Past Workshops

A creative activist, my focus lies in the transformational value of the creative process and the ongoing interaction between inner and outer experience. Life is my practice. I am a grandmother, artist, writer and minimalist. Life is a process of perception in motion, a process of

Rebirth suggests a state of meditation, bypassing the intellect to reveal subtle patterns of thought and a transparent record of an emerging self. Life becomes more spacious when considering the fluid nature of spirit fragments. Awakening to other dimensions, a deeper awareness of wind, sky and cosmos activates realms of intuitive, telepathic experience required to execute the process.

Books are an extension of my artwork, acting as visual and verbal sketchbooks. Visual diaries continually unfold, linking psychic, electronic and physical space. Waking up in our multidimensional world, I collect data from many sources including nature, dreams, ancient wisdom and the crisis of our times. Seeking liberation, freedom from the constraints I have imposed on my unsuspecting self, I attempt to use the capacities that we all have been given to grasp what is really happening at the edge of awareness. I reach out to sparks from the source.

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• Art Opening with Barbara Seidel and garden party with live handpan music by Gary Muszynski (4:30 - 6:00 PM)

• Cook Fresh from the Garden with personal chef & farm owner, Susan Gouveia (1:00 - 2:30 PM)

• Gardening with Kids with Michelle Bryant, Garden Coordinator at MLK Academy (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM)
• Cooking with Kids in the Garden with personal chef & farm owner, Susan Gouveia (1:00 - 2:30 PM)
• Live acoustic guitar with Bill Hansell

• Garden Q&A & tour with Landscape Designer & Ground co-founder, Beth LaDove (12:00 - 4:00 PM)
• Benefits of Planting CA Natives with Dana Swisher of Refugia (1:00 - 2:00)
• Environmental Stewards Internship Program with Laura McDonnell of Next Steps Liaison Project (3:00 - 4:00)

Annie Bilder is a self taught artist, who discovered her artistic talent when she moved to Tiburon in her mid forties. Here she felt compelled to try to capture the beauty that surrounded her, almost as an act of gratitude for the privilege of living here.

She found working with a diverse array of materials to be a deeply satisfying, very personal form of meditation, with color, always color, driving her.  Early on she decided not to take lessons of any sort. Creating art was too personal. She was afraid to be bound by rules.   

In early 2020, while visiting an art collector friend on the East coast, she was captivated by some pipes covered with various fibers that were hanging above her friend’s sofa. She felt compelled to try out this novel art form. The results are on display in this show.

Jami Patterson, a visionary painter from Belvedere, California transforms landscapes, still lifes and flowers into dreamy realms that bridge the gap between reality and the ethereal.

Inspired by the ever-changing moods of Marin, every canvas she tackles is an opportunity to unveil the unseen, to reveal the secrets whispered by nature's beauty.

Through her art, Jami invites us to reimagine the world we know, to see it through the lens of wonder and possibility.

Leo Bersamina was born in San Francisco, California and grew up surfing and fishing on the coast, just south of the city. Early on, Bersamina began studying art and design in Santa Cruz, California. Later he attended San Francisco State University to finish his BA with an emphasis in Studio Art. He received an MFA in Painting at Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut.

Born into a family of artists, designers, and architects, Andrew Faulkner’s  paintings fuse the structural sensibilities of his architect father and the often riotous color sense of his interior designer mother. Faulkner studied painting at Trinity College with colorist George Chapman who was a student of Joseph Albers, where he learned the art of defining space with color and value. After 30 years of success in the graphic design field, Faulkner decided to get a real job and become a painter.

Faulkner’s work has been shown at numerous galleries throughout the U.S. His illustrations have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Marin Magazine.

Fernanda Martínez is a Mexican artist based in Oakland. Fernanda’s art is best recognized for its highly expressive spirit; through her work she explores the relationship with the environment by incorporating natural elements as themes, using gouache and acrylic as mediums.