personal level, I have gained a lot of experience teaching both youth and adults. I have met many amazing artists and have been able to collaborate with a few of them. For instance, during my second year as an LTAF, I met Vreni Michelini Castillo, who is now my collaborator of Aguas Migrantes along with Ana Gloria Bedolla and Alejandra Perez (also former LTAF). Aguas Migrantes is an art collective that runs a yearly summer art residency in Guanajuato, Mexico. I am proud to be part of Root Division, an organization that provides many opportunities for emerging artists/ curators and richness to the art scene in San Francisco. Susa Cortez Studio Artist, 2013 - present Former Latnix Teaching Artist Fellow, 2013 - 15 Intallations & Site Manager, 2016 - present Root Division

“I AM PROUD TO BE PART OF ROOT DIVISION, AN ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMERGING ARTISTS/ CURATORS AND RICHNESS TO THE ART SCENE IN SAN FRANCISCO.”

ROOT DIVISION STUDIO ARTISTS Our Studios Program offers artists discounted studios in exchange for service to the organization. Over the past 15 years, Root Division has provided 183 artist residencies. We currently host 29 artists in 22 studios at belowmarket rates in exchange for their volunteer hours towards the organization.

JOSH AARON

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2007-April 2009

Josh Aaron was born in Florida and raised in various states throughout the US. He received a BFA from Herron School of Art & Design in Indianapolis, IN and MFA from the University of California San Diego. His work comprises drawing and painting primarily in oil, acrylic, gouache and charcoal. joshaaron.com

HOME: Leander, Texas

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, and Artist Selection Committees - Exhibition Installation - Facilities Manager

EXHIBITED: - Introductions, 2008 - Three Angles, 2008 - 6th & 7th Annual Art Auction - Under 100, 2009

- New Growth, 2008

Daniel Johnston, 2011, 23 x 23 in. Gouache on birch panel

SHANNON ABAC

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2017–Current

Shannon Abac is a San Francisco-based visual artist with a strong commitment to ceramics. She received a MFA from San Francisco State University in 2016. Most recently, Abac was awarded the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award by the San Francisco Foundation in 2014, exhibited Introductions 2016 at Root Division, and was the 2016 - 2017 Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellow. Abac is currently teaching ceramics in the Bay Area. shannonabac.com

test tile, 2017, 42 x 36 x 8 in. Ceramic, faux fur, glue, paint, yarn, spray foam, organic material, unfired porcelain and wood Photo by David Elliott Image courtesy of Headlands Center for the Arts

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Administrative Support

EXHIBITED: - Introductions, 2016 - Taste, 2016 - 16th Annual Art Auction

LILA AFIOUNI

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2010–May 2011

Lila Afiouni’s paintings focus on the fascination of color and composition in which shapes are repositioned in a familiar visual code. Using tt urban and natural landscape as a surface representation of shape and color, Afiouni absolves the elements of their natural function, ultimately rendering the pictorial field as a space of spiritual conduct. Afiouni received a BFA with Honours in Drawing from the National Art School, New South Wales, Australia. lilaafiouni.com

HOME: New South Wales, Australia

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste 2011

A Colour Studies, 2015, 40 x 51 in. Acrylic on paper

GRETA LIZ ANDERSON Greta Liz Anderson is a multidisciplinary artist born in Asunción, Paraguay. She received a BFA at the Fashion Institute of Technology and an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute.  Anderson has had public installations and performances in New York and San Francisco including at the de Young Museum. Most recently, she has had solo exhibitions at TechShop, San Francisco and in her home country, Paraguay. gretaliz.com

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2017–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees - LatinX Teaching Artist Fellow, 2016–2017

EXHIBITED: - 16th Annual Art Auction

A Third Party, 2017, 5 x 4 in. Fabric and synthetic fabricfill Image courtesy of Subhrajit Bhatta

KIMBERLEY ACEBO ARTECHE Kimberley Acebo Arteche is an educator, cultural worker, and interdisciplinary artist working in photography, installation, social practice, and performance. Her work explores the hybrid cultures formed by technology, movements of immigrants in America, and the way movements through space and spaces has been affected by these two. Arteche has shown at Stanford University and at the Wailoa Arts & Cultural Center in Hilo, Hawaii. kimarteche.com

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2016–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Fundraising and Event Planning Committees - Event Bartender

EXHIBITED: - New Growth, 2017 - 16th Annual Art Auction

A Sayawan Sa Puting Lugar, 2017, 11 x 17 in. Performance documentation

CLAIRE ASTROW

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2017–Current

Claire Astrow is an illustrator, arts educator, and Los Angeles native now residing in Oakland, CA. She received her BA in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley and has since shown her work at Salt Fine Art Gallery, The University Club of San Francisco, and the NIAD Art Center. Astrow is a proud recipient of the 2017-18 Blau-Gold Teaching Fellowship at Root Division, which allows her to be the kooky art teacher of her dreams at Cesar Chavez Elementary & Buena Vista Horace Mann Middle School. Astrow enjoys making zines and painting murals ten times her size. Her inspiration comes from hand-painted street signs, It’s-Its, and most of all, her students.

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instuctor - Event Production Assistant - Blau-Gold Teaching Fellow 2016–2017

EXHIBITED: - 16th Annual Art Auction

claireastrow.com

A Kewpie Goes Cosmic, 2017, 5 x 5 in. Two color Riso print Image courtesy of Illustoria Magazine

JASON MICHAEL AUMANN Jason Michael Aumann is an artist living and working in the Bay Area. Aumann’s work has exhibited widely during his 13 years in San Francisco, including a solo exhibition at SFMOMA - Fort Mason. jmaumann.com

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2007–August 2007

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Marigolds to Mars, 2007 - 6th - 8th Annual Art Auction

A Memory No. 12, 2011, 16 x 20 x 3 in. Oil on linen over panel

JEREMIAH BARBER Jeremiah Barber is a visual and performance artist who studies transcendence through absurdity and humor. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He is a former member of Marina Abramovic’s Independent Performance Group. Barber received an MFA from Stanford University, and has been a resident at the Cité Internationale de Arts in Paris, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and San Francisco’s Recology. In 2015 Barber was awarded the Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. He lives in San Francisco, CA. sustainedbyvisions.com

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2010–November 2012

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection and Curatorial Committees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - RESONATE, 2015 - Taste 2011-2012, Silent Auction - A Live Animal, 2011 - From Our Bodies Blinking, 2012 - 10th Annual Art Auction

B Departure, 2017, 22 x 38 x 76 in. Cement, ladder, custom armature, rigging and parabolic mirror

EVAN BARBOUR

STUDIO ARTIST:

Interested in bridging the disciplines of natural science and art, Evan Barbour has pursued a range of studies from Psychology (BA, Reed College), to science illustration (UC Santa Cruz), to museum education (California Academy of Sciences), to fine art (MFA, Mills College). At the heart of all these pursuits lies a fascination with the underappreciated corners of nature.

HOME:

Working currently in photography, painting and miniature sculpture, Barbour applies scientific methodology to his art practice and endeavors to share this inquiry-based approach to art-making with others.

- Exhibition Installation

evanbarbour.com

B Organs Collage, 2016, 12 x 8.75 in. Watercolor on paper

July 2013–July 2014

Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant

- Blau-Gold Teaching Artist Fellow

EXHIBITED: - Tools, 2014

SARAH BARSNESS

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2004–March 2005

Sarah Barsness was born and raised in the American West. She lives, teaches, and makes art in the Bay Area. In recent years, she shocked herself by becoming an avid

HOME: San Francisco, CA

“birder”, and birds are now her primary subject. Barsness

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

is fortunate to have spent her life traveling, teaching,

- Adult Education Instructor

learning, and making art - all with a roof over her head,

- Event Production Assistant

plenty of food, and the support of loving friends and

- Installed + Curated Exhibitions

family.

- Studio Construction

sarahbarsness.com

EXHIBITED: - Conversations with the Wall, 2005 - Octopus, 2005 - Taste, 2006 - Wild, 2017

CURATED: - Conversations with the Wall, 2005

Black-crowned Night Heron (eye), 2017, 8 x 8 in. Felted wool

ANA GLORIA BEDOLLA Ana Gloria Bedolla is an artist and educator. Her work is inspired by the extinction of insects and the symmetry they have in correlation with sacred geomentry. Most recently, her work has been exhibited at SOMArts, San Francisco CA. Bedolla is also a core member of Aguas Migrantes, an art collective that runs a summer art program in Guanajuato, Mexico. anabedolla.com

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2010–February 2012

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - LatinX Teaching Artist Fellow, 2010–2011

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2014–2017 - 13th–16th Annual Art Auction

B Archilogical Discovereis, 2013, 3 x 3 x 9 in. Bookcloth, daveyboard and polymer clay

ERIK BELTRAN

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2015–January 2016

Erik Beltran is currently working on two series of work. The first is rooted in the approach and techniques of graffiti art. This work is street-based and deals with noir comic inspired imagery, vibrant colors, and artist-to-community collaboration. This work tends to be improvisational and based on location, but always has a graphic and stark quality. The second series of work is studio-based and consists of painterly landscapes of train wreck scenes and do-it-yourself moving trucks. @_beltrain

HOME: San Leandro, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 14th–16th Annual Art Auction

B Homage to Gore Shriek, 2017, 120 x 120 in. Spray paint on metal door

ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN Bernstein is an artist, educator, and gallery director. She received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 where she is currently visiting faculty in the photography department. In 2009, she founded Royal NoneSuch Gallery, an alternative art and project space. She is a photographer whose work examines the visual language of our daily lives, and how it communicates our complex emotional and psychological landscape. Elizabeth has shown her work on the East Coast and in the Bay Area. Select exhibitions include Swarm Gallery in Oakland, Martina Johnston Gallery in Berkeley, Five Points Arthouse in San Francisco, and Attleboro Arts Museum in Attleboro, MA. elizabethbernsteinartist.com

B Window and Light, 2017, 10 x 10 in. Archival inkjet print

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2005–December 2007

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative support

EXHIBITED: - Family Pictures, 2009 - Taste 2007 - 9th–11th Annual Art Auction

ELISHEVA BIERNOFF Biernoff received her MFA from California College of the Arts and a BA from Yale University Slade School of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, ProArts, Blankspace, The LAB, Philadelphia Art Alliance in Philidelphia, PA and Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Elisheva has also been the recipient of the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Award and Kala Art Institute Fellowship.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2009–June 2010

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor

EXHIBITED: - Introductions, 2009 - 8th & 10th Annual Art Auction - Under 100 - Through That Which is Seen

B Indoor Plants, 2012, 3.375 x 3.375 x 3.5 in. Acrylic on 1/32 inch plywood Courtesy of the artist and Eli Ridgway Gallery

MATT BLACK

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2006–April 2007

Black is a filmmaker based in Salt Lake City, Utah. His video art has shown in San Francisco, Salt Lake, and New York. From 2010 to 2012, he and his wife Amanda Hurtado owned and operated an art gallery in downtown Salt Lake called Stolen & Escaped. Over the past several years Matt has produced, directed and edited a wide range of projects including documentary and feature films. blackartsfilm.com

HOME: Salt Lake City, Utah

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection Committee - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste 2007 - Spectacle - J-IGGLES Performance Festival - Three Minute Film Festival, 2007

B Night Construct 3, 2009, 5 min. 9 sec. HD Video

VANESSA BLAIKIE

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004–March 2005

Vanessa Blaikie was born in Montreal, Canada. She has been an active member of the San Francisco arts community for more than 10 years as an artist, curator, and director and founder of Romer Young Gallery. Blaikie received a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Columbia University in New York and an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York, California, and Asia. romeryounggallery.com

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation - Grant Writing

EXHIBITED: - Systems & Transmutations, 2007

B you are all the colors of my rainbow, 2017, 22 x 30 in. Watercolor on paper

LIZZY BROOKS Lizzy Brooks works at the intersection of photography, technology and social practice.In partnership with community groups, she merges personal and political narratives to trace the nuanced boundaries of the self, as it bleeds into cultural identity, the city and the land, and virtual space. Brooks has exhibited in festivals, galleries, public spaces and universities in the US and internationally. lizzybrooks.org

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2015–June 2017

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant -Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Resonate, 2015 - Taste, 2016–2017 - 14th–16th Annual Art Auction

B Temporal Cities, 2016, Dimensions variable Community participation, text, slides, video, sound and custom electronics

ESTHER BRUIJN

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2008–February 2009

After Bruijn left Root Division, she traveled to Europe to carve marble again. Upon returning to the United States, she returned to school to learn pattern making and how to drape and draw clothes. Bruijn cofounded the business ES&S at 25C, a communal studio on 25th Street, Oakland. In March 2012, she returned to The Netherlands, where she is now setting up her own business. She now designs clothes for photo shoots and fashion shows. Esther continues to work in marble and clay. estherbruijn.com

HOME: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 7th Annual Art Auction

B The B of Bernini, 2010, 4 x 12 x 12 in. Statuario marble

MARÍA BURR

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2011–May 2012

María Burr is interested in the relation between nature, basic goods and the way we consume and assign value to everyday life objects. Her research has to do with scale measurement, which includes building and animating landscapes while working with textures and relative quantities. delosb.tumblr.com

HOME: Santiago, Providencia, Chile

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning + Fundraising Committees - Exhibition Installation - Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2012 - 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition - 11th Annual Art Auction

B Family, 2017, 12 x 8 x 5 in. Wood, wool and acrylic

AMY CANCELMO

STUDIO ARTIST:

Amy Cancelmo received her MA in Queer Art History from San Francisco State University in 2011 and a BFA in painting from Syracuse University in 2004. Her curatorial project Strange Bedfellows, explored collaborative practice in queer art making, and traveled nationally from 2013-2015 at venues including: Root Division (National Queer Arts Festival), Bucknell University, Columbia College Chicago (sponsored exhibition of the Queer Caucus for the Arts at CAA), Ithaca College, and Florida International University.

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In 2016, Cancelmo collaborated with artist billy ocallaghan on ISO (In Search Of) Queer Gods, featuring artists who mine historical religious iconography and responds to diverse representations of homosexual, transgender and non-binary content that has been preserved through the mythology of world religion.

February 2005–June 2008

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: Youth + Adult Education Instructor, Event Production Assistant, Administrative Support, Served on Fundraising and Artist Selection Committees, Curated and Installed Exhibitions, Facilities Manager, Exhibitions & Events Coordinator

EXHIBITED: Taste 2007–2012; Boombox, 2006; 5th–12th Annual Art Auction; The Greek Play, 2007; Blackout, 2008; Biophilia, 2008; - Night/Light, Afi & Associates, Hotel Biron, Heart

CURATED: Blackout, 2008; Cultivar, 2012; Strange Bedfellows, 2013; RESONATE, 2015; ISO Clear Gods, 2016; Root Division Exhibitions at ODC Theater Lobby and Spare Change Artist’s Space, Covo and SOMA Grand

CURRENT STAFF: Installation view of ISO Queer Gods at Root Division 2016, Co-curated with billy ocallaghan

Arts Program Director

NATASHA CARLOS Natasha Carlos is a photographer working across mediums to explore her relationship to nature through self-portraiture. Her work celebrates the mysterious moment when environment and identity come together. natashacarlos.com

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–Current

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant

EXHIBITED: - Back to the Garden, 2017 - Introductions, 2017

C Site A (Self-portrait), 2016, 16 x 24 x 24 in. Photographic sculpture

DERIC CARNER Deric Carner has exhibited at Romer Young Gallery, Trestle Projects, Kuir Bogota, NurtureArt, Louis B James, EFA Project Space, Queen’s Nails Projects, Southern Exposure, Witte de With, CAC Vilnius, Spazio A, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and Participant Inc. Carner is a MacDowell Fellow and received an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL, MA from the University of Plymouth UK and BFA from the University of California at Santa Cruz, CA. dericcarner.com

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2008–August 2009

HOME: Brooklyn, NY

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Curated Exhibitions - Exhibition Installation - Catalogue + Postcard Design

EXHIBITED: - Algorithmia, 2009 - Retractions, 2009 - Under 100, 2009 - 10-Year Anniversary Show, 2013 The Young Don’t Cry (Sal Mineo), 2014, 24 x 30 in. C-print Image courtest of Romer Young Gallery

CURATED: - Sound Device, 2008 - Leave the Capital, 2009

IRENE CARVAJAL

STUDIO ARTIST:

Irene Carvajal is a Costa Rican-American artist. Her practice includes printmaking, collage, sculpture and installation. Carvajal has exhibited in the US, Japan and Costa Rica. Her work touches on colonialism, labor, feminism, value, and mass production.

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She rececived her BFA at the University of Costa Rica and the University of Kansas and her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute where she received the Bronze Roller Award. She has participated in artist residencies in Yokohama, Japan, San José, Costa Rica and San Francisco, CA.

- Adult Education Instructor

Currently, Carvajal is a guest lecturer at Stanford University and San Jose State University. carvajal-art.com

August 2014–August 2015

Belmont, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor

- Event Production Assistant - Curated Exhibition - Designed, coordinated and managed collaborative murals at the Benioff Children’s Hospital

EXHIBITED: - Cut from the Same Cloth, 2016 - Living with Endangered Languages, 2015 - MFA Now, 2014

- 13th - 14th Annual Art Auction - New Growth, 2014 Dirty Laundry, 2014, 72 x 120 x 2 in. Acrylic and mass produced garments

ELIZABETH CAYNE

STUDIO ARTIST:

Elizabeth Cayne’s work looks at relationships among people and their possessions, consumption and conservation. Cayne has exhibited at SF Camerawork, Bedford Gallery, and Aggregate Space. She holds an MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in Film Studies from Yale.

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elizabethcayne.com

April 2009–March 2010

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees

EXHIBITED: - Kitsch-In, 2014 - Sideshow Happening, 2010 - Algorithmia, 2009 - Under 100, 2009 - Taste, 2010 - Three Minute Film Festival, 2007 - 8th–11th Annual Art Auction Dear Deer, 2016, 13 x 14.5 x 1.5 in. Collage sculpture on board

FERNANDO CISNEROS

STUDIO ARTIST:

Fernando Cisneros was born and raised in Mexico, but

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developed his art skill in the US. He is a multimedia artist and a graphic designer inspired by pop culture and technology. Cisneros’ paintings are melancholic

June 2011–December 2011

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

snapshots from the past, yet they represent the future.

- Youth Education Instructor

There is love, heartbreak, titles taken from pop songs,

- Event Production Assistant

and colors from Pop Art. Suggestive figures and the

- Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees

union of feminine and masculine beings, shape his paintings and express a constantly changing world. fernandocisneros.com

- Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 10th & 11th Annual Art Auction - ODC Theater Library, off-site, 2011 - Adndalu, 2011

C Elastic heart, 2017 Digital painting

JON CLARY

STUDIO ARTIST:

In 2005, Clary graduated from painting and

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printmaking at VCU in Richmond, VA. He then relocated to San Francisco and found his first studio with Root Division. While there, Jon participated in numerous group shows around San Francisco and at Root Division. He also taught classes in a local school and at Root Division, and for a time served as a member of the Board of Directors.

September 2007–June 2009

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Committees - Exhibition Installation - Board of Directors Artist Representative

EXHIBITED: - Taste 2007-2012 - Three Angles

C Library, 2009, 24 x 30 in. Acrylic and oil on wood

LEIGH ANN COLEMAN

STUDIO ARTIST:

Leigh Ann Coleman was born and raised in Long Beach, CA. She has been a Bay Area resident since 2010 and graduated from San Francisco State University in 2014. Coleman creates mixed media art works using textiles, fibers, drawing, painting, digital, and video. She interlaces scientific concepts to put humanity into cosmic perspectives. Coleman strives to grasp physiological theories through creating visuals. She views art making as a scientific process, experimenting with ideas and materials. As an art educator, Coleman is fascinated with directions, how they are open to multiple interpretations.

HOME:

leighanncoleman.squarespace.com

- Taste Assistant

September 2016–Current

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees - Exhibition Installation - Exhibitions Intern

- Auction Assistant

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2017

- Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2017 - 15th–16th Annual Art Auction - Misfit Toy Factory, 2015 & 2016 Mind Map, 2017, 48 x 48 in. Paint, wall installation

- New Growth, 2015

CLAIRE COLETTE

STUDIO ARTIST:

Claire Colette was born in France and came to

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California as a child. She received an MFA at Mills

Los Angeles, CA

College in Oakland, CA in 2013. Colette’s work has been exhibited nationally, including exhibitions at Johansson Projects (CA), Stephen Wirtz Gallery (CA), Joshua Liner Gallery (NY), Eleanor Harwood Gallery (CA), Novella Gallery (NY), and Conduit Gallery (TX), and featured in the Blouin Artinfo and The Conversation Art Podcast. Colette currently lives and works in Los Angeles. clairecolette.com

December 2008–June 2010

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Admistrative Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Installed + Curated Exhibitions - Exhibitions Coordinator

EXHIBITED: - Double Dip, 2010 - Taste, 2010 - Cinéma Arrête, 2010 - 8th & 9th Annual Art Auction

ORGANIZED: Monument Eternal, 2017, 48 x 36 in. Acrylic on panel

- MFA Now, 2012

HOLLY COLEY Born in Bellflower, CA, Holly Coley is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores personal identity through characters and objects using various mediums including painting, drawing, and ceramics. She received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and BA San Francisco State. Coley has exhibited her work in San Francisco and New York. hollycoley.com

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2012–January 2014

HOME: San Francisco, CA

EXHIBITED: - Wild, 2017 - Still Life, 2015

C The Mighty Roman Empire, 2017, 6 x 3 x 3 in. Stoneware

ALICE COMBS Alice Combs uses everyday materials like human hair, blueprints, and rusty metal, manipulated through repetitive and laborious processes, to create assemblage drawings and sculpture. Her work addresses the malleable nature of histories within the context of capitalism. Combs holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has shown at Bay Area galleries including: Embark, CounterPulse, Root Division, and the Tenderloin Museum. alicecombs.com

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Bizarre Bazaar, 2016 - 15th–16th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2017 - New Growth, 2017

C Total Turn On, 2017, 23.25 x 41.5 x 9.5 ft. Found chargers and power strips

SUSA CORTEZ Susa Cortez is a Mexican artist and educator living and working in San Francisco. Cortez received a BFA from the University of Delaware in 2011 and a MFA in Sculpture from Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis in 2013. She is the cofounder of Aguas Migrantes, a Bay Area art collective that runs a summer art residency in Guanajuato, Mexico. Her work has been showcased in venues including The Queens Museum, Syracuse University, SOMArts, Galeria de la Raza, Normal University Taipei, among others. Cortez is also an educator who has experience teaching youth and adults. susacortez.weebly.com

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2013–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Fundraising, Event Planning, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Exhibition Installation - Installations & Site Manager

EXHIBITED: - 12th–16th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2013–2017 - Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2016

- 14 Rapid: Transit and Transition, 2015 - More Than a Roof and Walls, Tenderloin Museum, Off-site, 2016 Mi Tierra, 2017, 174 x 91.5 x 18 in. Dirt, wood, muslin, acrylic medium, flowers, rebozo and semillas

ANGIE CRABTREE Angie Crabtree is widely regarded as the world’s first and only professional, diamond painter. Her artwork conveys realistically painted diamond facets enlarged 1,000+ times, which allows viewers to experience the small, beautiful gems in an up-close and personal way. Crabtree works with private clients and corporate companies worldwide. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009, as well as studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. angiecrabtree.com

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2010–June 2012

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Served on Artist Selection Commitees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2010–2011 - Eye of the Beholder, 2011 - Sideshow Happening, 2010 - 10th & 11th Annual Art Auction

C Rihanna, 2016, 36 x 28 x 1.5 in. Oil on canvas

JULIE CROSBY

STUDIO ARTIST:

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Crosby graduated from University of Southern California in 1996 and moved to San Diego in 2000 where she studied oil painting. Her studies include courses from The Salon of Art (San Diego), l’Atelier Aux Coleurs: The Art Academy, and CCSF. She mainly works with oils on canvas and encaustics.

HOME:

juliecrosby.com

August 2006–June 2007

Hillsborough, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees - Webmaster

EXHIBITED: - 5th Annual Art Auction

C Goodbye Dad, 2007, 20 x 20 x 1.5 in. Oil on canvas

SETH CURCIO

STUDIO ARTIST:

Seth Curcio is the senior director for Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles. Previously he was the associate director of Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, and executive director of Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC. From 2006-2013, he was founder and editor of Dailyserving. com. His work has been exhibited nationally including Alter Space, The Lab, and Root Division in San Francisco, Fowler Art Projects in Brooklyn, Cerasoli Gallery in Los Angeles, Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, and Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.

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sethcurcio.com

November 2009–December 2010

Los Angeles, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event production Assistant - Administrative support - Served on Curatorial Committee - Studio Artist Board Representative

EXHIBITED: - Compelled, 2010 - RESONATE, 2015

C Untitled (Virtual Landscape), 2015, 8 x 12 in. Dye sublimation on aluminum

MEL DAY Mel Day is an artist and educator, currently at San Jose State University. Her recent work explores the role of singing in civic engagement, deepening dialogue among potentially insular groups. Day has presented her work in venues such as Grace Cathedral, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Peak Gallery (Toronto), Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Schwandorf, GE), and Berkeley Art Museum. She has participated in numerous residencies including New Alumni Works Award Residency at Headlands Center for the Arts. mmd.ca wallofsongproject.com

D Wall of Song (collaboration by Mel Day & Michael Namkung), 2017, Duration: 5:11 Participatory video installation, live singing event

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2011–January 2012

HOME: Palo Alto, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Exhibition Installation - Graphic Design Assistant

EXHIBITED: - From Our Bodies Blinking, 2012 - Family Pictures, 2009 - 9th Annual Art Auction

CURATED: - Love & Longing, 2017

REA LYNN DE GUZMAN Rea Lynn de Guzman is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist. Originally from Manila, Philippines, she immigrated to the United States at age 14. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited work in the Bay Area, Chicago, Washington D.C., Hawaii, and internationally in India. In 2014, her sculpture After Maria Clara’s Piña Fiber Sleeve was awarded ARTslant’s Mixed Media Showcase Juried Winner. Most recently, she was selected as the Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture Visual Arts Featured Artist. de Guzman currently teaches at the City College of San Francisco, San Francisco Center for the Book, and Root Division. readeguzman.com

Mestiza, 2017, 10 x 8 x 1 in. Acrylic and image transfer on piña fiber mounted on panel

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2014–December 2016

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Curated Exhibitions - Exhibition Installation - Filipinx Teaching Artist Fellow, 2017

EXHIBITED: - 14th–16th Annual Art Auction - New Growth, 2015, 2016 & 2017 - stARTup Art Fair SF 2015, 2016 & 2017 - Cut from the Same Cloth, 2016 - Taste, 2015 - 14 Rapid: Transit and Transition, 2015

ELIZA DENNIS Eliza Dennis is a visual artist hailing from Massachusetts. She received her BA from Carleton College in 2013 and spent three years in the San Francisco Bay Area working at art non-profits. Dennis is now a student in Audio Storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, ME. elizadennis.com

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–June 2017

HOME: Portland, ME

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Commitees - Served on Curatorial Commitee - Exhibition Installation - Auction Assistant - Development Coordinator

EXHIBITED: - 15th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2016

D Untitled (paper), 2013, 6 x 2 x 1 ft. Paper, thread and brads

ANDREA DUBBERT

STUDIO ARTIST:

Through the media of video and performance, Andrea Dubbert conducts social experiments that seek to challenge the notions of social conventions and personal space. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres Department and at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Her work has been show in exhibitions at Root Division and Southern Exposure, and performances at Queens Nails Annex and SFMOMA. Andrea is originally from Detroit, Michigan.

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March 2009–April 2010

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Administrative support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees

EXHIBITED: - Under 100

andreadubbert.com

- 7th Annual Art Auction - Three Minute Film Festival, 2008 - Group Show at Hotel Biron Wine Bar & Art Gallery - Family Pictures, 2009

D Hands Series Installation, 2010, Approx: 20 min Video Installation

EVA ENRIQUEZ

STUDIO ARTIST:

The Spanish word ´enredo´ means tangle, maze or confusion. The intention of Eva Enriquez’ work is to show her predominant state of mind, over-stimulated by excitement and stress at the same time. Her work creates a webbing of crossed lines through a meditative labor of untangling the lines into shapes and its color relationships. Enriquez immerses herslf in this process to make sense out of these internal ‘enredos’ and find in the visual outcomes some sort of clarity and resolution

HOME:

evaenriquez.com

EXHIBITED:

September 2016– Current

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees - Exhibition Installation

- 15th & 16th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2017 - Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2017

E Blind Stitch, 2016, 18 x 24 in. Mixed media

EDEN V. EVANS Eden V. Evans is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work investigates time via history and memory. In her work, Evans utilizes process and materiality as signifiers, often deconstructing what already exists and building up what has yet to be.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2017–Current

HOME: Berkeley, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant

Evans holds a BA from San Francisco State University. In 2016, she was selected as Recology’s Student Artist in Residence. She has exhibited work throughout the greater Bay Area and San Diego.

- Administrative Support

edenvevans.com

EXHIBITED:

- Served on Curatorial Commitee - Gallery Attendant - Exhibition Installation

- 16th Annual Art Auction

E Undo, 2017, 12 x 12 in. Emergency blanket, house paint, and household natural dyes on canvas

MARY FINLAYSON Mary Finlayson is a San Francisco based painter and printmaker originally from Vancouver, B.C. She has BFA from Queen’s University, an MA in Art Therapy from the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, as well as an Arts Education Degree from the University of British Columbia. paintedmary.com

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2017–August 2017

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor

EXHIBITED: - stARTup Art Fair, 2017 - Taste, 2017

F de Kooning, Bueys and Plants, 2017, 18 x 24 in. Gouache on canvas

SELENE FOSTER

STUDIO ARTIST:

Selene Foster lives with two goats, 13 chickens, one cat, and several computers. She is an artist, designer, curator, science groupie, and lover of wild places.

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She attended Bard College and received her MFA from Mills College in 2004. Her artwork has since been exhibited on both coasts. She is currently producing a series of art/science events and working on a graphic novel. sparkoftheark.com

April 2007–August 2009 Palo Alto, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Administrative support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Event Production Assistant - Installed + Curated Exhibitions - Exhibition + Events Coordinator

EXHIBITED: Blackout, Biophilia, The Gun Show, 7th-9th Annual Art Auction, Three Minute Film Festival 2008-2010, Cinema Arrete, Night/Light, Group Show at Hotel Biron Wine Bar & Art Gallery, A Live Animal, Misfit Toy Factory 2011

CURATED: Trickster In the Water, 2012, 7.5 x 11.5 in. Graphite powder and Sumi ink

- Museum of Broken Relationships, 2015 - A Live Animal, 2011

HUNTER FRANKS Hunter Franks creates invitations to reimagine our social and physical landscapes. Projects include a 500 person dinner on a freeway, a storytelling exchange to connect disparate neighborhoods, and a public display of first love stories. His Neighborhood Postcard Project has been carried out in 26 communities around the world and his League of Creative Interventionists has chapters in six cities. His work has been displayed at the Akron Art Museum, Google, 111 Minna Gallery, and Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. hunterfranks.com

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Exhibition Installation - Facilities Assistance

EXHIBITED: - 15th–16th Annual Art Auction - Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2016 - Taste, 2016

F Subway Swing, 2016, 42 x 24 x 12 in. Wood and rope

ADAM FRIEDMAN

STUDIO ARTIST:

Originally hailing from the Sierra Nevada mountains, Adam Friedman lives and works in Portland, OR. He received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. Friedman’s work has been shown extensively in numerous exhibitions spanning the country, and has been featured in publications such as Blouin Artinfo, Beautiful Decay Magazine, the SF Examiner, and NY Arts Magazine. In addition, Friedman has been awarded grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland, OR, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in NY, and Clark College in Vancouver, WA where he is an Adjunct Professor.

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artbyadamfriedman.com

July 2008–August 2010

Portland, OR

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Administrative Support - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Curated and Installed Exhibitions - Interim Youth Education Coordinator - Studio Program Manager

EXHIBITED: - Under 100 - 8th–10th Annual Art Auction - Night/Light, 2008 Wildfire, 2017, 42 x 36 in. Acrylic, modeling compound, pumice, and wood on canvas over panel

- Compelled, 2010 - Call and Response, 2011

GUTA GALLI Guta Galli is a Brazilian artist working with photography, video, installation and performance. Her researches study the intersections between womanhood, power, race, sexuality and violence. Galli has been featured in solo and group shows and art fairs in Rotterdam, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Brasília, Rome and in the US, where she has performed and/ or participated in group shows at the San Francisco Art Institute, SOMArts, Berkeley Art Museum, Root Division and Walter Maciel Gallery. gutagalli.com

G Minotaur and Us, 2017, 14 x 14 in. Performance documentation, digital photography, and video

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2017–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Exhibition & Events Documentation

EXHIBITED: - MFA Now, 2016 - 16th Annual Art Auction

BLAKE GIBSON

STUDIO ARTIST:

Blake Gibson’s work revisits gestural abstraction to

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achieve physical immersion in the painting process.

San Francisco, CA

His works have been shown in various locations throughout the United States and Australia, including the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM, the Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque, NM, and the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

July 2011–July 2013

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Interim Youth Education Coordinator - Event Production Assistant

His publications include Manifest International

- Served on Artist Selection, Fundraising and Event Planning Committees

Drawing Annual 5 (2010) and Land Arts of the

- Curated and Installed Exhibitions

American West (2009).

- Board Member: Artist Representative - Facilities Manager

blakegibson.com

- Installations Manager

EXHIBITED: - 10th–14th Annual Art Auction - Introductions, 2013 - Taste, 2012–2015 - Misfit Toy Factory, 2011

CURATED: 1.8.13, 2013, 72 x 60 in. Acrylic and house-paint on canvas

- From Our Bodies Blinking, 2012

CASSANDRA GLESSNER

STUDIO ARTIST:

Cassandra Glessner graduated with an MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute in 2006.

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cassandraglessner.com

August 2007–October 2007

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation - Administrative support

EXHIBITED: - Biophilia, 2008

G Collaborations with A Broken Scanner/The Struggle that Engulfs All Our Lives, 2012, 60 x 80 x 2 in. Photos on reclaimed wood, sealant

JON GOURLEY Jon Gourley received his BA in Studio Art and Biochemistry from the University of Iowa and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at the Des Moines Art Center, the AC Institute, Southern Exposure, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Queen’s Nails Projects. He currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA. loungerjoy.com

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2013–April 2015

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection Committee - Curated Exhibitions - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Character Profile, 2013 - Survival Adaptations, 2014 - Introductions, 2015

CURATED: - Multiply & Conquer, 2014 Polysemous, 2017, 24 x 18 in. Archival pigment print

DANA HEMENWAY

STUDIO ARTIST:

Dana Hemenway is an artist based in San Francisco. She received an MFA from Mills College. Hemenway has had artist residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), SÍM (Reykjavik, Iceland), The Wassaic Project (Upstate New York), Root Division (San Francisco, CA). She is currently a charter resident of the Minnesota Street Project’s Studio Program. Hemenway has exhibited her artwork locally, nationally, and internationally. She is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

HOME:

danahemenway.com

July 2010–July 2012

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult + Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Curated + Installed Exhibitions - Staff: Exhibitions & Events Coordinator

EXHIBITED: - 10th Annual Art Auction - Historiographie, 2008 - Taste, 2011 - Sideshow Happening, 2010

- Introductions, 2010

CURATED: Untitled (Cord Weave No. 4 - Blue Squiggles), 2017, 30 x 30 x 3 in. Ceramic, glaze, extension cord, light bulbs, custom fixtures and zip ties Image courtesy of Eleanor Harwood Gallery

- Taste 2011 - RESONATE, 2015

ALEXANDER HERNANDEZ Alexander Hernandez’ work explores gender expectations, immigration and cultural assimilation through the lens of a Queer immigrant constantly navigating throughout multiple communities. His preferred media are scrap fabrics, remnants of unfinished projects, ephemeral belongings, found objects, and traditional textiles. Hernandez sews, paints, embroiders, layers and patches these materials together using traditional needlework and DIY crafting techniques. He embraces ripped holes, unraveling threads, raw edges and slashes revealing layers of multiple identities. hernalex.com

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2012–June 2014

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 11th Annual Art Auction - Strange Bedfellows, 2013

H Embraced, 2017, Site specific installation Mixed textiles, soft sculpture Image courtesy of Elsewhere Museum

PLINIO ALBERTO HERNANDEZ

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2012–June 2014

Plinio Alberto Hernandez was born in El Salvador in 1979 and moved with his family to Oakland in 1985. He works and lives between Guadalajara, Mexico

Berkeley, CA

and Berkeley, California. Plinio holds a MFA from

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UC Berkeley and a BFA in Photography from Otis

- Youth Education Instructor

College of Art and Design. His art practice centers

- Exhibition Installation

around examining history, geography and personal

- Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow

narratives of migration, identity and memory that are

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materialized through elements of drawings, sculpture, collaborations, video and performance. Currently, Plinio is a high school art teacher.

H The Rescue Institute for Immigrant Flora and Other Wanderings, 2016 Dimensions variable Installation

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- re: Told, 2012 - 11th Annual Art Auction

MICHAEL HESSION

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2009–February 2011

Michael Hession’s work includes photography, video, and drawing, and stems from a fascination with the beauty in everyday life. After receiving an MFA from

HOME: Brooklyn, NY

the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009, he relocated to

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New York where he entered the media and journalism

- Event Production Assistant

world. Hession is currently Head of Photography

- Administrative Support

and Video for Wirecutter, a New York Times-owned

- Exhibition Installation

publication.

- Served on Artist Selection Committee

michaelhession.com

- Video Content Production

EXHIBITED: - Family Pictures, 2009 - Double Dip, 2010 - Introductions, 2010 - 8th & 9th Annual Art Auction

H Four Sips, 2016, 8 x 10 in. Silver gelatin print

JOSH HIGHTER Joshua Highter’s process-driven, abstract paintings focus on the intersection between observation and memory, where the visual space plays with tensions between the familiar, observed experiences, and the foreign, distant memories that are remnants of those experiences. Highter earned his MFA in painting from Indiana University, Bloomington and currently lives in Takoma Park, Maryland. Prior to moving to the DC metro area, Highter lived in Berkeley, California and spent three years teaching drawing and painting as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Davis. He currently spends his days as “Dad,” exploring with his son Aurele, and teaches in DC. joshhighter.com

H Divisions, 2017, 51 x 55 in. Acrylic on canvas

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2013–March 2015

HOME: Takoma Park, MD

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - stARTup Art Fair, 2015 - Taste, 2015 - 12th–14th Annual Art Auction

HEIDI HOLMES Australian visual artist, Heidi Holmes’ practice is established through an autobiographical foundation, tendering opportunity for her to propose, “I am just like you (aren’t I?).” Materializing as sculpture, installation, scripts, drawings, scent, audio, video and photographs, Holmes’ recent work has explored a personal account of undertaking In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment and the subsequent failings and consequences of the process, also associating feminist themes, relationships, aging and existentialism. heidiholmes.net

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2017–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Exhibition Installation - Admistrative Support - Event Production Assistant - Curatorial Committee Member

EXHIBITED: - Introductions, 2017 - 16th Annual Art Auction - Misfit Maker Factory, 2017

(I’m pretty sure) There will be no Science Baby, 2016, Dimensions Variable Domestic dimensions, rotten flower fragrance oil, the distance between the artist’s vagina and the earth, wax, wick, flame, pressed, dried and ground hydrangea flowers, varnish, soap, Tim’s voice, the artist’s voice, 9 failed attempts at In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

SHISI HUANG Shisi Huang is an interdisciplinary artist who works across the realms of site-specific spatial installation, interactive installation, photography, video arts and book arts. Huang earned an MFA in Studio Arts from San Francisco Art Institute (2016) and MA in Photography from Nottingham Trent University, UK (2012). She has exhibited work worldwide in China, UK, US, and Europe. Currently, Huang is a featured artist of Kinetech Arts and #* Collective in San Francisco. She is also a Co-Founder and Executive Director of 3 Standard Stoppage Studio. Huang is a current Root Division Studio Artist and teaches at the CalColor Academy. huangshisi.com

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Fundraising + Event Planning Commitees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 15th & 16th Annual Art Auction - Introductions, 2016 - New Growth, 2016

H Empty Set, 2016, 504 x 264 x 360 in. Site-specific spatial interactive installation

NICHOLAS HULLIBARGER

STUDIO ARTIST:

Nicholas Hullibarger received his BA in Mixed Media

HOME:

and Art History from Sienna Heights University and MFA in Sculpture at MassArt. Currently, Hullibarger

September 2015–December 2016

Oakland, CA

works as a Chief Gallery Preparator in Oakland,

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California. In addition, he spends his evenings teaching

- Adult Education Instructor

adult art education and his mornings in Hunters

- Installed Exhibitions

Point Shipyard creating his own body of work, which

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explores the relationship between space, shape and

- 14th–15th Annual Art Auction

color. nicholashullibarger.com

H Spatial Binary Five F, 2017, 34 x 25 x 1 in. Wood, acrylic, space, distance and proximity Courtesy of DabArts

MELISSA HUTTON Through a mix of mediums including spray enamel, resin and photography, Melissa Hutton explores the complexities of the American landscape. Some of Hutton’s most well known pieces are moody, pop-inspired panoramas littered with abandoned barns and highways slicing through fields. Melissa is currently living in Napa, California, making new work, and drinking wine with her cat, Buffy. melissahutton.com

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2004–September 2006

HOME: Napa, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees - Curated + Installed Exhibitions - Graphic Design

EXHIBITED: - Taste 2006-2009 - 5th-16th Annual Art Auction - Octopus, 2006 - Inside Out, 2012 - The Gun Show, 2007

H Build Up, 2017, 42 x 34 in. Serigraph

JOHN-MARK IKEDA

STUDIO ARTIST:

John-Mark Ikeda is a Bay Area artist that has been a studio artist, alumni artist and artist representative to the board for Root Division.

Current Alumni Studio Artist

Ikeda has an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and is the recipient of the Bronze Roller award and the Richard P. Martel award. He has exhibited nationally, including at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. john-mark.ikeda.com

October 2011–October 2013

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Exhibition Installation - Event Production Assistant - Board Member, Artist Representative

EXHIBITED: - Over my Dead Body, 2011 - 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2012 - Downtown at Spare Change: Artist Space, 2011 - 11th–16th Annual Art Auction

Liberty, 2012, 7 x 1 ft. Liberty chair, T-pins, putty, hooks

CHIEI ISHIDA After returning to Tokyo in 2005, Chiei Ishida started her museum career at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and worked for four and a half years as a curatorial assistant.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004 - July 2005

HOME: Tokyo, Japan

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant

EXHIBITED: - 3rd Annual Art Auction - Summer Olympics, 2005

I From 8-19-’02 Monday-1, 2003

RACHAEL JABLO

STUDIO ARTIST:

Rachael Jablo is an American photographer and collage

HOME:

artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her photo

Berlin, Germany

collage work deals with deconstruction, beauty, nature

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July 2006–March 2010

and violence. In 2013, she published “My days of losing

- Youth & Adult Education Instructor

words with Kehrer Verlag”, was was featured on Slate,

- Event Production Assistant

Lenscratch, and NPR among other places.

- Administrative Support

RJablo.com

- Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Commitees - Adult Education Coordinator

EXHIBITED: - Sick, 2010 - Garden of Earthly Delights, 2010 - Family Pictures, 2009 - Biophilia, 2008 - Systems and Transmutations, 2007 - Home, 2007 - Boombox, 2006

CURATED: Beneath, 2015, 28 x 20 in. C-print photogram collage

- Sick, 2010

JEREMIAH JENKINS Jeremiah Jenkins was born in east Tennessee and moved to the Bay Area in 2005. He received an MFA from SFAI in 2007. His work has been shown at local galleries such as Ever Gold Projects, Hashimoto Contemporary, Jack Fisher Gallery, SFMOMA Artist’s gallery, and others. He has been featured in San Francisco Magazine, Juxtapose, SF Chronicle, as well as multiple online publications. jeremiahjenkins.com

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2007–June 2008

HOME: Berkeley, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Facilities Manager - Installations Manager

EXHIBITED: - Gun Show, 2007 - 6th–11th Annual Art Auction - Biophilia, 2008 - Blackout, 2008

J Victory (March), 2017, 5 x 3 x 16 in. Plastic, marble and wood

DAVID OTIS JOHNSON

STUDIO ARTIST:

David Otis Johnson has great memories of his time

HOME:

spent at Root Division. Shortly after completing his

Ojai, CA

studio residency, he started his own business. leafcutterstudio.com

November 2004–February 2007

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Artist Selection, Fundraising, Curatorial, and Event Planing Committees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Some Thing Out of Nothing, 2006 - 4th, 5th & 11th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2006 - The Gentlemen Show, 2007 - Systems &Transmutations, 2007 - The J-iggles Fest, 2007 - Blackout, 2008 - Night/Light, 2008

CURATED: Chair, 2005, 38 x 34 x 34 in. Neon

- The Gentlemen Show, 2007

RYAN JONES

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2008–August 2010

Ryan Jones was born in San Diego, CA. He received his BA from Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. His work is a series of experiments with materials, labor, measurement, accumulation, historical quotation and misquotation, armchair mad science, backyard

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support

shamanism, garage tinkering, the act of making, and

- Served on Event Planning, Curatorial, and Fundraising Commitees

the unexpected. Ryan has exhibited in the Bay Area,

- Exhibition Installation

Chicago, Indiana, and New York. ryanjonesryanjones.com

EXHIBITED: - 7th, 8th, 9th & 11th Annual Art Auction - Introductions 2008 - Retractions, 2009 - Algorithmia, 2009 - Manufactured Organic, 2011 - Over My Dead Body, 2010

- Misfit Toy Factory, I - V, VIII

CURATED: Argosy, 2012, 144 x 132 x 18 in. Boat, manila rope, galvanized rope cleats

- Manufactured Organic, 2011

BEN KELLGREN

STUDIO ARTIST:

Ben Kellgren is a San Francisco based visual artist

HOME:

who employs the painstaking technique of “strippling” to create abstract imagery. Kellgren received a BFA in Intermedia Design with a focus in photography

January 2015–July 2016

San Francisco, CA

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and video from Pacific Northwest College of Art in

- Adult Education Instructor

Portland, Oregon. His work continues to draw from

- Event Production Assistant

his printmaking roots, creating bold, energetic images

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through physical, laborious mark making.

- 14th Annual Art Auction

benkellgren.com

K Blue Abstract, 2016, 24 x 24 x 1.5 in. Acrylic on birch panel

SARA KERR

STUDIO ARTIST:

Sara Kerr was born in Australia, but now calls San

HOME:

Francisco home. Kerr holds a BA with honors in Philosophy from The University of Melbourne, an MA in Philosophy from Stanford University and an MFA in Fine Art from Mills College. Her artwork has been exhibited at Mills College Art Museum, Southern Exposure, CTRL SHFT gallery, Incline Gallery, Alter Space, Root Division, Ramon’s Tailors and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Kerr is currently an art teacher at Castilleja School in Palo Alto and is working on a book about photography. sarakerr.net

K Regress (2), 2016, 30 x 22.5 in. Archival digital print

May 2015 - June 2015

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor

SCOTT KIERNAN Scott Kiernan is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in New York City. He is co-founder and director of Louis V E.S.P., an artist-run gallery in New York (2010-2012) and E.S.P. TV (2011-present), a nomadic TV studio that explores televisual language and develops artist collaborations for broadcast. Kiernan has exhibited and performed in venues such as New Museum, Swiss Institute/Contemporary Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Whitney Museum of American Art, Harvard Art Museums, Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and teaches in Hunter College’s MFA program. scottkiernan.com esptv.com

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2007–January 2008

HOME: Brooklyn, NY

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Served on Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Exhibition Installation - Curated Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - Love for Sale, 2007 - Blackout, 2008 - Leave the Capital, 2009 - Are We Not Men?, 2012

CURATED: - Sound Device (co-curated with Deric Carner and Anne Yalon), 2008

Not in a Position to Say Anything, 2017, Duration:9:10 Video

KYONG AE KIM Kyong Ae Kim was born in South Korea. She received her BFA in Painting from Chung Ang University in South Korea and her MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work was exhibited in the Bay Area, Boston area and many others including Jack Fischer Gallery, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Marin Museum of Contemporary Arts and Vessel Gallery. kyongaekim.com

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2015–June 2016

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor

EXHIBITED: - 15th–16th Annual Art Auction - Misfit Toy Factory, 2016 - New Growth, 2016

K The Skulls 7, 2016, 48 x 33 in. Hand cut drafting film Image Courtesy of Jack Fischer Gallery

BRIAN KING Brian King was born in Chicago, IL. He received a public school education and attended Northeastern Illinois University until dropping out to work in advertising as a commercial photography and illustration representative. King moved to the Bay Area in 1988 just before the Loma Prieta earthquake. After first attempting to continue as a commercial art representative, he migrated into the software industry. King returned to school to complete his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute (New Genres 2008), and MFA at the California College of the Arts (Sculpture, 2011). Currently, King lives in Oakland CA, married to Marjorie, an attorney, with twins.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2012–June 2013

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant

EXHIBITED: - 11th Annual Art Auction

brianhowardking.com

K Untitled, 2016, 24 x 24 x 3 in. Wood and rope

LIZ KOERNER Liz Koerner grew up in Iowa City, Iowa and earned a BFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014, she completed a two-year Core Fellowship at Penland School of Crafts; and in 2016, a one-year Fine Art & Craft Fellowship at Warren Wilson College. Koerner is currently pursuing an MFA in the Woodworking & Furniture Design program at San Diego State University. liz-koerner.com

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2011–December 2011

HOME: San Diego, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees - Exhibition Installation - Facilities Manager

EXHIBITED: - 10th Annual Art Auction - Double Dip, 2010 - Subastral Luminations (Root Division at Heart), 2011 - Evident Flow (Root Division at ODC Theater), 2011

K Tub, 2017, 59 x 28 x 21 in. Wood, vinyl, water, graphite and liming wax

MICHAEL KROUSE

STUDIO ARTIST:

Michael “Spike” Krouse has shown work throughout the United States and has been covered in Ad-busters Magazine, Punk-Planet Magazine, Asterisk SF, The San Francisco Chronicle, SFAQ, CNN, 7X7, The Bay Guardian, White Hot Magazine and Jazz Now Magazine.

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He has been awarded grants from The Office of the Mayor, San Francisco, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, The Jewish Endowment Fund, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, and the Bill Graham Foundation. He holds a BA from Marquette University, and also studied at: (but never graduated from) UNLV, The San Francisco Art Institute, The San Francisco Studio School, and The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

November 2004–April 2007

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth & Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Curated and Installed Exhibitions - Founded Taste in 2006 - Started 2nd Saturdays - Exhibition Director, 2001–2007 - Board Member

michaelkrouse.com

EXHIBITED: - Taste, Octopus, Boom Box, Twoperson show with Pete Gronquist, 2006 - Home, 2007

Arco Project, 2013–2017, 64 x 48 ft. Photo collage on billboard

- 1st–16th Annual Art Auction

MEREDITH LEICH Meredith Leich is a Chicago-based painter, animator, and videomaker, whose work explores cities, placebased histories, and climate change. Born in Boston, she is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2017), the San Francisco Art Institute, and Swarthmore College. Her ongoing collaboration with a glaciologist received an Arts, Science & Culture Initiative Grant from UChicago and 2nd Prize in Deutsche Bank’s 2017 Macht Kunst Contest in Berlin. meredithleich.com

L From the Fairmont,, 2013, 30 x 22 in. Watercolor on paper

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2013–July 2014

HOME: Chicago, IL

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 14 Rapid: Transit & Transition, 2015

ANGIE LEE

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2013–May 2014

Angie is a mixed media artist with special interest in working with yarn and fiber. She completed the post-baccalaureate program in Visual Arts at UC Berkeley in 2012. Lee currently lived and works in Oakland, California. ananan.studio

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Fundraising and Event Planning Commitees

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2013 - 12th & 13th Annual Art Auction

L Unnamed collage 2.25, 2017, 12 x 9 in. Collage on panel

BERNARDO LEIGH Bernardo Poggi Leigh was born in 1975 in Lima, Peru. In 1983, he migrated to Pompano Beach, Florida. Leigh completed four and one-half-years as an Industrial and Systems Engineer at the University of Florida before deciding to pursue Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. Focused on oil painting, his environment dictated the evolution of his work. He started working with gouache, ink and acrylic on panel, after abandoning oils, when he lived in a small studio apartment. From that point forward new materials found their way to the surface while others where edited. Leigh’s last show consisted of wood veneers, sumi ink and spray paint. poggileigh.com

L Aftermath I, 2009, 32 x 47 x .5 in. Gouache, Sumi ink, wood veneer on panel Image/Artwork Courtesy of Dewitt, Thomas

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2004–April 2007

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 5th, 7th & 8th Annual Art Auction - Systems & Transmutations, 2007

JENNIE LENNICK

STUDIO ARTIST:

Jennie Lennick is a San Francisco-based artist, entrepreneur, and teacher. As a child in the Midwest, Lennick became enamored with traditional domestic craft, learning to sew and embroider. In 2010, she moved to the Bay Area to attend SFAI where she studied painting. Inspired by the natural beauty of Northern California, Lennick launched Jenny Lemons (jennylemons.com), a collection of modern block printed and hand painted women’s clothing and textiles. Her work has been featured in publications like the San Francisco Chronicle, Brit + Co, and San Francisco Magazine. When not working in her studio, Lennick leads fiber art workshops all over the Bay Area.

HOME:

jennylemons.com

September 2012–January 2015

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Curatorial Commitees - Curated and Installed Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - Over My Dead Body, 2011 - 11th Annual Art Auction - Still Life, 2015 - Pulling Threads, 2016 - Kitsch-in, 2014

CURATED: Banana Tank Top, 2017, Dimesions variable Hand painted cotton Image courtesy of Roseann Bath Model: Cristina Victor

- Still Life, 2015

VITA LITVAK Vita Litvak is a Philadelphia based artist and arts administrator. She works as the Manager of Adult Programs at Fleisher Art Memorial where she oversees a diverse program of course offerings in the visual arts. Litvak received her BA from Haverford College and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has held positions as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College, Adjunct Professor at Moore College of Art and Design and Richard Stockton College. Litvak’s art practice is rooted in the photographic medium and extends into video and community-based projects. vitalitvak.com

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2010–October 2011

HOME: Philadelphia, PA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 9th–10th Annual Art Auction

L From the series Time Portraits, 2014–Ongoing Dimensions variable Inkjet print

TOM LOUGHLIN Tom Loughlin holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francsisco Art Institute. Currently, he is a studio artist at the Minnesota Street Project, and was previously an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Loughlin has shown at The Lab and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts among other venues. He is also a graduate of U.C. Berkeley’s School of Law, and has had a plaintiff-side practice in intellectual property and products liability. tomloughlinart.com

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2013–June 2014

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth & Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Facilities Assistance

EXHIBITED: - Survival Adaptations (offsite at Adobe Books), 2014 - This Space Intentionally Left Blank, (offsite at Spare Change Artist Space), 2015 - Root Division Pop-up Front Window Display, 2015

L Signal, 2018, 22.5 x 22.5 x 6 ft. Reclaimed steel, light and sound

GERA LOZANO

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2007–July 2008

Gera Lozano was born in the Amazon jungle in Peru and transferred to the urban jungle of Newark, NJ when she was 9 years old. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Lozano’s studio and public artwork transform the culture, ethnography and current zeitgeist of a time and/or place into abstract geometric designs. Often honoring the local flora and fauna of the site, her studio, GERALUZ projects, designs living cultures that stimulate the energetic field of optical perception. Lozano’s studio artwork has been funded by the Creative Work Fund, the Zellerbach Foundation, the NEA; and is part of the Smithsonian American Art Archives. geralozano.com

L Shamana, 2012, 16 x 30 in. Photograph

HOME: Brooklyn, NY

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Assistant

EXHIBITED: - Under 100, 2009

CATHY LU Cathy Lu received a BA from Tufts University and BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. Working in ceramic-based sculpture and painting, Lu creates pieces that explore Asian American identity, culture and gender. She has shown work at Root Division, Recology, Johansson Projects, etc. She lives and works in San Francisco. cathyclu.com

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2010–July 2012

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Committees - Curated Exhibitions - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Family Pictures, 2009 - Borders, 2008 - Over My Dead Body, 2011 - Taste, 2011 & 2015 - RECAST, 2016

CURATED: - Taste, 2011 Treasure Case, 2016, 102 x 108 x 16 in. Ceramics, wood and concrete

KIJA LUCAS

STUDIO ARTIST:

Kija Lucas is an artist based in the Bay Area. Lucas uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage and inheritance. She is interested in how ideas are passed down and seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations.

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Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006 and MFA from Mills College in 2010. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Bay Area. Lucas has been an Artist-in-Residence at the deYoung Museum, Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Grin City Collective, and Wassaic Artist Residency. kijalucas.com

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Auction Assistant - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, and Artist Selection Committees - Education Coordinator

EXHIBITED: - Sideshow Happenings, 2010 - Manufactured Organic, 2011 - Introductions 2011 - re:Told, 2012 - Love and Longing, 2017

CURATED: - re:Told, 2012 In Search of Home, Bay Area 502, 2017, 20 x 24 in. Archival pigment print

June 2010–May 2011

PAULA LUCIA Paula Lucia is a local artist currently living in HaighAshbury, San Francisco and who also teaches and manages a children’s art studio in San Mateo. Lucia is fascinated by the balance between opposing forces within abstraction. Her two-dimensional work creates space that is both flat and layered; color that is simultaneously harmonious and unbalanced; and imagery that is graphic and abstracted. Lucia has developed a clear, reciprocal relationship between her paintings and brand of handmade snapback hats. Lucia’s approach to reclaimed materials is utilized through both collage within her paintings and as re-purposed fabric for her hats.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2016–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Served on Fundraising and Event Planning Committees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2016–2017 - 15th & 16th Annual Art Auction - Misfit Maker Factory VI & VII - Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2017

paulalucia.com

L Five Panel Hats (various), 2017, 48 x 36 in. Scrap upholstery fabric

CLAIRE R. LYNCH Born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, it was not until her undergrad time at Stanford University that Claire R. Lynch discovered her interest in sculpture. In 2014, Lynch completed her first Student Artist in Residence with Recology where she built sculptures from reclaimed materials from the San Francisco trash site. She then went on to join Root Division as the Blau-Gold Teaching Fellow in 2015 and then as a Studio Artist in 2016. In the fall of 2017, Lynch began her MFA degree at the Rinehart School for Sculpture program at Maryland Institute College of Art.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2015–May 2017

HOME: Baltimore, MD

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection Commitees - Exhibition Installation - Blau-Gold Teaching Fellow

EXHIBITED: - 14th–15th Annual Art Auction

clairerlynchsculpture.com

L Feathers, 2016, 72 x 24 x 24 in. Brass, copper, and steel wire

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- Taste, 2016–2017

WHITNEY LYNN Whitney Lynn employs a wide range of media to reflect on subjects such as militarized landscapes, historical archetypes and the role of images in the creation of myth. Born on Williams Air Force Base, Lynn attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She received her BFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University and MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. whitneylynnstudio.com

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2007–February 2009

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative support - Curated and Installed Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - Back to the Garden, 2017 - Bizarre Bazaar, 2016 - 10th Year Anniversary, 2013 - Gun Show, 2007

CURATED: - Mistaken Impressions, 2016 - Retractions, 2007

Fool (still), 2017, Dimensions variable Three-channel video

LINDSAY LYONS Lindsey Lyons lives in Los Angeles, CA. Born in Sarasota, Florida, Lyons received an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BA from Mount Holyoke College. Her abstract paintings and forms are influenced by swamps, detritus, and terrain; they give rise to what was once fragmented and unseen. Lyons has exhibited her work at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, Southern Exposure, and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco and The Pit in Los Angeles. lindseylyons.com

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2007–July 2007

HOME: Los Angeles, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Advisory Board Member, 2008–2012 - Education Intern

EXHIBITED: - Under 100, 2008 - 7th–10th Annual Art Auction - New Growth, 2007

L Snake, 2016, 12 x 9 x 1 in. Acrylic, wax, and vinyl on wood panel

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ANDREW MALLIS Andrew Mallis is a San Francisco-based visual artist, activist and technologist. He works with code, photography and electronics, and also writes, draws, and paints. He graduated OCAD University after a Rushmore-like engagement which included co-founding the gallery/social space Art System, pioneering a web radio, founding the school newspaper, and serving 2 terms as Student Union Chair. Mallis works with institutions to build community and social value through his digital agency, Kalamuna. andrewmallis.com/portfolio

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2011–February 2012

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Exhibition Installation - Website Development - CRM Consultant

EXHIBITED: - 10th Annual Art Auction

M Pixel painting (resolution), 2010, 12 x 12 in. Oil on cradled board

MICHELLE MANSOUR Michelle Mansour is an artist, educator, curator, and the current Executive Director of Root Division. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received a BA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University (1995) and a Post Baccalaureate degree in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998) and an MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute (2003). Mansour has given lectures and been on panels with the San Francisco Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, The Lab, San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, University of San Francisco, and Sonoma State University, and she is the recipient of an Honorary Fellowship and multiple residencies from Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

- Executive Director, 2007-present - Associate Director, 2006-07 - Youth Education Coordinator, 2003-06

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

- Youth & Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Artist Selection, Fundraising, Curatorial and Event Planning Committees

- Curated and Installed Exhibitions - Fundraising

EXHIBITED:

Her work has been shown in a variety of non-profit and commercial venues such as Southern Exposure, Bedford Gallery, McLoughlin Gallery, Morris Graves Museum, and Yuma Art Center, including solo exhibitions at the SFMOMA Artist Gallery and Latham Square via ProArts. Mansour has work in a variety of collections including Nordstroms, Hilton Hotels, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, and the El Camino Hospital. She has also curated and co-curated several exhibitions including 2 x 2 Solos at Pro Arts and Metaphysical Abstraction: Contemporary Approaches to Spiritual Content.

- 2nd–16th Annual Art Auction - Octopus, 2005 - Boombox, 2006 - Biophilia, 2008 - Systems & Transmutations, 2007 - Permutation Unfolding, 2013 - The Alchemist, 2016 - Taste, 2007–2017 - Under 100, 2009

michellemansour.com

- Systems & Transmutations, 2007 - Spell of the Senses, 2007 - Garden of Earthly Delights, 2010 - Double Dip, 2010

Getting Back To Center, 2017, 36 x 96 in. Acrylic, ink, and silicone on muslin on 2 panels

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CURATED:

MARGAUX M C ALLISTER Margaux McAllister received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2010 and her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in 2004. She has shown her art nationally and internationally. margauxmcallister.com

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2012–December 2012

HOME: Phoenixville, PA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

- Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED:

- re: Told, 2012 - 11th Annual Art Auction - Taste 2012, Silent Auction

M Aurilla, 2016, 42 x 36 in. Charcoal on paper

NICOLE M C CLURE Nicole McClure is a contemporary artist and filmmaker. She was born in Seattle, WA, and studied painting, performance, and film at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and the San Francisco Art Institute where she received an MFA. McClure has exhibited across America and in Europe. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. https://vimeo.com/user38155251

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2010–August 2011

HOME: Los Angeles, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

- Youth & Adult Education Instructor - Event Production + Admin Support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees - Exhibition Installation - Curated Exhibitions

EXHIBITED:

- Nature of Icons, 2010 - Eye of the Beholder, 2011 - From our Bodies Blinking, 2012 - 9th & 10th Annual Art Auction

M Demon Footsuckers From Hell (Still), 2016 Duration: 2:23, Video

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ELI M C NALLY Eli McNally is a multimedia artist, performer, writer, and musician based in San Francisco. Their work has been featured in the Diego Rivera Gallery, SOMArts, MOCO Gallery, ATA Lounge, and various venues and bars throughout the Bay Area.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–November 2016

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

- Youth Education Instructor - Exhibition Installation

elimcnally.com

EXHIBITED:

- 15th Annual Art Auction

M Torsos and Holograms (Still), 2017 Duration: 30:00, Video Image courtesy of Gianni Magpantay (collaborator)

DENNIS M C NULTY Dennis McNulty received a BFA from Ringling School of Art and Design and MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. McNulty is the co-founder of Root Division. In the mid 2000s, McNulty was represented by Mark Wolfe Gallery. He has exhibited his work at Southern Exposure, SF Arts Commission Gallery, 111 Minna Gallery, Hespe Gallery, Merced Arts and Cultural Center, SF Film Center, Upper Playground Gallery, 66 Balmy Gallery, Park Life Gallery, Electric Works and Diego Rivera Gallery. McNulty has been featured in art ltd. magazine, CMYK Magazine, Art Papers and Alarm Magazine. His etchings are archived in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is the owner of The Little Lodge, an art gallery in San Francisco. dennismcnultyart.com

M Electric Church, 2014, 5 x 10 x 4 ft. Multi-media, paint, print and vinyl installation

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CO-FOUNDER STUDIO ARTIST: 2002–2007

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

- Youth & Adult Education Instructor - Event Production + Admin Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Commitees - Installed + Curated Exhibitions - Co-Created Art Auction - Co-Created Root Division’s logo - Board Member

EXHIBITED:

- 1st–15th Annual Art Auction - Inside Out, 2012 - Taste 2006–2009 - The Gun Show, 2007

CONRAD MEYERS Conrad Meyers is an artist, educator, and arts organizer in Oakland. He is the Co-Founder of Aggregate Space Gallery and currently serves as the Executive Director. In addition to directing the gallery programming, Meyers also works as an object fabricator for several Bay Area art institutions and has recently been a Visiting Faculty Member of animation and video at both SFAI and UC Davis. Meyers also serves on the advisory board of Root Division, the governing board of BAASICS, the audience engagement committee for Headlands Center for the Arts, and the governing board of Oakland Art Murmur. conradmeyers.com

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2008–July 2010

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

- Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation - Contractor - Fabricator - Project Manager

EXHIBITED:

- Introductions, 2007 - Biophelia, 2008 - Algorithmia, 2009

M Aggregate Space Gallery’s First Five Years, 2016, Dimesions variable Collage of exhibition photos Image courtesy of Aggregate Space Gallery and Aaron Rosenstreich

VRENI MICHELINI-CASTILLO

STUDIO ARTIST:

V. Michelini Castillo was born in Guanajuato, Mexico

HOME:

in 1988. She migrated to the U.S. in 1999 as part of

Oakland, CA

the NAFTA exodus. She received a BFA from Virgnia

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

Commonwealth University and a MFA from UC

- Youth Education Instructor

Berkeley. Michelini Castillo is a multidisciplinary cultural

- Event Production Assistant

producer and organizer with 10 years of leadership in

EXHIBITED:

the arts that is grounded in transformative collaborative

- 13th Annual Art Auction - New Growth, 2015

work. Michelini Castillo has shown and performed in Qatar, Sweden, Puerto Rico, Spain, Peru, Mexico and in the U.S. vrenimichelinicastillo.com chhotimaa.bandcamp.com aguasmigrantes.org

M Migrant Counter Archive, 2012–2014, Dimesions variable Installation and community participation

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September 2014–May 2015

RANDALL MILLER

STUDIO ARTIST:

Randall Miller is a teacher and artist in Chicago, IL. He

HOME:

continues to make figurative paintings and drawings, as

Chicago, IL

well as cityscapes. In 2016, Miller completed the Center

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

Program at the Hyde Park Art Center. He received an

- Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant

MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009.

July 2009–May 2010

- Exhibition Installation

randallmiller.us

EXHIBITED: - Under 100, 2009 - 8th Annual Art Auction - Security, 2009 - Not at the Moment, 2010

M 55 W. Monroe, 2016, 72 x 40 in. Oil and acrylic on mylar

ROBERT MINERVINI

STUDIO ARTIST:

Robert Minervini received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BFA from Tyler School of Art. He has an extensive exhibition history and has participated in artist-inresidence programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Headlands Center of the Arts. His work has been reviewed and published in the LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Art Ltd. Magazine, and New American Paintings.

HOME:

robertminervini.com

June 2009–October 2011

Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult + Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection Committee - Curated + Installed Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - 8th–11th Annual Art Auction - Introductions 2009 - Call & Response, 2011 - Taste 2011 & 2012, Silent Auctions

CURATED:

- Call & Response, 2011 Improvised Garden II (Water Street), 2017 84 x 72 x 1.5 in., Acrylic on canvas Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery

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MIE MOGENSEN

STUDIO ARTIST:

Mie Mogensen received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute inthe New Genres department in 2013. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mogensen currently works as an artist, writer and teacher.

HOME:

miemogensen.com

- Youth Education Instructor

okayyesfine.com

- Event Production Assistant

2013–2014

Copenhagen, Denmark

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

- Exhibition Installation

M I Totally Understand, 2017, 19.5 x 25.5 in. Ink on paper

SHELLEY MONAHAN

STUDIO ARTIST:

Shelley Monahan is an oil painter who lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She moved to the Bay Area in 2001 and received her BFA from the Academy of Art University. She has exhibited work at Bay Area galleries including Femina Potens, SOMArts, Alleycat Gallery, & Million Fishes. Monahan’s most recent body of work is an outgrowth of a cultural exchange residency she attended in Jashipur, India.

HOME:

shelleymonahan.com

- Program Intern

July 2017–Current

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support

EXHIBITED: - 16th Annual Art Auction - Introductions 2013 - Family Pictures, 2009

M Intersect: Snapshots from Jashipur 1, 2017, 24 x 30 in. Oil on Panel

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MEGAN MORIARTY Megan Moriarty is a visual artist based in San Francisco. Her work investigates the relationships between nature, ancestry, and spirituality in post-secular society. She received a BFA in Sculpture and an MA in Sculpture at Minnesota State University. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Spatial Art at San Jose State University.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2017–Current

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Exhibition Installation

meganmoriartyart.com

M Reawakening, 2016, 4 x 6 x 6 in. Bronze and glass

KATE NARTKER

STUDIO ARTIST:

Kate Nartker works between animation and weaving to disassemble images, narrative, and material structures. She received a MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2012 and is currently a lecturer in the Art Department of San Francisco State University.

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Nartker’s work has been included in exhibitions throughout the Bay Area and internationally, including The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, The Contemporary Austin, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Nartker lives in Berkeley. She is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery. katenartker.com

N Geyser 1, 2015, 14 x 18 in. Digitally printed lycra Image courtesy of Jack Fischer Gallery

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October 2012–October 2013

Berkeley, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees

EXHIBITED: - Introductions, 2012 - Re:Told, 2012

JOYCE NOJIMA

STUDIO ARTIST:

Joyce Nojima is a second-generation Japanese-American born and raised in Santa Rosa, California. She received a BA in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley in 2003 and a MFA at University of California, Davis in 2014. She was recently in the Affiliate Artist and Graduate Fellowship Program at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

HOME:

joycenojima.com

- Event Production Assistant

December 2016–Current

San Jose, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor

- Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2017 - 16th Annual Art Auction

N Untitled, 2013, 10 x 15 ft. Ink and soldered holes on plastic

DANNY NOLAN Self taught, Danny Nolan picked up a camera in 1992 at a pawn shop. He started out by shooting his friends’ bands and random people he met on the street, eventually turning it into a career. It has taken him down some really strange paths and he couldn’t be happier. sordido.com

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2004–October 2007

HOME: Joshua Tree, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection Committee - Curated + Installed Exhibitions

CURATED: - It’s Only Rock and Roll Photography Show, 2006

N Untitled, 1999, 16 x 20 in. Chromogenic print

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JENNA NORTH Jenna North is a Washington D.C. based interdisciplinary artist, professor and curator who considers the vast majority of her work to function as social aesthetics. Her work is driven by a deep concern for environmental issues, and she often collaborates with a wide range of scientists and artists for public projects and her own work. North’s work currently toggles between functional ecoart, painting, photography, multimedia installation, and performance as both her hydrofracking obsessed PostApocalyptic Interior Decorator alter ego, Wendy Well, and the newly arrived Senators wife, Joan Dare. North is working on a film about her alter egos. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. jennanorth.com

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2006–October 2007

HOME: Washington, DC

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult + Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection Committee - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 6th–11th Annual Art Auction - Systems and Transmutations, 2007 - Taste 2007 - Winter Art Sale, 2010

N Underwater Studio Staging, 2015, 13 x 19 in. Self portrait with digital manipulation on paper

RAPHAEL NOZ

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2012–June 2015

Raphael Noz’s work deals with the ancient conflict of Europe and America, as played out in the drama of the fall of Mexico at the hands of the Spanish

San Francisco, CA

Conquistadors. As he became more interested in his

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

Mexican heritage, Noz began using the inspiration of

- Youth + Adult Education Instructor

its artistic expressions to explore his own themes. Noz

- Event Production Assistant

holds a MFA from California College of the Arts and

- Administrative Support

has exhibited his work at Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba

- Served on the Curatorial Commitee

Buena Center for the Arts, and the San Diego Museum

- Exhibition Installation

of Art.

EXHIBITED:

raphaelnoz.wordpress.com

- Introductions, 2014

N How To Become A Graduate Student Advisor, 2015–2017, 6.5 x 66 in. Ink and gouache on Amate paper

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KELLEY O’LEARY

STUDIO ARTIST:

Kelley O’Leary was born and raised in Massachusetts.

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She studied Art and Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and graduated in 2011. She is currently based in San

January 2015–May 2017

San Francisco, CA

Francisco, working in collage, mixed-media and social

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

practice. O’Leary has exhibited throughout the Bay

- Youth Education Instructor

Area, Los Angeles and Massachusetts.

- Adult Education Instructor

kelleyoleary.com

- Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support

EXHIBITED: - Back to the Garden, 2017 - MFA Never, 2016

O The Dune People, 2017, 10 x 16 in. Collage on paper

MASSIMO PACCHIONE

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2011–August 2013

Massimo Pacchione is a Philadelphia raised educator and artist who has worked in a variety of leadership roles in the arts. Pacchione holds a MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as an Ed.M. from Harvard University - where his studies focused on how to integrate the arts into nontraditional educational environments. Pacchione’s artwork focuses on memories of youth and depicts masculinity in American culture. In addition to his experience at Root Division, Pacchione is a founding Board Member of the Marin Cultural Association. massimopacchione.com

HOME: San Anselmo, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 11th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2013 - New Growth, 2013

P Unititled, 2010, 8 x 10 in. (each) Graphite on paper

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JOEY PAINTER

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2016–October 2016

Joey Painter’s work explores how cultures influence our perception of reality and in turn construct the power dynamics underlying gender. Painter analyzes moments where individuals take precedence over one another and look for cues to what prompts empowerment. Their work highlights the fissures in human/object interaction which generates hierarchical perception, and thus, the power statuses which congeal into gender roles.

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 15th Annual Art Auction

joeypainter.com

P the barbie, 2017, 20 x 30 in. Digital C-Print on Fuji Crystal Archive

ELENA PATIÑO Elena Patiño is an artist and educator currently residing in San Francisco after 20 years in the Washington DC area. During her time in Washington DC, she earned a BA in Studio Art from American University, an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and launched her career as an Art Education Specialist. Patiño’s work has been included in several group exhibitions in venues such as the Delaware Art Museum, the Katzen Arts Center at American University, and the AMA Museum in Washington, DC. elenapatino.com

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2015–December 2017

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Artist Selection Committee

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2017 - Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2016 - SoMa Grand, Off-site, 2016

P Monochromatic Cumulus, 2016, Site specific installation Ink on Vellum paper

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CHELSEA PEGRAM

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2005–May 2006

Chelsea Pegram’s work employs the materiality of subject and form to investigate the role agency and curiosity play in the negotiation between our natural and industrialized worlds. Her sculptural work and installations have been exhibited around the Bay Area including the Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Swarm Gallery, Pro Arts, and Root Division, with an upcoming show in the MFA Selections Exhibition at the di Rosa Gateway Gallery in February 2013. She graduated from Mills College with an MFA in Studio Art in 2011.

HOME: Los Angeles, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant

EXHIBITED: - 7th, & 8th Annual Art Auction - Taste 2008

chelseapegram.com

P Untitled (paper scar), 2012, Approx 15 x 12 x 4 in. Paper cast, Oak tree scar

ALEJANDRA PÉREZ

STUDIO ARTIST:

Alejandra Pérez has the arguably bad habit of collecting anything from blown-out birthday candles, bird feathers, bits of conversation overheard during lunch, glorified family folklore and whatever else she finds worth-while. She then documents, praises, and preserves these objects and experiences through various mediums including printmaking, charcoal drawings and mock miniaturas. Pérez holds a BA in Studio Art and Cultural Anthropology from University of California, Davis and spends her time between teaching in Woodland, CA and San Francisco, CA.

HOME:

alejandraperez.studio

July 2016–Current

Woodland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - My Two Homes program at MEC; 1st & 3rd graders at Cesar Chavez Elementary - Speaking Walls: Youth Mural Summer Camp - Teen Mentorship Program - Education Intern, 2012–2013 - LatinX Teaching Artist Fellow, 2015–2016

EXHIBITED: - 14th–16th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2015 -2017

- New Growth, 2013 & 2016 Cascarones, 2016, 9.5 x 9.5 x 2 in. Tool box shelf, thread, wax and quail eggs filled with various materials including salt, confetti, a bad joke and spices

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- Frank Ratchye Studio Space, 2016

MARI PLAZA MUNET

STUDIO ARTIST:

Mari Plaza Munet is an artist and designer. She has cre-

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ated design projects for the book cover of Hora Zero, The Fashion Institute of Technology’s International Poetry

January 2006–October 2006

New York, NY

Festival and Earthkind Energy. Munet teaches art classes

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

to both youth and senior citizens, as well a Puerto Rican

- Adult Education Director

Art History course at the City University of New York.

- Event Production Assistant

marimunet.com

- Administrative support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Curatorial Committees - Exhibitions Installation

P India82, 2012, 40 x 30 in. Photo collage on canvas/paper

NICHOLAS PRICE

STUDIO ARTIST:

Nicholas Price received his BA from Westmont College in English Literature and Visual Arts. He received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in Printmaking.

Current Alumni Studio Artist

nicholaserikprice.com

July 2012–January 2013

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibitions Installation

EXHIBITED: - 11th–16th Annual Art Auction - Over My Dead Body, 2011 - ODC Theater (offsite), 2013 - Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2016

P Untitled (three circles 8.28.16), 2016, 10 x 10 in. Pigmented acrylic on Plexiglas

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ARIELLE REBEK

STUDIO ARTIST:

Arielle Rebek is a camera-less photography artist based in Oakland, CA. Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Rebek moved to California in 2013 and was captured by the western landscape. She earned a BA from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and MFA in Art Studio from UC Davis. Rebek’s work questions the nature of photography itself and its relationship to memories of the past and experiences of the present.

HOME:

ariellerebek.com

September 2017–Current

Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 16th Annual Art Auction

R Recovered From the Burn Pile, 2017, 60 x 31 in. Unique gelatin silver print

RACHELLE REICHERT

STUDIO ARTIST:

Rachelle Reichert creates drawings and sculptures as a foundation to explore social and ecological concerns caused by technology. Select exhibitions include the SFMOMA Artist Gallery and Mills College Art Museum. Most recently, Reichert presented her artwork at the California Climate Change Symposium and has been granted a Research Ambassadorship from Planet’s Labs to create anthropocentric climate-related artwork. Reichert earned her MFA from Mills College and BFA from Boston University.

HOME:

rachellereichert.com

September 2011–August 2013

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult + Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Commitees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 10th & 16th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2016 - New Growth, 2012

R In the Air and on the Ground, 2016, 44"x 52 in. Graphite on paper

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CHRISTOPHER REIGER

STUDIO ARTIST:

Christopher Reiger’s artwork has been included in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad. He writes art criticism and essays about natural history, and has presented lectures about art’s relationship to ecology, ethics, and society. With artist Selene Foster, he co-founded BAASICS (Bay Area Art & Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative Sessions), a series of SF-based programs that bring together local artists, musicians, choreographers, and scientists to present lectures and performances that explore a given theme.

HOME:

christopherreiger.com

July 2010–August 2011

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Administrative support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Curated + Installed Exhibitions - Advisory Board Member

EXHIBITED: - Root Division 10-Year Anniversary Show - Drawing Conclusions, 2011 - A Live Animal, 2011 - Sideshow Happening, 2010

CURATED: further murmuration, 2008, 12.5 x 13.25 in. Watercolor, gouache, pen, and Sumi ink on Arches paper

- A Live Animal (Co-curator), 2011

IDA RÖDÉN

STUDIO ARTIST:

“With thoughts about uncertainty and loneliness, I keep creating my traveling companions – presenting a logic to persuade and confuse.”

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Swedish artist Ida Rödén received her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2011 and her MA in the history of art from Stockholm University in 2008. Her work has been shown internationally including venues such as Liljevalchs Konsthall (SE), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), Southern Exposure and Wattis Institute in San Francisco. idaroden.com

R Jonas Falck - a rejected explorer’s observations 2016, Dimensions variable Drawing and water color on paper, glazed ceramic and fossils

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March 2012–August 2012

Stockholm, Sweden

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees - Exhibition Installation - Catalogue Design

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2012 - Root Division at Farley’s on 18th St.

BLANCA ESTELA RODRÌGUEZ

STUDIO ARTIST:

Blanca Estela Rodríguez is a Mexican artist based in San Francisco. Her previous stops included Gothenburg, Hamburg and Mexico City. She holds a B.Des from the UAM-Azc in Mexico City, a MSc in Art and Technology from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden and a MA in Visual Arts from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany.

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In her work, Estela Rodríguez uses a variety of mediums ranging from photography, film or installation to the use of technology. Portraying people and personalities is a constant interest in her projects, Estela Rodríguez’s new body of work “Face” explores the possibilities of portraiture through abstraction of the face.

- Served on Artist Selection

sonares.net

July 2015–Current

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant

Committees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2017 - 15th & 16th Annual Art Auction - New Growth, 2017

R Hye Yang, 2016, 11 x 15 in. Acrylic and EL wire

IGNACIO ROJAS

STUDIO ARTIST:

Ignacio Rojas was born in Chile in 1978, migrated to Australia in 2001 and moved to San Francisco in 2016. He has a double background in fine arts and sociology. Rojas has taught drawing and painting for many years back in Australia and is currently teaching in San Francisco at Root Division, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute and the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.

HOME:

ignaciorojas.org

August 2016–Current

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 15th–16th Annual Art Auction

R Still here, 2017, 7 x 5 in. Oil on board

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KIT ROSENBERG

STUDIO ARTIST:

Kit Rosenberg is an artist working in a variety of media. He earned his BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006, after having received a Visiting Aritsts Program Fellowship. From there, he moved to San Francisco and obtained an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. He has shown both nationally and abroad, most notably at Southern Exposure in San Francisco, Perspace in Los Angeles, Chashama Gallery in New York and Neuant Bleu in Berlin.

HOME:

kitrosenberg.com

- 9th Annual Art Auction

July 2009–June 2010

Chicago, IL

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste 2010 - Raw, 2009

R Anchor, 2009, Dimensions variable Shop Fan, umbrella frame, reflective emergency blanket, wood and monofilament

JULIA SACKETT

STUDIO ARTIST:

Julia Sackett was born and raised in New Mexico. She discovered winter while studying at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and has since lived in sunny California. Sackett received a MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2012. She currently owns a small business making textiles and small accessories, and works at the UC Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive as a Museum Education Specialist.

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August 2012–May 2015

Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees

EXHIBITED: - Re:told, 2012 - X Libres, 2012 - Taste, 2013 & 2015 - 11th Annual Art Auction - Misfit Toy Factory, 2012

S Miles of Smiles, 2017, 5 x 5 in. Gouache on paper

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RACHEL SAGER

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2007–January 2008

Rachel Sager earned a BFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, after studying at Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy. Her work has been

HOME: Oakland, CA

featured in many internationally juried exhibitions

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

including the Aqua International Art Fair in Miami,FL;

- Event Production Assistant

Open and Crocker-Kingsley California Biennial; and

EXHIBITED:

she was the featured artist of the PBS Emmy Awardwinning documentary, Sketching the Silk Road. rachelsager.com

- Marigolds to Mars, 2007 - 7th Annual Art Auction - Biophilia, 2008

S Back Black, 2017, 48 x 48 in. Charcoal and oil on canvas Image courtesy of Hang Gallery

JENNY SALOMON

STUDIO ARTIST:

Jenny Salomon grew up in Connecticut and received her BA from Brown University in 1998 and her BFA from School of Visual Arts in 2004. Her work has been shown at Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY; Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY; On Stellar Rays, New York, NY; Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY; Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; and Bluetenweiss-Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

HOME:

jennysalomon.com

October 2011–December 2012

Brooklyn, NY

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Committees - Curated Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - Centering the Margin, 2012 - New Growth, 2012

CURATED: - Ouroboros, 2013

ORGANIZED: - Misfit Toy Factory, 2011 Untitled, 2017, 9 x 12 in. Ink and gouache on paper

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CAYLA SALVADOR

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2014–April 2016

Cayla Salvador is a multi-media artist specializing in works on paper as well as ceramics. Salvador is an artist and educator in the Bay Area. She earned her BFA from San Francisco State University as well as her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from Mills College. Salvador is a strong believer in the arts and finds it to be one of the most important components of education.

HOME:

caylasalvador.com

- Event Production Assistant

Santa Cruz, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Exhibitions Intern

- Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees - Served on Curatorial Commitee - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2014–2016 - Misfit Toy Factory, 2014–2016 - 14 Rapid: Transit and Transition, 2015 Sea Lily, 2017, 16 x 16 in. Gouache, watercolor, ink and graphite on watercolor paper

- stARTup Art Fair, 2015

SURABHI SARAF

STUDIO ARTIST:

Surabhi Saraf is a media artist, composer, and performer based in San Francisco. Saraf is the recipient of Eureka Fellowship Award 2015 by the Fleishhacker Foundation, the Djerassi Resident Artist award and was nominated for the SECA Award 2012, SFMOMA. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Mumbai and Hosfelt gGallery in San Francisco. Saraf’s videos have been shown at TIMES SQUARE, New York, the Hunter Museum of American Art Chattanooga, TN and Blanton Museum of Arts, Austin, TX and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF among others. Saraf is represented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco.

HOME:

http://surabhisaraf.net

S Intensities, 2016, Duration: 10:40 Single Channel HD Video

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March 2011–October 2011

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection Committees - Exhibition Installation - Event Documentation

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2011 - Introductions, 2010 - 10th Year Alumni Anniversary Exhibition

OHAD SARFATY

STUDIO ARTIST:

Ohad Sarfaty received his BFA from California College of the Arts in 2009. He is a Bay Area painter currently living and working in San Francisco.

HOME:

ohadsarfaty.com

June 2012–June 2013

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Youth Education Instructor - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 11th Annual Art Auction

S Smoke Signals, 2011, 48 x 48 x 3 in. Acrylic, graphite, spray paint

OWEN SCHUH

STUDIO ARTIST:

Owen Schuh lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He majored in Fine Art at Haverford College in 2004 and received his MFA in painting from Tyler School of Art (2007) He draws his inspiration from mathematics and complex organic systems. In particular, he is fascinated by simple sets of well-defined rules that generate unexpectedly intricate and nuanced structures. Schuh has exhibited internationally including the Collection of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin. He has recently published in Leonardo Journal with mathematician Satyan Devadoss.

HOME:

owenschuh.com

July 2010–June 2012

Philadelphia, PA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2011–2012 - 10th–16th Annual Art Auction - Root Division at ODC Theater (with Kate Stirr and Raymond Wong), 2012 - New Growth, 2011–2012

S Many Facets, 2015, 22.5 x 22.5 in. Graphite, watercolor, and tea on paper Image courtesy of Silas Von Morisse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

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CENTA SCHUMACHER

STUDIO ARTIST:

Centa Schumacher is a lens-based artist working with optics assembled from vintage camera parts, which distort light and perspective. The resulting large-scale works contain both softness and precision, recalling photographs taken with advanced technology like the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Schumacher received her BFA in Photography from San Jose State University, and her MFA from San Francisco State University. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA where she is in the beginning stages of opening an alternative exhibition space.

- Administrative Support

centaschumacher.com

- Taste, 2015

December 2015–September 2017

Pittsburgh, PA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant

- Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees

EXHIBITED: - 15th Annual Art Auction

S Spaceways (18), 2016, 66 x 44 in. Archival inkjet print

LAUREN SCIME

STUDIO ARTIST:

Lauren Scime is the CEO of Witchfactory Productions, a transmedia production company in Los Angeles. She is a cross-platform producer, visual artist, web strategist, design and development specialist. She is involved in developing and producing entertainment properties across multiple media and platforms, and speaks regularly at conventions on the changing face of media entertainment. She received her BFA from SUNY at Buffalo and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute.

HOME:

pixelwicked.com

- Web Development

February 2008–October 2009

Los Angeles, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees - Curated + Installed Exhibitions - Graphic Design

EXHIBITED: - Under 100 - 7th & 8th Annual Art Auction - Three Minute Film Festival, 2008 - Algorithmia, 2009

CURATED: - Algorithmia, 2009

Untitled, 2006, 4 x 6 ft. Oil on panel

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EMMANUEL SEVILLA

STUDIO ARTIST:

Emmanuel Sevilla is an artist working in the fields of painting, sculpture and brush lettering. He earned a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design and MFA from California College of the Arts. In addition, he received his tradesman certificate in Sign Graphics at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College and was a Resident Artist at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has exhibited work in New York, Maine, Los Angeles and the Bay Area. He currently lives and works in San Francisco where he teaches at City College of San Francisco, San Francisco Center for the Book, Root Division and guest lectures at California College of the Arts.

HOME:

emmanuelsevilla.com

- Rapid Transit, 2015

August 2015–December 2016

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 14th–16th Annual Art Auction - Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2016 - Taste, 2015

S Untitled (Dried Mushroom), 2013, 66 x 32.75 in. Oil enamel on glass panels

ADAM SHAW Adam Shaw was born in 1987 and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from Skidmore College and a postbaccaluarate degree at San Francisco Art Institute. His works spans between painting, collage, installation and animation. ashaw.com

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2011–September 2011

HOME: Brooklyn, NY

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 10th & 11th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2011

S Three On A Match, 2017, 42 x 36 in. Oil on canvas

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ALEX SHEPARD

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2015–November 2016

Alex Shepard was born in the Bay Area. He currently teaches computers to see and identify wild flora and fauna. Shepard received a BA in History from the

HOME: San Francisco, CA

University of Washington and an MFA in Printmaking

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

from the San Francisco Art Institute.

- Adult Education Instructor

meatfreezer.com

- Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support

S Atmosphere, 2011, 18 x 24 in. Screenprint

DIMITRA SKANDALI

STUDIO ARTIST:

Dimitra Skandali grew up on Paros, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. “I carry my island with me everywhere”, she states. She was educated in Greece and the Netherlands before moving to California, and earning her MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2013. She has received several awards and residencies in California and Florida. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. She lives and works in the US and Greece.

HOME:

dimitraskandali.com

- Exhibition Installation

September 2013–September 2014

San Francisco, CA and Paros, Greece

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees

EXHIBITED: - 12th–13th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2013–2014 - MFA Now, 2013

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6885 miles with Still Counting and Seaweed sheets, 2012–2014 10 x 20 x 10 ft., Seaweed and sea grass strands Image courtesy of the artist Robert Divers Herrick and Don Soker Contemporary Art Gallery

SAREE SILVERMAN

STUDIO ARTIST:

Saree Silverman recieved her BFA from the University

HOME:

of Michigan. Her work is primarily inspired by nature. More specifically, Silverman is interested in the

May 2016–May 2017

Birmingham, MI

idea of harmonious systems including theories of

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

collective behavior, emergence, stigmergy and swarm

- Event Production Assistant

intelligence. This ranges from a drawing made up of

- Exhibition Installation

thousands of tiny marks or a large scale installation.

EXHIBITED:

Each marks leads to another and another until a larger

- Back to the Garden, 2017

system is formed.

- 15th Annual Art Auction

sareesilverman.com

S Aerial Garden, 2017, 11 x 9 x 7 in. Pressed flowers, monofilament

REBECCA SIMON

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2016–November 2017

Rebecca Simon grew up in Syracuse, New York, and she received a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. The following year, Simon

San Francisco, CA

attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

where she received a post-baccalaureate certificate in

- Adult Education Instructor

painting. In 2010, she received her MFA from Hunter

EXHIBITED:

College in New York City. After living in New York City for almost a decade, Simon decided to move to the west coast for a new adventure. Over the past couple years, she has been enjoying discovering the beauty of the Bay Area. rebeccasimonart.com

S Carrier, 2016, 11 x 14 in. Oil on canvas

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- Expectations, Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2017

SOFIA SINIBALDI

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2016–July 2017

Orginally from Guatemala, Sofia Sinibaldi is an artist based in San Francisco. Sinibaldi utilizes found objects and morphs them in order to abstract and complicate

HOME: San Francisco, CA

how we relate to these objects. Consumerism and

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

product psychology informs her art. The things that

- Youth Education Instructor

she sees in the street become autobiographical -

EXHIBITED:

slowly clinging to her body they become an extension of it, as if some sort of prosthetic.

- New Growth, 2017 - Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2017

sofiasinibaldi.com

S Skeletal Dislocation, 2017, Dimensions variable Powder-coated steel, frosted glass, metallic heart pillow, Shiatsu massage motor, zip ties, strap, plastic, hardware

RENETTA SITOY

STUDIO ARTIST:

Renetta Sitoy was born in New York, NY and received her MFA in Design + Technology from San Francisco Art Institute. Her multimedia work examines the human condition, exploring topics such as the alteration of time and space, perception, memory, dreams, and the effects of technology on human behavior. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally. She lives and works in the Bay Area.

HOME:

rsitoy2000.com

S Forecast, 2011, Variable 3-channel loop Video

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November 2007–May 2008

Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor

EXHIBITED: - Blackout, 2008

RAY SOUDER

STUDIO ARTIST:

Ray Souder graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002 with an MFA in painting. Since then, Ray has been making art and teaching. He is currently the full time Pre-K–8th grade art teacher at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal School in Saratoga, CA.

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November 2004–July 2007

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Curated Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2006 - Systems and Transmutations

CURATED: - Something No Thing, 2006

S Untitled, 2010, 4 x 3 x 8 ft. Bed frame, bed sheets, blankets, vacuum hoses, broom, plastic

CARA STALLONE

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2005–June 2007

Cara Stallone is a San Francisco based artist and designer whose work examines the ever-shifting borders of art and non-art in our digitally saturated

HOME: Sausalito, CA

culture. Fascinated with the idea of the remix and

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION:

simulacra, Stallone samples art and artifacts from

- Youth Education Instructor

the world around her to create works that question

- Event Production Assistant

and affirm art’s very nature. She received her Master

- Administrative Support

of Fine Arts and Cultural Studies from New York

- Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees

University in 2015.

- Exhibition Installation - Website Design + Graphic Design

EXHIBITED: - Boombox, 2006 - 5th & 6th Annual Art Auction - 2nd Annual Holiday Art Sale, 2006

S Communion, 2015, 51 x 54 in. Acrylic on unstretched canvas

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KATE STIRR

STUDIO ARTIST:

Born in Southern California and raised in Madison,

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Wisconsin, Kate Stirr received a post-baccalaureate certificate in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008 and MFA from Mills College in 2010.

July 2010–September 2012

Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Installations Manager - Adult Education Instructor

Stirr has exhibited locally in the Bay Area and the

- Event Production Assistant

Pacific Northwest. Her work as an artist and curator

- Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees

has been reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, East

- Curated Exhibitions

Bay Express, SF Weekly, SFgate, and Art Practical.

- Exhibition Installation

Stirr’s creative practice extends beyond the studio to

EXHIBITED:

her work as a science educator, wilderness adventurer,

- 9th–14th Annual Art Auction

prototyper, designer, fabricator, and documentary

- Resonate, 2015 - Misfit Toy Factory, 2011–2015

photographer and videographer.

- Through That Which is Seen, offsite at ODC Theater, 2012

katestirr.com

- Drawing Conclusions, 2011 - Manufactured Organic, 2011 - A Live Animal, 2011 - Nature of Icons, offsite at Andalu, 2010 - UpRooted, offsite at Heart, 2010

A Field Guide to Adaptive Seashore Creatures and Artists of the San Francisco Bay Area, 2015 5.5 x 3.5 x 0.125 in. (each), 15–20 booklets Wood, acrylic, paint and digitally printed booklets

CURATED: - Manufactured Organic, 2011

LINDSAY STRIPLING

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2013 – December 2013

Lindsay Stripling is an artist working and living in San Francisco. She uses narrative as a means for entry into her paintings. Stripling has shown her work in galleries across the US. In addition, she produces illustration jobs for clients including Bay Area Magazine, Illustoria and the St. Regis in Astana. Stripling is currently working on a children’s book. lindsaystripling.com

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Administrative Support - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection, Fundraising and Event Planning Committees - Exhibition Installation - Exhibitions Intern

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2012 - ODC Theater (offsite), 2014 - Kitsch-in, 2013

- 11th - 15th Annual Art Auction

Ouroboros, 2016, 30 x 66 in. Watercolor and graphite on paper

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NATHAN SUTER Natan Suter works with photography, installation, social intervention, video and written language wherever possible. Adversity, collaboration, and social change are the guiding forces for his creative process. Suter’s life path includes a BA from Haverford College, an MFA from SFAI, and co-founding Root Division. He is most grateful to the people who have contributed to these and other adventures. buildstrategiesconsulting.com

FOUNDER STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004–June 2006

HOME: Montpelier, VT

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 10th Anniversary Exhibition, 2013 - Some Thing Out of Nothing, 2006 - 4th & 5th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2006

Cabin Grid, 2015, 156 x 144 in. Latex on panel

JULIE SUTHERLAND

STUDIO ARTIST:

Julie Sutherland’s work uses historical archives and collaborative methods to explore collective memory and speculative histories. She has shown her work at Columbia College in Chicago, Root Division and ODC Gallery in San Francisco, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program. Sutherland received a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Mills College, and a MA of Human-Computer Interaction + Design from the University of Washington.

HOME:

juliesutherland.net

EXHIBITED:

October 2011–August 2014

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Committees - Exhibition Installation - Graphic Design

- Soft Muscle, 2014 - Kitch-in, 2014 - Strange Bedfellows, 2013 - Taste, 2012 - Drawing Conclusions, 2011

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- 7th–11th Annual Art Auction Inauguration Oath, collaborative ephemera from the 100 Days Action Inauguration Ceremony, January 20, 2016 2017, 14 x 9 in. Digital composite Image courtesy of 100 Days Action Committee

- Introductions, 2009 - Off-site: Farley’s, Studio Sampling at Wix, Toward a More Perfect Union @ ODC

CHARLOTTE TAI

STUDIO ARTIST:

Charlotte Tai lives in Berkeley with her daughter and husband. While at Root Division, she used to assist with exhibition installation.

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May 2007–January 2008

Berkeley, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Summer Somart Party - 6th Annual Art Auction - Blackout, 2008 - Three Minute Film Fest 2007

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KEVIN EARL TAYLOR

STUDIO ARTIST:

Kevin Earl Taylor is a native from Charleston, South Carolina and now lives and works in San Francisco, California. In 1995, he received a BFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited and published throughout the US as well as internationally.

HOME:

kevinearltaylor.com

May 2007–June 2009

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising, Curatorial and Artist Selection Committees - Curated + Installed Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - 6th–9th + 14th–16th Annual Art Auction - Three Angles, 2014 - Under 100, 2009 - Holiday Gift Sale 2008 - Blackout, 2008

T CODA, 2015, 18 x 22 in. Oil, acrylic, enamel and graphite on panel Image courtesy of K Imperial Fine Art

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CURATED: - Blackout, 2008

MITCH TEMPLE Mitch Temple received a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His artwork and films have been shown in galleries, museums, and alternative spaces throughout the country. Temple makes work inspired by the twin principles of chaos and possibility, and enjoys creating the carnival of resulting sensations. He has two children who reinforce his wonder and curiosity in the world. mitchtemple.com

FOUNDER HOME: Los Angeles, CA

EXHIBITED: - Taste 2006–2012 - 1st–11th Annual Art Auction - Me We, 2002 - The War Show, 2003 - Octopus, 2008 - The Greatest Speeches Never Given, 2003 Smithereens, 2015, 30 x 30 in. Oil on canvas

KAREN THOMAS

STUDIO ARTIST:

Karen Thomas grew up in Austin, Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin where she received a BFA in Arts Education. Thomas has a great passion for making work that delves into the grotesque, erotic, nostalgic, and figurative. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. Currently, Thomas works as a high school art teacher in Hayward, CA, and continues to exhibit work in the Bay Area and beyond.

HOME:

karen-c-thomas.squarespace.com

June 2009–September 2011

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Curated + Installed Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - 9th + 10th Annual Art Auction - Eye of the Beholder, 2011

CURATED: - Eye of the Beholder, 2011

T We’re A Couple Of Swells, 2016, 18 x 18 in. Acryla-Gouache and glitter

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CHRIS THORSON

STUDIO ARTIST:

Chris Thorson has presented solo and two person exhibitions at Quint Gallery, San Diego, State Gallery, San Francisco, CA and the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville, among others. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including Managing Object Expectations at the Hessel Museum / Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Plain Airs at the Indianapolis Art Center, and Immaterial at Headland Center for the Arts. Her work has been reviewed in publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, SFAQ, and New American Paintings. Thorson’s awards include a 2014 Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and the 2013 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award through Miami University’s Young Sculptor’s competition.

HOME:

christhorsonstudio.com

Tabula Rasa (I lose), 2016, 20 x 11.5 x 1 in. Acrylic and googly eyes on cast urethane and plastic binding coil

November 2004–December 2005

Vallejo, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Home: Aesthetics and Politics, 2007 - 3rd–11th Annual Art Auction - Taste, 2007 - Misfit Toy Factory, 2011 - 10th Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2013 - Centering the Margin, 2014 - Mistaken Impressions, 2016

MARGARET TIMBRELL

STUDIO ARTIST:

Margaret Timbrell is a text-based fiber artist with a multi-disciplinary degree from NYU. Her work is inspired by various influences such as technology, parenthood, and social media that alter language and inter-personal engagement.

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Timbrell has exhibited around the US and has been featured in the SF Examiner, LA Times, Bust Magazine. From 2015 - 2017, Timbrell participated in the StARTup Fair. She is currently participating in an Artist Residency in Motherhood and in 2018 Timbrell will be the Artist in Residence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles.

- Event Production Assistant

August 2016 – current

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor

- Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees

EXHIBITED: - 15th–16th Annual Art Auction

margarettimbrell.com

- Taste, 2017 - Misfit Toy Factory, 2016–2017 - Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2016

CURATED:

- 140 Characters, 2018 Looks Like You’ve Got Your Hands Full, 2017, 45 x 45 in. Red floss, vintage stamped fabric, and data tracking each time someone said “looks like you’ve got your hands full” to me in 2017

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TOBIAS TOVERA

STUDIO ARTIST:

Tobias Tovera’s work explores themes of energy and transmutation. Using materials that metamorphose from one form to the next, his work sparks connection with nature and through process and alchemy, creates a visual form that liberates both an intimate as well as an unknown aspect of the cosmos.

HOME:

tobiastovera.com

April 2012–June 2013

Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees - Curated Exhibitions - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 11th Annual Art Auction - Permutation Unfolding, 2013 - Taste Silent Auction 2012–2013

T Aquarius., 2016, 60 x 60 x 2 in. Mineral on panel

IAN TREASURE

Ian Treasure’s work is influenced by modern mechanics, devices, and symbols -- ones we rely so heavily upon for function and meaning, but that have become almost ubiquitous through overuse. He creates sculptures and installations which evoke a sense of play and humor, and that often incorporate systems that deal with time, motion, energy, and space. To draw attention to this excessive reliance on modern machinery, he incorporates simple mechanisms in tandem with household items (umbrellas, scissors, signage, etc.), questioning the validity and poignancy relative to the objects’ everyday function. The work is meant to occupy a space between humor and reflection. Many of the pieces highlight an aspect of the object that often goes unnoticed – the chirping sound of snipping scissors, the disguise of an umbrella’s shadow, the reassuring glow of an exit sign. Ian’s work plays with these boundaries between playfulness and precision, utilitarian functionality, and absolute uselessness. iantreasure.com Water-coolers of the World Unite, 2004, dimensions variable Water-coolers, water, motors, metal

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STUDIO ARTIST: January 2012–February 2012

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Exhibition Installation - Facilities Assistant

EXHIBITED: - 9th Annual Art Auction - Systems & Transmutations, 2007 - Misfit Toy Factory 1 & 2 - Me We - The Gentlemen Show, 2007 - Sick - Borders

CHRIS TREGGIARI Chris Treggiari’s artistic practice strives to investigate how art can enter the public realm in a way that can connect wide ranges of people and neighborhoods in a variety of communities. Treggiari has shown internationally including the Venice Biennale 2012 American Pavilion as well as nationally at Torrance Art Museum, the Getty Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Jose Museum of Art, and The Oakland Art Museum. collectiveactionstudio.com

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2009–May 2015

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor

EXHIBITED: - Taste 2006–2012 - 8th, 9th & 16th Annual Art Auction - Leave The Capitol, 2009 - Introductions 2009 - Automanic, 2010

T Sanctuary Print Shop, 2017, Dimensions variable Mixed media

CARLY TRONCALE

STUDIO ARTIST:

Carly Troncale earned an MA in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2016. She received a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in Social Practice from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She currently lives and works in Oslo, Norway as a landscape architect and artist.

HOME:

cargocollective.com/carlytroncale

- Served on Curatorial Committee

February 2008–March 2009

Oslo, Norway

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant

- Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2009 - Under 100 - Night Light, Off-Site, 2009

T ANSR:”Victory! Victory! One Land, One Ocean, One Sky”, 2011, Dimensions variable Edible garden

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JESSICA TULLY

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2008–June 2009

Jessica Tully is an award-winning artist and organizer who works primarily in video and participatory practices. Her site-specific rock operas, performance videos, and civic engagement campaigns show up in major Bay Area museums and every four years in the electoral system. Her limited edition multiple, The Cell Phone Sleeping Bag, was acquired by The Jewish Museum in New York City for the contemporary Judaica permanent collection and featured in the New York Times and on Comedy Central. jessicatully.com

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Exhibition Assistant - Served on Artist Selection Committee - Curated + Installed Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - Leave The Capital, 2009 - 7th Annual Art Auction

CURATED: - Leave The Capital, 2009

T Ding Dong The Bill is Dead (Graham-Cassidy ACA Repeal) 2017, Dimensions variable 70 ft. Projection on face of Rayburn House Office Building

INDIRA URRUTIA

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2016–Current

Indira Urrutia is a Chilean born immigrant who moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 1986 with her family. Urrutia received her BS in Studio Art with a focus on photography from Southern Connecticut State University in 1994. Since then, she has followed her passion for photography and explored other formats such as mixed media, installation art, experimental video, and most recently, metal weaving. Urrutia’s passion for teaching allows her to transmit the importance of free artistic expression in a safe environment and guides the students to experiment with their own creativity. indiraurrutia.com

U Introspection, 2017, 5 x 5 x 1 ft. Wire weaving

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HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Latino Fellow 2016-2017 @ Mission Education Center

EXHIBITED: - Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2017 - New Growth, 2016

ALDO VALDEZ

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2009–August 2011

Aldo Valdez is an abstract painter and photographer. From 1997-2005, he was an active member of the Los Angeles art collective, Dispute Resolution Services. His artwork has been exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Dusseldorf Germany. Valdez graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in 2000 with a BFA in Painting. He currently lives and works in Portland, OR. aldovaldez.com

HOME: Portland, OR

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Committees - Artist Representative on the Board of Directors - Exhibition + Installation Assistant - Facilities Manager

EXHIBITED: - 7th–10th Annual Art Auction - Double Dip, 2010

V Spectrum 3, 2015, 60 x 60 in. Acrylic on canvas Photography by John Wilson White

BEATRIZ VASQUEZ

STUDIO ARTIST:

Beatriz Vasquez is a visual artist whose work experiments with the conceptual use of papel picado - a Mexican folk-art transforming intricate layers of paper into murals. Vasquez is fulfilling a collaborative residency at The Growlery and Root Division, where she is the current Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow. Most recently, her work was on display at SOMArts and Brava Theater and at the U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone’s Maria Brewer residence, as part of the Arts in Embassies Program (AIEP). In addition, Vasquez works in paper fashion and theatre design, and is currently working on a fashion collection as part of her residency at the Growlery.

HOME:

@beatrizdesignz

V A Woman’s Series, 2017, 40 x 36 in. Paper

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August 2017–Current

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - MEC through Latinx Teaching Artist Fellowship - LTAF Fellow

EXHIBITED: - 16th Annual Art Auction

CAMILLE VERBOORT

STUDIO ARTIST:

Verboort received her bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from Portland State University. Since the early 1990s, she has explored issues of gender, memory and home through painting, film, and sculpture. Verboort has been the Director of The Three-Minute Picture Show since 2003. Most recently, she has explored app development and has worked with her husband to create Dr. Tingleton (drtingleton.com), an app and blog project.

HOME:

threeminutepictureshow.com

- The Three-Minute Film Festival, 2007–2009

October 2005–March 2007

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Event Production Assistant - Curated Exhibitions

EXHIBITED: - 5th–9th Annual Art Auction

- Museum of Broken Relationships - Fly Paper - Taste, 2006

CURATED/ORGANIZED: - The Three-Minute Film Festival 2007–2009 - Annual Holiday Sale

You’re Really Nice. Let’s Just Be Friends., 2011, 18 x 24 in. (each) Mixed media on canvas

KATHERINE VETNE Originally from the East Coast, Katherine Vetne received a BFA from Boston University and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her still-life based practice revolves around a simultaneous criticism and exaltation of cultural expectations of mainstream American womanhood. She is also a community leader, and has formed artist collaboratives such as The Boston Critique Group. Vetne is the recipient of SFAI’s Graduate Fellowship in Painting as well as the Allen B. Stone Award. She has exhibited her work at Samson Projects, Boston, MA; 808 Gallery, Boston, MA; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA. Vetne currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA. katherinevetne.com

V Selling the Dream, 2017, 11 x 9.5 x 10.75 in. Melted lead crystal Avon pitchers, silver nitrate and clear lacquer

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STUDIO ARTIST: April 2015–February 2016

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Admistrative Support - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - 15th & 16th Annual Art Auction - Introductions, 2015 - Back to the Garden, 2017

Boletín

EL PERIFERICO

JOHANNA VILLAMIL Johanna Villamil received a BA in Fine Arts and Graphic Design and is currently studying for a MA in Arts Education. For four years, Villamil has been part of Casab, an NGO of non-formal trandiscplinary education center that aims to achieve social empowermet. During this time, she has helped develop a skate school, the production of a neighborhood cultural newspaper “ El Boletin Periferico” and the photography school, “Futuroscopio”. procasab.wordpress.com

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2011–October 2011

HOME: Bogotá, Columbia

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Translator

EXHIBITED: - 10th Annual Art Auction - Drawing Conclusions, 2011 - Misfit Toy Factory, 2011 - Eye of the Beholder, 2011

V El Boletín Periférico, 2017, Dimensions variable Practicas artísticas en comunidad

LAUREN VISCEGLIA

STUDIO ARTIST:

Lauren Visceglia seeks adventure, hidden truths and connected understanding. After years of travelling the world and working abroad, Visceglia landed in the Bay Area for graudate school at the San Francisco Art Institute. In her new role as a mother, she is happy to be back in the studio and bringing a new perspective to her favored themes of growth, repetition and biological patterning.

HOME:

laurenvisceglia.com

- Exhibition Installation

June 2013–June 2014

San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Served on Event Planning and Fundraising Commitees

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2014 - 12th Annual Art Auction

V A Grand Adventure, 2013, 4 x 15 x 15 in. Ceramic, glaze, wood, artificial moss and candy

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HANNAH PEARL WALCOTT

STUDIO ARTIST:

Hannah Pearl Walcott is a multidisciplinary artists, originally hailing from New York City and currently resides in Fairfax, CA. She is a practicing visual artist and herbalist. The intersection of these two practices is what I call “Plantage.” In addition, she is currently creating a series of mixed media collages depicting feminine representation of medicinal herbs. For Walcott, art is medicine.

HOME:

August 2005–August 2008

Fairfax, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Curated + Installed Exhibitions - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Committees

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2005–2008 - 5th–11th Annual Art Auction - Holiday Art Sale 2006 - New Growth, 2007 - Home, 2007 - Under 100, 2009 - Boombox, 2006

Haridra (Goddess of Turmeric), 2015, 36 x 24 x 2 in. Mixed media collage of artist’s photography, powdered turmeric, and found imagery on birch panel

CURATED: - Boombox, 2006

XIAO WANG Xiao Wang studied at Glasgow School of Art where he received a BFA degree. He later earned an MFA degree in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute. Wang’s work was selected for the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, Anne Bremer Memorial Prize, and Art Forward Contests. He was also nominated for SECA award from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2016. His work has been featured in ArtAscent, Fresh Paint Magazine, and New American Paintings

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2015–June 2017

HOME: San Francisco, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibition Installation - Adminstrative Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Artist Selection Committees

xiaowang.co.uk

EXHIBITED: - 14th–16th Annual Art Auction - Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2016 - Introductions, 2017

W A Hero’s Burden, 2017, 40 x 60 in. Oil on canvas

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KEEF WARD Keef Ward’s artwork is the mirror that he holds up to society. His aim is to make work that acts as a reflection of society that cuts through the layers of spin and secrecy present in modern America, exposing the raw truth. Ideally, exposure to his work will stay with people’s psyches and serve to protect them from further manipulation by the forces of darkness and deception, a shield for everyone to use.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2008–May 2010

HOME: Brooklyn, NY

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2010

keefward.com

W The Kid (from The Wild Bunch), 2003, 42 x 30 x 3 in. Acrylic on panel

DAVE WARNKE

STUDIO ARTIST:

DAVe studied painting and printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute and earned a BFA from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin, Ireland. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited worldwide, including at The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts and the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, Germany. Numerous publications and books have featured DAVe’s artwork, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Juxtapoz Magazine, Oakland Magazine, and Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art.

HOME:

DAVe is an artist and educator who lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two daughters. His public art can be seen throughout the Bay Area and around the world. davewarnke.tumblr.com

W Snappy Pappy, 2007, 12 x 12 x 2 in. Acrylic paint on wood (Courtesy of Hang Art)

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March–June 2007

Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor (Piloted the “Street Styles” Program)

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2006–2012 - 4th, 6th, 7th and 10th Annual Art Auction - Summer SomArt Party - Holiday Art Sale, 2007 - Under 100

KEVIN THOMAS WELCH Kevin Thomas Welch’s work focuses on the ephemeral space between construction and deconstruction, utilizing and examining resources consumed or left behind, as well as what is manufactured to occupy these same spaces. His work has been exhibited at Family Business (New York), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Gallery Y2K (Oakland), UFO Gallery (Berkeley), and the Walter and McBean Galleries (San Francisco). He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. kevinthomaswelch.com

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2017–Current

HOME: Oakland, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Exhibition Installation - Event Production Assistant

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2017 - 16th Annual Art Auction

W Untitled (Ruminations), 2015, Variable dimensions Wood, steel, acrylic, McDonald’s straws and corner framing clamp

RHONDA WEPPLER

STUDIO ARTIST:

Rhonda Weppler was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She received her MFA degree from the University of British Columbia in 1999. Her work, both solo and collaborative with Trevor Mahovsky, has been exhibited in galleries and museums institutions internationally. Her work is represented in public collections including the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Canada.

HOME:

rhondaweppler.com

July 2015–January 2016

New York, NY

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth Education Instructor - Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Exhibitions Installation

EXHIBITED: - Taste, 2012 - Root Division at Farley’s on 18th St.

W The Gathering, 2016, 24 x 20 x 18 in. Bronze

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BROOKE WESTFALL

STUDIO ARTIST:

Brooke Westfall is a visual artist and designer currently based in New York, NY. She maintains an active art practice consisting of labor intensive, water-based media paintings and drawings with interests spanning architecture, family history, and memory processes. Born and raised in Maui, Hawaii, Westfall received a BFA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Westfall has an extensive background in arts administration and visual communications.

HOME:

brookewestfall.com

June 2011–June 2013

Brooklyn, NY

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth & Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Administrative Support - Served on Event Planning, Fundraising & Artist Selection Committees - Exhibition Installation - Communications & Development Manager

EXHIBITED: - 12th–16th Annual Art Auction - Root Division at ODC Theater - Drawing Conclusions (Root Division at Heart), 2012 - re:Told, 2012

Crit Notes from the series “Revised Inheritance”, 2009, 16 x16 in. Watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and acrylic ink on paper

RAYMOND WONG

STUDIO ARTIST:

Raymond Wong studied fine arts at CSU East Bay and graduated with a BFA in 2007. He is a painter that draws inspiration from science fiction films and novels. Wong’s work has been shown at Panorama Framing, Oakland and the Asian Art Museum as part of the Matcha: Taking up Space event. He currently maintains his art practice at Autobody Fine Art in Alameda.

HOME:

rwong.org

July 2010–June 2012

Walnut Creek, CA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant - Served on Artist Selection Committee - Exhibition Installation

EXHIBITED: - Root Division 10-Year 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition - Taste, 2011 - 10th + 12th Annual Art Auction - Sideshow Happening 2010 - Uprooted (Root Division at Heart), 2010

- New Growth, 2011 Night Moves, 2017, 24 x 36 in. Oil on canvas

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EDMUND WYSS

STUDIO ARTIST:

Edmund Wyss is a fine artist who works in a variety of mediums include paper and sculpture. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally since his studio residency at Root Division in 2007. Right now, he is focused predominantly on commission-based work.

HOME:

edmundwyss.net

- Event Production Assistant

January 2007–January 2008

Portland, OR

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Adult Education Instructor

- Exhibition Installation - Served on Artist Selection Committees

EXHIBITED: - 6th & 7th Annual Art Auction - The Gun Show, 2007 - Afi & Associates (Off-Site), 2007

CURATED: The Gun Show, 2007

W Frame, 2017, 20 x 30 in. Gouache on paper Image courtesy of Nancy Toomey Gallery

ANNE YALON

STUDIO ARTIST:

Anne Yalon received a BFA in Studio Art from Loyola

HOME:

University, New Orleans in 2005 and moved back to San Francisco where she received an MFA in New Genres in 2007. A year after completing her MFA and studio residency at Root Division, Yalon moved to Brooklyn, NY where she lived and worked from 2008

October 2007–July 2008

New Orleans, LA

WHILE AT ROOT DIVISION: - Youth + Adult Education Instructor - Event Production Assistant

- 2012. In June of 2012, Yalo moved to New Orleans

- Served on Event Planning, Fundraising and Curatorial Committees

where she is a Visiting Professor of Visual Arts. Yalon

- Curated + Installed Exhibitions

has exhibited her work nationally in Brooklyn, NY, Miami, FL , New Orleans, LA and San Francisco, CA.

EXHIBITED: - 6th Annual Art Auction - Blackout, 2008

CURATED: - Sound Device, 2008

Y Rememory, 2011, 38 x 40 in. Embroidery on silk

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PAST STUDIO ARTISTS NOT REPRESENTED IN THIS CATALOGUE CARLOS CASTILLO February 2006 - January 2007 ZOE COBB October 2004 - June 2007 SYDA DAY December 2004 - January 2006 LEO ESTEVEZ December 2006 - March 2007 ARVIN JASON FLORES May 2006 - August 2007 SAM FLORES October 2004 - July 2006 TANNA HALL June 2007 - August 2007 RUTH HODGINS July 2009 - June 2010 ARA JO June 2010 - November 2010 BROOKE KELLEY June 2005 - August 2005 TAMMY KIM Feburary 2008 - October 2008 CARTER LEUNG May 2007 - January 2008 ROBIN LEWIS February 2004 - May 2014 CASEY LOGAN December 2004 - November 2005 ROGELLO MARTINEZ October 2004 - December 2005 JESSICA PEZALLA June 2006 - August 2006 NAOMI VANDERKINDREN August 2016 - March 2017 ALISSA WEISMAN May 2005 - Feburary 2006

STAFF CURRENT Michelle Mansour

Executive Director

Amy Cancelmo**

Art Programs Director

Lindsay Ellen Howland

Education Programs Director

Susa Cortez *

Installations & Site Manager

Phi Tran

Marketing & Design Manager

Celeste Christie

Office and Systems Manager

Samantha Reynolds

Auction Assistant and Exhibitions Fellow 2017-18

PAST Joshua Aaron** Mona Chitkara Syda Day** Eliza Dennis** Emily Doman Selene Foster** Mara Flanagan Adam Friedman** Blake Gibson** Theresa Gooby** Dana Hemenway** Plinio Hernandez** Rachael Jablo** Jeremiah Jenkins** Ryan Jones** Liz Koerner** Michael Krouse** Angie O. Lee** Kija Lucas** Mari Plaza Munet** Daniel Nolan** Leticia Salinas Kate Stirr** Mitch Temple Aldo Valdez** Brooke Westfall** Ashley Kalemjian Young

** Studio Artist Alumni *Root Division Studio Artist

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS CURRENT

PAST

Amy Ellingson; Chair (2011-present)

Judith Albino (2005-2008)

Cathy Lu** (Artist Rep.) (2011)

Amy Whittaker, Vice Chair (2013-present)

Elizabeth Cayne** (2010-2012; 2013-2014)

Ellen Martin (2005-2011)

Victoria Oliver; Secretary (2017-present)

Sandeep Chivukula (2016-2017)

Suzy Obst (2007- 2010)

Adam J. O’Donnell; Treasurer (2015-present)

Monica Decker (2014-2017)

Brian O’Connor (2007- 2010)

Ray Beldner (2014-present)

Seth Familian (2009-2014; Treasurer)

Kelly Phipps (2012)

Melody Wang Gillick (2015-present)

Erik Frey (2010-2016)

Hia Phua (2012-2013)

Payal Gupta (2017-present)

Beth Lundell Garver (2010-2012; Secretary)

Mel Prest (2012-2014; Secretary)

Cynthia Kagay (2017-present)

Blake Gibson** (Artist Rep.) (2012-2013)

Margaret Richardson (2004- 2009)

Kristin Kaiser (2013-present)

Simron Gill (2013-2015)

Ignacio Rojas* (2017)

Jena Lee (2016-present)

Brett Greenberg (2009-2015; Vice Chair)

Kramer Sharp (2013-2016)

Cynthia Loukides (2015-present)

Plinio Hernandez** (Artist Rep.) (2013-2015)

Matthew Tillman (2013-2015)

Ancel Martinez (2017-present)

Charles Hespe (2003 - 2006; Vice Chair)

Sarah Ratchye (2016-present)

Laura Hespe (2004 - 2006; Treasurer)

Michelle Townsend (2007-2012; President: 2011-2012; Secretary: 2010)

Joan Touchstone (2015-present)

John-Mark Ikeda** (Artist Rep.) (2012-2016)

Kira Walter (2017-present)

Shirin Keen (2013-2015)

Amber Jean Young (2014-present)

Keira Kotler (2008- 2010)

Margaret Timbrell (Artist Rep) (2016-present)

Michael Krouse** (Artist Rep) (2006-2008)

Nathan Suter, MFA: Founder/ Emeritus (2003-present)

Kelvin Kwong (2016-2017)

Mitch Temple, MFA: Founder/ Emeritus (2003-present)

Hannah Lennett (2015-2016) Maxx Lobo, BA (2013-2015)

Matt Rogers (2006 - 2010) Brad Vaccaro (2012-2016) Hannah Pearl Walcott** (Artist Rep) (2006-2008) Brianna Wolfson (2013)

ADVISORY COUNCIL CURRENT

PAST

Michael Arcega

Alexis Arnold

Anna Kolhede

Heather Bernard

Jeremiah Barber**

Keira Kotler

Elise Boivin

Ana Bedolla**

Joe Kowalke

Kevin B. Chen

Keith Bencher

Michael Krouse**

Susa Cortez*

Liat Berdugo

Waikee Kwan

Amy Ellingson

Lisa Blatt

Angie O. Lee**

Amber Goldstein

Ali Bloch

Elizabeth Lee

Victoria Heilweil

Stephen Bowden

Hannah Lennett

Dana Hemenway**

Val Buckingham

Jay Liao

Heidi Holmes*

Aaron Brady

Lindsey Lyons**

Justin Hoover

Lindsay Bruel

Brian Macias

Jacqueline Francis

Jamie Brunson

Marisa McCarthy

Spike Kahn

Deric Carner**

Courtney McIlhenny

Emily Lakin

Kristin Cashin

Tara Medve

Marcus G. Lee

Elizabeth Cayne**

Dan Mosher

Boris Lieberman

Claire Colette**

Paul Mullowney

Tom Loughlin**

Elizabeth Crawford

Ramekon O’Arwisters

Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen

Consuelo Crosby

Rhonda Pagnozzi

Reed Mayfield

Seth Curcio**

Steve Pon

Conrad M. Meyers II**

Eliza Dennis**

Jeannene Przyblyski

Raphael Noz**

Bobby Dunn

Anne Ray

Janine Okmin

Mark Dwight

Amy Offen-Reeves

Adam Polakoff

Kate Eilertsen

Christopher Reiger**

Mel Prest

Lauren Etchells

Rhanda Salma

Samantha Reynolds

Geoff Etnire

Mark Sanchez

Julie Richter

Sarah Finley

Toby Sanderson

Morgan Schauffler

Jack Fischer

Jennifer Schwartz

Kate Stirr**

Mara Flanagan

Julia Shafer

Sharon Tanenbaum

Selene Foster**

Sebastian Sicard

Michelle Ticknor

Anna Franco

Rachael Sillard

Brad Vaccaro

Samidha Ghosh

Joan Silver

Maysoun Wazwaz

Katharin Gin

Allegra Stanley

Brett Greenberg

Fred Stemmler

Pablo Guardiola

Jaclyn Stiles

Heidi Hall

Michelle Townsend

Kylee Hall

Carly Troncale**

Ingrid Happholt

Russ Uman

Bill Hipps

Andrea Antonnacio Wagner

Hans Hull

Marcia Weisbrot

Ryan Jones**

Eddie Zalayet

Payvand Kadivar

Jennifer Zalayet Jeff Zawadsky

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CURATORIAL COMMITTEE CURRENT

PAST

Michael Arcega

Jeremiah Barber**

Amy Cancelmo**

Jamie Brunson

Kevin B. Chen

Deric Carner**

Susa Cortez*

Claire Colette**

Amy Ellingson

Seth Curcio**

Heidi Holmes*

Eliza Dennis**

Jacqueline Francis

Lauren Etchells

Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen

Sarah Finley

Michelle Mansour

Jack Fischer

Raphael Noz**

Selene Foster**

Samantha Reynolds

Pablo Guardiola Dana Hemenway** Justin Hoover Ryan Jones** Michael Krouse** Ramekon O’Arwisters Steve Pon Mel Prest Jeannene Przyblyski Christopher Reiger** Michelle Townsend Carly Troncale** Andrea Antonnacio Wagner Maysoun Wazwaz

*Root Division Studio Artist ** Studio Artist Alumni

GOVERNMENT, FOUNDATION, & INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS ($5,000+) A Better Place Foundation Amber Jean Young & Raj Chowdhury+ Amy Ellingson & Allison Danzig+ Amy Offen-Reeves & Adam Reeves Amy Whittaker+ Art4Moore+ Beth Lundell Garver & Josh Garver Bialkin Family Foundation+ Bill Graham Memorial Foundation+ Bothin Foundation Brett & Cindy Greenberg Brian O’Connor & C. Collin Baker CAST (Community Arts Stabilization Trust) Center for Cultural Innovation Charles & Laura Hespe Crescent Porter Hale Foundation Cynthia Loukides & Paul Harrison+ Dr. Adam J. O’Donnell+ Drusie Davis Family Fund+ Eastern Neighborhoods Public Benefit Fund Elizabeth** & Brian Cayne+ Emily & Brad Vaccaro Fleishhacker Foundation+ Erik Frey & Andrew Dudley Gerald B. Rosenstein 1989 Irrevocable Trust Golden Rule Foundation Grants for the Arts+ Grants for the Arts: Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund+ Hannah Lennett Jenna & Matthew Tillman John Hering Kelvin Kwong Kristin Kaiser+ Kimball Foundation+ Kramer Sharp Lisa Danzig+ Marcus G. Lee

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Margaret Richardson Melody Wang Gillick+ Michelle Mansour+ Monica Decker Morse Foundation Nathan Suter & Morgan Lloyd National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works+ Neil Young Northern California Community Loan Fund Oregon Community Foundation+ Pegi Young+ Perry & Madeline Garver Family Foundation+ Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Potrero Nuevo Fund Ray Beldner+ Richard Salomon Family Foundation Rogers Family Foundation Ron & Suzanne Stolowitz+ San Francisco Arts Commission: Community Investments San Francisco Arts Commission: Creative Space San Francisco Arts Commission: Artists & Communities, Innovative Partnerships+Sarah Ratchye & Ed Frank+ Sharon Tanenbaum & Matrisha Person+ Simron Gill & Jesse Dana Suzanne Obst The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts The Morton Foundation+ The San Francisco Foundation Verda Alexander & Primo Orpilla+ Violet World Foundation+ Wallis Foundation Walter & Elise Haas Sr Fund Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation+ Zellerbach Family Foundation +

Current funder 2017-18

BUSINESS & CORPORATE SUPPORTERS ($5,000+) Adobe Foundation

Mission Bowling Club

Airbnb

Qatalyst Partners

Allpointe Insurance Services

Rainbow Grocery Cooperative

Black Rock Foundation

Salesforce Foundation

Blick Art Materials

Sephora

Bloomberg Philanthropies

StART Up Art Fair+

Bonhams+ (in kind)

Studio O+A (in-kind)

Cisco Community Connection+

Target

Farella, Braun + Martel

Trumer Pils+ (in-kind)

FOG STUDIO (in-kind)

Twitch Foundation

Hanson Bridgett LLP

Venable Foundation

Madrone Art Bar

Wells Fargo Community Foundation+

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Mike Arcega Tim Armstrong Alexis Arnold Kathryn Arnold Jordan Arseneault Kimberley Arteche Rodney Artilles Sholeh Asgary Timothy Asher Christopher Ashley Shana Astrachan Claire Astrow Megan Atherton Nodado Audifax Jason Michael Aumann Efren Ave Sharon Bach Anna Bae Trent Bailey Alexandra Bailliere Jennifer Bair Angela Baker Christi Baker Myla Baker Eva Bakkeslett Peter J Baldes Mara Baldwin Seza Bali Laura Ball Brandon Ballengee Eric Balley Gwynessa Balvanz Joshua Band DJ Bandit Oana Barac-Matei Jeremiah Barber Evan Barbour Will Barclift Jesus Barraza Tessie Barrera-Scharaga Michael Barrett Eliza Barrios Johanna Barron Sarah Barsness Michael Bartalos Lauren Bartone Bill Basquin Lily Baxter Jackie Baxton Barry Beach

Stacy Beach Kevin Bean Ricardo Becerril Tim Beck Natalia Becker Ana Bedola Connie Begg Robert Beier Taha Belal Ray Beldner Ana Belen Cantoni Pete Belkin Nash Bellows JD Beltran Erik Beltran Orit Ben-Shitrit Issac Benjamin Philip Benn Drew Bennett Dan Bennett Elizabeth Bennett Mark Benson Marissa Katarina Bergmann Marie Bergstedt Bill Berkson Terry Berlier Elizabeth Bernstein Timothy Berry Ronit Bezalel Sita Bhaumik Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Elisheva Biernoff Alan Bigelow Ben Bigelow Alain Biltereyst Susan Birnbaum Joianne Bittle Matt Black Josh Blackwell Vanessa Blaikie Mark Blaisdell Allie Blanchard William Bland Allan Blandino Lisa Blatt Meryl Blinder Mary Alyssa Block Jan Blythe Simon Boas Lemia Bodden

Amanda Boehm-Garcia Anna Bogatin Tanya Boggs Christin Bogs Nicholas Bohac Barbara Boissevain Laura Boles Faw Melissa Bolger Rebeca Bollinger Sergio Bonilha Jaren Bonillo Michael Boonstra Jim Boss Gillian Bostock George-Ann Bowers Jennifer Boxerman Jessica Bozzo Peter Brabbee Juliana Bradley Julia Bradshaw Aaron Brady Michelle Brandemuehl Jennifer Seline Brandon Claire Brandt Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo Cody Bratt Michelle Bravin Erin Bregman Timothy Bremner Daniel Brickman Sara Bright Susi Brister Val Britton Jennifer Brommer Pegan Brooke Julie Brookman Jeremy Brooks Lizzy Brooks Nancy D. Brown Kristen Brown Brad Brown Corey Brown Esther Bruijn Jamie Brunson Anna Bunting Natalya Burd Amy Burek Mary Burger Nicholas Buron Maria Burr

Rachel Bussieres Jenny Butler Sue Butler David Buuck Valeria Caballero Aguillar Jessica Cadkin Tristan Cai Craig Calderwood Bunny California Francis Calimlim Charline Callahan Carlos Caminos Ross Campbell Michael Campbell Marie-Christine Camus Amy Cancelmo Cotton Candie Rafael Canedo Brian Caraway Stairwell Family Carey Lin & Sarah Hotchkiss Marina Carija Natasha Carlos Bethany Carlson Deric Carner Mason Carolyn Rollo Carpenter / Cleverbot Diane Carr Ryan Carrington Leila Cartier Irene Carvajal John Casey Carlos Castellanos Carlos Castillo Joey Castor Gerardo Castro Larry Cavenney Elizabeth Cayne Enrique Martinez Celaya

Morelos Celis Matthew Cella Omar Chacon Charles Chadwick Stephanie Chambers Christy Chan Freddy Chandra Kristen Chappa Iris Charabi-Berggren Kevin Chen Laura Chenault Jeffrey Cheung Alexander Cheves Elizabeth Chiles Mona Chitkara Youmna Chlala Aileen Chong Martha Chong Toshia Christal Sarah Christianson Celeste Christie Natalie Christine James Chronister Andrea Chung Fernando Cisneros Jillian Clark Patterson Clark John Clarke Jon Casey Clary

OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS, ROOT DIVISION HAS PAID EMERGING ARTISTS OVER $650,000 THROUGH ARTIST FEES, SALES, AND COMMISSIONS

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Katey Crews E.G. Crichton Pablo Cristi Karl Cronin Julie Crosby Zoe Crosher Lizzy Cross Shenny Cruces Jamee Crusan Jodie Cruz David Cuetter Christopher Culver Gibson Culyer Torreya Cummings Ren Cummings Stephanie Cunningham Finn Cunningham Seth Curcio Amanda Curreri Lise Currie Miranda Currie Shaghayegh Cyrous Nicole Czapinski Sidnea D’Amico Pablo D’Antoni Trey D’antonio Venetia Dale Diane DallasKidd C Wright Daniel N Dash Lynn Dau Robin David Christian Davies Adam Davis James Davis Mel Davis Gina Davis Elizabeth Davis Lauren Davis Adam Whitney Day Mel Day Adeleine Daysor Raiz de Agua Jetske De Boer Crisanta de Guzman Rea Lynn de Guzman Paz de la Calzada Orlando de la Garza Michele de la Menardiere Vic De La Rosa Sergio De La Torre Sophia De Lignerolles Edmundo de Marchena Gioj de Marco

Clemence de Montgolfier Nancy de Y. Elkus Brian Dean Victoria DeBlassie Steve Dehlinger Def Ed Lori del Mar Art for a Democratic Society Dean Dempsey Elena Dendiberia Robin Denevan Eliza Dennis David DeRosa Cheryl Derricotte Monique Deschaines Denise DeShetler Evan DeSpelder Elizabeth Deters Lauren Devenney Bronwyn Dexter Aditya Dhawan Flamma di Motntezemolo Nancy DiCianni Oliver DiCicco Lauren DiCioccio Elizabeth Digiovanni Natasha Dikareva Lanell Dike Tina Dillman Patrick Dintino Jay Dion Alan Disparte Morgan Dodge Elinor Domol Diamond Kate Dopheide Shayla Dopp Katie Dorame Mercedes Dorame Leeza Doreian Susan Doyle Rebecca Drake Don Drake Sarah Drasner Dale Dreiling Zen Du Caleb Duarte Evin Dubois Paula Dubois-Dupuis Gary Duehr Ray Duey Kathryn Dunlevie Robert Dunn Minh Duong Oasa DuVerney

David Dworman Sara Dykstra Miriam Dym Malcolm Easton Joanne Easton Ben Echeverria Ruth Eckland Eelus Dave Eggers Emily Eifler Jeff Eisenberg Nina Elder Christine Elfman Dustin Ellingboe Amy Ellingson Marshall Elliott Claire Elliott Stephanie Ellis Angela Ellsworth Brad Elterman Lee Embrey Amze Emmons Sara Emsaki Megan Ender Robyn Engel Missy Engelhardt Andrew English Evan Engstrom Jolene Enns Thomas Enos Eva Enriquez Nelson Enriquez Miles Epstein Jay Erker Grant Ernhart Yvonne Escalante Claudia Escobar Alicia Escott Lisa Espenmiller Ben Estabrook Gaby Esteves Leo Estevez Alyssa Eustaquio Eden Evans Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen Ian Everard Rodney Ewing Maria Ezcurra Mitra Fabian Nina Fabunmi Sean Fader Laureano Faedi Anastasia Faiella Catherine Fairbanks

Ella Faktorovich Natalie Falero Kelly Falzone Inouye Donald Farnsworth Dan Farnum Kristin Farr Alex Fatemi Joseph Faura Bruno Favaretto Arash Fayez Michelle Feder Michele Feder Paul Eric Felder Dan Fenstermacher Rebecca Fenton Emmanuel Feu Mattson Fields Jose Figueroa Quintana Ninh Filip Andi Fink Valerie Fischer Jon Fischer Laura Fischer Stefan Fitzgerald Davy Fiveash Llewelynn Fletcher Kellie Flint Arvin Jason Flores Sam Flores Marcela Florez Joanne Fong Linda Ford Todd Forsgren Drew Forsten John Yoyogi Fortes Dustin Fosnot Selene Foster Rebecca Foster Peter Foucault Devra Fox Linda Francis Emily Franklin Hunter Franks Rebecca Frantz Chris Fraser Sarah Frazier Matthew Frederick Rebecca Frediani Jonathan Frey Adam Friedman Amanda Friedman Taylor Friend Kassidy Friend Kim Frohsin

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