Root Division 20 Year Anniversary Catalogue by Root Division

A LU M N I PU B LI C ATI O N

OUR MISSION Our mission is to empower artists, promote community service, inspire youth, and enrich the Bay Area through engagement in the visual arts.

OUR VISION We strive to be a model of creative excellence, sustainability, and collaboration as we empower emerging artists to amplify art’s positive impact on society.

OUR ECOSYSTEM Root Division is a launching pad for artists, a stepping-stone for educators, a door to creativity for youth, and a bridge for the public to get involved in the arts. Giving back to the community is singular to our unique model where artists receive subsidized studio space in exchange for training and volunteering their time to do everything from teaching art classes to adults and low-income youth to organizing exhibitions. 4

ROOT DIVISION IS A VISUAL ARTS NON-PROFIT THAT CONNECTS CREATIVITY AND COMMUNITY THROUGH A DYNAMIC ECOSYSTEM OF ARTS EDUCATION, EXHIBITIONS, AND STUDIOS.

Founded in 2002 by three MFA graduates from SFAI, Root Division was born as a sustainable arts hub that would constructively address the main needs facing Bay Area emerging artists: • Access to low-cost studio space • Opportunities to exhibit and sell artwork • Arts-related professional experience

history + Programs Our ecosystem includes four interconnected programs, which link diverse audiences and interests in mutually beneficial relationships. Our Studios Program is an interactive hub and a unique incubator for promising emerging artists, while empowering them to give back to the community. Currently we host 28 artists in 22 studios at below-market rates in exchange for their volunteer hours for the organization. In our Youth Education Program, we recruit, train, and place volunteer artists to teach free art classes in one of our nine afterschool partner programs, creating a link between practicing artists and the schools community. Root Division provides free art classes to over 1,000 underserved youth ages 5-24. In our history, we have trained 430 artists to teach, and provided 7,000 hours of free art classes to youth in SF. 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 with 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, launched by Alum Michael Krouse in 2005, presents a fresh show each month featuring a diverse collection of painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance by emerging Bay Area artists. Over the past 20 years Root Division has: · Exhibited 4,000 artists · Produced 190 monthly 2nd Saturday events · Inspired over 700 new works · Presented over 107 curatorial visions · Sold over $1.2M of artwork from our gallery · Paid emerging artists over $900,000 through artist fees, sales, and commissions 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.

WHAT RD ALUMNAE ARE DOING NOW*:

98% OF ARTISTS STILL MAKE ART

WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE RD ALUMS?

64%

STAYED IN THE BAY AREA

12%

LIVE ELSEWHERE IN CALIFORNIA

15%

LIVE ELSEWHERE IN THE US

LIVE ABROAD

*These numbers reflect the 58% of Studio Artist Alumni that responded to the 20-Year voluntary survey

90% 93% OF THOSE DEFINE THEMSELVES AS PRACTICING ARTISTS

THE MAJORITY PURSUED CAREERS IN THE ARTS Those who listed a profession work as artists or in arts related fields (art teachers, arts professionals, creative fields or art students)

“Root Division allowed me to see myself as a professional artist for the first time by providing miraculously aﬀordable studio space in San Francisco, teaching opportunities, and community. ” — Meredith Leich

WHAT 20 YEARS OF RESIDENT STUDIO ARTIST SUPPORT LOOKS LIKE:

245 STUDIO ARTISTS

SPECIALIZING IN Painting/Drawing Mixed Media/Other New Genres Sculpture Film/Video Photography Performance

“Root Division was a foundational experience for me post MFA. It provided a solid bridge between the bubble of an educational environment and the real world. I look back on my time there as important to my development as an artist.” — Robert Minervini

50,678 SERVICE HOURS TO SUPPORT Youth & Adult Education Event Production Exhibition Installation Fundraising Events Administrative Support Curatorial Support Review & Selection Documentation & Design

In art school, we had time to create, reflect, and connect with others. We went to The San Francisco Art Institute, a school that was second to none in terms of challenging convention and contributing to the vibrancy of a city we loved. At the time, looking beyond that horizon was sobering in an expensive Bay Area, where artists scraped to afford studio spaces, returned to the hampster wheel of work, and achieved community around the edges. We also had experience teaching and saw first hand the power of art in the classroom, and the cultural injustice of its absence. We rearranged these challenges into Root Division—a collective and sustainable arts ecosystem. Along with co-founder Dennis McNulty, fellow artists, friends, family and early supporters we lifted Root Division into reality, first as an insurgency with events in found and borrowed spaces and bootstrap, scotch-tape, and chewing gum arts education in local schools. Leasing and building out the space on 17th Street was a tipping point with a working business model, a team of artists, and a growing community. Together we had a great idea, and together we made it work. That was twenty years ago. We can tell you how it was created, but there is really only one person who can tell you how it has thrived. Michelle Mansour and her evolving team’s grit, intelligence, professionalism, and sheer will has carried Root Division from its launch, into its sustainability. Through gentrification, into a new space, through COVID, Root Division is now poised to continue its mission into whatever future our community calls for. We have both been in awe to watch the team’s day-to-day herculean effort of growing an organization birthed on the margins into a leading creative force in the Bay Area.

We’re coming out of a time when SFAI has been brought to its knees, when urban gentrification cut and repasted the city we knew, and when a pandemic slowly and thoroughly challenged the idea and touch of community. The pressures of capitalism are more acute than they were in 2002, and the need for a counter narrative is urgent. Now, in a time when mutual aid is a household concept, Root Division’s collective approach to an arts ecosystem is as relevant as ever. Let’s move forward, build community, and put tools of social justice into more hands. We must reimagine these challenges together. Root Division stands as one example of how that’s done. We are thankful to Michelle and her team. We are thankful to this board and to every board member and staff member over the past 20 years. We are thankful for the inspired and empowered studio artists who have contributed their time and talent. We are thankful to every school and community organization who trusted Root Division to share their mission through art. We are thankful to each and every supporter who bet their time and money on a collective dream. Here’s to 20 more years. With tremendous respect and gratitude,

NATHAN SUTER, MITCH TEMPLE, & DENNIS MCNULTY Founders, Root Division

When I walked in the door of Root Division, I was unemployed, straight out of grad school with so much debt I didn’t want to think about it. I had actually only lived in the city for about a year, so while I had made some friends, I didn’t have a community here. A friend of mine invited me to collaborate with him on an art piece for an upcoming show. I recall asking him about the name of this venue—it sounded like a plant store. Our project was to brew our own beer and ask people to join us for a drink. It only took a couple days before I knew this was what I had been looking for. The energy of the space was visceral. People were friendly, eager to share, but also talented and committed to their art. It was clear this was a place built by artists, where you could learn and take risks. I signed up immediately but had to admit to Michelle I only had enough money to pay for 2 months of rent. That was 11 years ago, and it’s a stark reminder to me of what has always made Root Division special. Over the past 20 years, my story is like so many of the tens of thousands of artists, art lovers, donors, students, and staff that have called Root Division home. We are drawn to the community, the talented artists, thought-provoking exhibitions, and the mission to give back. Since the day I walked in the door we have stayed true to our mission—even during one of the most trying periods of our history. This mission, often unspoken, is what guided us through these past two years. While we saw other organizations close their doors, we kept them open as long as possible. When others made the tough choice to let go of staff, we held on for months to “do right” by our people, and when our Executive Director suggested we should let all of our studio artists pay only what they could afford—not a single person on our board objected. There were no easy choices, just those that we felt stayed true to who we are. 14

Rather than let this moment constrain us though, we fell back on our roots as a group of people with a “can do” attitude which allowed us to adapt, innovate, and grow as an organization. During this time, we created a DEI committee, launched our Black Artist and Artist-in-Action fellowships that have enriched our community and furthered our goal to make Root Division a place where every person is seen, heard, and feels they belong. Our staff worked tirelessly, deftly transitioned to online classes and somehow put together some of the best events in our history, while opening our doors to an even wider audience. Today, after 20 years we have proven the resilience and power of our community. Time and again, we have been up against what seemed like insurmountable odds only to find that our community, our ecosystem—YOU have been there to help us come back stronger. It has been your generosity, your time and sweat, and sometimes tears, that have made Root Division what it is today— one of the premier art institutions in the Bay Area where everyone is welcome. I want to wholeheartedly thank our donors, board of directors, staff, studio artists, volunteers, our generous landlord, and of course Michelle Mansour our executive director for ensuring that Root Division is here for decades to come. As we open back up, fingers crossed, we simply cannot wait to see you again, in-person, to share in our vision of art as a positive force in each of our lives, and our community.

JOHN-MARK IKEDA Chair, Board of Directors, 2021–present Studio Artist Alum, 2011–13, 2016–18 Root Division

As I look back on the past 20 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. Even amongst the challenges of displacement and a global pandemic, we have unwaveringly supported artists and held space for our community. When faced with losing our 10-year home 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. Our home in SOMA is bigger and better than we could have ever imagined 20 years ago. We are delighted that our multi-use space has become a bustling center for art and arts education in the heart of the city. And then came the pandemic in early 2020. Like most businesses and nonprofits, Root Division was hit hard by cancellations and closures, and by the uncertainty that wrapped itself around every decision. We shifted gears and pivoted and reinvented and adjusted, but we always stayed true to our core— the artists. We have always known that artists are the heart of all that we do at Root Division, and the lens of the pandemic refocused that even more clearly. During the span of 2020 and 2021, we grew our fellowship opportunities, provided our most sizable discounts on studios, and paid more money to artists than in any other time in the organization’s history. 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. There is a wonderful exchange between artists of various backgrounds that takes place here. Meaningful 16

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 experience and participate in the exhibitions that are presented outside their doors. Our Adult Education students take classes surrounded by the inspiring work of exhibiting 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. 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 our neighborhood, and our city. 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 20 years of supporting artists and arts education, I invite you to take a look at our history and become part of our future.

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Being part of Root Division has been a major stepping stone into my professional career as an artist and educator. I have been involved with Root Division since 2013, when I joined the organization as one of the LTAF (Latinx Teaching Artist Fellows) right after completing my graduate degree. This fellowship allowed me to transition into a new city while gaining experience in different fields such as education and art handling. After completing my LTAF fellowship I joined the RD staff team as the Installations & Site Manager. During that time I led our installations team on a monthly basis to make our exhibitions a total success. I taught in both the Adult and Youth Education Programs, and participated on multiple fundraising committees. Over the years I have been lucky to see Root Division through multiple lenses, as a fellow, as a Studio Artist, as a staff member, as a Curatorial Committee member, and more recently as one of the Alumni Representatives on the Board of Directors. As the Alumni Representative, I get the chance to see the tremendous amount of work that goes behind this organization that always places the artists at the center. Through Root Division I have met a tremendous amount of artists and educators, some who have become my collaborators and coworkers. Root Division is an ecosystem for artists, by artists; a place where you connect with other creative humans to try new things, learn new things, and gain experience in different fields simultaneously. It gives emerging artists an opportunity to find themselves, and a profession that they would like to pursue. This is what Root Division did for me. 18

“Root Division is an ecosystem for artists, by artists; a place where you connect with other creative humans to try new things, learn new things, and gain experience in different fields simultaneously. It gives emerging artists an opportunity to find themselves, and a profession that they would like to pursue.”

SAMU CORTEZ Alum Rep, Board of Directors, 2019–present Installations & Site Manager, 2016–18 Studio Artist Alum, 2013–18 Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow, 2013–15 Root Division

Root Division has transformed my art practice. In July, 2020, I joined Root Division as Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow (LTAF). I was drawn to the organization because the program felt aligned with my own goals as an artist and educator. At the end of my first year in the program, I jumped at the offer to come back for a second year as LTAF. I knew that the studio space Root Division offered me through this program would be invaluable, but I wasn’t prepared for the ways in which the Root Division community would buoy me through these past few years. Teaching with Mission Education Center as LTAF has shifted my creative practice in many ways. There’s so much joy when my students and I are making art together. Their playful process has liberated my own creative practice by encouraging me to take greater risks in my artmaking. My piece for the “New Growth,” show in 2021 started before the pandemic. I went back to my family’s hometown of Matanzas, Cuba in December 2019. It was like being in a familiar place I’d never known, seeing familiar faces of strangers. I let the piece sit unfinished and abandoned in my studio for months, and it was seeing my students play with their own drawings of home that encouraged me to dust it off. Not only am I grateful for the opportunity my students presented me in rethinking my approach to this piece, but I’m also grateful that the piece was showcased at the Root Division 2021 Auction, and sold. Throughout my time with Root Division, I have been given many opportunities that have encouraged me to step outside of my comfort zone–from open calls to grants. One such opportunity was to create a large-scale public art installation for Grace Cathedral. I co-led a team of artists from Root Division to create a piece in the theme of “Grace for All.” I had never made an installation on this scale before. Working with a team of artists helped me to not only make something bigger than myself, but 20

it also helped me to practice creative collaboration. This kind of creative collaboration encouraged me to form an arts collective celebrating queer BIPOC femme & gender-expansive artists— ”Queer Rain.” I am so proud to be a part of the Root Division community, and I hope to see the organization continue to uplift emerging artists for many years to come!

ALMA LEPPLA Studio Artist Rep, Board of Directors, 2021–present Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow, 2020–present Root Division

Root Division has been integral to my role as a curator, and greater role as a cultural practitioner, in the Bay Area. I first visited Root Division in 2017 and was very delighted that the work exhibited was powerful and fierce, but also possessed the type of sensitivity that explored my vulnerability. This immediately made me recognize that this was both a critical space, and a place for experimentation. My relationship with Root Division includes a withdrawal from the MFA Never exhibition catalog, inclusion in the MFA Now Catalog, and as the inaugural Curatorial Fellow (I worked with Renée Rhodes and Jovanna Venegas, my curatorial mentor). I currently serve on the Board of Directors as Co-Chair the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, and I am a member of the Curatorial Committee. This experience has been made possible by efforts within the organization to provide diverse voices within the Board structure, develop the framework of a critical and inclusive curatorial process, and finally, establish broader regional connections between my hometown, Sacramento, CA, and the Bay Area. I also act as Community Advisor, utilizing my roles as an educator within the CSU system and Co-Operative Gallery member to further Root Division as a critical force and community hub for cultural engagement. This path forward has been made possible by a genuine and thoughtful effort on the part of the organization. One thing I always dread about a Residency or Fellowship is that it must culminate. But Root Division is unique in that, through a process of incubation, multiple paths are forged. One thing that stands out to me is how a community is created here and that through hard work, philanthropy, the creative force and ultimately, a dedication to artists, that service to the community and the uplifting of Fine Arts as a cultural and public asset, are possible at Root Division.

In addition to an increasingly diverse Board structure, Fellowship Programs that provide dedicated support to Black and Filipinx Artists and Educators, an annual, curated exhibition schedule and exploratory programs such as the Curatorial Fellowship and Exhibition Fellowship, Root Division’s robust youth, young adult, and adult educational programs serve the direct community and provide cultural resources for its artists, constituents, and community members. Twenty years of Root Division is a testament to the organization’s service to the community and emerging artists, as well as pure experimentation; this great milestone also represents a bright future where Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are active engagements from within as we navigate the multiplicity of paths– and hope to promote in earnest, the tapestry of a global, cultural, moment. From moment to moment.

TAVARUS BLACKMON Co-Chair, DEI Committee, Board of Directors, 2021–present Curatorial Committee, 2020–present Curatorial Fellow, 2020–21 Root Division

Studio artists TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS In the Fall of 2010 Root Division piloted the Latinx TeachingArtist Fellowship (LTAF) in partnership with Mission Education Center, a newcomer program for children in grades K-5 who have recently emigrated from Latin America. Still in place today, two bilingual artists receive free studios at Root Division in exchange for teaching a more comprehensive curriculum called My Two Homes—facilitating storytelling and art-making around students’ own migration stories. 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 by providing free studio space and a monetary stipend in exchange for teaching in Root Division’s Youth Education Program.

Our Studios Program offers artists discounted studios in exchange for service to the organization. Over the past 20 years, Root Division has provided 245 artist residencies. We currently host 28 artists in 22 studios at belowmarket rates in exchange for their volunteer hours towards the organization.

Modeled on the success of our Latinx Fellowship, we established a Filipinx Teaching Artist Fellowship (FTAF) to work in partnership with K-8 students at Galing Bata, a bilingual after school program of Bessie Carmichael Elementary and the Filipino Education Center. In additional efforts to amplify voices of BIPOC artists, we designed and piloted the Bay Area Black Artist Studio Fellowship (BABASF) in September 2020, followed by a Black Teaching Artist Fellowship (BTAF) and Artist-in-Action Studio Fellowship (AIASF) in Fall 2021.

“Root Division really was a place to set artistic roots and grow. It felt so good to be part of a community with such an eclectic array of creativity and impressive talent. My time as an LTAF fellow helped me come to the realization that teaching art to kids was something I wanted to do as a full time career.” — Alejandra Pérez 25

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

JOSHUA AARON* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2007–April 2009 HOME: Leander, Texas WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2008 • Three Angles, 2008

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test tile, 2017, Ceramic, faux fur, glue, paint, yarn, spray foam, organic material, unfired porcelain and wood, 42 x 36 x 8 in.

SHANNON ABAC* Shannon Abac is a San Francisco-based visual artist with a strong commitment to ceramics. She received an 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2017–February 2018 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Administrative Support EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2016 • TASTE, 2016 • Annual Art Auction, 2017

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Elements, 2021, Acrylic and painted wood on board, 18 x 12 in.

LILA AFIOUNI I am an honors graduate of the National Art School, Sydney, Australia. My work explores relationships between colour, shape, symbols, landscape and geometric abstraction. Simple and powerful shapes such as the square, rectangle, triangle and stripes possess an aesthetic that dominates my compositions. I am interested in the dynamic between light and tone, forming a vast shadow of drama across a surface. The interplay of shape, line and space are paramount to the interaction of colour in my work.

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2010–May 2011 HOME: Maroubra, Australia WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Administrative support EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2011

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Third Party, 2017, Fabric and synthetic fabricfill, 60 x 48 in.

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

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2017–June 2019 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2017

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Wetland, 2020, Woodblock print, 36 x 24 in.

MORGAN ANDERSON Morgan Anderson has a BFA in printmaking from the University of Arizona, and an MFA from Louisiana State University. She works mainly in printmaking and ceramics, and enjoys making immersive installations. Her work focuses on the exploring liminal space between life and death through the natural world and ritual.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2019–November 2019 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2018 • Annual Art Auction, 2019 • TASTE, 2019

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Untitled, 2021, Giclée print, Dimensions variable

ABAYOMI ANLI BROWNFIELD My Afro-Native heritage inspires me to create a body of work that validates both my Blackness and those intersections. Often those identities are separated and viewed as ”unlikely connections.” My practice honors my ancestors' stories by creating visual representations of Black futures grounded in African and Afro Native cultural practices & cosmologies.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2020–June 2021 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Bay Area Black Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2021 • RD Makes, 2020

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Tiger Stance II (Digital), 2022, Digital illustration, Dimensions variable

NICKI AQUINO Nicki is an Asian Pacific Islander American artist and educator. She was born and raised in the Richmond District of San Francisco. She received her BA from Pitzer College (Education and Community Engagement) in 2021. Her work documents her continuous exploration of ascribed/prescribed identity, (re)appropriation, perception, and belonging through various artistic mediums— such as relief printmaking, painting, and sculpture.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2021–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Filipinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • RD Makes, 2021 • Annual Art Auction, 2021

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

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2016–February 2018 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Event Bartender EXHIBITED: • New Growth, 2017 • Annual Art Auction, 2017

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Kewpie Goes Cosmic, 2017, Two color Riso print, 5 x 5 in.

CLAIRE ASTROW* 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 was a proud recipient of the 2017-18 Blau-Gold Teaching Fellowship at Root Division, which allowed 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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: June 2017–June 2018 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instuctor • Event Production EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2017

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

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2007–August 2007 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Marigolds to Mars, 2007 • Annual Art Auction, 2007–2009

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Russian Hill Delirium, 2021, Gouache and cyanotype, 14 x 11 in.

ALYSSA AVILES Alyssa Aviles is a visual artist and arts educator based in San Francisco, CA. She currently works as a teaching artist at Youth Art Exchange, where she directs the printmaking program. Alyssa has created art for The California Endowment, The Center for Cultural Power, and several other community organizations. Her work has been exhibited at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Acción Latina, Galería de la Raza, SOMArts, Root Division, Brava Theater, Incline Gallery, and Swim Gallery.

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STUDIO ARTIST: July 2019–June 2020 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2020 • RD Makes, 2019

Lightroom / Darkroom, 2021, Web-based interactive

JEREMIAH BARBER Jeremiah Barber is a visual artist whose work examines how we perceive and are perceived by our natural environment. Barber has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Headlands Center for the Arts and CUE Art Foundation, NYC. Barber collaborates as a member of ” 100 Days Action,” which produces projects at the intersection of art, activism, and social engagement. He teaches sculpture at University of California, Davis.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2010–July 2012 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Planning Committee • Event Production • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • A Live Animal, 2011 • From Our Bodies Blinking, 2012 • Resonate, 2015 • 15-Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2018

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

EVAN BARBOUR* 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 under-appreciated corners of nature. 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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: July 2013–July 2014 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Assistant Installations Manager EXHIBITED: • Tools, 2014

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

SARAH BARSNESS* 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 ”birder,” and birds are now her primary subject. Barsness is fortunate to have spent her life traveling, teaching, learning, and making art—all with a roof over her head, plenty of food, and the support of loving friends and family.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2004–March 2005 HOME: Fairfield, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Conversations with the Wall, 2005 • Octopus, 2005 • TASTE, 2005 • Wild, 2017

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Fetish Object 2, 2022, Cyanotype, 8 x 6 in.

CHARLOTTE MARIE BECK I am a visual artist working with alternative photographic processes. As a self-identified Witch, my research into spiritual belief systems leads me to discoveries that are often incorporated into my artistic practice. My modality is to examine objects as symbols—signifiers for myths, folklore, superstitions, and beliefs. I often use found objects and images to illustrate my research and find meaning in my past experiences. I received my BA in Studio Art from San Francisco State University.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2021–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2021 • RD Makes, 2021

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Movimiento Elusivo: Jugando Con La Naturaleza, 2021, Davey board, gouache, ink, book cloth, found bumble bee, cheese cloth, wax, porcupine needles, thorns, 13.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 in.

ANA BEDOLLA I am a mixed media artist, educator and community organizer. I reside in Oakland California and received my Bachelor's in Fine Art, Sculpture, from the Academy of Art University. I weave my dreams and nature's essence. My vivid dreams then spark a curiosity to explore nature in waking life. The patterns, insects, flowers and curiosities I discover activate vivid dreaming, thus creating a symbiosis-like relationship between my waking and dreaming life.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2010–August 2015 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellowship • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2014–2017 • 13th–16th Annual Art Auction

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

ERIK BELTRAN* 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 artistto-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.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2015–January 2016 HOME: San Leandro, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2015–2017

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Window and Light, 2017, Archival pigment print, 10 x 10 in.

ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN* Elizabeth Bernstein is an artist, educator, and gallery director who lives in Oakland, CA. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. In addition to being visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, she was the Co-Director of Royal NoneSuch Gallery, an alternative project space, established in 2009. Bernstein has shown her work on the East Coast and in the Bay Area. Select exhibitions include Swarm Gallery in Oakland, CA, Martina Johnston Gallery in Berkeley, CA, Soho Photo in New York, NY, Attleboro Arts Museum in Attleboro, MA, and Interface Gallery in Oakland, CA.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2005–January 2007 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Family Pictures, 2009 • TASTE, 2007 • Annual Art Auction, 2010–2012

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Indoor Plants, 2012, Acrylic on plywood, 3.5 x 3.5 in. each.

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 RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2009 • Annual Art Auction, 2009–2011 • Under 100, 2009 • Through That Which is Seen, 2010

Bright Spark: The Reconciliation of Trevor Southey, 2022, Film & video still, Dimensions variable

MATT BLACK Matt Black is an independent filmmaker who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He's a writer, director and editor who specializes in documentaries. His recent feature film ”Bright Spark: The Reconciliation of Trevor Southey” follows the life of an excommunicated gay Mormon artist who dreamed of becoming a ”Mormon Michelangelo.” Matt's work often explores ideas about art, religion, and the culture of the modern American West (though he’s not particularly interested in cowboys).

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2006–April 2007 HOME: Salt Lake City, UT WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Technology Support EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2007 • Spectacle, 2006 • J-IGGLES Performance Festival, 2007 • Three Minute Film Festival, 2007

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

VANESSA BLAIKIE* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004–March 2005 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Grant Writing EXHIBITED: • Systems & Transmutations, 2007

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

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2015–June 2017 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Resonate, 2015 • TASTE, 2016–2017 • Annual Art Auction, 2015–2017

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Eye Can Weather Any Storm Bruh, 2021, Digital illustration created on procreate, 14 x 11 in.

AIK BROWN I create intuitive abstract art with elements of graffiti, cartoons, nature, human figures, multiculturalism, spirituality, and tribal designs. Creating art allows me to check out from the world by bringing peace, love, happiness, and freeness to my well-being while discussing societal issues around race, politics, culture, and gender. My goal is to serve individuals, communities, businesses and organizations through social artistic impact, creative learning, and longlasting relationships.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2021–Present HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Artist-in-Action Studio Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production EXHIBITED: • RD Makes, 2021

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

ESTHER BRUIJN** After I left Root Division, I first went to Europe to carve marble again, then when I came back to the States, I decided I wanted to go back to school, I learned how to drape and draw clothes, how to make patterns, I found my partner in crime and we started up our own business ”ES&S,” had a great location in 25C, a communal studio on 25th Street, Oakland. In March this year I returned back to The Netherlands, where I am now setting up my own business. I am now designing clothes for photo shoots and fashion shows. I am still working in marble and clay by the way.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2008–February 2009 HOME: Amsterdam, The Netherlands WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2008

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What We Found in the Placeless, 2018, Oil on canvas, 48 x 46 x 2 in.

ANH HA BUI Anh Ha Bui (he/they) is a visual artist and curator currently based in Houston, Texas. Born in Hanoi, Vietnam, and traveling to the United States at the age of 10, Anh uses art to investigate their body, experiences, and desires as they falls into tension with dominant constructions of nationhood, race, and gender.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2017–August 2018 HOME: Cypress, TX WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Curatorial Committee EXHIBITED: • 140 Characters, 2018 • I Found Myself in Green, 2018

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

MARIA BURR* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2011–May 2012 HOME: Santiago, Chile WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2012 • 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition • Annual Art Auction, 2012

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SOS, 2019, Mixed media, 39 x 40 x 11 in.

RAFAEL BUSTILLOS Rafael was born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Child Developmental Psychology, a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from St. Mary’s College of California, and a Masters of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2018–September 2021

He began his art practice by making silver gelatin prints. He currently makes large scale works that appear heavy, but which are light. His works are made with materials that are commonly used to repair and build homes.

WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation • Board Member

HOME: Walnut Creek, CA

EXHIBITED: • Introductions 2019 • Annual Art Auction, 2019 • Annual Art Auction, 2020 • RD Makes, 2020 • RD Makes, 2021

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Mother's Day, 2021, Cyanotype, 8.5 x 11 in.

AMY CANCELMO Amy Cancelmo received her MA in Queer Art History from SFSU in 2011 and a BFA in painting from Syracuse University in 2004. Cancelmo ran the Exhibitions Program at Root Division from 2011-18 playing a major role in the development of RD’s art programming, and in the organization’s transition to Market and Mission Street. She had the privilege of working with thousands of artists, and piloted programs such as the Exhibitions Fellowship, rentals program, and solo exhibitions of studio artists in the Frank-Ratchye Project Space. Cancelmo’s independent curatorial project ”Strange Bedfellows,” explored collaborative practice in queer art, and traveled nationally from 2013-2015. She currently works as a grant writer and copywriter for artists. Returning to her roots in education (that led her to Root Division in 2005) Amy is pursuing an MA in Special Education, a creative, social justice oriented field that aligns with the values she maintained as an artist, curator, and administrator.

IG: @amycancelmo

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2005–June 2008 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Art Programs Manager • Youth & Adult Education Instructor • Event Production & Admin Support • Event Planning & Artist Selection Committees • Curated & Installed Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • TASTE & Art Auction, 2006–2012 • Boombox, 2006 • The Greek Play, 2007 • Biophilia, 2008 CURATED: • Blackout, 2008 • Cultivar, 2012 • Strange Bedfellows, 2013 • Kitsch-in, 2014 • Resonate, 2015 • The Alchemist, 2016 • ISO Queer Gods, 2016 • RD Offsite Exhibitions, 2011–2018

Remember There's Magic, 2021, Photograph, Dimensions variable

NATASHA CARLOS Natasha Carlos is a photographer working across mediums to explore her relationship to nature through self-portraiture that celebrates the mysterious moment when environment and identity come together. Her latest project ”Remember There’s Magic,” was completed during her first residency at Zaratan– Arte Contemporânea in Lisbon, Portugal. Between photography, video and installation, the series explores the unpredictability of our individual existence and how that can impact our perspective.

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STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–October 2017 HOME: Joshua Tree, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2017 • Back to the Garden, 2017

New Friend, 2021, Aqua-resin and paint, 27 x 91 x 25 in.

DERIC CARNER Deric Carner has had solo shows at Romer Young, Trestle Projects, Four AM, Louis V E.S.P., and Tent. Rotterdam. Group shows include at Foreland, FIERMAN, PROTO Gallery, Radiator Gallery, Present Company, NurtureArt, EFA Project Space, Southern Exposure and CAC, Vilnius. He has had residencies at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell and Root Division. He received an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL and a BFA from the UCSC, CA.

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2008–August 2009 HOME: New York, NY WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curatorial Committee • Curated Exhibitions • Design support EXHIBITED: • Algorithmia, 2009 • Retractions, 2009 • Under 100, 2010 • 10-Year Anniversary Show, 2013

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

Goddess, 2022, Screen print, collage, drawing, acrylic paint on panel, 54 x 34 in.

IRENE CARVAJAL-BENAVIDES Irene Carvajal-Benavides is a multidisciplinary Costa Rican-American artist working in print, collage, video, performance and installation. She is interested in race, labor, mass production and the environment. She has exhibited in the USA, Japan, Mexico and Costa Rica. She received her BFA from the KU and her MFA from SFAI. She has received multiple awards/grants for the arts and arts education. She has taught at Stanford, SFAI and SJSU. Currently, she lectures at SJSU and SFAI and is a California Arts Council Fellow.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2014–August 2015 HOME: Pacifica, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Curated Exhibition • Offiste mural project at Benioff Children's Hospital EXHIBITED: • MFA Now, 2014 • New Growth, 2014 • Annual Art Auction, 2014–2015 • Endangered Languages, 2015 • Cut from the Same Cloth, 2016 • Wander Woman, 2019

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Dear Deer, 2016, Collage sculpture on board, 13 x 14.5 x 1.5 in.

ELIZABETH CAYNE* 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. Elizabeth Doll Cayne | 1982–2021 Director’s Note: Elizabeth holds a special place in the hearts of the Root Division family—an incredible artist, an avid supporter of the arts and art education, and a dear friend. Beautiful inside and out, caring to the core, and a hostess queen with a sweet blend of unpretentious sophistication and Kentucky charm, Elizabeth’s energy was bright as the sun and her generosity truly inspiring.

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2009–March 2010 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • Kitsch-In, 2014 • Sideshow Happening, 2010 • Algorithmia, 2009 • Under 100, 2009 • TASTE, 2010 • Three Minute Film Festival, 2007 • Annual Art Auction, 2009–2012

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Diwata for SoMa, 2021, Acrylic on wood, 60 x 120 in.

CHICHAI ChiChai is an artist, educator, founder of communityfirst clothing brand Empire in the Air, contributor to Philippines livelihood program GROW by Project PEARLS, resident artist at Balay Kreative and fly Pinay from all over SF Bay Area, aka occupied Ohlone land. Her work is intersectional in its roots to nature, feminism, and the dismantling of colonial mindsets.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2018 –June 2020 HOME: San Leandro, CA WHILE AT RD: • Filipinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Event Planning Committee • Development & Programs Assistant EXHIBITED: • Feast Your Eyes 2019 • TASTE, 2019 • New Growth 2019 • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2021 • RD Makes, 2019 • Until it Shatters 2020

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Lovefool, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 65 x 36 in.

FERNANDO CISNEROS Fernando was born and raised in Mexico, but developed his art skill in the US. He is a multimedia artist and a graphic designer, inspired by pop culture and technology.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2011–December 2011 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2009–2010 • ODC Theater Lobby, off-site, 2011 • Andalu (offsite), 2011

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

JON CLARY** In 2005 I graduated from painting and printmaking from VCU in Richmond, VA, and moved to San Francisco. I was painting every day, and found my first studio with Root Division. While there, I participated in numerous group shows around San Francisco and at Root Division. I also taught classes in a local school and at Root Division, and for a time served as a member of the board of directors.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2007–June 2009 HOME: Chattanooga, TN WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation • Board Member EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2007–2012 • Three Angles, 2008

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Mind Map, 2017, Paint, wall installation, 48 x 48 in.

LEIGH ANN COLEMAN* Leigh Ann Coleman was born and raised in Long Beach. 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2016–June 2018 HOME: Los Angeles, CA WHILE AT RD: • Exhibitions Intern • TASTE & Auction Assistant • Administrative Assistant • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Creative Growth, 2015 • Annual Art Auction, 2016–2017 • TASTE, 2017 • Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2017 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2015 & 2016

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

CLAIRE COLETTE* Claire Colette was born in France and came to California as a child. She received an MFA at Mills 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2008–June 2010 HOME: Los Angeles, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Admistrative Support • Artist Selection Committee • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Double Dip, 2010 • TASTE, 2010 • Cinéma Arrête, 2010 • Annual Art Auction, 2009–2010 CURATED: • MFA Now, 2012

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New Classic Spirit Sea Monster Vase, 2021, Glazed and carved stoneware, 15 x 10 x 5 in.

HOLLY COLEY Holly Coley is a teaching artist who lives and works in San Francisco. She has taught art to people of all ages at SFCC, The Crucible, Root Division, and in public schools. She is the owner of Pinckney Clay, a small ceramic art studio in Bernal Heights, SF.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2015–June 2017

The alchemy of working with ceramic materials inspired me to look for deeper connections with spirituality and how it manifests/exist as ceremonial objects, animals and spiritual totems.

WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation

HOME: San Francisco, CA

EXHIBITED: • Still Life, 2015 • Wild, 2017

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Nozzle Test, 2021, Salvaged self-adhesive vinyl, cardboard armature, 34 x 22 x 8 in.

ALICE COMBS After a 90s childhood spent in Rochester, NY, and after completing a biology degree in 2008, Alice Combs moved to San Francisco for an MFA. With a little bit of research and a little bit of humor, she works in diverse—mostly scavenged— media from sculpture to drawing to ephemeral barely-there installations of hair, highlighting the breakdown of everyday rules and objects. She lives, works, and gardens in San Francisco in an intentional community with others who believe art is worth doing.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–July 2018 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Bizarre Bazaar, 2016 • Annual Art Auction, 2016–2019 • TASTE, 2017, 2018 • New Growth 2017, 2018 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space 2018 • Trueque, 2021

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Sueño Americano, 2017, Performance documentation

SAMU CORTEZ Samu Cortez is a queer Mexican artist and educator living and working in the Bay Area. They received a BFA from the University of Delaware in 2011 and a MFA in sculpture from Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in 2013. They co-founded Aguas Migrantes, a Bay Area art collective that runs a summer art project in Mexico. They currently teach in the Tech Arts Department at Lick-Wilmerding High School.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2013–May 2018 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation • Installations & Site Manager EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2013–2019 • Annual Art Auction, 2013–2017 • 14 Rapid: Transit and Transition, 2015 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2016 • More Than a Roof and Walls, Tenderloin Museum, Off-site, 2016

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

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2010–June 2012 HOME: Los Angeles, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Artist Selection Committee EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2010–2011 • Sideshow Happening, 2010 • Eye of the Beholder, 2011 • Annual Art Auction, 2011–2012

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

JULIE CROSBY** 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2006–June 2007 HOME: Los Angeles, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Web Development EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2006

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

SETH CURCIO* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2009–December 2010 HOME: Los Angeles, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Administrative support • Served on Curatorial Committee • Studio Artist Board Representative EXHIBITED: • Compelled, 2010 • RESONATE, 2015

FEELING GOOD, 2021, 3-D animation, video installation, live performance, Dimensions variable

MEL DAY Mel Day is an interdisciplinary artist and co-founder of ”The Wall of Song Project,” a collaborative mixed reality art and civic singing platform. Day has shared her work with venues including Grace Cathedral, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and San José Museum of Art. Honors include the SVCreates Nexus Award, Stanford University’s Experimental Media Arts Lab, Headlands Center for the Arts NewWorks Award, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus Residency (Germany). She holds an MFA from UC Berkeley, a BFA from Queen’s University, Canada, with a scholarship to Glasgow School of Art.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2011–March 2012 HOME: Palo Alto, CA WHILE AT RD: • Exhibition Installation • Graphic Design support EXHIBITED: • Family Pictures, 2009 • Annual Art Auction, 2010 • From Our Bodies Blinking, 2012 • Love & Longing, 2017 • 15 Year: Evening of Performance, 2018 CURATED: • Love & Longing, 2017

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Morphed, 2021, Acrylic and image transfer on piña fiber over panel, 20 x 16 in.

REA LYNN DE GUZMAN Rea Lynn de Guzman is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, print, and sculpture. Born in Manila, Philippines, she immigrated to the US 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 US, and internationally in Australia, India, and the Philippines. In 2019–2020, she curated ”Wander Woman” and ”Wander Woman 2,” a group show series featuring immigrant, women artists of color.

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2014–December 2016 HOME: Burlingame, CA WHILE AT RD: • Filipinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative Support • Curated Exhibitions • Exhibition Installation • TASTE Assistant EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2015 • 14 Rapid: Transit and Transition, 2015 • Cut from the Same Cloth, 2016 • Annual Art Auction, 2015–2017 • New Growth, 2015–2017 • stARTup Art Fair SF 2015–2017

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CURATED: • Wander Woman, 2019

Landscape 1, 2021, Oil paint on quilted cotton, 60 x 50 in.

RACHEL DEAN Rachel is an interdisciplinary artist who produces work that feels like home, using hand dyed textiles, ceramics, and paint. She was raised in London and received her BA in Human Geography from the University of Sussex, Brighton. After moving to the United States to raise a family, she received her post-baccalaureate certificate from the San Francisco Arts Institute.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2021–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2021 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2021 • 20th Anniversary Exhibition, 2022

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Untitled (paper), 2013, Paper, thread and brads, 72 x 24 x 12 in.

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 also studied Audio Storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, ME.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–June 2017 HOME: Portland, ME WHILE AT RD: • Development Coordinator • Auction Assistant • Event Production • Administrative Support • Artist Selection Committee • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2016 • TASTE, 2016

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Creative Portraits | wilting, blooming, 2022, Photography (including musicians & experimental makeup) | Acrylic painting

CARISSA DIAZ Carissa Diaz was born in California and received her BFA from San Francisco State University. Her painting practice was conceived as a form of self care in hopes of transferring the restorative positivity to the viewer through mindful attention to the impact of color and shape on mood. Diaz photographed, styled, and produced photoshoots as a teen and developed a foundation in painting in college. Now, she masterfully translates those visual arts skills into creating experimental makeup looks and creative portraiture.

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2020–April 2022 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Administrative Support • Event Planning Committee • Curatorial Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Gallery Attendant • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2018–2021 • TASTE, 2019–2021 • RD Makes, 2020–2021

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Hands Series Installation, 2010, Video installation, ~20 min.

ANDREA DUBBERT** 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 has studied at San Francisco Art Instituteʼs New Genres Department, and at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Her work has hung in shows including Root Division and Southern Exposure, and performances at Queens Nails Annex and SFMoMA. Andrea comes from Detroit, Michigan, and currently lives and works in San Francisco.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2009–April 2010 HOME: Colorado Springs, CO WHILE AT RD: • Administrative Support • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • Hotel Biron, 2010 • Family Pictures, 2009 • Three Minute Film Festival, 2008 • Under 100, 2008 • Annual Art Auction, 2008

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Embrace, 2022, Photo transfer onto wax, encaustic pigment, 28 x 18 x 1 in.

SALOME EL I make photo based narratives encompassed in wax using primarily myself to create said narratives. My work has for the most part dealt with my mental health and general state of being but now I've moved into more of a spiritual route dabbling in higher self concepts.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2018–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2018–2021 • TASTE, 2019–2021 • RD Makes, 2019–2021 • Until It Shatters, 2020

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

EVA ENRIQUEZ* 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 herself in this process to make sense out of these internal 'enredos' and find in the visual outcomes some sort of clarity and resolution.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2016–September 2018 HOME: Los Angeles, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2016-2017 • TASTE, 2017 • Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2017

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Center for Investigation of Land Mass Agency, Field Study Experiment 03: Combing the Field, 2020, Performance video still

EDEN V. EVANS Eden V. Evans is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Berkeley, CA. Evans studied sculpture at San Francisco State University (2015) before receiving her MFA from the University of Oregon (2021) in interdisciplinary practice. She has exhibited work at Oregon Contemporary, the Palo Alto Arts Center, Root Division, Tropical Contemporary, Incline Gallery, Eugene Contemporary Art’s Anti-Aesthetic and the John A. Legnitto Environmental Learning Center.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2017–August 2018 HOME: Berkeley, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Administrative Support • Curatorial Committee • Gallery Attendant • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Misfit Maker Factory, 2017 • Annual Art Auction, 2017 • stARTup Art Fair, 2018 • Simmer, 2018 • TASTE, 2018 • Frank-Ratchye Private Residence, 2018

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Fear of Fear, 2021, Oil on canvas, 42 x 54 in.

SOPHIA FEUER Sophia Feuer is a filmmaker and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She was raised in Chicago, Illinois, while her father and extended family originate from Germany. Sophia works as a director and director of photography in New York and is a dedicated youth arts educator, teaching at the Jacob Burns Film Center (NY), SFFILM (CA), and Larkin Street Youth Services (CA). She is the current Valentine & Clark Emerging Filmmaker Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2019 –August 2020 HOME: Brooklyn, NY WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Photo & Video Documentation EXHIBITED: • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2020

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

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 Institutem as well an Arts Education Degree from the University of British Columbia.

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2017–August 2017 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • stARTup Art Fair, 2017 • TASTE, 2017

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Purple Manguera, 2022, Soft sculpture, cardboard, vinyl plastic, 18 x 9.5 x 3 ft

REBECA ABIDAIL FLORES Rebeca Abidail Flores is a Salvadoreña and Mexican American artist from Fresno, CA. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her work is centered on ideas of work and play and how land interacts with culture and community.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2020–Present HOME: Fresno, CA WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • New Growth, 2021 • RD Makes, 2021 • Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2022

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Familial soup, 2022, Acrylic paint on paper, 22 x 28 in.

MATTHEW ADAM FLORIANI Oakland based artist Matthew Adam Floriani has been honing his skills in painting and drawing for the past ten years. Originally a large scale studio painter, Matthew has blended his studies focusing on walls as his main area of attraction and creation for murals. Matthew uses the dynamic of the communities surrounding his site-specific pieces to create thoughtful and meaningful murals that relate not only to the people of those communities, but also the histories of those public arenas.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2018–June 2019 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • The Hero Within Me, 2018 • Annual Art Auction, 2018–2021

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Trickster In the Water, 2012, Graphite powder and sumi ink, 7.5 x 11.5 in.

SELENE FOSTER** Selene lives with two goats, 13 chickens, one cat, and several computers. She is an artist, designer, curator, science groupie, and lover of wild places. Originally from the high desert between Death Valley and Mount Whitney, 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2007–August 2009 HOME: Bishop, CA WHILE AT RD: • Events & Exhibitions Coordinator • Youth & Adult Education Instructor • Administrative Support • Curatorial & Artist Selection Committees • Curated & Installed Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Blackout, 2008 • Biophilia, 2008 • The Gun Show, 2007 • Annual Art Auction, 2008–2011 • 3 Minute Film Festival, 2008–2010 • Cinema Arrete, 2009 • Night/Light, 2008 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2011

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CURATED: • Museum of Broken Relationships, 2009 • A Live Animal, 2011

Fear Doctor, Ongoing, Participatory performance

HUNTER FRANKS I create ways for people to share introspections, hear other people’s stories, and reimagine social norms. My practice encompasses community-based public art, visual works, writing, and installation. I share cultural commentary and conduct actions that display that we are all far more similar than we are different. As people begin to contemplate their own role in shaping culture, they begin to reimagine the possibilities present for connection, love, and joy in their lives and the world.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–Present HOME: San Anselmo, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Exhibition Installation • Facilities Support EXHIBITED: • Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2016 • TASTE, 2016 • Annual Art Auction, 2016–2021 • MFA Never, 2020

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Wildfire, 2017, Acrylic, modeling compound, pumice, and wood on canvas over panel, 42 x 36 in.

ADAM FRIEDMAN* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2008–August 2010 HOME: Portland, OR WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Administrative Support • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Under 100 • Annual Art Auction, 2009–2011 • Night/Light, 2008 • Compelled, 2010 • Call and Response, 2011

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I NEED TO BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL SEE ME, 2021, Video performance

GUTA GALLI Guta Galli is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist working with performance, video, installation, and photography. She holds a post-graduate degree in Photography (FAAP, São Paulo) and an MFA (SFAI, SF). She studies the intersections between gender, power, race and violence. In her works she investigates how neoliberalism and its radical freedom has impacted labor and the contemporary body.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2017–September 2018 HOME: São Paulo, Brazil WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Exhibition & Events Documentation EXHIBITED: • Until It Shatters, 2020 • 15-Year Alumni Performance Event • Annual Art Auction, 2017 • MFA Now, 2016

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1.8.2013, 2013, Acrylic and house paint on canvas, 72 x 60 in.

BLAKE GIBSON Blake Gibson's work revisits gestural abstraction to achieve physical immersion in the painting process. 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. His publications include Manifest International Drawing Annual 5 (2010) and Land Arts of the American West (2009).

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2011–August 2013 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions • Facilities Manager • Board Member EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2011–2015 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2011 • TASTE, 2012–2015 • Introductions, 2013 CURATED: • From Our Bodies Blinking, 2012

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

CASSANDRA GLESSNER** Graduated with an MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute in 2006.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2007–October 2007 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Administrative Support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Biophilia, 2007

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Los Angeles, 2021, Oil on canvas, 26 x 20 in.

NIMAH GOBIR Nimah Gobir is an artist and educator based in Oakland, CA. Through paintings and installations, her work primarily explores the nuances and shared experiences of being Black. Gobir completed her undergraduate studies at Chapman University with a B.F.A. in Studio Art and B.A. in Peace Studies. She has an M.Ed from Harvard Graduate School of Education with a focus in Arts in Education. She has shown work at SOMArts, The Growlery, and Root Division where she was awarded the Blau-Gold fellowship.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2018–June 2019 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Blau-Gold Studio Teaching Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation • Board Member EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2021 • Until It Shatters, 2020 • TASTE, 2020–2021

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Untitled, 2016, Screen print on sekishu, 30 x 23.5 in.

JON GOURLEY Jon Gourley is originally from Des Moines, IA. He received a BA from University of Iowa and an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has exhibited at Bass & Reiner, the Des Moines Art Center, Southern Exposure, AC Institute, and Root Division. His work primarily investigates communication and its poetics.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2012–May 2015 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Character Profile, 2013 • Multiply & Conquer, 2014 • Introductions 2015 CURATED: • Multiply & Conquer, 2014

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Machine Hand, 2019, Acrylic on paper, 11 x 15 in.

JOSEPH JAYD GREEN I was born in San Francisco. I've done art all my life. I'm into drawing, painting and digital medias. One of my main interests is exploring my identity as an African-American artist, doing portraits, and other political work.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2018–March 2020 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Facilities support • Event support EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2019 • Annual Art Auction, 2018 • TASTE, 2019

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Creation and Destruction, 2021, Red ocher, chalk and walnut oil on unprimed canvas (burnt), 24 x 24 in.

COURTNEY GRIFFITH Courtney Griffith is an artist and educator based in Oakland, CA, currently pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Mills College. She is interested in using destruction as a creative tool. Destruction and loss often pave the way for regeneration, and when loss is closely examined we find that nothing is ever truly lost but transformed. Griffith's artwork is about accepting this reality in its entirety, in both its moments of gutting pain and cyclic connection.

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2019–June 2021 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Entropy, Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2021 • TASTE: Sip + Sense, 2021 • RD Makes, 2019–2020 • TASTE, 2019–2020 • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2020

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Take Flight, 2021, Acrylic, house paint, and ground pumice on canvas, 48 x 36 in.

MAKIKO HARRIS Makiko Harris is an abstract painter and multimedia artist from San Francisco, CA, who currently lives and works in London, UK. From 2018–2021 Makiko was a Studio Artist, Board Member, and Co-Chair of the DEI Committee at Root Division. Her work has been collected internationally and has been licensed to partners including Logitech and San Francisco Symphony. Currently, Makiko is a master’s candidate in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art in London.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2018–July 2021 HOME: London, United Kingdom WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support • Artist Rep Board Member • Co-Chair Board DEI Committee • Website Redesign Project EXHIBITED: • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2019 • RD Makes, 2019–2020 • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2021 • TASTE, 2019, 2021 • A Joy Unexpected, 2021

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The Color of Horizons, 2020, Wood, steel, rope, extension cords, glazed ceramics, LED lights, 21 x 30 x 30 ft.

DANA HEMENWAY Dana Hemenway is based in San Francisco. She has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), ACRE (Stueben, WI), Joya: arte + ecología (Spain), SÍM (Reykjavik, Iceland), and The Wassaic Project (Upstate New York). Dana is the recipient of The San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Grant. She has a public art commission at SFO’s Terminal 1. Dana has exhibited her artwork locally, nationally, and internationally.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2010–July 2012 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • 15-Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2018 • 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2013 • Introductions, 2010 CURATED: • Resonate, 2015 • TASTE, 2011

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Hide and Seek, 2021, Mixed media (spray paint, fabric remnants, acrylic nails, sleeping bag, embroidery thread, D rings ), 40 x 40 x 10 in.

ALEXANDER HERNANDEZ Alexander Hernandez was born in Huajuapan de Leon Oaxaca, Mexico, and raised in Grand Junction, Colorado. In 2007 he earned his BFA in Painting/ Drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in and his MFA in 2012 from California College of the Arts. He has participated in a variety of art residencies at MASS MocA, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles; Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC; Mark Rothko Art Center in Latvia; Vermont Studio Center & recently completed a residency at ACME in Steuben, WI.

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STUDIO ARTIST: June 2012–June 2014 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Reflections on Exile, 2020 • Annual Art Auction, 2012

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

PLINIO HERNANDEZ* 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, and Berkeley, California. Plinio holds a MFA from UC Berkeley and a BFA in Photography from Otis College of Art and Design. His art practice centers around examining history, geography and personal narratives of migration, identity and memory that are materialized through elements of drawings, sculpture, collaborations, video and performance. Currently, Plinio is a high school art teacher.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2012–June 2014 HOME: Berkeley, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Re:told, 2012 • Annual Art Auction, 2012

Glider, 2020, Archival pigment print, 21 x 14 in.

MICHAEL HESSION Michael Hession is an artist, photo editor, and video producer. He received a BFA in video art from Syracuse University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He currently resides in Boston where he creates work in photography and drawing media while working as Head of Photography and Video for Wirecutter, the New York Times' product review site.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2009–March 2011 HOME: Brookline, MA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation • Design support • Video Production EXHIBITED: • Family Pictures, 2009 • Annual Art Auction, 2009–2010 • Double Dip, 2010 • Introductions, 2010

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Mountain Landscape, 2021, Watercolor on paper, 5.75 x 9.25 in.

JOSH HIGHTER Josh is a painter and MFA graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington and is currently living in Washington, DC. Josh teaches at the Smithsonian, and has taught at The George Washington University, University of District of Columbia, University of California, Davis, and Herron College of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Even though Josh has been transient, he is originally from Vermont and will always call the Green Mountains ”home”.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2013–March 2015 HOME: Silver Spring, MD WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2013–2015 • stARTup Art Fair, 2015 • TASTE, 2015

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Structures and Systems (Detail), 2021, Mixed media (see note), Dimensions variable

HEIDI HOLMES Heidi Holmes is an interdisciplinary artist, working in sensory installation and curation. Her practice begins with the body, however nobody (no-body) is the location where this practice presently exists. To be clear, this practice stems from symptoms that develop within a body and then exist outside of a body as material. Currently these materials are formed by the symptoms of Menopause (and Peri-menopause). Formerly, these materials were determined by annals of failing and failed fertility.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2017–December 2017

Materials from above: Dimensional lumber, standard bathroom dimensions, goat milk soap, electrical cord, electrical plugs, acetate, zinc oxide, cod liver oil, horse hair, artist’s hair, found hair, graphite, adhesive, faux ice cube, Nitrile gloves, the amount of blood from the artist’s last menstrual cycle, water, mirror, spackling, eggshell colored paint, room temperature objective of 26°C (to account for hot flush temperature rise)

EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2017 • Annual Art Auction, 2017

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HOME: Vancouver, Canada WHILE AT RD: • Exhibition Installation • Administrative Support • Event Production

Wearing My Burden II, 2020, Wearable sculpture: laser-cut felt, Lifesize

KIANA HONARMAND Kiana Honarmand is an Iranian artist based in the Bay Area. Her work addresses issues related to her cultural identity, violation of women's rights in Iran, censorship, surveillance, and the Western perception of the SWANA identity. In 2012, Kiana moved to the United States to pursue her MFA at Penn State. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA; Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA; New Museum, Los Gatos, CA.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2019–October 2021 HOME: Mountain View, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Curatorial Committee • Photo Documentation & Editing EXHIBITED: • Requiem: Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2021 • Introductions 2019 • RD Makes, 2019–2020 • Until It Shatters, 2020 • A Joy Unexpected, 2021

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Φ, Empty Set, 2016, Site-specific spatial interactive installation, 108 x 54 in. / 01:00

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–May 2018 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2016–2017 • MisFit Toy Factory & Creative Marketplace, 2017 • Introductions, 2016 • New Growth, 2016

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

NICHOLAS HULLIBARGER* Nicholas Hullibarger received his BA in Mixed Media and Art History from Sienna Heights University and MFA in Sculpture at MassArt. Currently, Hullibarger works as a Chief Gallery Preparator in Oakland, California. In addition, he spends his evenings teaching adult art education and his mornings in Hunters Point Shipyard creating his own body of work, which explores the relationship between space, shape and color.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2015–December 2016 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2015–2016

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Seeing 2020, 2020, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 44 x 65 x 3 in.

MELISSA HUTTON Melissa Hutton studied at Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL for one year before eventually graduating from The San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in printmaking & film. A few years later a co-worker encouraged her to look into a new arts organization called Root Division. And here she is today, in this book! Melissa currently lives in Napa, CA where she works with a variety of mediums. Illustrative images and pop-inspired color fields tell stories both personal and observational.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2004–September 2006 HOME: Napa, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning and Fundraising Committees • Exhibition Installation • Graphic Design EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2006–2009 • Annual Art Auction, 2006–2021 • Octopus, 2006 • Inside Out, 2012 • The Gun Show, 2007

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Liberty, 2013, Chair, T-pins, hooks, 84 x 72 in.

JOHN-MARK IKEDA John-Mark Ikeda is a Bay Area artist with an MFA from SFAI and has been part of the Root Division community for over 10 years. He is currently the Head of Product Marketing at Lyra Health and serves as the chair of the board for Root Division.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2011–January 2014 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation • Board member • Production • Facilities support EXHIBITED: • Over my Dead Body, 2011 • Downtown at Spare Change: Artist Space, 2011 • 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2012 • Multiply & Conquer, 2014 • Annual Art Auction, 2012–2015

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

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. She completed a Master of Arts, Art History and Curatorship Program with Honours at Australian National University, Australia, and currently resides in Singapore.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004–July 2005 HOME: Singapore WHILE AT RD: • Event Production EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2004 • Summer Olympics, 2005

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The Hysteria Project (installation view), 2021, Analog collages from cameraless photos of lace mounted on metal leaf backgrounds, 59 x 79 in.

RACHAEL JABLO Rachael Jablo is a chronically ill artist working with photography, installation and collage. Dealing with issues of the feminine and illness, her work has been seen at the Collagistas Festival, the Analogue Now Photography Festival in Berlin, and at the Museum für Fotographie in Braunschweig. Her work has been featured in Ever-Emerging Magazine and on NPR. Her book, ”My Days of Losing Words,” was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2013. Her ”Hysteria Project” has been awarded a Neustart Kultur grant.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2006–March 2010 HOME: Berlin, Germany WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Curated Exhibitions • Adult Education Coordinator EXHIBITED: • Biophilia, 2008 • Family Pictures, 2009 • Systems and Transmutations, 2007 • Home, 2007

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Blooms, 2020, Lead, wire, bullet casings, 4 x 5 x 3 in.

JEREMIAH JENKINS Jeremiah Jenkins is originally from Tennessee. He came to SF in 2005 to attend grad school at SFAI. He is a teacher and ceramics studio manager. His work has been shown locally and nationally. He's exhibited at Ever Gold, Hashimoto, and Palo Alto Art Center.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2007–June 2008 HOME: Berkeley, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Facilities & Installations Coordinator EXHIBITED: • Gun Show, 2007 • Biophilia, 2008 • Blackout, 2008 • Security, 2010 • Sideshow Happening, 2010 • Annual Art Auction, 2007–2012 • Bizarre Bazaar, 2016

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

DAVID OTIS JOHNSON David Otis Johnson lives and works in Ventura, CA. After having lived in California for 19 of the last 20 years he is finally getting around to learning to surf.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004–February 2007 HOME: Ventura, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Administrative Support • Artist Selection Committee • Event Planning Committee • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions

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EXHIBITED: • Some Thing Out of Nothing, 2006 • Annual Art Auction, 2005–2006, 2012 • TASTE, 2006 • The Gentlemen Show, 2007 • Systems & Transmutations, 2007 • J-iggles Performance Fest, 2007 • Blackout, 2008 • Night/Light, 2008

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Argosy, 2012, Boat, manila rope, galvanized rope cleats, 12 x 11 x 1.5 ft.

RYAN JONES Ryan Jones was born in San Diego, CA. He received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. His work is a series of experiments with materials, labor, measurement, accumulation, historical quotation and misquotation, armchair science, garage tinkering, and the unexpected. Ryan has exhibited in the Bay Area, Chicago, Indiana, and New York.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2008–August 2010 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auctions 2008–2010, 2012 • Introductions, 2008 • Retractions, 2009 • Algorithmia 2009 • Over My Dead Body, 2010 • Manufactured Organic, 2011 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2011–2014, 2019 CURATED: • Manufactured Organic, 2011

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21 Grams, the Weight of Souls–Sandra, 2021, Printable fabric and resin, 21 x 12 x 6 in.

KACY JUNG Through photography, photo sculpture, and performance, Kacy continuously investigates the ways in which culture is shaped by capitalism and explores the idea of existentialism within the late capitalism era. The subject often intertwines with the manipulative nature of the capitalist system, the anxiety of being part of the disappearing middle class, and her immigrant experience in the USA.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2019–June 2021 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Funk Ain't Dead, 2018 • Introductions, 2019 • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2022 • Until It Shatters, 2020 • I AM...., 2021

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Split Personality IV, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 x 1.5 in.

REBECCA KAUFMAN Rebecca Kaufman constructs optical field paintings reminiscent of the Op Art movement of the 1960s. She earned an MFA from SFAI, where she was the recipient of a 2015–2017 Graduate Fellowship Award and a Cadogan Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Kaufman was featured in the Pacific Coast Issue No. 133 of New American Paintings, and has had recent solo exhibitions at Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco and the Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland. Rebecca lives and works in San Francisco.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2018–March 2019 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation • Gallery Attendant EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2018

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Untitled (Ring Void I), 2021, Acrylic on wood panel, 36 x 36 x 1.5 in.

BENJAMIN KELLGREN Benjamin Kellgren is a Bay Area based visual artist who uses a stippling technique to create organic, abstract paintings inspired by coastal California. Kellgren earned his BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2009 and lives and works in Sonoma County.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2014–July 2016 HOME: Petaluma, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2014–2017 • MFA Never, 2016

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

SARA KERR* Sara Kerr was born in Australia, but now calls San Francisco home. Kerr holds an 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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: May 2015–June 2015 HOME: Melbourne, Australia WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor

Not in a Position to Say Anything, 2017, Video, 09:10 min.

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2007–January 2008 HOME: Brooklyn, NY WHILE AT RD: • Cuatorial Committee • Artist Selection Comittee • Curated Exhibitions • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Love for Sale • Blackout, 2008 • Leave the Capital, 2009 • Are We Not Men?, 2012 CURATED: • Sound Device, 2008

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Neither Flora nor Fauna (triptych), 2019, Acrylic and hand cut on triple layered rice paper, 50 x 75 in.

KYONG AE KIM Kyong Ae Kim was born in South Korea. She received her BFA in Painting from Chung Ang University in Seoul, 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2015–June 2016 HOME: Los Angeles, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Misfit Toy Factory, 2016 • New Growth, 2016 • Annual Art Auction, 2016–2017

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

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 RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2012

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Bruce (Taking Up Outer Space), 2021, Paper collage, glitter, diamond dust, 7 x 5 in.

LEAH KING Leah King is a music producer, artist, curator, and educator born and raised in the Bay Area. Her work is deeply rooted in afrofuturist aesthetics, joyful noises, and unabashed reclamations.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2021–Present HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • RD Makes, 2021 • Annual Art Auction, 2021 CURATED: • Diasporic Futurism, 2021

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Recurrent, 2017, Douglas fir, basswood, ash, vinyl, water, graphite, liming wax, 21 x 59 x 31 in.

LIZ KOERNER Liz grew up in Iowa and earned a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2009. 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. She earned an MFA from San Diego State University in 2019. Liz currently lives in Little Rock, AR. She teaches art at UA-Little Rock and runs the woodworking studio at the Windgate Art School.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2011–December 2011 HOME: Little Rock, AR WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Facilities Manager EXHIBITED: • Double Dip, 2010

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No More Mean People, 2019, Wall drawing with spray paint, 420 x 1020 in.

MICHAEL SPIKE KROUSE Michael ”Spike” Krouse is a conceptual artist whose work has been covered in Ad-busters Magazine, PunkPlanet Magazine, The SF Chronicle, CNN, SFAQ, 7X7, The New York Times, and many others. He has been awarded grants from the Wattis Foundation, the Office of the Mayor, SF Beautiful, the Bill Graham Foundation, and others. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Marquette University and has also studied at: The San Francisco Art Institute, the San Francisco Studio School, and Naropa.

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STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004–April 2007 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions • Started Second Saturdays • Board Member EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2002–2021 • TASTE, 2006 • Octopus, 2006 • Boom Box, 2006 • Two person show with Pete Gronquist, 2006 • Home, 2007

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

ANGIE LEE* Angie is a mixed media artist with special interest in working with yarn and fiber. She completed the postbaccalaureate program in Visual Arts at UC Berkeley in 2012. Lee currently lives and works in Oakland, California.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2013–May 2014 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Administrative Assistant • Event Production • Administrative Support • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2013 • Annual Art Auction, 2013–2014

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San Francisco in the Snow, 2022, Watercolor on paper, 15 x 10.5 in.

MEREDITH LEICH Meredith Leich is an animator, watercolorist, and installation artist, whose work explores climate change and psychology. Her work has screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and nationally and abroad. She has completed residencies at the Studios of Key West, Vermont Studio Center, and Wrangell Mountain Center in Alaska, among others. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from Swarthmore College.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2013–May 2014 HOME: Belmont, MA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • 14 Rapid: Transit & Transition, 2015

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Untitled (Aftermath Series), 2009, Wood veneer, sumi ink, spray paint on wood panel, 31 x 47 x 1.5 in.

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2004–April 2007 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production Assitant • Exhibition Installation • Exhibited: • Annual Art Auction, 2006–2009 • Systems & Transmutations, 2007

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Untitled, 2021, Acrylic and ink on paper, Dimensions variable

JENNIE LENNICK* Jennie Lennick is the founder and creative director of Jenny Lemons, a small-batch clothing company and DIY art school in San Francisco, CA. Her shop is a working studio where she designs her products, carries the work of other local artisans, offers DIY workshops, and sells a curated selection of art supplies. Since opening her doors in 2017, she has hosted thousands of people in her creative workshops and carries the work of over 250 independent artists.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2012–January 2015 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production Instructor • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Curatorial Committee • Exhibitions Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Still Life, 2015 • Pulling Threads, 2016 • Kitsch-in, 2014

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Delineating in Waves, 2021, Acrylic, charcoal, and oil on Arches rag paper mounted on cradled wood panel, 24 x 18 in.

ALMA LEPPLA Alma Leppla (they / she) is a mixed-race, queer, Latine, visual artist and educator whose work seeks to build community through the celebration of intersectional identities. Alma is based in San Francisco, but grew up in Tampa with their Cuban family. They currently serve as the Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow, as well as Studio Artist Board Representative for Root Division. In 2021, Leppla co-founded Queer Rain: a collective celebrating queer BIPOC femme & gender-expansive artists.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2020–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Board Member EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2020–2021 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2020 • New Growth, 2021 • RD Makes, 2020, 2021

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

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2010–October 2011 HOME: Philadelphia, PA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2010–2011

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White Glory, 2021, Oil on canvas, 30 x 29.5 in.

SANDRA LIU Sandra Liu received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting with a concentration in animation from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2018. Sandra has exhibited in Baltimore, Washington D.C., New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. She was a 2018 XL Catlin Art Prize selected artist, and her work traveled nationally. In 2017, she attended a residency at Salem Art Works in Salem, NY. She was a studio artist at Root Division from 2019 to 2020 and is currently working from home.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2019–October 2020 HOME: Palo Alto, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2021 • RD Makes, 2019 • Visions, Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2020

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(for the radical, Kenyan dykes whose desire is deemed criminal) still from the movie Rafiki, 2021, Handembroidered sequins, monroe satin, and thread, 22 x 40 in.

DANIELLE LOPEZ dani lopez is a textiles artist working within weaving and fiber sculpture to explore queer desire, femininity, and femme identity. She received her MFA in Textiles from CCA and her BFA from the University of Oregon. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Surface Design Journal, and Other People’s Pixels. lopez has shown at Bedford Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, and Amos Eno Gallery. She recently attended a workshop at Penland School of Craft on a full scholarship from Crafting the Future.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2019–September 2020 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Administrative support • Curatorial Committee EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2020 • Until It Shatters, 2020

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Signal, 2019, Bay bridge steel, concrete, elastomeric dampers, 300 x 300 x 72 in.

TOM LOUGHLIN Tom Loughlin received his MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and his JD from the University of California, Berkeley. He has shown work at YBCA, The Lab, Queen’s Nails, Google’s Mountain View headquarters, and Civic Center Park in Denver, CO, among other venues. After leaving Root Division, Loughlin was an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts from 2014-2016 and has been a studio artist at Minnesota Street Project since 2016.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2013–June 2014 HOME: Mill Valley, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Survival Adaptations (Adobe Books), 2015 • This Space Intentionally Left Blank (Spare Change Artist Space), 2015

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Shamana, 2012, Photograph, 16 x 30 in.

GERALDINE LOZANO* 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, to 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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: July 2007–July 2008 HOME: Brooklyn, NY WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production :

Peripheral Visions, 2022, Ceramic, water pumps, various containers, 14 x 22 x 9 ft.

CATHY LU Cathy Lu (b. Miami, FL) is a ceramics based artist that manipulates traditional Chinese art imagery and presentation as a way to deconstruct the assumptions we have about Chinese American identity and cultural authenticity. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her BA and BFA from Tufts University. She currently teaches at California College of the Arts and Mills College.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2010–July 2012 HOME: Richmond, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Recast, 2016 • Borders, 2010 • Introductions 2010 • TASTE, 2015 • Over My Dead Body, 2011 CURATED: • TASTE, 2011

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Untitled (How to Win Friends), 2022, Archival pigment print, 30 x 40 in.

KIJA LUCAS Kija Lucas is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2010–May 2011

Her work has been exhibited extensively in the Bay Area, as well as ICP and George Adams Gallery in New York. Lucas holds an MFA from Mills College and a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute.

WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Coordinator • Education Coordinator • Auction Assistant • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee

This piece was created while in residence at Recology San Francisco.

HOME: San Francisco, CA

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CURATED: • re:Told, 2012

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

PAULA LUCIA* Paula Lucia is a local artist currently living in HaightAshbury, 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–December 2018 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2016–2017 • Annual Art Auction, 2016–2017 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2016

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

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 RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2015–2016 • TASTE, 2016–2017

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Trompe-l'oeil (Bikini TShirts), 2021, Oil stick on paper, Installation dimensions variable

WHITNEY LYNN Whitney Lynn mines visual culture, working with existing materials to reframe familiar narratives, question dynamics of power, and highlight the mutability of perception. Lynn has exhibited widely, including extensively in the Bay Area, at venues including SFMOMA, YBCA, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Walter & McBean Galleries, the de Young Museum, Bass & Reiner, and Catharine Clark Gallery. She currently lives and works between Miami and Seattle.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2007–February 2009 HOME: Seattle, WA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Administrative Support • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions • Board Member EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2016–20 CURATED: • Retractions, 2009 • Mistaken Impressions, 2016

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Swamp Zone, 2021, Acrylic and organic material on wood panel, 10 x 8 in.

LINDSEY LYONS Lindsey Lyons lives and works between Pine Mountain Club and Los Angeles, CA. She has exhibited work at Root Division, Southern Exposure, and the Wattis in San Francisco, and The Pit and 0-0 LA in Los Angeles, among others.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2007–July 2007 HOME: Pine Mountain Club, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Administrative support • Advisory Board Member EXHIBITED: • Under 100, 2008 • Annual Art Auction, 2008–2011

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

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 OCADU after Rushmore-like engagement, co-founding the gallery/social space Art System, pioneering a web radio, founding the school newspaper, and serving two terms as Student Union Chair. He works with institutions to build community and social value through his digital agency, Kalamuna.

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2011–February 2012 HOME: Toronto, Ontario WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Technology support EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2011

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A Futurist Garden, 2022, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.

NICK MALTAGLIATI Nick Maltagliati studied at San Francisco State University and earned his BA in Art History and Studio Art in 2016. His artistic career began with Root Division two years after graduating, and he used his experiences from that time to activate his creative direction. Root Division offered a solid foothold as Nick found his voice while employing media like oil, watercolor, collage, printing, photography, textile, and installation. This experimental stage was pivotal to Nick's trajectory into his current style.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2018–March 2020 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Auction Assistant • TASTE Assistant • Event Production • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2018–2019 • Annual Art Auction, 2018–2019, 2021 • RD Makes Studio Artist Exhibition, 2019 • Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2019 • Spell of the Senses, 2021

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Otro modo de ser, 2022, Still from video, Dimensions variable

VIVIANA MARTÍNEZ CARLOS Viviana is a Mexican photographer and a visual storyteller. She earned her BA in Visual Arts from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2014. She attended the Narrative Photography workshop taught by the Magnum agency at the University of Texas in 2016. She completed the continuing education program in Art Anthropology taught by the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in 2018. She recently attended a production and research based residency in Oaxaca, Mexico.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2021–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2021 • RD Makes, 2021 • Frank Ratchye Project Space, March 2022

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Mask VII with Rose, 2022, Tufted wool and acrylic yarn, silk rose, tulle, 16 x 11.5 in.

MARGAUX MCALLISTER 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 both nationally and internationally and is currently living and working in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2012 –December 2012 HOME: Phoenixville, PA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • re: Told, 2012 • Annual Art Auction, 2012 • TASTE, 2012

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Still from Demon Footsuckers From Hell, 2016, Still from video, 02:23 min.

NICOLE MCCLURE* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2010–August 2011 HOME: Los Angeles, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Nature of Icons, 2010 • Eye of the Beholder, 2011 • From our Bodies Blinking, 2012 • Annual Art Auction, 2010–2011 CURATED: • Offsite Exhibitions, 2010

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Rapprochement, 2020, Glass seed beads, styrofoam, and gluing adhesive, 9 x 5.5 in.

ALICIA MCDANIEL Alicia McDaniel is an interdisciplinary visual artist who longs to make sense of her identityand place in the world. McDaniel’s multifaceted art practice is informed by her Indigenous Mexican ancestry and the long-lasting generational trauma of colonialism, forced assimilation, and violence. She earned an MFA from the California College of the Arts where she also earned an MA in Visual Critical Studies. McDaniel also founded Virtual Gallery Online with her partner Sam Johnson in 2020. As Root Division’s Exhibitions Fellow, McDaniel curated several shows in the Frank-Ratchye Project Space including: Salome El: And There Were Three; Angélica Turner: Her Turbulence; Nick Maltagliati: In The Weeds; dani lopez: Dykes on the Dancefloor; Joshua Solis: Aún sueño | I Still Dream; Zach Searcy: Mass Apparatus; Kacy Jung: The Weight of Souls; Sandra Liu: Visions; and Sophie Feuer: Curled Beneath the Skin.

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STUDIO ARTIST: November 2019–August 2021 HOME: Davis, CA WHILE AT RD: • Exhibitions Fellowship • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production & Admin support • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation • Web development & Copy Editor EXHIBITED: • Colorism: The Spectrum of Internalized Bias, 2019 • Misfit Maker & RD Makes, 2019–2020 • Family Matters, 2020 • Diasporic Futurism Pt. I & II, 2020–2021 • Spell of the Senses, 2021 • Water is Thicker than Blood, 2022 CURATED: • Frank-Ratchye Project Space Exhibitions, 2019–2020 (listed below bio)

Torsos and Holograms (Still), 2017, Still from video, 30:00 min.

ELI MCNALLY* 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 RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2016

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Will our children win or lose, 2017, Vintage early 80's legos from my childhood, 12 x 10 x 2 in.

DENNIS MCNULTY Legacies aren’t always made from being present at the end, they are often conjured from stillness at the start. Dennis exhibited at SoEx, SF Arts Commission, 111 Minna, Hespe Gallery, Mark Wolfe, Merced Arts and Cultural Center, SF Film Center, Upper Playground, 66 Balmy, Park Life, Electric Works and Diego Rivera Gallery. He was featured in art ltd. magazine, CMYK Magazine and Alarm Magazine. He has permanent works in the Met and SFMoMA collections. He is coowner of The Little Lodge art space.

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STUDIO ARTIST: December 2002–January 2007 HOME: Boulder, CO WHILE AT RD: • Co-Founder • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions • Co-Created Annual Art Auction • Board Member • Co-authored the orginal concept and logo of Root Division EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2002–2016 • TASTE, 2006–2009 • Inside Out, 2012 • Gun Shop, 2017

Aggregate Space Gallery's First Five Years, 2016, Collage of exhibition photos, Dimensions variable

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2008–July 2010

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.

WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation

HOME: Oakland, CA

EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2007 • Biophelia, 2008 • Algorithmia

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Rinconcito, 2018, Acrylic on wood panels, 8 x 6 x 4 in.

VRENI MICHELINI CASTILLO V was born in Guanajuato, México. They have been a migrant since 1999, formed by the cultural context of Texas, Georgia, and Virginia. They studied visual arts, craft and art history at VCU and art practice and ethnic studies at UCB. They are currently based in Huichin, working as a transdisciplinary cultural producer & educator. Their practice involves art, performance, music, hip hop, writing, abuelita medicine, cultural organizing, traditional ecological knowledge & mihtotiliztli.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2014–May 2015 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2014 • New Growth, 2015

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

RANDALL MILLER* Randall Miller is a teacher and artist in Chicago, IL. He continues to make figurative paintings and drawings, as well as cityscapes. In 2016, Miller completed the Center Program at the Hyde Park Art Center. He received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2009–May 2010 HOME: Chicago, IL WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Under 100, 2009 • Annual Art Auction, 2009 • Security, 2009 • Not at the Moment, 2010

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Wild Garden, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 in.

ROBERT MINERVINI My work examines spatial environments and notions of utopia in large-scale, multi-layered paintings utilizing tropes from art history, science fiction, and places both real and imagined. I build my paintings through a deceptively physical process of layering paint by hand, airbrush, spray painting, collage and complex stenciling. The varied materiality in my paintings function as contradictions to the often ‘natural’ or ‘architectural’ subject matter being depicted.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2009–December 2011 HOME: Florence, Italy WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2009 • 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2018 CURATED: • Call and Response, 2010

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Florida Jitt (series), 2022, Silicone, glass, water, mosquitos, 17 x 6 x 6 in.

VINCENT MIRANDA (b. 1991) Vincent Miranda is an artist from Broward County, Florida. Miranda received his MFA from California College of the Arts in 2019. Using sculptural investigations in silicone and glass, his work explores a contemporary Southern identity, informed by hiphop, The Come Up, and artifacts of a South Florida landscape. Selected Solo exhibitions include ”Florida Jitt,” 2022, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, California; ”Purple Coming In,” 2017, IS Projects, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2019–September 2019 HOME: Fort Lauderdale, FL WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2019

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

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

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2013–June 2014 HOME: Copenhagen, Denmark WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2015 • TASTE, 2015 • Annual Art Auction, 2015

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Caturday Vibes, 2020, Oil on dibond-mounted paper, 28 x 22 in.

SHELLEY MONAHAN Shelley Monahan is an oil painter currently based in Bozeman, MT. Before that she was active in the Bay Area artistic community for 15+ years. She exhibited work at Bay Area locations including the De Young Museum, Femina Potens, SOMArts, & Million Fishes. Monahan's most recent body of work depicts her tongue-in-cheek interpretation of visionary art.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2017–May 2021 HOME: Bozeman, MT WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Family Pictures, 2009 • Introductions, 2013 • Annual Art Auction, 2017–2020 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2019

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Jubilee, 2021, Digital photograph of ink on glass, 30 x 29 in.

MEG MORIARTY Meg Moriarty spent her early art career in Minnesota before moving to the Bay Area in 2016. From 2017 to 2019, she was a member of the Root Division Studio Artists program in San Francisco, CA. In 2019, she was awarded a San Jose Dublin Sister Cities fellowship with the Dublin City Arts Office in Dublin, Ireland. Moriarty holds a MFA in Spatial Art from San Jose State University, a BFA and MA in Sculpture from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2017–January 2019 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2021 • MFA Now, 2019 • Flight Between, Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2019 • Misfit Maker Factory, 2018

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Goddess of Perseverance, 2014, Mix media, 18 x 18 in.

MARI MUNET Mari Munet is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist who exhibits art in the USA & Europe since 2000. Munet creates threads that unite human beings as one. Understanding the unique views humans have, there are plenty of intersections where people experience similarly. It is on these connecting points that she focuses her art making using the science of chroma and forms allowing her audience to experience similar curiosities and emotional connections.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2006–November 2006 HOME: Denver, CO WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation • Adult Education Coordinator EXHIBITED: • BOOMBox, 2006 • Annual Art Auction, 2006

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Shirat Ha'Yam, 2021, Felt installation, Dimensions variable

BONNY NAHMIAS Bonny Nahmias was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. She moved to the United States in 2006 at the age of eighteen in protest of Israel’s mandatory military service. Nahmias first lived in Brooklyn, NY, where she explored performance art and the theatrical world. She later moved to San Francisco and received her BFA from California College of the Arts in sculpture in 2016. She exhibited her work at Root Division, Southern Exposure, SOMArts, and the Asian Art Museum, among others.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2019–January 2021 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative support • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Introductions 2018 • TASTE, 2020 • Annual Art Auction, 2018–21 CURATED: • Family Matters, 2020

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Too Early, Too Late, 2020, Mixed media on paper, 10 x 7 in.

DANIELLE NANNI Danielle is an artist and educator from Philadelphia, PA. Danielle graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2017. Danielle was Root Division’s Blau-Gold Studio/Teaching Fellow for the 2019-2020 cycle. Danielle now teaches art for grades K-5 with the Museum of Children’s Arts. Danielle is enrolled at Saint Mary’s College of California where she is earning a single subject credential in art, a masters in teaching, and a bilingual authorization.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2019–June 2020 HOME: Berkeley, CA WHILE AT RD: • Blau-Gold Studio • Teaching Fellow EXHIBITED: • Fellowship Exhibition (online), 2020 • TASTE, 2020 • Annual Art Auction, 2019 • Misfit Maker, 2019

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On the White River, 2021, Jacquard woven animation, 108 x 54 in. / 00:60

KATE NARTKER Kate Nartker works between animation and weaving to dismantle images, narrative, and material structures. She received an MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2012, and is Assistant Professor of Textile Design at North Carolina State University. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, including The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, The Contemporary Austin, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2012–October 2013 HOME: Durham, NC WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2012 • re:Told, 2012 • MFA Now, 2012

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Nestegg, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 in.

AAMBR NEWSOME Aambr Newsome is an Oakland based Visual Artist, Illustrator, and Muralist from Sacramento, CA. Her work specializes in reshaping and curating a new African American experience by exploring and shifting Black History through the lense of Art Therapy. In 2010, she began her journey to inspiring revolutionary change by joining Political Gridlock, and the True Colors Mural Project. Invited to learn public art restoration by her mentor Juana Alicia, she worked on the SF Women’s Building alongside the original designers, and volunteers. She has exhibited with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Black Woman is God, African American Arts and Culture Complex, Queen of Heart Art Gallery, Oakhella, The Black Joy Parade, 3rd on Third, and SOMArts. In 2019, she became a recipient of the Onye OZi Fellowship, and recently, an artist Fellowship Award at Root Division. Currently, Aambr is focused on building studio based mental health practices and reshifting concepts surrounding the Black Experience.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2021–July 2022 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Bay Area Black Artist Studio Fellow • Event Production • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • Black Warrior Project, 2022 • RD Makes, 2021 • Annual Art Auction, 2021

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Untitled, 2022, Acrylic gouache and metallic paint on paper, 9 x 12 in.

JOYCE NOJIMA* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2016–August 2018 HOME: Santa Rosa, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • Until It Shatters, 2020 • Fundamental Complications, 2019 • Rumination, Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2018 • New Growth 2017 • TASTE, 2017 • Annual Art Auction, 2017

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

DANIEL NOLAN** Self taught, I picked up a camera in 1992 at a pawn shop. I started by shooting my friends bands and random people I met on the street, eventually turning it into a career. It has taken me down some really strange paths and I couldn't be happier.

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2004–December 2007 HOME: Joshua Tree, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • It's Only Rock and Roll, 2006 • Annual Art Auction, 2004–2007 CURATED: • It's Only Rock and Roll, 2006

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Triplets in Space, 2018, Video stills, Dimensions variable

JENNA ROSE NORTH D.C. based interdisciplinary artist, professor and curator is driven by environmental issues, specifically water in the form of contamination and climate change induced sea level rise. She often collaborates with a wide range of scientists, designers. North's work currently toggles between functional eco-art, painting, photography, multimedia installation, and performance as her fracking obsessed Post-Apocalyptic Interior Decorator alter ego, Wendy Well, and a Senators wife from Kansas, Joan Dare. North is working on a full feature film about her alter egos.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2006–September 2007 HOME: Washington, DC WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Systems and Transmutations, 2007 • TASTE, 2007 • Annual Art Auction, 2007–2012 • Winter Art Sale, 2010

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various codices, 2014–21, Mixed media on Amate paper, Dimensions variable

RAPHAEL VINCENT NOZ My artist identity was born after completing a spiritual quest after my father died, to return two wristwatches to children in Mexico City. Flowing out of this experience has been paintings, photographs, objects and performances.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2012–June 2016

My work involves a reconstruction of a personal Mexico- both the actual place as I experience it today, but also a metaphor for my father, who grew up there in the 1920s. I work an untrained archaeology, digging things up, and probably putting them back together wrong.

WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Curatorial Committee

HOME: San Francisco, CA

EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2014 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2015

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Bangles, 2021, Acrylic and glitter glue on canvas, 36 x 24 in.

NATHALIE O'BRIEN Nathalie O’Brien’s current body of work is about identity related to possessions, home and ancestry. She uses a mixture of figurative and still life painting techniques to explore these subjects. Her creative process varies, ranging from creating collages in her sketchbook for her figurative paintings to taking pictures of her possessions for her still life paintings.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2020–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Special Events Assistant • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative support • Event Planning Committee • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2020 • RD Makes, 2020 • Annual Art Auction, 2020–2021 • TASTE, 2021 • Love Lives Here, 2022 • 20-Year Anniversary, 2022

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Digital Ocean, 2021, TV, monoblock chair, single channel video, Installation dimensions variable

KELLEY O'LEARY Born and raised in Massachusetts. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S. She has been the Dean’s Summer Graduate Research Fellowship and the Mary Lou Osborne Award at UC Davis. Her work has been shown at Root Division, Palette SF, Irving Street Projects, Luggage Store Gallery, Southern Exposure, Incline Gallery, on-off.site, & E.M. Wolfman Gallery. She has been the recipient of a Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant for Community Arts in San Francisco.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2015–May 2017 HOME: Sacramento, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2017–2019 • MFA Never, 2016 • Back to the Garden, 2017 • 15 Year Anniversary, 2018 • TASTE, 2017–2019 • Streetview, Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2017

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Untitled, 2022, Ceramic pinched bowl, 4 x 5 x 5 in.

JENNY SALOMON OMABEGHO Jenny Salomon Omabegho lives in Brooklyn NY and makes handmade ceramic bowls that creatively marry form and function.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2011–December 2012 HOME: Brooklyn, NY WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Planning Committee • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Centering the Margin, 2012 • New Growth, 2012 CURATED: • Ouroboros, 2013

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Untitled, 2010, Graphite on paper, 8 x 10 in. each

MASSIMO PACCHIONE* 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 depictions masculinity in American culture. In addition to his experience at Root Division, Pacchione is a founding Board Member of the Marin Cultural Association.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2011–August 2013 HOME: San Anselmo, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committees • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2012 • TASTE, 2013 • New Growth, 2013

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

JOSEPH PAINTER* 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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: July 2016–October 2016 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2016

Sunbathing Venus, 2021, Acrylic and ink on canvas, 15 x 15 in.

ELENA PATINO Elena Patiño is an artist and educator currently residing in Belgium after three years in SF and 20 years in 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2015–January 2018 HOME: Zetrud Lumay, Belgium WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative Support • Artist Selection Committee • Board Member EXHIBITED: • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2016 • SoMa Grand (offsite), 2016 • TASTE, 2017

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

CHELSEA PEGRAM** 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, the di Rosa Gateway Gallery, and Root Division. She graduated from Mills College with an MFA in Studio Art in 2011. Chelsea lives and works in Oakland, CA.

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STUDIO ARTIST: May 2005–May 2006 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2008 • Annual Art Auction, 2006, 2008, 2009 • 10-Year Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, 2013

Mothers, Love & Dementia (detail), 2016–18, An interactive piece with mixed media (see note), Dimensions variable

ALEJANDRA PÉREZ Alejandra Pérez has the arguably bad habit of collecting anything from blown-out birthday candles, bird feathers, bits of conversation overheard from lunch the other day, glorified family folklore and whatever else she finds worth-while. (Which is a lot, mind you!) She’s been lucky enough to have crossed paths with collectives Aguas Migrantes & Project Open Door. She holds an MAT from Rhode Island School of Design & spends her time now teaching in Sacramento, CA.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2015–June 2018

Materials from above: a homemade table with letterpress drawer including Maceo’s patience, poppy seeds, matches, bad jokes, waxed blossom buds, confetti, spices, & quail eggs

EXHIBITED: • New Growth 2013 & 2016 • Annual Art Auction, 2015–2017 • TASTE, 2015–2018 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2015–2017 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2016

HOME: Woodland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor

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Malina Abella, 2020, Performance, video

ANGELA HIEN BUENCAMINO PHUNG I am a performance, digital media and textile artist and educator currently based in Oakland CA/ Ohlone Land, and was born and raised in Sacramento/ Nisenan Land. I completed a BA in Art Practice and Comparative Ethnic Studies from University of California, Berkeley, and earned my History teaching credential from San Francisco State University. I currently teach Media Arts at Mission High School SFUSD.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2020–June 2021 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Filipinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2020 • New Growth, 2021

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

NICHOLAS PRICE* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2012–January 2012 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibitions Installation EXHIBITED: • Over My Dead Body • Annual Art Auction, 2012–2017

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Untitled, 2021, Oil on canvas, 64 x 53.5 in.

RAQUEL Adriana Raquel Ramirez was born, lives, and works in Oakland, California.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2021–Present

In her work she grapples with the misuse of identity, race as social dysmorphia, and ultimately intends to celebrate individual experience.

HOME: Oakland, CA

In 2018 she received her Bachelor of Arts in rhetoric with a minor in art practice from the University of California, Berkeley.

WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2021 • RD Makes, 2021

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Land Survey: Eucalyptus Globulus (Wildcat Canyon Regional Park), 2021, Unique gelatin silver photograms mounted on panel, 72 x 24 x 1 in.

ARIELLE REBEK Arielle Rebek is an Oakland-based artist and educator whose work employs photography and installation. Merging analog and digital technology, Rebek explores translations of space, markers of time, and the visual language of archives. Rebek earned her BA from Carleton College and her MFA in Art Studio from the UC Davis. She has exhibited internationally and participated in numerous residencies, including Lasalle Tropical Lab and the Kala AiR program. Arielle currently teaches at Sacramento State.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2017–September 2018 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Administrative Assistant EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2016 • Annual Art Auction, 2017, 2019–2021 • SoMA Grand (offsite), 2018

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Salt Ash Moon, 2022, Mixed media on panel, 12 x 12 x 2 in.

RACHELLE REICHERT Select exhibitions include the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Center for Contemporary Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Anglim Gilbert Gallery. Artwork and research is at the Center for Art+Environment at the Nevada Museum, SFMoMA Archive, the SAIC Library, and Meta HQ. Artwork has been presented at the CA Climate Change Symposium, San Francisco State of the Estuary Conference, and the AGU Meeting. She earned her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, CA and a BFA from Boston University.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2011–August 2013 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2011–2021 • New Growth, 2013 • The Alchemist, 2016

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Select iIllustrations for short film highlighting environmental mitigation work, 2021, Watercolor on paper and digital collage, Dimensions variable

CHRISTOPHER REIGER Christopher Reiger is fascinated by natural history, conservation, and ecology. His visual art, illustration, design, and writing projects wrestle with contemporary constructions of nature, and the human relationship to nonhuman animal species. Christopher lives in Santa Rosa with his wife and two young sons. He remains active in the studio, although he primarily earns his keep through illustration and design jobs. He’s currently writing and illustrating a children's picture book.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2010–August 2011 HOME: Santa Rosa, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Sideshow Happening, 2010 • Drawing Conclusions, 2011 • 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2013 CURATED: • A Live Animal, 2011

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Jonas Falck–a rejected explorer's observations, 2020–21, Watercolor, graphite, ceramic, 12 x 16 in.

IDA RÖDÉN Ida Rödén uses processes of elaborative fabrication, historical investigation, and reappropriation to address issues of authorship, history writing, and the complexity of ever telling a truth. Her art projects are not so much individual works of art as they are spaces where worlds can be imagined. In recent years, she has worked with the fictional scientist Jonas Falck. Together they have cataloged unusual discoveries in nature– mutated animals and extinct sea creatures.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2012–August 2012 HOME: Stockholm, Sweden WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Catalog Design EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2012 • Root Division at Farley's on 18th Street, 2012

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Apparitions, 2021, Acrylic glass, mirror acrylic, 17 x 23 x 4.5 in.

BLANCA ESTELA RODRÍGUEZ Blanca Estela Rodríguez is a Mexican artist, currently based in San Francisco. She received a B.Des from UAM in Mexico City, a MSc in Art & Technology from Chalmers University in Sweden and a Master in Visual Arts from the Hfbk in Germany. Her work has been exhibited at Incline Gallery (San Francisco), Root Division (San Francisco), Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli (Mexico City), Kunsthaus Hamburg (Germany), Westwerk (Germany), Centro Cultural de España (Mexico City).

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2015–October 2018 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auctions 2015–2018 • 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2018 • Spell of the Senses, 2021

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

IGNACIO ROJAS* 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 in Australia and taught in San Francisco at Root Division, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute and the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–August 2018 HOME: Melbourne, Australia WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2016–2017

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

KIT ROSENBERG** Kit Rosenberg is an artist working in a variety of media. He earned his BFA from the 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 the San Francisco Art Institute. He has shown both nationally and abroad, most notably in Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Perspace (Los Angeles), Chashama Gallery (New York) and Neuant Bleu (Berlin). He currently lives and works in Chicago.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2009–June 2010 HOME: Chicago, IL WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • RAW • TASTE, 2010 • Annual Art Auction, 2010

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

JULIA SACKETT* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2012–May 2015 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production EXHIBITED: • re:told, 2012 • X Libres, 2012 • TASTE, 2013 & 2015 • Annual Art Auction, 2012 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2012

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A Red Hot Needle and Burning Thread, 2020, Oil on canvas, 42 x 35 in.

RACHEL SAGER Rachel Sager earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia after studying at Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy. Her work has been featured in many internationally juried exhibitions including Aqua International Art Fair in Miami, FL; Open and Crocker-Kingsley California Biennial; and she was the featured artist of the PBS Emmy Awardwinning documentary, Sketching the Silk Road. Sager currently resides in Oakland, California where she paints full-time.

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2007–January 2008 HOME: Petaluma, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production EXHIBITED: • Marigolds to Mars, 2007 • Annual Art Auction, 2008 • Biophilia, 2008

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Snow on the Pines Series, 2021, Ceramics, 4 x 4 x 4 in.

CAYLA SALVADOR Cayla grew up in the Sierra Foothills of California and moved to the Bay Area over a decade ago. She received her BFA in Sculpture from SF State University in 2013 and quickly fell in love with art education upon graduating. She furthered her education in 2016 by attending Mills College for her Teaching Credential and received her Masters in Education in 2020. Cayla has taught in several elementary schools around in the Bay Area, and continues to teach art through local ceramics studios.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2014–June 2016 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2014–2016 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2014–2016 • TASTE, 2014–2016 • New Growth, 2014–2016 • 14 Rapid: Transit and Transition (offsite), 2015 • stARTup Art Fair, 2015

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Creature Feast: Table for One, 2021, Glass beads, canvas, rice, found objects, ink, paper, recycled leather, Dimensions variable

LAURA ROSE SANFORD Laura Sanford is an interdisciplinary artist and musician from the Bay Area exploring the metaphysical, the absurd, and the often awkward relationship between mind and body. Through experiential spaces, immersive performance art, and illustration, Laura likes to create playful, tactile, and grotesque works that reflect on the beautiful, wondrous strangeness all around us. She's exhibited work at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, Root Division, Pro Arts Gallery, Gray Area, and CCA.

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2019–February 2022 HOME: Berkeley, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Feast Your Eyes, 2019 • Annual Art Auctions 2019–2021 • RD Makes, 2019–2021 • TASTE, 2021 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2021

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Intensities, 2016, Single channel HD video, 10:40 min.

SURABHI SARAF* 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 Gallery 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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: March 2011–October 2011 HOME: Brooklyn, NY WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2010 • TASTE, 2011 • 10th Year Alumni Anniversary Exhibition

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

OHAD SARFATY** Ohad Sarfaty received his BFA from CCAC in 2009. He is a Bay Area painter currently living and working in San Francisco.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2012–September 2013 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2012–2014

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Many Facets, 2015, Graphite, watercolor, and tea on paper, 22.5 x 22.5 in.

OWEN SCHUH* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2010–June 2012 HOME: Westminster, VT WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2011–2012 • Annual Art Auction, 2011–2017 • New Growth, 2011–2012

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The Seven Talents, 2021, Archival inkjet print, 20 x 16 in.

CENTA SCHUMACHER Centa Schumacher is a lens-based artist who uses abstraction and luminance to explore the indefinite. Centa is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the former director of the gallery Phosphor Project Space, which was open from 2018–2021. She has shown her work nationally, including Paradice Palase in Brooklyn, NY, Aggregate Space in Oakland, CA, and a recent solo exhibition at 707 Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University.

STUDIO ARTIST: December 2015–September 2017 HOME: Pittsburgh, PA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2015 • Annual Art Auction, 2016

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Untitled, 2006, Oil on panel, 48 x 72 in.

LAUREN SCIME** Lauren Scime is the CEO of Witchfactory Productions, a transmedia production company in Los Angeles. She is a cross-platform producer, visual artist, and web strategy, 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2008–October 2009 HOME: Los Angeles, CA WHILE AT RD: • Web Development • Graphic Design • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2008–2009 • Algorithmia, 2009 • Under 100, 2008 • Three Minute Film Festival, 2008 CURATED: • Algorithmia, 2009

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Terra Phonic, 2022, Acrylic on linen, 24 x 18 in.

ZACH SEARCY Zach Searcy is a mixed media artist from Knoxville, TN. A self trained artist, Searcy's work has been featured throughout the Southeastern US and the Bay Area. Searcy opened and curated a gallery space in Knoxville showing local and national artists in a variety of mediums including painting, sound art, and film by hosting the Big Ears Documentary Project. Now residing in San Francisco, Searcy is a resident artist at Root Division in downtown San Francisco.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2019–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Exhibition Installation • Event Production EXHIBITED: • RD Makes, 2019–2021 • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2021 • TASTE, 2019–2021

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

EMMANUEL SEVILLA* 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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: August 2015–December 2016 HOME: Los Angeles, California WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2015 • Rapid Transit, 2015 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2016 • Annual Art Auction, 2015–2017

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

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

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2011–September 2011 HOME: Brooklyn, NY WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2011–2012 • TASTE, 2011

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Ten Sketches of San Francisco, 2022, Generative vector graphics, sketches done by machine learning model, 11 x 8.5 in.

ALEX SHEPARD Alex Shepard was born and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He works in machine learning and is interested in ways that computational processes appear to express uncertainty, ambiguity, or even creativity.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2015–November 2016 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2016

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Tiki Zhya Swoebale 1, 2021, Oil, powdered stone on linen, 16 x 14 x 1.5 in.

PALIJA SHRESTHA Shrestha has always found her paintings to be windows. She finds that looking through windows evokes contemplation, gratitude, longing, and even consolation in the time of grief. Her paintings pertain to the 5 spiritual elements in Newari culture. Shrestha highlights specific moments and memories with her family, and abstracts them, making them seemingly blend into the landscape. Her work envisions a desire for a hopeful and infinite cosmic survival.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2019–July 2021 HOME: Albany, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2021 • RD Makes, 2020

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

SAREE SILVERMAN* Saree Silverman received her BFA from the University of Michigan. Her work is primarily inspired by nature. More specifically, Silverman is interested in the idea of harmonious systems including theories of collective behavior, emergence, stigmergy and swarm intelligence. This ranges from a drawing made up of thousands of tiny marks or a large scale installation. Each marks leads to another and another until a larger system is formed.

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2016–May 2017 HOME: Birmingham, MI WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Back to the Garden, 2017 • Annual Art Auction, 2016

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

REBECCA SIMON* 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 attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a post-baccalaureate certificate in painting. In 2010, she received her MFA from Hunter 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2016–November 2017 HOME: New York, NY WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Expectations, Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2017

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

SOFIA SINIBALDI* 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 how we relate to these objects. Consumerism and product psychology informs her art. The things that she sees in the street become autobiographical–slowly clinging to her body they become an extension of it, as if some sort of prosthetic.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2016–July 2017 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • New Growth, 2017 • Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2017

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Forecast, 2011, 3-channel video loop, Dimensions variable

RENETTA SITOY** Renetta Sitoy was born in New York, NY, and received her MFA in Design and Technology from the 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2007–May 2008 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Blackout, 2008

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Floating Land, 2021, Helichrysum (helichrysum orientale), wild carrot (daucus carota), copper wire, 15 x 10 x 5 ft.

DIMITRA SKANDALI Dimitra Skandali (b. 1969, Athens) grew up on Paros, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. “I carry my island with me everywhere and this shapes the way I see the world,” she states. Her installations allude to increasing environmental risks alongside with human migrations and struggles about identity. She was educated in Greece (ASFA, 2006–2010) and the Netherlands (HKU, 2008-2009) before coming to California, and earning her MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute (2011–2013).

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2013–September 2014 HOME: Paros, Greece WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • EXHIBITED: • MFA Now, 2013 • 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2018

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Breakdown, 2019, VHS tape of Breakdown (1997), 144 x 84 in.

JOSHUA SOLIS Being a second generation in the United States, I have come across several obstacles that molded me into the artist I proudly am today. Inculcated by my parents’ cultural values, Catholicism, and traditions, have strongly impacted my art practice. In the Spring of 2017, I achieved the degree of Master of Fine Art in Sculpture, at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2019–July 2021 HOME: Daly City, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • RD Makes, 2019–2020 • Introductions, 2020 • Aún sueño | I Still Dream, Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2020

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Untitled, 2010, Bed frame, bed sheets, blankets, vacuum hoses, broom, plastic, 48 x 36 x 96 in.

RAY SOUDER** 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004–July 2007 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2006 • Systems and Transmutations, 2007 CURATED: • something no thing, 2005

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

CARA Y. STALLONE Cara Stallone is a San Francisco artist and designer whose work examines the ever-shifting borders of art and non-art in our digitally saturated culture. Fascinated with the idea of the remix and simulacra, Cara samples art and artifacts from the world around her to create works that question and affirm art’s very nature. Cara received her Master of Fine Arts and Cultural Studies from New York University in 2015.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2005–June 2007 HOME: Sausalito, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Website Design & Graphic Design EXHIBITED: • Boombox, 2006 • Holiday Art Sale, 2006 • Annual Art Auction, 2006–2007

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Dinner Party, 2021, Acrylic on wood panel, 18 x 24 x 2 in.

LUCY STARK Lucy Stark is a painter/printmaker living in Oakland. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Art Practice. Lucy works at Paulson Fontaine Press, has volunteered with Creative Growth, and is a member of Max’s Garage Press. Lucy’s work is inspired by family and passing down traditions. Her paintings document family meals as a tribute to the chefs in her life and as a practice in memory and documentation. Lucy’s work has been shown at the Bedford Gallery, Arc Gallery, and Richmond Art Center.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2018–July 2019 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2018–2019

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Pulling Power From the Sky: The Story of Makani, 2020, Video, Run length 01:49:55

KATE STIRR Kate Stirr is a multimedia artist exploring the shifting relationships between technology, people, and nature. An embedded engineering documentarian, Kate investigates technology’s ability to deepen connections to nature and to help people adapt to climate change. Kate earned her MFA at Mills College, where she was the recipient of the Jay DeFeo award. She holds a BA in Art and Spanish from Lewis & Clark College and a PB Certificate in Sculpture from San Francisco Art Institute.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2010–September 2012 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Installations Manager • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • 15-Year Anniversary Alumni Exhibition • Resonate, 2015 • Through That Which is Seen, ODC Theater (offsite), 2012 • Drawing Conclusions, 2011 • A Live Animal, 2011 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2011–2015 • Annual Art Auction, 2010–2015

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A Resting Place, 2021, Gouache and watercolor on paper, 26 x 40 in.

LINDSAY STRIPLING Lindsay Stripling is a San Francisco based artist, illustrator and teacher. Her work is always coming from a place of layering, texture and experimentation. She likes to keep things playful and explore themes of nature, time, memory, community and psychology. Lindsay has shown her work nationally and internationally and has worked with clients like Target, Nike, Adobe and Lemonada Media.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2013–December 2013 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Administrative Support • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2014 • ODC Theater Lobby (offsite), 2014 • Citizen Fox (offsite), 2015

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Cabin Grid, 2015, Latex on panel, 13 x 12 ft.

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004–June 2006 HOME: Montpelier, VA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Some Thing Out of Nothing, 2006 • Annual Art Auction, 2005–2006 • TASTE, 2006 • 10th Anniversary Exhibition, 2013

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D went for Coffee (9/9/20), 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14 in.

JULIE SUTHERLAND Julie Sutherland’s work ranges from paintings/ drawings exploring issues of power, gender, and history to collaborative work that encourages civic engagement. She’s influenced by public archives, anti-poverty tech research, and speculative design. She has exhibited at A+D Gallery in Chicago, the Handwerker Gallery in Ithaca, and the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program and awarded residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and a design fellowship at Code for America.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2011–August 2014 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Administrative Support • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selections Committee • Exhibition Installation • Graphic Design EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2014 • Drawing Conclusions, 2013 • Annual Art Auction, 2008–2012 • Introductions 2011 • Toward a More Perfect Union, ODC Theater Lobby, 2013 • Strange Bedfellows, 2013 • Soft Muscle, 2014 • Kitch-In, 2014

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Untitled #2, 2004, Super-8 film

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

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2007–January 2008 HOME: Berkeley, CA WHILE AT RD: • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Summer Somart Party, 2007 • Annual Art Auction, 2007 • Blackout, 2008 • Three Minute Film Fest, 2007

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CODA, 2015, Oil, acrylic, enamel and graphite on panel, 18 x 22 in.

KEVIN EARL TAYLOR* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2007–June 2009 HOME: Los Angeles, California WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Curated Music Events EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2007–2010, 2015–2021 • Under 100, 2009 • Three Angles, 2008 • Holiday Gift Sale, 2008 • Black Out, 2008 CURATED: • Blackout, 2008

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Graveyard, 2022, Digital / video collage, 6 x 6 in. / ~25 min.

LONNIE TAYLOR I've always maintained some sort of creative practice, my current project is a sonic exploration/celebration of death and the releasing the need to ”prove” myself... mainly to myself.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2021–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • RD Makes, 2021

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Sad Jets Fan, 2021, Watercolor and gouache on paper, 3.5 x 7 in.

ILEANA TEJADA Ileana Tejada is a Mexican-American artist born and raised in Southern California. A former NCAA Division II Track and Field athlete, Tejada's work explores athleticism, defeat, endurance, motivation and perseverance. Tejada received her BFA from California State Polytechnic University–Pomona, as well as a BS (Kinesiology, Pedagogy). In 2015 she graduated with a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2020–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Blau-Gold Studio Teaching Fellow • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2020 • RD Makes, 2020 • Annual Art Auction, 2021 • RD Makes, 2021

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Blue Girl With a Pearl Earring, 2021, Acryla-gouache on paper, 26 x 24 in.

KAREN C. THOMAS Karen Thomas grew up in Austin, Texas, and attended the University of Texas with a BFA in Art Education. Thomas has a passion for exploring the work that delves into the grotesque, humorous, nostalgic, colorful and figurative. She received her MFA in printmaking at the (RIP): San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. Currently Thomas works at an East Bay High School as an Art Teacher and as the Department Chair of the Visual and Performing Arts. She continues to exhibit in the Bay Area and beyond.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2009–September 2011 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Eye of the Beholder, 2011 • Annual Art Auction, 2009–2011 CURATED: • Eye of the Beholder, 2011

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Oyster Point 01, 2020, Gypsum cement, nickel-plated steel, bitumen emulsion, 14 x 9 in.

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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: March 2017–October 2018 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Exhibition Installation • Event Production EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auctions 2017–2019 • StARTup Art Fair, 2017–2018

Consumption, 2021, Recycled beer boxes, glue, 108 x 108 in.

THORNE Thorne is a practicing artist exploring the intersection of queer bodies, surgery, time keeping, and labor. They graduated with their MFA from CCA in 2020 and are currently working towards receiving their massage therapy license in order to further develop their practice of care.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2021–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2021 • RD Makes, 2021

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

CHRIS THORSON* 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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: November 2004–December 2005 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Home: Aesthetics and Politics, 2007 • Annual Art Auction, 2004–2012 • TASTE, 2007 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2011 • 10th Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2013 • Centering the Margin, 2014 • Mistaken Impressions, 2016

The Ugly Child, 2021, Penelope canvas, vintage needlepoint printed canvas, cotton wool thread, 24 x 20 in.

MARGARET TIMBRELL Timbrell is a needlework artist. Her work is inspired by various influences, i.e., technology, parenthood, perseverance and fragility. Timbrell has exhibited at the de Young Museum, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and other galleries. She was featured on Magnolia Network’s, ”Hand Crafted Hotels,” and in the Washington Post, LA Times, Bust Magazine and Star Magazine. In 2021 she had a solo show, ”The Stampede,” at the Great Highway Gallery.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2016–January 2020 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions • Administrative support • Board Member EXHIBITED: • 140 Characters, 2018 • MFA Never, 2020 CURATED: • 140 Characters, 2018

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Banner 4, 2021, Acrylic on fabric, 60 x 36 in.

JOEY TORO My curiosity for the technical aspects of 3D production are constantly allowing me to discover new tricks to create art that can be utilized for production of 3D assets. Concept art has played a huge role in my inspiration to the point where I now start projects by viewing a piece of 2D art, visualizing it in 3D, then working diligently to recreate the concept piece into a 3D model. This helps me to become more versatile in being able to utilize my knowledge of 3D to aid my traditional painting.

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STUDIO ARTIST: July 2021–November 2021 HOME: San Jose, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2021

Cosm III, 2020, Mineral on panel, 2 x 48 in. round

TOBIAS TOVERA Tobias Tovera is an American visual artist whose work explores the intersection of nature, art and consciousness. Using materials subject to metamorphism, Tovera seeks to discover what he calls ”transmuted spaces,” places where energy can shift, change, or renew itself, by experimenting with alchemical processes.

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2012–June 2013 HOME: Yucca Valley, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Permutation Unfolding, 2013 • TASTE, 2013 CURATED: • Permutation Unfolding, 2013

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Water-coolers of the World Unite, 2004, Water-coolers, water, motors, metal, Dimensions variable

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.

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STUDIO ARTIST: January 2012–February 2012 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Exhibition Installation • Facilities Support EXHIBITED: • Misfit Toy Factory, 2012–2013 • Sick, 2011 • Borders, 2010 • Annual Art Auction, 2010 • The Gentlemen Show, 2007 • Me We, 2006

Sanctuary Print Shop, 2017, Mixed media, Dimensions variable

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.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2009–May 2015 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2006–2012 • Annual Art Auction, 2009, 2010, 2017 • Leave The Capital, 2009 • Introductions, 2009 • Automanic, 2010

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

CARLY TRONCALE* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2008–March 2009 HOME: Oslo, Norway WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2009 • Under 100 • Night Light (offsite), 2009

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

JESSICA TULLY* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: May 2008–June 2009 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Artist Selection Committee • Curated Exhibitions • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Leave The Capital, 2009 • Annual Art Auction, 2008 CURATED: • Leave the Capital, 2009

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Life and Death 3 (I fell into agony, but you contained me), 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 64.5 x 108 in.

ANGÉLICA TURNER Angélica Turner's practice is an exercise of selfawareness that starts in the presence of Nature and develops through the act of painting. Based on vegetation patterns found mainly in forests, she uses a non-naturalistic color palette to represent the ongoing and undulating experience of emotions and events in her life. As a metaphor, the ephemeral quality and the vitality of Nature, appear in the form of strong contrasts, layers and gestural brushstrokes symbolizing moods and questionings.

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STUDIO ARTIST: June 2019–December 2021 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • Her Turbulence, Frank Ratchye Project Space, 2019 • RD Makes, 2019–2021 • Reflexions from Exile, 2020 • TASTE, 2020 • Annual Art Auction, 2020–2021

Tears, 2020–Present, Wire weaving, Dimensions variable

INDIRA URRUTIA Indira Urrutia is a Chilean-born interdisciplinary artist of international projection with a very personal style defined by organic elements combined in a perfect harmony that prints beautiful emotions in her work, allowing the audience to experience different sensations and movements while watching.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2017–June 2018 HOME: Barcelona, Spain WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2018 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2018 • New Growth, 2018 • Until It Shatters, 2020

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Spectrum 3, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in.

ALDO VALDEZ* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2009–August 2011 HOME: Portland, OR WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Board Member EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2008–2011 • Double Dip, 2010

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No Means No, 2020, Contemporary papel picado inspired papercut, 107 x 144 in.

BEATRIZ VASQUEZ Beatriz Vasquez received her BFA in 2006 from Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design. She exhibited works at Indiana State Museum, the California Domestic Workers Coalition, El Tendedero Project, Arts for Learning, Third Space, a 2x fellow of the U.S. Arts in Embassies, Creative Renewal Grant, DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award, CICF, NLAAC, IU Traditional Arts Indiana, Migrant Leadership Program, Center for Climate Power, and IUPUI Arts & Humanities and Indy Advisor Council.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2017–June 2018 HOME: Indianapolis, IN WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2018 • StartUp Art Fair, 2018 • New Growth, 2018 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2018

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

CAMILLE VERBOORT** Camille 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. Camille 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 (www.drtingleton.com), an app and blog project.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2005–March 2007 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2006–2010 • Museum of Broken Relationships, 2009 • Three-Minute Film Festival, 2003–2009 • TASTE, 2006 • Fly Paper, 2006 CURATED: • Three-Minute Film Festival, 2007–2009

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Brides de Gala, 2019, Goldpoint, metal brush, and casein on modified chalk ground, 30 x 30 in.

KATHERINE VETNE Katherine Vetne’s work explores concepts around gender and commodity culture. She is the recipient of SFAI’s Graduate Fellowship in Painting, the Allan B. Stone Award, and an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Vetne has exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco, as well as at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. and the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, AK. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery.

STUDIO ARTIST: April 2015–February 2016 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Until it Shatters, 2020 • 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, 2018 • The Alchemist, 2016 • Introductions, 2015 • Annual Art Auction, 2015–2021

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Baila de la hermandad Muxe, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 in.

CAMILO VILLA Camilo is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. His art practice addressees the liberation of Queer Latinx communities, the violent erasure of envirornmental social leaders in Latin America, and the journey of Latinx migrants crossing the US-Mexico Border. His work has been exhibited at Senator Wiener’s Office as part of the, ”We BelongPertenecemos,” exhibit and at the SFMoMA Artists Gallery as part of the Hispanic Heritage exhibit.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2018–September 2020 HOME: Emeryville, CA WHILE AT RD: • Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Planning Committee EXHIBITED: • New Growth: Shared Stories, 2019 • TASTE, 2019 • Annual Art Auction, 2019–2021

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El Mar es Azul, 2018, Risograph print, Dimensions variable

JOHANNA VILLAMIL MORENO Johanna Villamil is a visual artist and a graphic designer. In 2018, she received her MA in Education of Arts from the ”Universidad Nacional de Colombia.” From 2013 to 2020 she headed a collective cultural newspaper in the Belen neighborhood located in Bogota. The image corresponds to the production of the newspaper edition called ”El mar es azul.” That edition aimed to approach the experience of the sea to the city.

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2011–October 2011 HOME: Gif-sur-Yvette, France WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2011 • Drawing Conclusions, 2011 • Misfit Toy Factory, 2011 • Eye of the Beholder, 2011

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Untitled, 2019, Plaster, acrylic medium, ink, synthetic crystals, 8 x 12 x 12 in.

LAUREN VISCEGLIA Lauren Visceglia landed in San Francisco for graduate school at SFAI. She is a practicing visual artist and art teacher. Both in the US and abroad, Visceglia has brought art to her work with marginalized youth. These experiences as well as her role as a mother to three girls continually bring a new perspective to her favored themes of growth, repetition and biological patterning. Surface, texture and process direct her work. She is currently exploring drawing and painting.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2013–June 2014 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2014 • Annual Art Auction, 2013

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

HANNAH PEARL WALCOTT* I am a multidisciplinary artist, originally hailing from New York City and currently residing in Fairfax, CA. I am a practicing visual artist and herbalist. The intersection of these two practices is what I call ”Plantáge.” I am currently creating a series of mixed media collages depicting feminine representations of medicinal herbs. Art is medicine.

STUDIO ARTIST: August 2005–August 2008 HOME: Fairfax, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2005–2008 • Annual Art Auction, 2006–2012 • Boombox, 2006 • Holiday Art Sale, 2006 • New Growth, 2007 • Home, 2007 • Under 100, 2007 CURATED: • Boombox, 2006 229

The only one of many worlds, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in.

MELISSA WANG I received my B.A. in Literature/Writing from the University of California, San Diego and my M.A. in English from the University of California, Davis. In late 2019, I began art-making professionally. Since then, I have exhibited at Kala Art Institute, Torrance Art Museum and the de Young Museum. My work can be found in private and public collections, including Brown University and Facebook. I received an Individual Emerging Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council in 2021.

STUDIO ARTIST: February 2020–April 2021 HOME: Orinda, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support EXHIBITED: • RD Makes, 2021

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Drinkers, 2021, Oil on canvas, 40 x 60 in.

XIAO WANG Xiao Wang is a Chinese painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at the Glasgow School of where he received his BFA degree in Painting and Printmaking. He continued his study at San Francisco Art Institute and earned his MFA degree in Painting.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2015–July 2017 HOME: Brooklyn, NY WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Introductions, 2016 • Frank-Ratchye Project Space, 2017

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

KEEF WARD** My artwork is the mirror that I hold up to society. My 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 my 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 RD: • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2009–2010

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Snappy Pappy, 2007, Acrylic paint on wood, 12 x 12 x 2 in.

DAVE WARNKE** 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. 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: March 2007–June 2007 HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2006–2012 • Annual Art Auctions 2005–2008, 2011 • Summer SomArt Party, 2007 • Holiday Art Sale, 2007 • Under 100, 2006

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

RHONDA WEPPLER* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2015–January 2016 HOME: New York, NY WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibitions Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2012 • Farley's (offsite), 2015

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

BROOKE WESTFALL* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2011–June 2013 HOME: Brooklyn, NY WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Administrative Support • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2011–2017 • re:Told, 2011

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The Party, 2020, Color paper cutout on archival paper, 22 x 30 in.

GERALD WIGGINS When Gerald Wiggins makes art, he is ”not necessarily trying to say something to people. I'm just trying to make them happy, because there is not enough happiness.” Wiggins’ depictions of human figures, animals life, and fantastical creatures are stunningly accomplished. Working with colored pencil, marker, graphite, and watercolor, as well as with digital printmaking software, Wiggins' drawings are uncluttered and precise and use a spare, controlled line and careful coloring to convey detail.

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STUDIO ARTIST: September 2018–March 2020 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Event Production EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2018–2019

Adored One (in progress), 2022, Oil on canvas, 44 x 56 in.

CHRISTOPHER ADAM WILLIAMS Christopher Adam Williams is a visual artist whose practice utilizes portraiture and figurative painting to convey complex narratives, including that of race and gender, originating for a deep empathy with his subjects. Born in Oakland, California, Christopher’s current studio base is in San Francisco, where he resides with his wife.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2020–Present HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Black Teaching Artist Fellow • Youth Education Instructor EXHIBITED: • A Joy Unexpected, 2021 • RD Makes, 2021

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Night Moves, 2017, Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in.

RAYMOND WONG* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: July 2010–June 2012 HOME: Walnut Creek, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Artist Selection Committee • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • TASTE, 2011 • Annual Art Auction, 2011–2013 • Sideshow Happening, 2010 • Uprooted at Heart Wine Bar (offsite), 2012 • New Growth, 2011

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Frame, 2017, Gouache on paper, 20 x 30 in.

EDMUND WYSS* 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.

STUDIO ARTIST: January 2007–January 2008 HOME: Portland, OR WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation • Artist Selection Committee EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2007–2008 • The Gun Show, 2007 • Summer Somart Party (offsite), 2007 CURATED: • The Gun Show, 2007

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Rememory, 2011, Embroidary on silk, 38 x 40 in.

ANNE YALON** Anne Yalon (b. 1982, San Francisco, CA) completed her BFA in Studio Art from Loyola University, New Orleans in 2005 and moved back to San Francisco where she received her MFA in New Genres in 2007. A year after completing her MFA, and a residency at Root Division in San Francisco, Yalon moved to Brooklyn, NY, where she lived and worked from 2008–2012. In June of 2012, Anne moved to New Orleans where she is a Visiting Professor of Visual Arts teaching Computer Based Imaging and Electronic MultiMedia. Anne Yalon has exhibited her work nationally in Brooklyn, NY, Miami, FL, New Orleans, LA, and San Francisco, CA.

STUDIO ARTIST: October 2007–July 2008 HOME: San Francisco, CA WHILE AT RD: • Youth Education Instructor • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Fundraising Committee • Event Planning Committee • Curatorial Committee • Exhibition Installation • Curated Exhibitions EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2007 • Blackout, 2008 • Sound Device, 2008 CURATED: • Sound Device, 2008

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Jouissance, 2022, Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in.

WILL ZENG Will Zeng grew up in San Francisco, California. He has earned his Bachelor of Arts in Studio Practice from the University of California of Davis and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Zeng has since worked for various art organizations in San Francisco including Root Division, the DeYoung, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He is currently working towards a Master of Fine Arts degree at University of Oregon.

STUDIO ARTIST: September 2018–September 2019 HOME: Eugene, OR WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Exhibition Installation

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Conceptualartdealer, 2021, Screenprint on bulletproof board, 36 x 48 in.

MENGJIAO ZHANG Jasmine Zhang (b. 1996) Suzhou is a conceptual artist based in Oakland, California. She graduated from San Francisco Art Institute with an MFA in 2020, with a background in photography. She has been shown in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Suzhou, Chengdu and Milan.

STUDIO ARTIST: November 2020–Present HOME: Oakland, CA WHILE AT RD: • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation • Curated exhibitions • Photo Documentation EXHIBITED: • RD Makes, 2020–2021 • Open Book, 2019

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Untitled, 2019, Oil on linen, 30 x 40 in.

RUXUE ZHANG Ruxue Zhang graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (BFA, 2015), and California College of the Arts in San Francisco (MFA, 2018). Her work has been exhibited at CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, Embark Gallery, and Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, at Cal State University in Los Angeles, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing and at the CAFA Museum in Beijing. Zhang has multiple works in the collection of Fidelity Investments and CAFA Museum.

STUDIO ARTIST: June 2018–July 2020 HOME: San Jose, CA WHILE AT RD: • Adult Education Instructor • Event Production • Event Planning Committee • Administrative support • Exhibition Installation EXHIBITED: • Annual Art Auction, 2018–2019 • Misfit Maker Factory, 2019 • TASTE, 2020

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“Root Division provided a meshwork of support as an emerging artist: a vibrant community of studio artists, a vigorous exhibition program that supported other Bay Area artists, and opportunities for career development such as teaching, curating and installing exhibitions.” — Rachelle Reichert

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PAST STUDIO ARTISTS NOT REPRESENTED IN THIS CATALOGUE Alvaro Azcarraga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 2009–May 2009 Dominique Birdsong. . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 2022–Present Carlos Castillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 2006–Jan 2007 Robin David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 2018–Aug 2018 Syda Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 2004–Jan 2006 Leo Estevez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 2006–Mar 2007 Arvin Jason Flores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 2006–Aug 2007 Sam Flores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 2004–Jul 2006 Tanna Hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 2007–Nov 2007 Ruth Hodgins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 2009–Jun 2010 Andrew Sung-Taek Ingersoll. . . . . . Sep 2018–Jul 2019 Ara Jo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 2010–Nov 2010 Brooke Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 2005–Aug 2005 Jear Keokham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 2018–Mar 2019 Tammy Kim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 2008–Oct 2008 Carter Leung. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 2007–Jan 2008 Casey Logan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 2004–Nov 2005 Rogelio Martinez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 2004–Dec 2005 Seoidin O’Sullivan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 2019–Aug 2019 Jennifer Peterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 2018–Jan 2019 Jessica Pezalla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 2006–Aug 2006 Katie Revilla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 2018–Jun 2019 Zoe Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 2004–Jun 2007 Naomi Vanderkindren. . . . . . . . . . . Aug 2016–Mar 2017 Alissa Weisman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 2005–Feb 2006 Justine Xi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 2021–Oct 2021

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staff CURRENT Michelle Mansour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Director Frances Fleetwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art Programs Manager Michael Gabrielle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Education Programs Manager Phi Tran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing & Design Manager Rachel Welles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operations Manager Ronaldo Reyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facilities & Installations Manager Benny Siam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Youth Education Coordinator Bridgette Wilkerson . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing & Communications Coordinator

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PAST Joshua Aaron** Amy Cancelmo** Mona Chitkara Celeste Christie Leigh Ann Coleman** Samu Cortez** Syda Day** Rea Lynn de Guzman** Eliza Dennis** Carissa Diaz* Emily Doman Selene Foster** Mara Flanagan Adam Friedman** Blake Gibson** Theresa Gooby** Dana Hemenway** Plinio Hernandez** Lindsay Ellen Howland Rachael Jablo** Jeremiah Jenkins**

Ryan Jones** Liz Koerner** Michael Krouse** Angie O. Lee** Janice Lin Kija Lucas** ChiChai Mateo** Britta McClure Mari Plaza Munet** Joyce Nojima** Daniel Nolan** Nathalie O’Brien* Arielle Rebek** Samantha Reynolds Renée Rhodes Leticia Salinas Kate Stirr** Mitch Temple Aldo Valdez** Brooke Westfall** Ashley Kalemjian Young * Current Studio Artist ** Studio Artist Alumni

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board of directors CURRENT John-Mark Ikeda**, Chair Ash Kumar, Vice Chair Sharon Tanenbaum, Vice Chair Ellen Oh, Secretary Jake Tipane, Treasurer Samu Cortez**, Alum Artist Rep Rachel Dean*, Studio Artist Rep Nimah Gobir**, Alum Artist Rep Alma Leppla*, Studio Artist Rep Andrea Crow Tavarus Blackmon Heidy Braverman Jonathan Carver Moore Ancel Martinez Lisa Olson Carrie Ann Plank Jennifer Stuart Ry Sullivan Amy Ellingson, Emeritus Member Nathan Suter, Co-Founder & Emeritus Member Mitch Temple, Co-Founder & Emeritus Member

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PAST Judith Albino Ray Beldner Rafael Bustillos** (Studio Artist Rep) Elizabeth Cayne** Sandeep Chivukula Monica Decker Amy Ellingson (Board Chair) Seth Familian Erik Frey Beth Lundell Garver Blake Gibson** (Studio Artist Rep) Melody Wang Gillick Simron Gill Brett Greenberg Payal Gupta Makiko Harris** (Studio Artist Rep) Plinio Hernandez** (Studio Artist Rep) Charles Hespe Laura Hespe John-Mark Ikeda** (Studio Artist Rep) Cynthia Kagay Kristin Kaiser Shirin Keen Keira Kotler Michael Krouse** (Studio Artist Rep) Kelvin Kwong Jena Lee Hannah Lennett Maxx Lobo

Cynthia Loukides (Board Chair) Cathy Lu** (Studio Artist Rep) Ellen Martin Suzy Obst Brian O’Connor (Board Chair) Adam J. O’Donnell Victoria Oliver Elena Patino** (Alum Rep) Kelly Phipps Hia Phua Adam Polakoff Mel Prest Sarah Ratchye Margaret Richardson Ignacio Rojas** (Studio Artist Rep) Kramer Sharp Matthew Tillman Margaret Timbrell** (Studio Artist Rep) Joan Touchstone Michelle Townsend (Board Chair) Matt Rogers Brad Vaccaro Hannah Pearl Walcott** (Studio Artist Rep) Kira Walter Amy Whittaker Brianna Wolfson Amber Jean Young * Current Studio Artist ** Studio Artist Alumni

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advisory council CURRENT Michael Arcega

Marcus G. Lee

Ray Beldner

Boris Lieberman

Heather Bernard

Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen

Jasmin Bode

Nick Maltagliati**

Elise Boivin

Conrad M. Meyers II**

Aaron Brady

Willis Meyers

Kevin B. Chen

Donna Enad Napper

Jamie Corley

Raphael Noz**

Geoff Etnire

Nathalie O’Brien*

Jacqueline Francis

Janine Okmin

Kiana Honarmand**

Adam Polakoff

Ryan Jones**

Mel Prest

Kristin Kaiser

Sherwin Rio

Leah King*

Kate Stirr**

Jaime Knight

Amy Whittaker

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PAST Alexis Arnold Jeremiah Barber** Ana Bedolla** Keith Bencher Liat Berdugo Lisa Blatt Ali Bloch Stephen Bowden Val Buckingham Aaron Brady Lindsay Bruel Jamie Brunson Anh Bui** Amy Canclemo** Kristin Cashin Elizabeth Cayne** Elizabeth Crawford Consuelo Crosby Bobby Dunn Mark Dwight Kate Eilertsen Lauren Etchells Geoff Etnire Anna Ewins Sarah Finley Mara Flanagan Selene Foster** Anna Franco Samidha Ghosh Katharin Gin Amber Goldstein Leigh Goldstein Brett Greenberg Pablo Guardiola

Heidi Hall Kylee Hall Ingrid Happholt Victoria Heilweil Dana Hemenway** Eliza Henderson** Bill Hipps Justin Hoover Hans Hull Ryan Jones** Payvand Kadivar Spike Kahn Anna Kolhede Keira Kotler Joe Kowalke Michael Krouse** Waikee Kwan Emily Lakin Angie O. Lee** Elizabeth Lee Hannah Lennett Jay Liao Tom Loughlin** Lindsey Lyons** Brian Macias Marisa McCarthy Courtney McIlhenny Katie McCracken Tara Medve Dan Mosher Renae Moua Paul Mullowney Ramekon O’Arwisters Reed Mayfield

Rhonda Pagnozzi Steve Pon Jeannene Przyblyski Anne Ray Amy Offen-Reeves Christopher Reiger** Julie Richter Annie Rummelhoff Rhanda Salma Mark Sanchez Toby Sanderson Morgan Schauffler Kathryn Schneider Jennifer Schwartz Joe Siedel Julia Shafer Sebastian Sicard Anna Sidana Rachael Sillard Joan Silver Allegra Stanley Fred Stemmler Jaclyn Stiles Sharon Tanenbaum Michelle Ticknor Margaret Timbrell Russ Uman Brad Vaccaro Andrea Antonaccio Wagner Maysoun Wazwaz Marcia Weisbrot Eddie Zalayet Jennifer Zalayet Jeff Zawadsky

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curatorial committee CURRENT Michael Arcega Tavarus Blackmon Kevin B. Chen Samu Cortez Frances Fleetwood Jacqueline Francis Kiana Honarmand** Leah King* Jaime Knight Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen Michelle Mansour Donna Enad Napper Raphael Noz** Nathalie O’Brien* Jessica Punzalan Sherwin Rio

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PAST Jeremiah Barber** Jamie Brunson Anh Bui** Amy Canclemo** Deric Carner** Seth Curcio** Eliza Dennis** Carissa Diaz* Amy Ellingson Eden V. Evans** Lauren Etchells Sarah Finley Selene Foster** Pablo Guardiola Dana Hemenway** Heidi Holmes** Justin Hoover Ryan Jones**

Jear Keokham** dani lopez** Alicia McDaniel** Renae Moua Ramekon O’Arwisters Steve Pon Mel Prest Jeannene Przyblyski Sarah Ratchye Christopher Reiger** Samantha Reynolds Renée Rhodes Chanell Stone Michelle Townsend Carly Troncale** Andrea Antonaccio Wagner Maysoun Wazwaz Anne Yalon * Current Studio Artist ** Studio Artist Alumni

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SUPPORTERS GOVERNMENT, FOUNDATION + INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS ($5,000+) A Better Place Foundation Aaron Bastian + Catherine Foo Adam Polakoff Amber Jean Young + Rajib Chowdhury Amy Ellingson & Allison Danzig Amy Offen-Reeves + Adam Reeves Amy Whittaker Andrea Crow + Fred Craves Art 4 Moore Beth Lundell Garver + Josh Garver Bialkin Family Foundation Bill Graham Memorial Foundation Bloomberg Family Foundation Bothin Foundation Brad + Emily Vaccaro Brett + Cindy Greenberg Brian O’Connor + C. Collin Baker California Arts Council Carla + David Crane Center for Cultural Innovation Charles + Laura Hespe Christine Hoang + Paul Nakada Community Arts Stabilization Trust Community Vision Crescent Porter Hale Foundation Cynthia Loukides + Paul Harrison Dale + Annette Schuh Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Dr. Adam O’Donnell Drusie Davis Family Fund Eastern Neighborhoods Public Benefit Fund Elizabeth** + Brian Cayne Erik Frey + Andrew Dudley Flanagan Family Foundation Fleishhacker Foundation Foundation for Quality Housing Opportunities Frank-Ratchye Family Foundation Fred Craves Family Foundation Gerald Rosenstein Golden Rule Foundation Grants for the Arts Hannah Lennett Heidy Braverman + David Skinner Jennifer Stuart + Josh Aidlin Jewish Community Foundation John Hering 254

John-Mark Ikeda** + Meg Gray Kelvin Kwong Kimball Foundation Kramer Sharp Kristin Kaiser Lemelson Foundation Lisa Danzig Lisa Olson + Thomas Lau Marcus G. Lee Margaret Richardson Matt + Amy Rogers Matthew + Jenna Tillman Melody Wang Gillick Michelle Mansour Monica Decker Morse Foundation Nathan Suter + Morgan Lloyd National Endowment for the Arts Neil Young Oregon Community Foundation Pegi Young Perry & Madeline Garver Family Foundation Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Potrero Nuevo Fund Randall Stowell Ray Beldner Richard Salomon Family Foundation Rogers Family Foundation Ron + Suzanne Stolowitz San Francisco Arts Commission Sarah Ratchye + Ed Frank Sharon Tanenbaum + Matty Person Shirin Keen + Ethan Jacobs Simron Gill & Jesse Dana Sonja + Jon Perkins Stephanie Aderholt The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts The Kanbar Charitable Trust The Morton Foundation The San Francisco Foundation Tom Loughlin Violet World Foundation Wallis Foundation Walter & Elise Haas Sr Fund Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Zellerbach Family Foundation

BUSINESS + CORPORATE SUPPORTERS ($5,000+) Adobe Foundation Airbnb Aldea Home + Baby Allpointe Insurance Services Black Rock Blick Art Materials Cisco Community Foundation City Real Estate Facebook Farella, Braun + Martel FOG STUDIO (in-kind) Google Hanson Bridgett LLP Madrone Art Bar Mission Bowling Club Public Works Qatalyst Rainbow Grocery Cooperative Salesforce Sephora Sotheby’s International Realty StARTup Art Fair Studio O+A Suzanne Obst Target Trumer Pilsner (in-kind) Twitch Interactive UCSF Venable Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation

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exhibited artists Joshua Aaron** Shannon Abac Joseph Abbati Fatema Abdoolcarim Carlo Abruzzese Yossi Ben Abu Carmine Acconcia Michael Acker Brittany Acocelli Sydney Acosta Ashley Adams Jason Adams Lisa Adams Peter Adamyan Ana Adarve Stephanie Aderholt Natasha Adorlee Johnson Mati Aerosthetiks Pilar Agüero-Esparza Jesus Aguilar Whitney Aguiniga Bren Ahearn Amy Ahlstrom Dena Al-Adeeb Wesaam Al-Badry Inas Al-soqi Anne Albagli Tamara Albaitis Adrian Albino Najah Alboushi Jizell Albright Laura Alexander Verda Alexander Ryan Alexiev Susan Alexjander Jayasri Alhamdaputri Indira Allegra Lynne-Rachel Altman Robert Altman David Pena Alvarez Nanci Amaka Alexis Amann Kirkman Amyx Dalia Anani Christine Ancalmo Natalia Anciso Benjamin Anderson Greta Anderson** 256

Lauren Anderson Morgan Anderson** Nicole Irene Anderson Sharon Anderson Donna Anderson Kam Corinna Andrews Mari Andrews Stephanie Andrews Aisyah Ang Aboyami Anli** Kim Anno Penelope Anstruther Andrea Antonaccio Luca Antonucci Kathy Aoki Robin Apple Nicki Aquino* Marisa Aragona Omar Thor Arason salma arastu Eric Araujo Michael Arcega Jose Arenas Tim Armstrong Alexis Arnold Chester Arnold Kathryn Arnold Jordan Arseneault Kimberley Arteche** Rodney Artiles Sholeh Asgary Timothy Asher Christopher Ashley Shana Astrachan Claire Astrow** Megan Atherton Pansee Atta Nodado Audifax Susan Aulik Jason Michael Aumann** Efren Ave Alyssa Aviles** Sharon Bach Anna Bae Trent Bailey Alexandra Bailliere Jennifer Bair Angela Baker

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Christi Baker Francis Baker Myla Baker Eva Bakkeslett Peter J Baldes Mara Baldwin Seza Bali Amy Balkin Laura Ball Brandon Ballengee Eric Balley Gwynessa Balvanz Joshua Band DJ Bandit Micca Bandit Jamie Banes Oana Barac-Matei Jeremiah Barber** Evan Barbour** Will Barclift Becca Barolli Jesus Barraza Tessie Barrera-Scharaga Michael Barrett Eliza Barrios Johanna Barron Marcia Barrow Taylor Sarah Barsness** Michael Bartalos Lauren Bartone Brian Bartz Bill Basquin Benjamin Baumgartner Lily Baxter Jackie Baxton Barry Beach Stacy Beach Kevin Bean Sioux Bean Ricardo Becerril Charlotte Beck* Tim Beck Margot Becker Natalia Becker Ana Bedola** Connie Begg Robert Beier Taha Belal

Ray Beldner Ana Belen Cantoni Pete Belkin Nash Bellows Erik Beltran** JD Beltran Orit Ben-Shitrit Issac Benjamin Philip Benn Dan Bennett Drew Bennett Elizabeth Bennett Mark Benson Zack Bent Ellen Bepp Marissa Katarina Bergmann Marie Bergstedt Bill Berkson Terry Berlier Elizabeth Bernstein** Timothy Berry Ronit Bezalel Sita Bhaumik Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Lois Bielefeld Elisheva Biernoff** Alan Bigelow Ben Bigelow Alain Biltereyst Susan Birnbaum Joianne Bittle Libby Black Matt Black** Tavarus Blackmon Josh Blackwell Vanessa Blaikie** Mark Blaisdell Allie Blanchard Cristine Blanco William Bland Allan Blandino Lisa Blatt Ross Bleckner Meryl Blinder Mary Alyssa Block Jan Blythe Simon Boas Lemia Bodden

Amanda Boehm-Garcia Anna Bogatin Tanya Boggs Christin Bogs Nicholas Bohac Le Bohemian Muse Barbara Boissevain Laura Boles Faw melissa bolger Rebeca Bollinger Sergio Bonilha Jaren Bonillo Storm Bookhard Michael Boonstra Sarah Borruso Jim Boss Gillian Bostock George-Ann Bowers Jennifer Boxerman Jessica Bozzo Peter Brabbee B.R Bradley Juliana Bradley Julia Bradshaw Aaron Brady Michelle Brandemuehl Jennifer Brandon Claire Brandt Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo Cynthia Brannvall 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** Aizik Brown* Brad Brown Corey Brown Kristen Brown Nancy Brown

Tracy Brown - Worldly Sistah Esther Bruijn** Jamie Brunson Samantha Buchanan Suzie Buchholz Madeleine Buck Robert Buelteman Anh Bui** Nicole Bull Anna Bunting Natalya Burd Amy Burek Mary Burger Bridgette Burns Nicholas Buron Rachel Bussieres Rafael Bustillos** Jenny Butler Sue Butler David Buuck Valeria Caballero Aguillar Jessica Cadkin Tristan Cai Craig Calderwood Bunny California Francis Calimlim Charline Callahan Elissa Callen Carlos Caminos Michael Campbell Ross Campbell Marie-Christine Camus Amy Cancelmo** Cotton Candie Rafael Canedo Brian Caraway Shannon Carey Marina Carija Natasha Carlos Bethany Carlson Deric Carner** Brigitte Carnochan Mason Carolyn Rollo Carpenter/ Cleverbot Diane Carr Ryan Carrington Glenn Carter Leila Cartier 257

Irene Carvajal** Luis Casas John Casey Carlos Castellanos Carlos Castillo** Joey Castor Gerardo Castro Larry Caveney Elizabeth Cayne** Enrique Martinez Celaya Morelos Celis Matthew Cella Omar Chacon Charles Chadwick Enrique Chagoya Stephanie Chambers Caiti Chan Christina Chan Maya Chan Freddy Chandra Kristen Chappa Kristin Chappa Iris Charabi-Berggren Alex Chavez Kevin B. Chen Laura Chenault Jeffrey Cheung Alexander Cheves Windy Chien Elizabeth Chiles Katie Chin Mona Chitkara Youmna Chlala Aileen Chong Martha Chong Toshia Christal Jonathan Christensen Caballero Sarah Christianson Celeste Christie Natalie Christine James Chronister Wayee Chu Andrea Chung Fernando Cisneros** Cameron Clack Jillian Clark Patterson Clark John Clarke Jon Casey Clary** Teri Claude Colby Claycomb Radio Free Clear Light Jeff Cleary Alice Clemans 258

Moir Clements Christen Clifford Lee Cline Mark Clintberg Julie Cloutier Charles Coates Chris Cobb Zoe Cobb** Peter Cochrane Lee Cody Kim Cogan Aliza Cohen Hagit Cohen Jesse Cohen Laura Cohen Stacy Cohen Tom Colcord Glenna Cole Allee Leigh Ann Coleman** Claire Colette** Holly Coley** Camamoto Collective John Colleton Randy Colosky Alice Combs** Lisa Congdon Katherine Conger Seamus Conley Kerri Conlon Caroline Connelly Jodi Connelly Gina Contreras Ariella Cook Beth Alice Cook Brett Cook Cheryl Coon Colleen Corcoran Susanna Corcoran Sofía Córdova Christina Corfield Ben Cornish Julumarie Joy Cornista Antonio Cortez Jaime Cortez Samu Cortez** Julia Couzens Madelyn Covey Michael Covington Greg Cowley Daniel Cox Smith Coy Smith Jaque Cozza Angie Crabtree** Calum Craik

Lisa Cralle Ethan A. Cranke Adele Crawford Anna Craycroft Katey Crews E.G. Crichton Pablo Cristi Jillian Crochet Karl Cronin Julie Crosby** Zoe Crosher Lizzy Cross Shenny Cruces Jamee Crusan Jodie Cruz David Cuetter Christopher Culver Gibson Culyer Ren Cummings Torreya Cummings Finn Cunningham Stephanie Cunningham Seth Curcio** Amanda Curreri Lise Currie Miranda Currie Michael Cutlip Shaghayegh Cyrous Nicole Czapinski Sidnea D’Amico Pablo D’Antoni Trey D’Antonio Rohan DaCosta Venetia Dale Diane DallasKidd Keith Daly & Christabel Soto C Wright Daniel N Dash Lynn Dau Robin David Spencer Davie Christian Davies Adam Davis Elizabeth Davis Gina Davis James Davis Lauren Davis Mel Davis Adam Whitney Day Mel Day** Adeleine Daysor Raiz de Agua Jetske De Boer Crisanta de Guzman

Rea Lynn de Guzman** Paola de la Calle Paz de la Calzada Orlando de la Garza Michele de la Menardiere Vic De La Rosa Sergio De La Torre Sophia De Lignerolles Maria de los Angeles Burr** Edmundo de Marchena Gioj de Marco Clemence de Montgolfier Nancy de Y. Elkus Brian Dean Rachel Dean* Laura DeAngelis Victoria DeBlassie Steve Dehlinger Lori del Mar Reniel Del Rosario Dean Dempsey elena dendiberia Robin Denevan Eliza Dennis** David DeRosa Cheryl Derricotte Monique Deschaines Denise DeShetler Evan DeSpelder Lauren Devenney Bronwyn Dexter Aditya Dhawan Flamma di Motntezemolo Carissa Diaz* Nancy DiCianni Oliver DiCicco Lauren DiCioccio Elizabeth Digiovanni Natasha Dikareva Lanell Dike Tina Dillman Dyanna Dimick Patrick Dintino Jay Dion Alan Disparte Zai Divecha Morgan Dodge Poppy Dodge Kira Dominguez Hultgren Elinor Domol Diamond Nimisha Doongarwal Kate Dopheide Shayla Dopp Katie Dorame

Mercedes Dorame Leeza Doreian Margaret Dorfman Dance Doyle Susan Doyle Don Drake Peter Drake Rebecca Drake Sarah Drasner Dale Dreiling Zen Du Caleb Duarte Andrea Dubbert** Evin Dubois Paula Dubois-Dupuis Gary Duehr Ray Duey Kathryn Dunlevie Robert Dunn Minh Duong Oasa DuVerney Rachel Dwan Richard Dweck David Dworman Ricki Dwyer Sara Dykstra Miriam Dym Joanne Easton Malcolm Easton roya ebtehaj Ben Echeverria Ruth Eckland Eseosa Edebiri Eelus Dave Eggers Emily Eifler Jeff Eisenberg Salome El* Nina Elder Christine Elfman Carmina Eliason Dustin Ellingboe Amy Ellingson Claire Elliott Marshall 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 Joey Enos 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 Liam Everett Rodney Ewing Maria Ezcurra Mitra Fabian Nina Fabunmi Sean Fader Laureano Faedi Anastasia Faiella Catherine Fairbanks Ella Faktorovich Natalie Falero Kelly Falzone Donald Farnsworth Dan Farnum Kristin Farr Alex Fatemi Joseph Faura Bruno Favaretto Arash Fayez Taraneh Fazeli Michelle Feder Paul Eric Felder Dan Fenstermacher Rebecca Fenton Emmanuel Feu Sophie Feuer* Mattson Fields Jose Figueroa Ninh Filip Lauren Finch Andi Fink Mary Finlayson Jonathan Fischer 259

Laura Fischer Valerie Fischer Stefan Fitzgerald Davy Fiveash Vivienne Flesher Llewelynn Fletcher Mark Fleuridor Kellie Flint Arvin Jason Flores** Sam Flores** Rebeca Flores** Marcela Florez Matthew Floriani** fnnch Joanne Fong Lisa Fong Linda Ford Todd Forsgren Drew Forsten John Yoyogi Fortes Dustin Fosnot Rebecca Foster Selene Foster** Peter Foucault Devra Fox Michele Foyer Linda Francis Emily Franklin Hunter Franks* Rebecca Frantz Chris Fraser Sarah Frazier Matthew Frederick Rebecca Frediani Jonathan Frey Sarah Frieberg Adam Friedman** Amanda Friedman Deborah Benioff Friedman Kassidy Friend Taylor Friend Janey Fritsche Ellie Fritz Kim Froshin Alison OK Frost

Joel Frudden Garth Fry Juan Fuentes Andrew Fuller Terra Fuller Terry Furry Michael Gabrielle Omer Gal Daniel Galas Karen Gallagher Joan Karissa Gallego Guta Galli** Annie Galvin Erica Gangsei Theresa Ganz Marlene Garcia Simon Garcia-Minaur Lindsay Gardner Mariana Garibay R Jason Gariety Julie Garner Mark Garrett Anne Garrey Jen Garrido Sid Garrison Gibran Morales Garza Laura Garzon Mik Gaspay Gigi Gatewood Rashmi Gawali Linda Geary Mary-Cecile Gee Tanja Geis Joolie Geldner Julian Gelvezon Kat Geng Danielle Genzel Marissa Geoffroy Nicole Georges Adam Gerlach Frank Gerlitzki Ghazal Ghazi Sheila Ghidini Blake Gibson** Gabriel Gilder

Jenne Giles Simron Gill Erin Gilley Laura Gillmore Bean Gilsdorf Katharine Gin Brynda Glazier Paul Glenn Cassandra Glessner** Jeffrey Glossip Nimah Gobir** Camilo Godoy Karen Gold Matthew Goldberg Carla Golder Rebecca Goldfarb Michael Goldman Emily Goldstein Rebekah Goldstein Stanley Goldstein Uli Golub Robert Gomez Santino Gonzales Blaze Gonzalez Brenda Gonzalez Pedro Gonzalez Sofia Gonzalez Theresa Gooby** Julia Goodman Brett Goodroad Heather Gordon Jon Gourley** Veronica Graham Vajra Gramelli Sevilla Granger Alexis Grant Susie Grant Travis Graves Casey Gray Gailan Gray Dan Grayber Johunna Grayson Adam Green JD Green** Nicki Green

“I feel like I am honored as an artist and an educator who is also a young woman of color. I feel resourced financially, emotionally, artistically, and professionally.” — Nicole Aquino 260

Alex Greenburg Tobias Greene Tej Greenhill C.A. Greenlee Scott Greenwalt Larissa Erin Greer Courtney Griffith** Peiter Griga Peter Gronquist Piper Grosswendt Richard Grove Tracy Taylor Grubbs Jared Gruendl Matthew Gualco Cristina Guerreiro Andres Guerrero Diana Guerrero Benjamin Guffee Emily Gui Jose Guinto Tatiana Gulenkina Priyanka Gupta Ruben Gutierrez Melissa Gwyn Maude Haak-Frendscho Anna-Marie Haalboom Anette Haas Maggie Haas Sarah HaBa Ryan Hackett Nathan Haenlein Jessalyn Haggenjos Elana Hagler Kevin Scott Hailey Catherine Haley Epstein Michael Hall Rebecca Hall Sarah Hall Tanna Hall** Sheila Halligan-Waltz Ethan Ham Anne Hamersky Amy Haney Lou Haney Laura Hapka

Mieko Hara Lydia Harari Don Ed Hardy Dana Harel Nico Harriman Robert Jackson Harrington Ashley Harris Jennifer Maria Harris Makiko Harris** Mark Harris Raun Harris Jeanette Hart-Mann John Hartford Lauren Hartman Katie Harwood Kent Hasel Joanne Hashitani Annie Hatch Robert Hatch Derek Haverland Mona Hawd Zina Haydar Al-Shukri Nathan Hayden Derek Hayes Fred Hayes Jessica Hayes Ryan Hayes Shirley Hazlett Sean Healy Jessica Heaney Randall Heath Victoria Mara Heilweil Ian Heisters Emily Heller Jamil Hellu Adrienne Heloise Taraneh Hemami Dana Hemenway** Adam Henderson Elizabeth Hendler Ryan Hendon Jennifer Hennesey Cera Hensley Julie Henson Kowloon Hepburn

Abbey Hepner Rebecca Herman Alexander Hernandez** Plinio Hernandez** Jonn Herschend Howard Hersh Clara Herzenberg Michael Hession** Patricia Hewett Bryan Hewitt Vita Hewitt Amy Hibbs Liz Hickok Pete Hickok Amy Hicks Joshua Highter** Megan Hildebrandt Benjamin Hill Nicole Jean Hill Sarah Talia Himmelfarb Sarah Hirneisen Glenn Hirsch Amy M. Ho Diana Hobson Elyse Hochstadt Cameron Hockenson Georgia Hodges Ruth Hodgins nif hodgson Terry Hoff Rhonda Holberton Evan Holm Desiree Holman Barbara Holmes Chandler Holmes Heidi Holmes** Allison Leigh Holt How-to Homestead Kiana Honarmand** Justin Hoover Rachel Hornaday Lutz Hornischer Sarah Hotchkiss Patrick Hothan Carrie Hott

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Jesse Houlding Mary Houligan Erin House Tania Houtzager Karrie Hovey Christina Howard Mildred Howard Lindsay Howland Gilber Hsiao Phillip Hua Jonathan Huang Shisi Huang** Stephanie Huang Yu-Hang Huang Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien Rose Huey David Huffman Amanda Hughen / Starweather Tsai Hui-Ying Nicholas Hullibarger** Whitney Humphreys Taryn Hunter Suzanne Husky Orang Hutan Melissa Hutton** Bradley Hyppa Raymie Iadevaia Ivan Iannoli Scott Idleman Michael Ifland Madeleine Ignon John Mark Ikeda** Hoyeon Olivia Im Einat Imber Clint Imboden Amber Imrie-Situnayake Seizi Imura Valerie Imus Stephanie Inagaki Misako Inaoka Yuko Inatsuki Maria Ines Yoko Inoue Kelly Inouye Santiago Insignares Chris Ireland Hannah Ireland Gregory Ito Nancy Ivanhoe Rachael Jablo** Ako Jacintho Claire Jackel Candice Jacobs Beth Jacobson 262

Peter Jacques lahib jaddo Marisa Jahn Heejin Jang Cortijo Jano Prajakti Jayavant Jeremiah Jenkins** Kyle Jenkins Ryan Jenkins Cindy Jensen Mimi Jensen Avy Jetter Carla Jimenez Gaby Jimenez Jose Jimenez Ara Jo** Hyun Sun Jo Jim Jocoy David O. Johnson** Eirik Johnson Erin Johnson Kerri Johnson Mark Johnson Natasha Johnson Sam Johnson Jessica Johnston Marnia Johnston Robin Johnston Audrey Jones Janet Jones Lee Jones Margo Jones Matt Jones Pete Jones Ryan Jones** Samuel Levi Jones Tex Jones Sangyon Joo Joonbug Kate Jordahl Juke Jose Igor Josifov Stephanie Jucker Vishal Jugdeo Kacy Jung** Ali Kaaf Maya Kabat Darlene Kaczmarczyk krista kahl Rhonwyn Kaiser Ashley Kalemjian Marguerite Kalhor Lianna Kali Rachel Kalman

Robin Kandel Gregory Kaplowitz Pantea Karimi Andrzej Karwacki Carrie Katz Dorian Katz Amy Kaufman Rebecca Kaufman Wendy Kawabata Beckey Kaye Kevin Keaney Matt Keegan Suzanne Kehr Anna Kell Ben Kellgren** Erin Kellgren Jon-Paul Kelly Mikey Kelly Patricia K. Kelly Tessa Kemp Matt Kennedy Jear Keokham** Sasha Kerbel Michael Kerbow Theresa Kereakes Rebecca Kerlin Sara Kerr** Terrel Kerson Tracey Kessler Emily Kettner Bessma Khalaf Sahar Khoury Scott Kidall Scott Kiernan** Patti Kilroy Hea-Mi Kim Hyeon Jung Kim Kyong Ae Kim** Laura Kim Sandy Kim Tammy Kim** Mike Kimball Ian Kimmerly Brian King** Leah King* Yumi Kinoshita Paul Kirley Jessica Kitchens Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon Hadar Kleiman Sarah Klein Andrew Kleindolph Amanda Klimek Amanda Kline

Anne Klint Marie-Luise Klotz Mary Anne Kluth Jaime Knight Nathan Koch Katherine Kodama Michael Koehle Liz Koerner** Charmaine Koh Fenix Koh-Udella Lauren Kohne Elisabeth Kohnke Eva Kokopeli Chris Komater Daniel Konhauser Amelia Konow Julia Kopelson Niki Korth Nathan Kosta Keira Kotler Melissa Koziebrocki wendy kramer Noah Krell Naomie Kremer Kenna Kristine Michael Krouse** Nicholas Kulick Jon Kuzmich Heesoo Kwon Tony Labat Mike Lai Sam Lai Ellen Lake Dan Lam Katrina Lamb Kirstin Lamb Anna Landa Kris Lang Noah P. Lang Amy Lange Kate Langlois Jessica Lanham Angela Lanyon Francisco Lapetina Eric Larson David Lasley Derek Lassiter Dori Latman Katie Latona Parker Laura Todd Lavine Lauren Lavitt Lee Lavy Danielle Lawrence

Kendra Renee Lawrence Peter Lawrence Denise Laws Krisztina Lazar Jack Leamy Evie Leder Carrie Lederer Ahn Lee Angie Lee** Billie Lee Charles Lee Dionne Lee Helen Lee Jon Lee Lee Lee Mido Lee Sarah Lee Meredith Leich** David Leighton Alma Leiva Rudy Lemcke Mika Lemoine Alyssa Lempesis Jennie Lennick** Jenny Lens Alma Leppla* Gabrielle Lessard Carter Leung** Paula Levin Paula Levine Dana Levitt Forrest Lewinger Katie Lewis Kristina Lewis Diana Li Kathleen Li Yida Li Muzi Li Rowe Hava Liberman Janice Lin John Lindsey Janis Crystal Lipzin Kerith Lisi Heike Liss Ellen Little Vita Litvak** Ellen Litwiller Anli Liu Crystal Liu Hung Liu PeiXin Liu Rachel Liu Brian Livingston Aida Lizalde

Ken Lo Frank Lobdell Jennifer Locke Jupiter Lockett Natasha Loewy Casey Logan** Lola Mary Lonergan dani lopez** John Lopez Monique Lopez Malena Lopez-Maggi Lesley Louden Tom Loughlin** Iris Loughran Benjamin Love Nolan Love Jessamyn Lovell Andrew Lowder Seth Lower Geraldine Lozano** Carole Lu Cathy Lu** Fang Lu Kija Lucas** Paula Lucia** Jennifer Lugris Bobby Lukas Juan Luna-Avin Monica Lundy Maria Lux Natalia Lvova Dan Lydersen Cybele Lyle Claire R. Lynch** Derek Lynch Nathan Lynch Whitney Lynn** Mads Lynnerup Lindsey Lyons** Li Ma Mary Ma Phyllis Ma Amos Mac Graham Macbeth Rachel MacFarlane Ian Mackay Kat MacKinnon Scott MacLeod Jon Macy Maneesh Madahar Paul Madonna Camila Magrane Deepa Mahajan 263

Elizabeth Maher Maciej Makalowski Nick Makanna Erin Mallea Nick Maltagliati** Candace Mammarella Timothy Manalo Paris Mancini Pablo Manga Annabel Manning Ann Mansolino Michelle Mansour Kari Marboe Mary March Matthew Marchand Joan Margolies-Kiernan Kara Maria Jenny Markowitz Annette Lee Marrs Diana Mars Mary Marsh Vanessa Marsh Jim Marshall Christopher Martin Jackson Martin Lisa Martin Pam Martin Pam Martin Stacy Martin Alejandro Martinez Jetro Martinez Monica Martinez Rogelio Martinez** Viviana Martínez Carlos* Lena Martínez-Miller Estudio Martita Yuki Maruyama Carrie Maseredjian Taras Mashtalir Carolyn Mason Tara Mateik ChiChai Mateo** Lee Materazzi Ryoko Matsumoto Rae Maxwell-Ross Bridget May Victoria May Jeff Maylath Kathryn Joy Mayo Kristine Mays Shara Mays Christina Mazza Lulu McAllister Margaux McAllister** 264

Barbara McBane Beth McBride Lynne McCabe Colm McCarthy Elizabeth McClellan Andrew McClintock Nicole McClure** Michael McConnell Daniel McCormick Molly McCracken Kumar Megan McCready Lindsay McCrum Lisa McCutcheon Alicia McDaniel*** Brian McDonald Jillian McDonald Heidi McDowell Collin McEachran Bruce McGaw Lilia McIntyre Klea McKenna Thomas McKnight Machine McLaughlin Tarn Mclean Carling McManus Eli McNally Christopher McNulty Dennis McNulty** Jenna Meacham Bijan Mehdizadeh Alexander Feliciano Mejía Joe Melamed lauren melendez Nixie Melendres Samuel Mell Daniel Melo Morales John Melvin Juan Carlos Mendizabal Juliana Mendonca Jimena Mendoza Leigh Merrill Hannah Merriman Paul Merryman Avital Meshi Sam Metcalf Stephanie Metz Christine Meuris Jenny Meyer Conrad Meyers** Robert Meyers Willis Meyers Vreni Michelini** Andréanne Michon Scott Mickelson

Midori Midori Masako Miki Gabby Miller Gardner Miller Ju Young Miller Kate Miller Max Miller Naomi Miller Randall Miller Cynthia Millonis Andrew Mills Pj Mills Kristin Miltner Noritaka Minami Robert Minervini** Scott Minneman Jordan Minter Susannah Mira Luis Miranda Vincent Miranda** Anoushka Mirchandani Lisa Mishima Michael Missiaen Paul Mitchell Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton Doris Mitsch Janice Miyagi Masako Miyazaki Mie Mogensen** Nasim Moghadam David Mohr Erica Molesworth Yvette Molina Shelley Monahan** mimi moncier Guo Mong Karina Monroy Linda Mary Montano Mariela Montero Fiamma Montezemolo Erin Monty Elizabeth Mooney Barrett Moore Chad Moore Kate Moore Julio Cesar Morales Elizabeth Moran Channing Morgan James Morgan Jeremy Morgan Eve Morgenstern Megan Moriarty** Doug Morris Jeff Morris

Sarah Morrison Jason Mortara Ava Morton Yvonne Mouser Tom Mueske Ranu Mukherjee Paul Mullins Colleen Mulvey Ming Mur-Ray Carson Murdach Moira Murdock Diane Murk Heather Murphy Eadweard Muybridge Seth Myers Shea Naer Bonny Nahmias** Mia Nakano lydia nakashima degarrod Michael Namkung Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov Palmieri Nanda Danielle Nanni Sarah Nantais Michael Napper Kate Nartker** Ali Naschke-Messing Amy Nathan Laurel Nathanson Yola Nathanson Karla Navarro Judit Navratil Yoshiro Negishi Brooke Nelson Richard - Jonathan Nelson Ariadne Nénclares-Pitol Claire Nereim Daniel Nevers Camilla Newhagen Aambr Newsome* Sarah Newton Yola Ng Roger Ngim Dang Ngo Dominic Nguyen Sofia Niazi Haden Nicholl Toban Nichols Christopher Nickel Haden Nicoll Deneane Niebergall Audrey Nieh Sabina Nieto

Penny Nii Oliver Nisch Tomonari Nishikawa Joshua Nissen King Margaret NIven Aldo Noboa Audifax Nodado Joyce Nojima** Daniel Nolan** Tsering Norbu Jacqueline Norheim Felicita Norris Sirron Norris Jenna North** Natani Notah Miguel Novelo Raphael Noz** Brion Nuda Rosch Ramekon O’Arwisters Ian O’Banion Mira O’Brien Nathalie O’Brien* Billy O’Callaghan Kimberley O’Dowd Michael O’Gorman Rosie O’Gorman Voula O’Grady David O’Johnson** Jennifer O’Keefe Kelley O’Leary** Susan O’Malley Eleanor Oakes billy ocallaghan Daniel Ochoa Evren Odcikin Jennifer Odell Andrew Ogus Luciana Ohira AJ Oishi Sean Olson Kate Oltmann Sandra Ono Beril Or Kelly Ording Elisa Ortega Montilla Charmaine Ortiz Lollie Ortiz Elokin Orton-Cheung Kari Orvik Christine Osinski Alex Oslance Susan Ossman Michelle Ott Guy Overfelt

Christyn Overstake Uba Owl Adriana Oyarzun Emiko Oye Massimo Pacchione** Lauren Pace Tressa Pack Meri Page Jessica Paige Joseph Painter** JJ Miyaoka Pakola Heather Palmer Nanda Palmieri Adrienne Pao Marcela Pardo Ariza Trevor Parham Mary Parisi Laura Parker James Parlin Laura Parnes Maia Paroginog Erik Parra Piero Passcantando Francesca Pastine Maryl Pataky Elena Patino** Heather Patterson Patricia Patterson Kamau Amu Patton Laura Paulini Dalmacio Payomo Michael Pedroni Elina Peduzzi Krista Peel Kyle Peets Chelsea Pegram** Joshua Peiper Marko Pelijhan Gabriela Peña Álvarez David Peña Lopera Jenny Pennywood Alejandra Pérez** Grace Rosario Perkins Andrew Perry Byron Peters Caitlin Petersen Christine M. Peterson Jen Peterson** Sasha Petrenko Nina Petrochko Pete Petrochko Molly Pettengill Jessica Pezalla** Mehregan Pezeshki 265

George Pfau Peggy Phelan Sonya Philip Erica Philippe Allie Phillips Jenny Phillips Joel Daniel Phillips Angela Buencamino Phung** Christopher Piallat Beth Pickens Melanie Piech Yulia Pinkusevich Mark Pinto Steuart Pittman Joey Piziali flo pizzarello Carrie Ann Plank Mari Plaza-Munet** Bernardo Poggi-Leigh** Jeana Poindexter Scott Polach Alissa Polan Alisa Polischuk Silvia Poloto Ella Ponizovsky Nigel Poor Yuri Pop Nancy Popp Maria Porges Baruch Porras Hernandez Dario Posada Aaron Poser Rachael S. Posnak PosterVIRUS Pete Potranko Carissa Potter-Carlson Brittany Powell Tim Power Terry Powers harriet poznansky Megan Prelinger Mel Prest Maggie Preston Nicholas Price** Susannah Eloyse Prinz

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Freya Prowe Lucy Puls Shayne Punim Toni Purcell Ted Purves Simon Pyle Carol Queen Genevieve Quick Kathleen Quillian Tana Quincy Arcega Moshe Quinn Gary Quinonez Juan Carlos Quintana Amanda Quiroz Ze R. Amun Mawu Ra** Radio Free Clear Light Hadley Radt Jennifer Radtke Gail Ragains ghazal rahimi Michelle Ramin Cenorina Ramirez Adriana Ramirez (RAQUEL)* Dustin Rankin Jon Rappleye Sarah Ratchye Nieves Rathbun Jessica Eve Rattner Ruby Ray alice raymond Beverly Rayner Sara Razavi Emily Rea Arielle Rebek** Megan Reed Shelley Reed Rachelle Reichert** Christopher Reiger** Sarah Reimer Alicia Renadette Kendra Renee Katie Revilla** Eric Rewitzer Aaron Reynolds

Samantha Reynolds Kate Rhoades Renee Rhodes William Rhodes Lisa Ricci Tivon Rice Leslie Ann Rice Bock Rebecca Richards Ricardo Richey Ryan Richey Meghann Riepenhoff Arturo Riera Jeffrey Riley Megan Patrice Riley Philip Ringler Sherwin Rio Alana Rios Manuel Rios Chris Ritson Roz Ritter Neil Rivas Damaris Rivera Micah Rivera Quintin Rivera-Toro Ansley West Rivers Marika Robak Trina Robbins Solange Roberdeau Adrienne Skye Roberts Ariella Robinson Trina Robinson Walter Robinson Dario Robleto Abel Rodriguez Blanca Estela Rodriguez** Julio Rodriguez Lordy Rodriguez Martha Rodriguez Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera Kent Rodriguez Segura Kristin Roeder Jon Rogers Matthew Rogers Rachel Rogers Stephanie Rohlfs

Ignacio Rojas** Ingrid Rojas Contreras Nathalie Roland Alessandro Rolandi Dianne Romaine Vincent Romaniello Robin Rome Ruben Romero Simone Root Tamara Rosado Sawyer Rose Thorina Rose Tim Roseborough Kit Rosenberg** Leah Rosenberg Aaron Rosenstreich Blaise Rosenthal Beth Ross Lauren Ross Michael Ross Phil Ross Maryam Rostami Evan Roth Lindsay Rothwell Andy and Katie Rottner Anna Rotty Sharbani Roy Zachary Royer Scholz Orly Ruaimi Andre Rubin Steven Rubin Gloria Rubio Tachina Rudman Daphne Ruff Carlos Ruiz-Valarino Dan Rule Jana Rumberger Breanne Rupp Dee Dee Russell Sheila Russell Lauren Ruth Mark Ruxin Neli Ruzic Maja Ruznic Anthony Ryan

Michael Ryan Byron Ryono Elizabeth Ryono Nadim Sabella Julia Sackett** Claudia Sackett Hennum Nadim Sadella Maryam Safanasab Rachel Sager** Catherine Saiki Primsuda Sakuntabhai Jose Salazar Ronnie Salmerson Ari Salomon Maren Salomon Jennifer Salomon Omabegho** Cayla Salvador** Paolo Salvagione Virginia Samsel Virginia San Fratello Emma Sancartier Zoe Sandoval Laura Sanford** Aimee Santos Surabhi Saraf** Ohad Sarfaty** Samya Sattar Anna-Lena Sauer Ronald Saunders Nancy Sayavong Merlene Scahain Biagio Scarpello Alexander Schaffer-Czech Anastasia Schipani Jesse Schlessinger Jeff Schmuki Julian Schnabel Maxine Schoefer-Wulf Greta Schoenberg Roddy Schrock Manfred Schroeder Rob Schroeder Justin Schuetz Owen Schuh** Dave Schulbert

Centa Schumacher** Julie Schustack Adam Schwarcz Noa Schwartz Lev Har Lauren Scime** Laura Scott Matt Scullin Tamra Seal Zach Searcy* Amelia Sechman Keith Secola Anna Segner Larraine Seiden Megan Seiter Johnny Selman Carol Selter Samantha Senack Amol Sengupta courtney sennish Azin Seraj Muzae Sesay Edward Setina Abigail Severance Emily Sevier Emmanuel Sevilla** Julia Shafer Nicole Shaffer Mohsin Shafi Hina Shah Brian Shapiro Jenny Sharaf Soraya Sharghi Pallavi Sharma David Sharp Kyle Sharp Adam Shaw** Laurel Shear Ebtihal Shedid Eve Shen Charles Sherman Katherine Sherwood Maureen Shields Jenn Shifflet Meghan Shimek Alice Shintani

“Being a part of the Root Division community taught me a great deal about how to be a professional artist and an arts professional.” — Ryan Jones 267

Laura Shipp Kate Short Rebecca Shortle Keyvan Shovir Palija Shrestha** Jocelyn Shu Christopher Sicat Anna Sidana Jim Sienkiewicz Susan Silas Carolina Silva Sasha Silveanu Emily Silver Saree Silverman** Brad Silverstein Jeremy Arlo Simmons Deborah Simon Rebecca Simon** Kirsten Simonsen Alex Simpkins Julz Hale Mary Simpson Barry Singer Brian Singer Leila Singleton Sofia Sinibaldi** Ashli Sisk Renetta Sitoy** Dimitra Skandali** Cigdem Slankard Bret Slater Susanne Slavick Paul Slocum Susannah Slocum Maya Smira Allison Smith Constance Smith Dean Smith Joshua West Smith Kasey Smith Nicollette Smith Sarah Smith Susan Lynn Smith Adrianne Smits Greta Snider Bessie Snow Jessica Snow Sam Snowden Minji Sohn Joshua Solis** Chris Sollars Lisa Solomon Patricia Sonnino Oleksandra Sorokina Ariel Soto 268

Omar Soto Ray Souder** Keith Southern Travis LeRoy Southworth Piero Spadaro Heather Sparks Kristen Spickard Jamie Spinello Jeff Spirer Annie Sprinkle Marta Spurgeon Patrick St. Clair Maggie Stack cara stallone** Jen Stark Lucy Stark** Michael Starkman Patrick Steber John Steck Jr Stacey Steers Jordan Stein Erica Steiner Stephanie Steiner-Jacobi Anthony Stenberg Elizabeth Stephens Randy Sterns Megan Stetson Daryll Stevoll Wells John Stewart Brian Stinemetz Kate Stirr** Mark Stock Sarah Stolar Kirk Stoller Lisa Stoneman Inez Storer Shannon Stovall Randy Stowell Dan Strachota Amber Straus Lynae Straw Lindsay Stripling** Jason Stropko Jennifer Stuart Amber Stucke tamara suarez porras Young Suh Tim Sullivan Craig Summerill Lauren Summers Leonard Suryajaya Jen Susman Becky Suss Rebecca Suss

Nathan Suter** Julie Sutherland** DJ Swayzee Lucy Sweeney Brian Sweet Stephanie Syjuco Jill Sylvia Rebecca Szeto Laurie Szujewska t.w.five Charlotte Tai** Tina Takemoto Shimpei Takumi Taravat Talepasand Anna Talhami Charlene Tan James Tantum Tim Tapel Brandon Tauszik Brian Taylor Kevin E. Taylor** Lauren Marie Taylor Lonnie Taylor* Zin Taylor Kristen Tedesco Matthew Tedford Ileana Tejada* Sarah Tell Mimi Tempestt Erin Kellgren Temple Mitch Temple Claudia Tennyson Masami Teraoka Tallulah Terryll Weston Teruya Shushan Tesfuzigta Afatasi The Artist TIm The Optimist Eric Theise Sarah Thibault Luther Thie Brian Thomas Karen Thomas** Larry Thomas Zachary Thomas Kevin Thomas-Welch** Ryan Thompson Sonja Thomsen Adam Thorman Sonya Thorne* Tonya Solley Thornton Chris Thorson** Myriam Thyes Kevn Tijerina

Margaret Timbrell** Juliette Tinnus Nathan Tobiason Julie Tolentino Tina Tom Jeffrey Tombrello Cara Tomlinson Mickie Tong Scott Tooby Lauren Toomer Joey Toro** John Torrente Nicolas Torres Montana Torrey Kristina Tosi Natalie Tottenham Tobias Tovera** Amy Trachtenberg kirsten Tradowsky Glenn Tramantano Sanh Tran Truong Tran William Tran Proyecto Traslodos Jamie Treacy Bradly Dever Treadaway Ian Treasure** Chris Treggiari** Daniel Alejandro Trejo Carly Troncale** Lucrecia Tronsoco Zoe Trouble** Lien Troung Marc Trovato Chloe Trujillo Zan Truman LT Trunzo Brandon Truscott Hui-Ying Tsai Hui-Yu Tsai Scott Tsuchitani Devon Tsuno Blake Tucker Tanna Tucker Will Tucker Jessica Tully** Adelya Tumasyeva Consuelo Tupper Hernández Angélica Turner** Hooper Turner Rupy Tut Gina Tuzzi Jessica Tyler Merav Tzur

Cat U-thasoonthorn Bright Uguchukwu Eke Anja Ulfeldt William Ulrich Lawanda Ultan Russell Uman Indira Urrutia** Matthew Usinowicz Anna-Maria Vag Aldo Valdez** Anna Valdez J. Parker Valentine Nowell Valeri Richard van der Aa Winnie van der Rijn Kristen van Diggelen Marie Van Elder Emily Van Engel Naomi Vanderkindren** Luke Vanderlinden Kimetha Vanderveen Chris Vargas Elia Vargas Emily Varnum Maria Vasconcelos Beatriz Vasquez** Steven Vasquez Lopez Liena Vayzman Amy Vázquez diego vela Casandra Velasco Paulina Velasquez Cristina Velazquez Fernando Velazquez Paulina Velazquez Solis Ben Venom Summer Ventis Camille Verboort** Katherine Vetne** Cristina Victor Katie Vida Crystal Vielula Camilo Villa** Johanna Villamil** Jon-Paul Villegas Benjamin Vilmain Lauren Visceglia** Omar Visquel Cristina Vistor Vita Vitvak** michael voelker Andy Vogt Ven Voisey Rebecca Volinsky

Alex Von Bromssen Arika Von Edler Sanjay Vora Lisa Vuskovic Lois Wachner Solomon Catherine Wagner Victoria Wagner Hannah Waiters Ross Waitman Patricia Wakida Hannah Walcott Jen Waldhaus Matt Walker Peter Walker Robert Walker Sarah Walker Liz Walsh Joan Waltemath Robinson Walter Ross Waltman jesse walton Eike Waltz Donna J. Wan Melissa Wang** tianxing wang Xiao Wang** Tashi Wangdu Keef Ward** Carl Warner Katy Warner Dave Warnke** Joshua Warren Sarah Warshaw Brian Wasson Michelle Waters Darren Waterston Allison Watkins Brittany Watkins Daniel Watkins Charlotte Watts Scott Weaver Robert Wechsler Tali Weinberg Rachel Weiss Julie Weitz Dawn Weleski Serena Wellen Travis Weller Serena Welln James Wendell John Wentz Rhonda Weppler** Arrington West Ansley West Rivers 269

Brooke Westfall** Jeannie Whelan Stephen Whisler Cate White Lindsay White Mike White Nancy White Jessica Whiteside Erin Whitman John Whitmarsh Irene Wibawa Adam Widmer Drew Wiedermann Gerald Wiggins** Gail Wight Aaron Wilder Bruce Wilhelm Ken Wilkes Melissa Wilkinson Pat Willard Gabriella Willenz Anthony Williams Christopher Williams* Doug Williams Erin Williams Hadley Williams Hilary Williams Lana Williams Kathryn Williamson Nancy Willis S.D. Willis Andrew Wilson Angie Wilson Ealish Wilson Helen Wilson Keith Wilson Laurie Wilson Luke Wilson

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Michelle Wilson Patrick D Wilson Rebekah Wilson Smith Carmen Winant Mary Wings Michal Wisniowski Andy Witrak Juliann Witt Aaron Wojack Thomas Wojak David Wolf Nate Wollman Margo Wolowiec Holly Wong Katerina Wong Kit Yi Wong Raymond Wong** John Wood Bret Woodard Marissa Woodrow Vanessa Woods Ethan Worden Krista Wright Lena Wright Shannon Wright Amberlin Wu Nina Wu Stephanie Wu Nanette Wylde Melissa Wyman Megan Wynne Edmund Wyss** Justine Xi*** Sandra Yagi Anne Yalon** Mikki Yamashiro Victor Yañez-Lazcano Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough

Bijan Yashar Allison Yasukawa Pamela Ybañez Liza Yee Jeong Im Yi Gabriela Yoque Nili Yosha Shelly Yosha Rochelle Youk Greg Youmans Amber Jean Young Jess Young Stephanie Young Ju Young-Miller Daniel Yovino Huameng Yu Cathy Yuan Jane Yuan David Yun Larry Yung Rene Yung Jameson Zaerr Jody Zellen William Zeng** Jasmine Mengjiao Zhang* Ruxue Zhang** Xia Zhang Haoyun Erin Zhao Ying Zhu Nyssa Zinn Phoenix Zoellick Carolyn Zola Minoosh Zomorodinia Jasmin Zorlu Anna Zusman Jeff Zygmunt

“[Root Division] has given me community in SF and experience that I would never have had. When I signed my year contract at Root Division I could only afford 2 months—so a subsidized studio at RD was not just where I wanted be, but really the only place I could afford. I use every opportunity I could find and have grown with the organization ” — John-Mark Ikeda

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teaching artists YOUTH EDUCATION Josh Aaron** Jessica Abraham Greta Liz Anderson** Nicki Aquino Kimberley Arteche ** Claire Astrow ** Alyssa Aviles** Alvaro Azcarraga** Sebastien Bachar Julio Badel Isaac Bader Evan Barbour** Charlotte Beck* Natalia Becker Ana Bedolla** Emily Beeson Erik Beltran** Elizabeth Bernstein** Angela Berry Allegra Bick-Maurischat Elisheva Biernoff** Evelynn Bird Susan Birnbaum Carol Bold Juliana Bradley Amelia Brod Aik Brown* Ester Bruijn** Madeleine Buck Maria Burr** Becky Busi Rafael Bustillos** Amy Cancelmo** Natasha Carlos** Paul Cartier Irene Carvajal** Carlos Castillo** Vreni Michelini Castillo** Elizabeth Cayne** ChiChai** Elizabeth Chiles Mona Chitkara 272

McKaela Christenson Natalie Christine Ashley Ciecka Fernando Cisneros** Jon Casey Clary** Zoe Cobb** Leigh Ann Coleman** Claire Colette** Holly Coley** Alice Combs** Caroline Connelly Samu Cortez** Jano Cortijo Alexis Courtney Angie Crabtree** Rea Lynn de Guzman** Rachel Dean* Nancy DiCianni Kira Dralle Tayler Duprel Stephanie Echeveste Gözde Efe Salim Elijah Eva Enriquez** Margaret Jo Feldman Sophie Feuer** Sam Flores** Rebeca Flores* Selene Foster** Hunter Franks* Adam Friedman** Guta Galli** Nimah Gobir** Amelia Goodman Caleb Goodwin Tej Greenhill Frankie Gutierrez Tanna Hall** Brooke Hatch Dana Hemenway** Alexander Hernandez** Plinio Hernandez**

Brett Hillyard Christina Howard Shisi Huang** Taryn Hunter Melissa Hutton** John-Mark Ikeda** Kelly Falzone Inouye Chiei Ishida** Rachael Jablo** Judy Jarvis David O. Johnson** Ryan Jones** Sara Kerr** Kyong Ae Kim** Tammy Kim** Brian King** Chelsea King Liz Koerner** Hope Kogod Fenix Koh-Udella Michael Krouse** Leslie Kulesh Kate Langlois Jessica Lanham Angela Lanyon Dori Latman Kristina Lazar Carrie Leeb Meredith Leich** Jennie Lennick** Alma Leppla* Diana Li Eda Li Kathleen Li Christina Limata Vita Litvak** Kathya Lopez Freddie Lopez-Daniel Tom Loughlin** Caleb Louis Cathy Lu** Kija Lucas**

Claire R. Lynch** Whitney Lynn** Lindsey Lyons** Caitlyn Madara Dustin Manning Michelle Mansour Lily Martine Alexandra Martinez Viviana Martínez Carlos* Lena Martinez-Miller Nicole McClure** Eli McNally** Dennis Mcnulty** Carmen Melendez Lauren Melendez Katherine Mergens Kate Miller Leanne Miller Robert Minervini** Mie Horlyck Mogensen** Mimi Moncier Kate Morris Anika Nagpal Danielle Nanni** Toban Nichols Tomonari Nishikawa Ryan Noble Joyce Nojima** Jenna North** Raphael Noz** Krystal Nzoiwu Kimberly O’Dowd Larisa Ocañada Heather Palmer Kristen Parkinson Denise Parsons Elena Patino** Chelsea Pegram** Edgar Pena Jesus Perez Alejandra Pérez** Nicole Perroni

Ivana Pinto Rachelle Reichert** Tracy Ren Ashlee Nell Revialto Samantha Reynolds Joaquin Ridgell Sarah Riemer Marisa Rittismit Blanca Rodríguez** Ingrid Rojas Contreras Breanne Rupp Julia Sackett** Leticia Salinas Jenny Salomon** Cayla Salvador** Surabhi Saraf** Ohad Sarfaty** Owen Schuh** Centa Schumacher** Julia Shafer Adam Shaw** Allison Shiozaki Palija Shrestha** Saree Silverman** Sofia Sinibaldi** Renetta Sitoy** Dimitra Skandali** Joshua Solis** Rennie Song Claire Sorosky Rosie Sotello Ray Souder** Cara Stallone** Lucy Stark** Kasey Stuart Nathan Suter** Clare Szydiowski Kevin E. Taylor** Ileana Tejada * Mitch Temple** Jessie Thatcher Sarah Thibault

Joseph Thomas Chris Thorson** Phoebe Tillem Tina Tom William Tran Chris Treggiari** Myrina Tunberg Angelica Turner** Indira Urrutia** Emily Van Engel Beatriz Vasquez** Camilo Villa** Lauren Visceglia** Hannah Pearl Walcott** Xiao Wang** Keef Ward** Dave Warnke** Sarah Warshaw Lauran Weinman Alissa Weisman** Rachel Weiss Rhonda Weppler** Brooke Westfall** Christopher Williams* Raymond Wong** Marissa Woodrow Stephanie Wu Veronica Yazmin Alexis Young Ashley Young Zoe Zimski

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ADULT EDUCATION Morgan Anderson** Kimberley Arteche** Megan Badilla Jeremiah Barber** Evan Barbour** Charlotte Beck* Ana Bedolla** Erik Beltran** JD Beltran Alyssa Block Nicholas Bohac Lizzy Brooks** Sarah Brothers Aik Brown* Jamie Brunson Ahn Bui** Amy Cancelmo** Irene Carvajal** Jon Casey Clary** Leigh Ann Coleman** Holly Coley** Alice Combs** Samu Cortez** Angie Crabree** Calcagno Cullen Rea Lynn de Guzman** Rachel Dean* Inna Didenko Gözde Efe Salome El* Amy Ellingson Emilee Enders Evan Enriquez** Eden V. Evans** Seth Familian Hunter Franks* Chris Frasier Adam Friedman**

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Noah Friedman Garth Fry Guta Galli** Inés Gardilcic Blake Gibson** Jon Gourley** Nora Grant Melonie Green Melorra Green Leah Greenberg Courtney Griffith** Makiko Harris** Lauren Hartman Amber Hasselbring Victoria Heilweil Dana Hemenway** Alexander Hernandez** Plinio Hernandez** Josh Highter** Kiana Honarmand** Lindsay Ellen Howland Shisi Huang** Nicholas Hullibarger** Melissa Hutton** John-Mark Ikeda** Rachael Jablo** Rebecca Kaufman** Ben Kellgren** Sara Kerr** Kyong Ae Kim** Tammy Kim** Jaime Knight Angie O. Lee** Meredith Leich** Jennie Lennick** Alma Leppla* Annie Lin Sandra Liu**

dani lopez** Tom Loughlin** Cathy Lu** Kija Lucas** Paula Lucia** Whitney Lynn** Paul Mallowney Nick Maltagliati** Michelle Mansour ChiChai Mateo** Margaux McAllister** Alicia McDaniel** Robert Minervini** Vincent Miranda** Shelley Monahan** Megan Moriarty** Bonny Nahmias** Kate Nartker** Diana Negrin Joyce Nojima** Raphael Noz** Nathalie O’Brien* Kelley O’Leary** Massimo Pacchione** Alejandra Perez** Jen Peterson** Carrie Ann Plank Mel Prest Nicholas Price** Arielle Rebek** Rachelle Reichert** Christopher Reiger** Katie Revilla** Blanca Estela Rodriguez** Favianna Rodriguez Ignacio Rojas** Julia Sackett** Cayla Salvador**

Ohad Sarfaty** Rob Schoeder Owen Schuh** Centa Schumacher** Lauren Scime** Emmanuel Sevilla** Kramer Sharp Adam Shaw** Alex Shepard** Palija Shrestha**** Janet Silk Rebecca Simon** Kate Stirr** Lindsay Stripling** Julie Sutherland** Kevin E. Taylor** Evelyn Thorne Sonya Thorne** Margaret Timbrell** Michelle Townsend Phi Tran Truong Tran Carly Troncale** Angelica Turner**** Ben Venom Katherine Vetne** Camilo Villa** Xiao Wang** Rhonda Weppler** Brooke Westfall** Amy Whittaker Christopher Williams** Raymond Wong** Will Zeng** Ruxue Zhang** Martha Zlatar * Current Studio Artist ** Studio Artist Alumni

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SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS YOUTH EDUCATION PARTNERS/ SITES 826 Valencia Balboa High School Bay Area Discovery Museum Bayview Hunter’s Point YMCA Bessie Carmichael Middle School+ Blue Bear School of Music Bryant Elementary+ Buena Vista Child Care+ Cesar Chavez Elementary+ Children’s Creativity Museum Community Housing Partnership Contemporary Jewish Museum Cuicacalli Escuela de Danza Destiny Arts Everett Middle School Fairmount Elementary Filipino Education Center+ Galing Bata+ Golden Gate Philharmonic HandsOn Bay Area Hanson Bridgett LLP Herbert Hoover Middle School

Horace Mann Middle School James Lick Middle School KIPP Bayview Academy La Cocina / SF Street Food Festival Larkin Street Youth+ Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble Mission Education Center+ MLK Middle School+ Oasis for Girls Palo Alto Art Center Performing Arts Workshop San Francisco International High School Sanchez Elementary+ Seven Tepees Youth Program Southern Exposure St. Peter’s School+ Street Styles UCSF Children’s Hospital Yerba Buena Gardens Childhood Development Center Yick Wo Elementary Youth Art Exchange

ADULT EDUCATION PARTNERS/ SITES AirBnB Ancestry.com ARCH Art Supplies+ Artist & Craftsman Supply Blick Art Materials+ Contemporary Jewish Museum Creativity Explored Ernst & Young LLP Facebook+

Google HandsOn Bay Area Kelly Cullen Community Kink.com La Cocina / SF Street Food Festival Lyra Health Stanford University UCSF Children’s Hospital + Current Partner

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ALUMNI FOUNDED BUSINESSES + PROJECTS 100 Days of Action 3standardstoppage studio Aggregate Space Gallery Aguas Migrantes Residency Ark Project Residency BAASICS Bar Fluxus Bay Area Anti Racist Families Bay Area Caricatures Cancelmo Artist Services Cartoon Guru Empire in the Air Hannah Pearl Apothecary Jenny Lemons Kalamuna

Leaf Cutter Studio Little Lodge Madrone Art Bar Mobile Arts Platform Painted Mary Pinckney Clay Pop’s Bar Queer Rain Romer-Young Gallery Royal Nonesuch Gallery Small Spirits Time . Material Vision Field Wall of Song Yes! Crescent Co.

CATALOGUE PRODUCTION Phi Tran and Michael T. T. Nguyen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Design

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MISSION Root Division is a visual arts non-profit in San Francisco that connects creativity and community through a dynamic ecosystem of arts education, exhibitions, and studios. Root Division’s mission is to empower artists, foster community service, inspire youth, and enrich the Bay Area through engagement in the visual arts. The organization is a launching pad for artists, a stepping-stone for educators and students, and a bridge for the general public to become involved in the arts. SUPPORTERS Root Division is supported in part by a plethora of individual donors and by grants from National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Kimball Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Violet World Foundation, and Deutsche Bank.

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