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Ricky is an aerosol artist, most notably recognized for his abstract works of fluid shapes and color patterns. Forever a student of the DIY movement, Ricky’s self-taught techniques derive from his earlier graffiti years. His versatility allows for easy transition between large-scale murals and intricate works on canvas.

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@katielovecraft

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Katie is a photographer and self-proclaimed “rat queen� based in Oakland, California. She is a frequent traveler, and shoots with an eye for street fashion and youth culture, but sometimes finds herself in the studio taking photos of butts.

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SAM RODRIGUEZ SAM RODRIGUEZ SAM RODRIGUEZ SAM RODRIGUEZ SAM RODRIGUEZ SAM RODRIGUEZ Sam is an artist based out of San Jose, California, who has been fortunate to exhibit his work in public spaces, museums, companies, galleries, editorial media and online. For a number of years, he was self-taught through graffiti, until he later decided to expand his studies through the pursuit of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at California College of the Arts. He has since blended what he absorbed in both experiences to create his style and figure out the next steps in his career. Sam is seeking new ways to further develop a

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series he calls “Typefaces,” (featured artwork) which is about sampling and remixing visual cues we use in everyday life to process identity; these cues include faces, typography, fashion and architecture. This approach emerged during several studio sessions and has been a vast source for examination of social and cultural hybridity. Sam defines this featured artwork as “cultural landscape” paintings, which are observations of people, and their distinctive features and surrounding environments.

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Fabio Benedetto (aka Benê) grew up in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, surrounded by the local graffiti and urban culture in the ‘90s, which has a strong influence on his style. Using a range of expressions from marginalized mediums to multimedia experimentations, Benê is interested in themes that reflect the struggles of contemporary society. Currently living in San Francisco, Bene’s featured series approaches depression and anxiety caused by technology.

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@lucicrystal

LUCI CRYSTAL LUCI CRYSTAL LUCI CRYSTAL LUCI CRYSTAL LUCI CRYSTAL LUCI CRYSTAL Luci is a Costa Rican born in New York who has always been drawn towards anything and everything art-related. She went from medical school to studying anthropology, and later ended up taking on her true passion, photography. Ever since Luci was around 14 years old, she always carried around a point-and-shoot camera, and that’s really where her love for capturing imagery comes from. She moved from Costa Rica to the Bay Area three years ago and is now a full-time fashion photographer.

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MATT LUCKHURST MATT LUCKHURST MATT LUCKHURST MATT LUCKHURST MATT LUCKHURST MATT LUCKHURST MATT LUCKHURST MATT LUCKHURST

@mattluckhurst

despairing images with a veneer of calm.

“All Is Well” (featured artwork) is an ongoing series of disastrous posters illustrating the everyday qualities of living in America in 2017. Matt is married to the much more beautiful and talented Mary Finlayson (also featured in this issue) and has an anxious dog named Japhy.

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Matt is a designer and illustrator residing in San Francisco. He leads the COLLINS San Francisco office as chief creative officer and co-founder. He has worked with brands like Nike, Facebook, Instagram, Airbnb, IBM, American Express and NASCAR. Matt likes to believe he’s pretty good at it. In his spare time, he thinks of

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Laura is a Santa Cruz-based screen printer specializing in CMYK screen processes. She has been working on a series of political portraits branded with observations and cautions using CMYK to explore the relationship between the digital image, media and national politics.

Laura hopes to continue pushing the boundaries of CMYK screen printing by expanding her collection of political portraits, as well as experimenting with movement in landscapes and film photography-based screen prints. “Santa Cruz is a town known for its artists and activists, so it was only natural that I would end up combining these two interests into one.�

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David’s work is basically a journal of his life and a way for him to express things visually that are hard to put into words.

His style tends to vary depending on how he feel towards the subject of the painting at that time. Most of his figurative works have the subject placed in an environment that says something about who that person is, as well as what they mean to him. David’s still life and more abstracted works say more about himself, and either aim to portray emotions or say something about his mental state at the time.

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RYAN DE LA H RYAN DE LA RYAN DE LA HOZ R AN DE LA HOZ

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@ryandelahoz

Ryan is an artist based in San Francisco.

His work is heavily influenced by the contrast of past and present, as well as modern culture versus antiquity.

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“People call me Count Dubious, the Count of all surrounding Counts. No, they don’t call me that.” His birth name is Drew Roulette. Drew lives in San Jose, California, and paints in the style of what he calls Whimsical Trans-psychedelia.

Without malice, he likes to make people laugh when presented with his paintings — to reflect the world as mysteriously silly with a twist of outré.

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MSTRMI MSTRMI MSTRMIND MSTRMIN MSTRMI MSTRMI MST M M MSTRMIND (mas·ter·mind) is an artist whose artwork is characterized by bold lines and bright colors. Though this style is commonly associated with “friendlier” works, MSTRMIND’s favorite sources of inspiration — social issues, rap lyrics,

propaganda, etc., — create an interesting juxtaposition of lighthearted execution and heavy subject matter. Exploring this juxtaposition further, MSTRMIND applies this art to apparel through an independent project called “The MSTRPLAN.”

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@kristenbrown

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Kristen is a San Francisco−based painter who is originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Her oil paintings, based on experimental film photography, explore the themes of dislocation, transience and memory. She is currently exhibiting work throughout the U.S. and Canada, and is represented by Void

Gallery in Saskatchewan. In 2015, she was awarded a painting grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in Montreal.

Kristen holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master of Fine Arts in painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Daniel executes his work the same way he sees the world — with a series of decisions made with a balance of carefulness and carelessness. “I build the foundation with precession, then deconstruct with emotion. I find my way back through the rubble and the fog, then rebuild.”

@danieljvaladez danieljvaladez.com

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An Artists Serving Artists interview

Daniel J. Valadez Assistant Manager Blick Art Materials – Oakland, CA

Daniel J. Valadez is the assistant manager at Blick’s Oakland store. Primarily a portrait artist, Daniel finds wonder and magic in the experience of painting someone’s portrait, and he’s fascinated by how his subjects wear their environments and share their unique stories. Princeton brushes and Rembrandt paints help bring those stories to life.

How about inspiration?

My work is a controlled, chaotic mesh teetering between the worlds of abstraction and realism. My hope is to create a marriage between the two worlds. My body of work is inspired by my move from San Jose, California, to San Francisco. Not knowing a single person in a city that was bigger than home and noting how many people were out on the streets, blending in with the environment became an apparent focus in my art. Another observation was how graffiti blanketed the city in so many different areas; this fueled a passion to interweave my love for graffiti and my observation of people into the amalgamation of a classical and semi-abstract painting style.

Talk about process.

My work is layered in process; it starts out with photographing my subject matter.

When I find a subject, I’m looking for that vulnerability of them not being aware that I’m there. I want to capture you in your moment.

Whether you’re thinking about your loved one, an argument that you’ve had … I want to capture you at your most vulnerable state mentally, which reflects how you interact with your environment; that’s what I’m looking for, what I take home and study, and live with and build a relationship with. I build that up with paint, with study and with love; and then I’ll tear it down and I’ll lose it, and I’ll try to find my way back. There’s a little bit of fun, a little bit of abstract, that chaos that’s in there; and then there’s the focus, there’s what I want you to see.

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How do you promote your work and take that leap?

The world is changing pretty fast. The challenge is, how am I going to show what I do to the rest of the world … fast, because it’s moving fast. I use social media like a doorway to reach the farthest corners of the states or the world. You have to show people that you’re constantly working, you’re hustling, you’re producing work and you’re offering value.

You have to be consistent and you have to show growth. You have to know what you love to do, and what you love about art or about taking that leap.

You have to be sure. You have to be confident in yourself, and listen to what you’re saying and not the people around you. You only have one bat at life — you can either live with regret down the road or just do it.

More about Daniel.

Daniel J. Valadez was born in Santa Clara, California. He grew up in Visalia, central California, where the summers were scorching and the winters left the grass frozen. He made his return years later to the Bay Area.

Daniel moved to San Francisco in the spring of 2005 and began studying at the Academy of Art University. After a rigorous three years, in 2008 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration. The years that followed his schooling, Daniel continuously pursued a career in painting, and continues to show and sell his work all around the world.

About Artists Serving Artists.

Blick’s most valuable asset is its talented base of store associates, most of whom are artists themselves, and the company celebrates their talents as often as possible. A round of artists is selected several times a year and showcased via in-store signage, flyers, and on Blick Art Materials social media channels — which often get tens of thousands of views within hours of posting. Blick releases these images and interviews in conjunction with national marketing campaigns several times a year in a program they call Artists Serving Artists.

Featured artists are photographed and filmed working in their own studios using a combination of products featured in seasonal promotions, as well as products they use in their day-to-day work. Artists and their work are featured in YouTube videos and in a photo spread in Blick Art Materials’ retail

Back to School flyers. The featured artists are also given product to help them add to their collection of artist’s tools, and compensation for their time.

About Blick Art Materials Blick Art Materials is one of the largest and oldest providers of art supplies in the United States. Its products cater to the full spectrum of artists — from the youngest child ready to scribble with his or her first crayon to the well-known, gallery-represented professionals. The company’s extensive selection, competitive prices and superior customer service make Blick the choice for professional and amateur artists, art educators, architects, designers, students and hobbyists, or anyone requiring quality art materials for work or pleasure. Visit www. dickblick.com for more information.

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PO PO L PO L A R A L OL A ROOID ARRO ID JA OI ID JA Y D JA Y P JA Y P OL Y P OL A R POOL AR O I A O LA R I D ROOIDD ID J JA Kehlani. The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, 2015

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Action Bronson. The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, 2015

Kendrick Lamar during the video shoot for “Alright.” Treasure Island, San Francisco, 2015

Jay Aguilar is from Santa Clara, California. He is a Polaroid film enthusiast who only shoots on original Polaroid cameras and Impossible Project film.

Anderson.Paak.

Hiero Day, Oakland, 2015

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Chaz Bundick (Toro Y Moi). Public Works, San Francisco, 2012

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MARY FINLAYSON MARY FINLAYSON MARY FINLAYSON MARY FINLAYSON MARY FINLAYSON MARY FINLAYSON

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Mary is a San Francisco-based artist who is originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her background is in both painting and printmaking. As a teaching artist, she has run mural painting programs for at-risk youth in East Harlem, New York City, developed art programs for adults with disabilities in Auckland, New Zealand, facilitated workshops for artists in Sweden, Mexico and India, and

more recently, worked as a mentor for at-risk youth at Southern Exposure in San Francisco. Her works have been shown in various galleries and publications in the U.S. and Canada. Mary holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, a graduate degree in art therapy from the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, and a degree in art education from the University of British Columbia.

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@marginalink marginalink.com

Nei Caetano da Silva (aka Marginalink), an immigrant from the Brazilian tropics, is a naĂŻve artist whose works consist of naked people, citizens mad at their politicians, unfamous musicians, people in nature, depressed society, individuals high on drugs, friends hugging, couples fighting and loving, fatherhood, drinking, Syria, homeless children, deadly snakes, bicycles, broken cars and skulls, as well as throw-ups. Currently, Nei is working on a short film animation, and lives with his wife and kid in the Presidio of San Francisco.

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As a San Francisco director, cinematographer, photographer, editor, etc., there are a number of different irons in the fire. The common thread in all of these is Jason’s ability to craft a visual story, then compose and light it in a cinematic style. “Dream Awake” (featured photoset) explores a sense of a being who was emerging, pushed from one reality to another, traveling through a between state on their way to complete a metamorphosis. These explorations incorporate practical and digital enhancements of smoke and digital painting to further blur the sense of reality.

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LUIS TINOCO LUIS TINOCO Luis is a Mexican-American painter and illustrator who was born (November 1985) and raised in the Bay Area. His art education has been mostly self-taught, and his focus has been on realism and figurative works. Luis draws influence and inspiration from the old masters, contemporary artists, photography, city streets, music, books, film and life.

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BEAU B. FRANK BEAU B. FRANK BEAU B. FRANK BEAU B. FRANK BEAU B. FRANK BEAU B. FRANK Beau loves capturing a feeling, whether it be in the form of a gaze or an expression in nature. The “Off the Grid” collection (featured artwork) of juxtaposing portraits with landscapes is a way for him to paint a deep sense of disconnectedness from the now, inflicted by a longing for travel, exploration and adventure. What these black and white portraits seek is to return to that colorful place that has been

carefully painted within the confines of their face — intertwined with their identity like a mask or a window into their thought process; the overwhelming nostalgia of better days past or perhaps the hope for even better ones to come. Beau hopes to convey a feeling of wanderlust, all while staying true to his taste for simplicity, sophisticated style, limitless traveling and creative thinking.

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“Messy” is not just an adjective she uses to describe her process, it’s a lifestyle; it’s about embracing all of the fuck ups, mourning the lost and misplaced, and bumps and bruises, and making it into something … kind of pretty. “Messy” is the chaotic scrambling to get her ideas out before she forgets them — turning accidents into intention, gracelessness into beauty; accepting that there is no right way to create or to be.

Rachel “Messy” Beck’s current work is largely influenced by her current infatuation with boobs. “The female form holds so much value in our society, but is so simply deconstructed into a series of lines and shapes. At this point, it takes on a new form of objectification and consumption.” She plans for her work to become increasingly sculptural as she begins to objectify men as well.

@messybeck

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In Chad’s current body of work, he molds his resourceful street art background with his fine art influences. His nonobjective paintings rely on forms and colors as they relate to one another and create a single shape. Chad takes his concerns for painting something that lasts in the outdoors and applies the same techniques when approaching a canvas. He uses latex paint and oversized brush strokes to ensure these paintings, like his murals, will surpass the test of time.

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Although he was born and raised in Honolulu, Chad became enthralled with graffiti and the art of the Mission School.

In 2000, he moved to San Francisco and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising from the Academy of Art University. He worked for top agencies, including Venables Bell & Partners and Goodby Silverstein & Partners, before leaving advertising to concentrate on painting murals on the streets, as well as canvases for both commercial and nonprofit gallery shows. Chad quickly gained recognition for his bold and colorful latex paint brush strokes that pushed the boundaries of public art.

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@messybeck

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Hayden is an artist born in the Bay Area, but now lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He is drawn to imagery that evokes the contrast between permanence and its inherent ephemerality.

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@orlie

Orlie is a Bay Area native, now a San Francisco-based illustrator and print artist.

She is currently into drawing badass lady skaters, monochromatic furniture and quirky hands. When she isn’t doodling in her sketchbooks, she’s carving her drawings into linoleum.

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FNNCH believes art is for everyone. “Only five percent of the Bay Area’s citizens and visitors tour its modern art museums.

Street art and murals are art for the other 95 percent — acting to inspire and engage them with the arts.”

When FNNCH moved to San Francisco, he became obsessed with street art, but felt there were not enough people pushing the art form forward. Deciding to be the change he wanted to see in the world, he hit the streets with multi-layered stencils and spray paint. FNNCH has had gallery shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and his art can be found in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, St. Louis and Hoboken, New Jersey.

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@morrittstudio

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David’s series of mixed media sculptures are made from clay, wood, tesserae, wire, paint, glitter, glaze, rope and lights. His art aims to be a voice for the empowerment of humans in need in an increasingly global community rather than for corporations of greed. These sculptures are in support of protest, revolution and protection of the environment. David is an American artist, teacher and curator, living and working in San Francisco.

He is inspired by the environment, relationships, colors, music, art, culture and the everyday rhythm of life. David spent the first half of his life in Los Angeles and the second half in San Francisco. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in history of art from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Fine Arts in painting from San Jose State University, and an art teaching credential from San Francisco State University.

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Originally from South Florida, Meryl moved to San Francisco in 2002 to attend the Academy of Art University.

She fell in love with the tactile nature of sculpture and pursued a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the major. Meryl’s work consistently revolves around elements found on the periodic table. From silver and copper, to neon, iron and carbon,

she creates a variety of abstract mixed media works that relate to her concept of universal connectedness. In doing so, Meryl combines technical expertise — from welding to glasswork to papermaking — with her own personal narrative, building complex pieces that invite the viewer to guess at what thoughts and experiences influenced her process.

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Heather travels seeking stories of all kinds — stories behind people, places, sound and nature — and brings them home to her San Francisco studio to create an interpretation.

Working primarily with paint and nontraditional materials, her recent work is a reflection of travels in nature. Heather spends time collecting moments from wooded areas, agitated rivers and panoramic views of the ocean, and conveys them through medium washes and emphatic marks. She uses color like punctuation, as a means to control the energy and direct the eye. Her process demands motion, requiring the entire body, not just the hand. Heather pours and manipulates paint into its own current using a range of motions. Each of her paintings ultimately seeks to balance the progression of growth and upkeep found in both nature and the act of painting.

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@mthenelson

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Matt is a motion graphics designer and general internet dude. He works for a commercial video agency in the East Bay, where he splits his time between creating visual effects, experiential design and crushing his coworkers at Mario Kart.

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Jeremiah’s work is both inspired by and investigative of finality. Exploring themes of nature and coexistence, he employs a multitude of stylistic approaches, which range from loosely abstracted to highly rendered objects; these differing image styles are generally coexisting in a single piece, thus creating a juxtaposition of reality and surrealism. Jeremiah is best known for his narrative work that depicts themes of disenfranchised circus elephants, yet this is only a portion of his already developed, and collected, body of work.

He is a native of Santa Cruz, California, and began his career as a custom surfboard builder with strong communal ties to surf and skate culture. Jeremiah holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from San Jose State University and currently pursues painting at his studio full time.

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Hans is a future-boy artist currently living in San Francisco. Most of his inspiration comes from skateboarding culture, city people, mythical creatures and far-out universes that he has visited in a past life.

Hans offers the viewer an intimate connection with a character they might relate to which resides in his work.

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@chadwickheath

Chadwick transforms the benign into baroque works of energy through his paintings, drawings and sculpture. He often cites the Pacific Garbage Patch, where plastic floating in the ocean enters our food chain, as the impetus for many of his pieces. Taking unassuming trash heaps, Chadwick turns them into sculptures with accents of color and deception, describing them as three-dimensional, abstract expressionism paintings. He is interested in exploring the interconnection between what we buy for everyday use and who we are as human beings.

Chadwick’s paintings and drawings begin as photos that he takes on his walks around the city of discarded objects, peculiar spills or swirls of pigeons feeding off fast food wrappers, ultimately forming a stormy vortex, which tell a story of modern day consumerism and its ramifications. He has shown in the Bay Area and New York. Chadwick holds a Master of Fine Arts in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and currently resides in San Francisco.

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CCTV creates for the experience and memories, and motivates himself to paint huge paintings on deserted walls almost as an experiment. He finds it fun to figure out how he’s going to pull off such huge projects with his very limited assets, and saying, “It’s not always obvious knowing how to paint a 40-foot high painting in a hard to access location in a matter of hours so that no one else sees you do it.”

CCTV has built a set of tools that he invented, which help him paint such big pieces. He often has to customize his tools for every piece he paints.

CCTV paints huge human and skeleton figures, with a security camera instead of a head, that he calls CCTV. He was

somewhat inspired by George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” where he depicts a state of complete surveillance and control by a higher power he calls Big Brother. His CCTV characters are almost like Big Brother escapees — characters who have been brainwashed and let loose into an environment without any structure.

CCTV has since created new characters that he calls Smileys; they often have round smiling faces that spell out CCTV (a C for each eye, a T for the eyebrow and nose, and a V for the smiling mouth).

He hasn’t quite decided why he paints and puts so much artwork in the outside environment, but he’s sure more will come.

@cctvtcc

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Some people call her Nina, but she’s also known as GIRL MOBB. Nina is a street artist and muralist. Originally from Cincinnati, she has been putting in work in Oakland, California, for nine years.

Nina’s latest art project, which was meant to be a one-time class to empower girls with street art, led to her becoming the creator and director of Graffiti Camp for Girls — an ongoing renegade graffiti class. Graffiti Camp for Girls is a graffiti and mural painting class for girls taught by women artists.

The mission of Graffiti Camp is to develop the talents of and create opportunities for girls to create public works. This class gives students a creative opportunity to enhance their public art skills. The class provides creative counsel; and teaches process and skills, image planning, an understanding of spraypaint and its application, and safety precautions using these tools. The end result is a mural that is collaboratively designed by the girls themselves. The next class locations include San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Rosa, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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about the ambitions, talents, aspirations and faith held inside his fellow riders. He began to deconstruct and draw a critical focus to what it means to be reigning or worshipping, outstanding or just plain ordinary. Sharpening his perception and perspective on where the lines between ordinary and extraordinary converge and play with one another, the colors and forms found in his work began to follow suit.

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Like many SFMTA patrons, John rides with headphones, listening, but always watching — the curious, the uncomfortable, the scary, the routine. Inspired constantly by the dualities of ideas that the collection of figures on the bus provokes, he uses his time to collect, think and envision. The bus, windows and people in it became a launching point for the work in this featured collection as he began to think

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Lucya is originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, but now resides in San Francisco.

She is studying online to be a web developer; and in her free time she plays drums in a new local band called Milk, runs her small Etsy and Depop stores called “Nothing is Funny,” and animates bricks of clay into colorful, goofy GIFs,

drawing inspiration from strange dreams and peculiar objects. The usual setup of her “claytoon studio” is an iPhone on a tripod wrapped around a wine bottle and duct taped to the table. Lucya is looking forward to working on a more serious project in the future, and to creating a longer claytoon or music video.

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Brett is an Oakland-based artist working primarily in painting and sculpture. In addition to exhibiting in galleries both domestically and abroad, he has also completed a number of public artworks, including a mural at the museum of the University of Nevada, Reno, and a large-scale, public sculpture in downtown Oakland, California.

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Currently, Paula has two practices — creating geometric, abstract paintings and creating unique, handmade snapback caps. In her paintings, she is interested in the simplicity of a single geometric shape and the complexity that can be created through the combination of many simple structures. This oppositional relationship between simple and complex is at the core of her work. Paula’s goal is to create a composition for a view that feels both

simple, graphic and flat, while also complex, painterly and deep. “The hybridization of these opposing characteristics creates an experience that is not easily digested at one glance. Layers of discovery are created as the viewer experiences the precise and systematic, while also the chaotic and expressionistic.” Her hats are wearable art. Each hat is one of a kind and handmade from secondhand fabrics.

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Robert eats far too much chocolate and drinks too many lattes; consumes far too much alcohol for inspiration; and managed to obtain a fungus — all with the intention of becoming a creative.

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