Beth Alcala
Beth is a SoCal lady born and raised, and been creating art of different mediums her whole life. Art has always been extremely important to her. She was diagnosed with a form of Autism and Dyslexia when she was 5 years old, and one of the only things that helped her get through everyday life, was creating. Beth has never set herself in any particular art genre, and continues to work with many different mediums like paints, pencils, wood, digital, etc., and she’s always looking to find new ways to express herself. Visit Beth’s website.

Katy Bishop
Much of Katy’s artwork is painted in reverse on glass, most often with alcohol inks because they can be deep or transparent, they can be controlled and sometimes, totally uncontrolled.  Katy recognizes that the control we all want to exert in our lives is often paired with uncontrollable growth and change. Her work was honored with 43 juried on-line gallery exhibitions.  She also had five in-person gallery exhibitions in Southern California, since becoming public in 2021. Her artworks are also in private collections from New York to California. Visit Katy’s website.

Monica Caram
Monica Carám is a graduate of the UNT School of Arts in Argentina with a degree as a Ceramicist Technician and a BA in Business with a degree as Administration and Direction in Business. Her career includes over 20 years of experience as an artist and designer for her private studio selling across the US through recognized online marketplaces as well as participating on local Art galleries in group exhibitions as a member of BAA and CCA obtaining an award for a piece in sculpture. Visit Monica’s website.

Joanne Chase-Mattillo
Joanne graduated from CSU, Los Angeles with a Masters of Fine Art. She has exhibited throughout California, nationally, in Korea, France and England, Switzerland, Scotland, and Greece. Her work has also been selected for Lunar Codex, a very special project partnered with SpaceX to deliver the images of art in a time capsule to be permanently affixed to the surface of the moon, selected by Era Contemporary Gallery in Philadelphia as part of “Legends Of The Moon.” Visit Joanne’s website.

Shirley Chen
I am a self taught artist residing in California. I love to combine paper with acrylic on canvas, a technique that I developed. Visit Shirley’s website.

Beverly M. Collins
Beverly M. Collins’s photography appears on: Peeking Cat 40 Anthology UK (cover), Mud in Magic book (cover), San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly (cover), California Quarterly (cover), Fine Art America products, iStock/Getty images, Shutterstock, Adobe Stock. On the pages of Harpy Hybrid Review, Suisun Valley Review, Academy of the Heart and Mind and others. Her images can be purchased in several sizes and on different products from her website HERE

Mo Collins
Mo Collins is a longtime actress, comedian and painter. She hails from Minnesota, and has been thriving in Los Angeles since 1997. Visit Mo’s website or Instagram

Maureen Dieter
Born and raised in the Chicago area, I received my BFA in Visual Communication at Northern Illinois University. Soon after graduation I relocated to Los Angeles to work as a graphic designer at various studios before opening my own design firm. In the last few years I’ve begun to focus more on fine art, specifically watercolor painting, an interest I’ve had since my college days. Visit Maureen’s website.

Misa Doi
Misa Doi is a versatile artist based in Los Angeles who works across a variety of mediums, with a particular focus on digital art and acrylic on canvas. Known for her playful and humorous style, Misa draws inspiration from her love of cats and whimsical subject matter. She has combined her passion for art and design as a Graphic Designer for press junkets and consistently creates artwork for HULU, DISNEY, NETFLIX, HBO MAX, PARAMOUNT, and other major studios. Visit Misa’s website.

Faye Dove
Faye Dove is a painter based in San Diego, California. Her work is grounded by the natural world and its unknowable intricacy. Her Black Latinidad shapes her reclamation of natural spaces, often featuring underrepresented figures. Visit Faye’s website.

Susan Dukow
Maybe it is my Libra Rising why I can’t make up my mind… I love to paint. I love having a drill in my hands. I love to paint and cut up paper. A total mess with sticky fingers – can’t say I love that, but I persevere because it is mostly the joy of creation that rocks my boat and keeps me sane! Visit Susan’s website.

Jean Essa
Jean is a local artist from Burbank.  Growing up in northern Minnesota, she spent much of her time around nature in particular the cabin on the lake. Most of her art is inspired from scenes in the Midwest, Colorado and California and often from photos that she has taken while traveling. Watercolor is her main medium, but will occasionally paint acrylic on weathered wood. Visit Jean’s website.

Patricia Fortlage
Patricia Fortlage is an award-winning documentary and fine art photographer. From her core belief that if you invest in women and girls, entire communities will be raised, Patricia has focused much of her career doing just that. From her powerful piece covering the female-led Othakarhaka Foundation in Southern Malawi to the stereotype breaking, female empowering Wonder, girl! Project, to a project on the often life-long after-effects of sexual assault on women, Patricia has promoted female empowerment one project at a time.  Even now, with a progressive diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis and the physical limitations that it entails, she continues to create work to improve the lives of her sisters everywhere.  Even her fine art work seeks to tell a story and inspire change. Visit Patricia’s website.

Stefanie Girard
My current artwork is informed by the power of words and quotations. I strive to artistically elevate selected words through my choices of font, materials, application techniques and presentation surfaces. I strive to combine these elements plus additional images in ironic and unexpected ways to create something that is both aesthetically pleasing and meaningful. My work includes large modular installations created with sometimes unusual, sometimes mundane objects like bricks and paper, embroidery and wood along with traditional acrylic paint, watercolor and porcelain. Visit Stefanie’s website.

Allison Braaf Hardaway
Allison Braaf Hardaway is an immigrant from Australia born to South African parents , she now resides in Los Angeles. Braaf uses acrylic paint on canvas and Fine Paper when hand crafting her own greeting cards. Painting passionately since 2018 she is a storyteller especially of her own rich South African Camissa Culture. Visit Allison’s website.

Michael Hartstein
Michael has been painting for the last 50 years and is working out of his studio in Westlake Village, California. He has always enjoyed creating paintings about nature. Over the years Michael has sold many paintings and exhibited his art all around Southern California. Visit Michael’s website.

Yvonne Jongeling
Yvonne is a Multi-Media Artist who specializes in conceptual abstract paintings. Artworks focus on internal environments, based on moments of time. Visit Yvonne’s website.

John Kafka
John Kafka’s art aspires to be appealing & accessible. From a background as a trained fine artist and an award winning animator, John creates limited-release  California landscapes, character portraits, and animal portraits that evoke a playfulness and intellectual repartee. Visit John’s website.

Karen Sharp Lancaster
Karen works in Mosaic, Found Objects, Metal , Glass, Wood and Shells. Her style is eclectic and creates when life inspires her.

Carol Lewis
Artist, poet, wife, mother, grandmother and believer. “Be fair, be kind, be you!” Visit Carol’s website.

Dongpu Ling
Dongpu Ling is an intermedia artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California. She is working at the intersection of art and technology. Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in exploring the relationship between the physical and digital worlds, making the intangible tangible. By integrating machine intelligence into her works, she creates multidisciplinary relationships that challenge the boundaries of traditional media formats. Visit Dongpu’s website.

Linda Louie
Ms. Louie is a retired public school teacher and math coach with over 20 years of experience. She hopes to challenge even the youngest learner to explore mathematical concepts using a variety of tools, including mathematical representations and written descriptions. Saving Lake Leilani is Ms. Louie’s first children’s math storybook. Visit Linda’s website.

Jane Mick
Originally from England, Jane Mick is known for her creative style of painting Women and Wine. Her work is textured and adorned with Swarovski Crystals, lace, gold leaf and what ever works to bring interest to her paintings. You must look close to her work, as something could be hidden in her work. Visit Jane’s website, or find her on Instagram @jane.mick.art

Elina Mir
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Elina has been a creator for as long as she can remember.  In 2001, she moved to California with her family, where her creative passion continued to flourish. Known for her experimental approach, she embraces abstract freestyle as a powerful way to express her artistic and literary vision. Her motto, “I create, therefore I live,” reflects her unwavering dedication to the creative process. Visit Elina’s website.

Sharon Nessim
I have always loved portraits, gravitating to Rembrandts and Spanish masters on all my museum visits. What I enjoy most is the subtle ways you learn about someone as you observe and paint them, and how the final painting ends up being a melding of the artist and subject. What unites my body of work is the emphasis on character, color, and texture. To view a cross section of my work please visit me @SharonNessim on Instagram.

David Orr
“My art derives from living at the confluence of four major freeways in a world created by the defense industry, and encapsulates my work in motion pictures. It expresses my knowledge that each day, everything changes, and nothing will ever be the same.”

Julie O’Sullivan
Julie is an abstract painter focusing on the details of the world with acrylic on canvas, sometimes texturized, embroidered, bedazzled and/or beaded. Her pieces explore microbiology and what microscopic creatures might look like in a playful manner. She also explores the inner workings of the mind by abstractly showing how they might behave in different environments. Having a background in architecture, Julie loves to build cities, loosely defined, and organic. Her next focus is on painting on a larger scale. You can find her studio at The Makery in Little Tokyo, on Intagram: @osullivanarts, and on her website.

Donal O’Sullivan
Donal’s work includes landscape, portrait, nature and what can be described as ‘emo-graphy’, an attempt to translate moods and feelings into photo-graphy. His mixed media work emphasizes color, boundaries and encounters. “Crossing boundaries and exploring cultures and societies lies at the heart of my artistic endeavor. To reflect on the challenges of life, to indulge in the beauty of nature. Creating images that generate emotions, inspire and engage. Chasing the light to capture the essence of a ray of sunshine or expressing feelings on paper and canvas”.

Grant Palmer
Grant Palmer is an award winning Australian portrait photographer and writer, now living in Southern California.  He has lived and created all over the world and continues to explore his art around the globe.  He has been involved with photographing the fire community and is a documentarian for the Burning Man Project.  His ongoing work and links to select publications may be viewed HERE.

Cynthia Pease
As well as an artist, Cynthia serves on the Burbank Cultural Arts Commission has received the Character and Ethics Project Award from CA Senator, Jack Scott and is certified by LA County Arts on the CA State Standards for the Arts. She is also a fellow member of Activate, LA.

Beca Piascik
Starting with her hand papermaking techniques, Beca creates works including wall sculpture, notebook journals, and wearable art including earrings and necklaces.  She is constantly working on commissioned art projects and loves the challenge of collaborating with her collectors.  Beca earned her BFA at the School of Museum of Fine Arts @ Tufts University in Boston. Visit Beca’s website.

Frank Poveromo
I mainly use water soluble wax pastels, highlighters and black ink. My subject matter is iconic Southern California images. I am a draftsman by trade and only started using color at the beginning of the pandemic.
Visit Frank’s website.

George Repetti
I enjoy photographing the many beautiful flowers which bloom here in Southern California, which I the print on fine art inkjet papers best suited for the image. Find George on Instagram @gdrep11

Unfortunately, George passed away this year. We are grateful that he was with us. Rest peacefully George.

Michelle “Mimi” Rossi
Born and raised in Los Angeles California, Mimi Rossi’s style is as eclectic as her background. Creating a piece with ‘any means necessary,’ she uses a variety of techniques and mediums to achieve the visual look she envisions. Visit Mimi’s website.

Lusine Saakyan
Lusine is a self taught artist and has been a creative soul since 2015.  Currently she offers art education classes to kids on weekends, and accepts art commissions. She believes that art unifies and speaks many languages that many can understand.  Find Lusine on Instagram @lusinn_art

Lisa Tomczeszyn
My art practice is in constant response to the natural world, especially the interaction between atmosphere, light, and the earth. The horizon demarcating earth and atmosphere occupy deep observations in my imagination. No matter the materials my work is a meditation on the chemistry of light, air and water and the combinations of sky and weather patterns. I have strong emotional connection to color. My color field landscapes are the heart of my art practice. Visit Lisa’s website.

Randall Williams
Artist, teacher

Find Randall on Instagram @randall.williams.raw.batman

Terry Wilson
I was inspired to draw from paleoartists like Chas, Knight and others in children’s books I read. I was a cartoonist for college and independent newspapers and won awards for cartooning local, state, national and international. I received a BA in 2D art and started painting seriously in 2019. You can see some of Terry’s art here.