Aylee Ibañez is a Cuban photographer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Art History from Havana University in 2008. She is currently working on a series of self-portraits titled Addimú (in the Yoruba language it means Offering) in which she mixes the symbolic universe of Yoruba's mythologies and rituals through a contemporary visuality.
Art | Photography
Kahalla is a Queer, multi-dimensional artist of Ilokano and Black Ancestry. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Kahalla draws from their curiosity for Ancestral constellations and Land relations to interweave their explorations in visual arts, literary arts, archivism, and psycho-somatic research. Traversing these practices gives form to their fluid roles as a student, educator, and organizer for transdiasporic Queer history-keeping and liberatory healing arts practices.
Art | Healing | Education
Carolina Cuevas is a Cuban-American artist currently based in the bay area. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Minnesota Street Project, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Jose’s Quilts and Textile Museum, International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét, Hungary, and in Kansas City Artist Coalition.
Art | Installation | Textile
Aycoobo better known by his Spanish name Wilson Rodríguez, is a Nonuya Indigenous Artist from the Colombian Amazon. His paintings depict robust landscapes and his personal relationship to the natural and spiritual world.
Art | Painting
Anna Nguyen is a Chinese, Vietnamese American illustrator based in San Francisco. Exploring the narrative possibilities of graphic novels and comics, her work focuses on issues around mental health, social justice, and her reflections about her own life.
Art | Illustration
Inez Inok't Salazar is a Mapuche Ashkenazi and second generation Chilean artist & high school art educator in San Francisco. She is the creator and founder of the Do You See Me Movement, which highlights marginalized demographics with touring art workshops and mural activism worldwide.
Art | Activism | Muralism
Amanda López is a portrait and lifestyle photographer with Mexican-American roots.
Art | Photography
Camilo Rojas is a Colombian artist who creates comic style acrylic on canvas, wood, and glass pieces.
Art | Painting
Instagram | Venmo: @camilorojasart
Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi is a Bay Area independent filmmaker whose most current film is about young residents in Puerto Rico who take control and transform their lives & their community after hurricane Maria. Eli is also the founder of Fist Up Film Festival and co-founder of Defend Puerto Rico.
Film
Frida Kahlo: Tree of Hope by Gloria Arjona, is a mix of story-telling, music, and poetry delving into the life and work of iconic artist, Frida Kahlo.
Music | Storytelling | Poetry
James Conrad is a San Francisco-based photographer who captures concerts, events, and daily life through a unique lens and sensitivity.
Art | Photography
Julia LaChica is a visual artist who works with acrylic paintings on wood/canvas, block printing, and assemblage.
Art | Illustration | Mixed Media
Website | PayPal | CashApp: $JuliaLachica | Venmo: @Julia-LaChica
Oree Originals makes designs available for free download to support impacted families of state sponsored terror and to serve as a tool that amplifies these stories in our activism. In 2014, he launched "Justice For Our Lives," an open source digital portrait series of 100 people killed by US law enforcement. These images have become the visual backdrop to numerous Black Lives Matter protest in the Bay Area and beyond.
Art | Activism
Celeste Contreras is a Xicana-Indigenous artist who works in mixed mediums to share stories of ceremony, culture and tradition. She believes in the importance of capturing and documenting first-hand accounts of those peoples whose history has faced and experienced erasure. Her work includes illustrations, print, book arts and animation.
Art | Book Art | Storytelling
Juana Alicia works in many different media to create both discrete and public works of art including drawing, printmaking, small-format painting, monumental acrylic, fresco, tile and sculptural murals.
Murals
Melanie DeLeon creates Latin-inspired digital art that yuxtaposes different aspects of popular culture, the entertainment industry, and our cultural referents.
Los Pobres Artistas is an Oakland-based group of multidisciplinary artists and friends composed by Sarah Siskin, Keena Romano, Fredericko Alvarado, Thomas Jones, and Stephanie Hooper.
Muralism | Community Art
Pallavi Somusetty is a filmmaker in Oakland, California who creates doc portraits that center BIPOC voices in the hope that we feel fully seen in the complexities of our identities and journeys. Her current work in progress, "Coach Emily" profiles a queer, Black rock climbing coach and her Brown Girls Climbing students. Support the film at this link, and follow Pallavi and her film for the latest updates!
Filmmaking | Documentary
Lauryn Marshall (she/her) is a multi-media visual artist originally from St. Louis, MO who has been a part of the Oakland community since 2017. Her artwork uses color, figure and object composition, and fantastical elements as tools for storytelling to highlight the lived experiences of those from the Black Diaspora.
Painting | Muralism
Claire Dunn is an Argentinian artist, traveler, psychologist, and curator based in San Francisco. Her nomadic lifestyle from an early age has inspired her practice, which aims to enable dialogues with the people and the environment that she is in through different mediums ranging from sculptures and paintings to experimental photography and multimedia installation.
Interdisciplinary Art
Claudia Huenchuleo is a transdisciplinary artist born in Chile and based in San Francisco, California. Through collage, photography, sculpture, and sound installation, her research-based practice reflects on ethical-political concerns and conditions derived from geopolitics that shape the experience of contemporary indigeneity.
Art | Activism | Memory
Mari Rose Taruc is an artist and activist based in Oakland, coordinator of Reclaim Our Power organization. Her current visual work revolves around the Zen philosophy and environmental justice.
Art | Artivism
Rodrigo Ponce de León Pérez is a Bay Area-based visual artist born and raised in Lima, Perú. He uses mixed media, sculpture, and painting to explore human freedom and identity, gender, posthumanism, and his native peruvian roots and their perception of the universe.
Art | Mixed Media
Adriana Arriaga's work is always about resisting and existing. In the moment she is imagining, she is defining what freedom looks like to her. Her work also explores her identities and preserves her memories. She creates to make people feel uncomfortable, to help people feel powerful.
Art | Illustration
Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo creates Mexican inspired art: paintings, sculptures, alebrijes, handmade jewelry, and prints. Her creations are always colorful, metallic, and unexpected.
Art | Painting | Jewelry
PayPal | Poetry | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Nahuatl&Cultura
Ernesto Hernández Olmos is a multi-disciplinary artist, cultural practitioner and sound healer from Oaxaca, Mexico. He specializes in the cultural traditions of first nation peoples of Meso-America.
Art | Sound Healer
Jasmin Padilla, also known as Princessa_Xicana, is a Chicana artist born and raised in the Bay Area. Her art showcases the culture, the love and honor of being Latina. She uses her art to promote social justice movements like immigration rights.
Art | Illustration
John Parulis is an artist who creates California and western states landscape paintings and photographic prints.
Art | Photography
Linda Nunes creates 2D small to large encaustic & mixed media work, using surreal to abstract motives on cradled wood panels that she also showcase in public space.
Art | Mixed Media
Sam Fuller is a photographer, with work focusing on journalism, fine art and nature.
Art | Photography
Suhad Khatib is an artist, filmmaker & designer. The daughter of Palestinian massacre survivors. Currently living somewhere between Ferguson, San Francisco and Amman, waiting for colonials to be gone so she can return back to Palestine. Her work attempts to reverse the harm of propaganda through art and philosophy.
Ken Paul Rosenthal is an Oakland-based filmmaker presently
working on Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone, an in-progress feature
documentary about Berkeley’s iconic street poet. He is presently raising funds to begin editing the
first full rough cut of this film and has some wonderful thank you gifts! Please donate here.
Film | Documentary
Alex Sodari (he/they) is a Mexican-American artist based in Oakland. His work is inspired by his community, comic books, folk art, history, and the natural world. They create paintings, illustrations, zines, and large scale murals. Alex is also founder of the Lazer Zine—a comic and illustration anthology publishing Bay Area artists—and cofounder of the Mission Art and Comic Expo—an event highlighting Queer and POC artists in SF—.
Art | Muralism
Caleb Duarte is a Fresno-based artist and co-founder of EDELO, who works in painting, social sculpture, and community collaborations with autonomous indigenous Zapatista collectives, communities in movement, and working children and refugees.
Art | Activism
Zaina (she/her) is a queer visual and healing artist / healer / bruja from San Francisco who is trained in First, Second, and Advanced Reiki Techniques from the William Rand lineage of Reiki. She has been learning and practicing reiki, tarot and oracle since 2018 and offers tarot readings and energy healing sessions both in person and distant.
Healing | Reiki
Emilia Turner is a visual artist working in alternative process photography and mixed media. Emilia is also a musician member of Paradot -a collaborative, experimental electronic project whose sound lies in between techno, noise, ambient, and pop.
Art | Mixed Media | Music
Cadex Herrera is a multi-disciplinary artist who brings awareness to humanitarian, social and environmental injustices by championing his culture, history, people of color, immigrants, and marginalized peoples. Cadex aims to create art that empowers the viewer as well as elevates the subjects, themes, and struggles that he explores.
Art | Activism
Beyondeep Productions produces erotic films, acting/editing/ and directing, also music, fine art, and are currently working on many projects including a queer/trans novel! All their work is uplifting and empowering to the community and they are pro Black queer and trans, and here to spread love!
Film | Art | Writing
Instagram | Twitter | Venmo: @Beyondeep | Cashapp: $BeyondeepProductions
Dignidad Rebelde is a graphic arts collaboration between Oakland-based artists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. Following principles of Xicanisma and Zapatismo, they create work that amplifies people’s stories and can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.
Art | Illustration | Activism
James Smith is a fine artist who paints portraits, scenery, or just about anything else. James also does upholstering and drapery.
Art | Painting
Facebook | PayPal: humble64@hotmail.com
Jordan Merlino is a queer Baltimore-born papercut artist, illustrator, and Volunteer Crisis Counselor. They make art that is healing for the soul.
Art | Illustration
Jose Flores is a self-taught artist based out of New York whose heart and spirit remain rooted in his place of birth, Guatemala, the heartland of the Maya. He pays homage to his people and ancestors by capturing their sacredness with powerful, dream-like portraits. Through his art, Jose revives his indigenous heritage and identity that has long been in a 500-year battle for survival.
Art | Painting
Pamela Uzzell is an award-winning documentary producer, director and editor. She created "Welcome to the Neighborhood," a documentary film about the cultural and historical costs of the housing crisis in the Bay Area. It is an inter-generational story of an artist, an activist, and a community’s fight to save itself from the destructive forces of inequality and gentrification.
Film
Katie Galloway and Dawn Valadez are the directors of "The Pushouts," a film that, by following the story of Victor Rios, highlights the vast potential of young people to thrive when given access to meaningful opportunities and connections to adults who care.
Film
Angélica Becerra is a queer Latinx painter & illustrator currently based in Los Angeles. She focuses on portraiture, using watercolor and sometimes digital means, to portray BIPOC activists and badass figures she wishes she'd learned about earlier in life.
Art | Illustration
Mari Rose Taruc is an artist and activist based in Oakland CA, coordinator of the Reclaim Our Power: Utility Justice Campaign. She combines her UC Berkeley degrees in Environmental Science and Art Practice to advance the environmental justice movement in political and personal spaces.
Adrian Arias is visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, and cultural promoter, who brings together multidisciplinary artists to engage in community projects with messages of social justice, racial equality, climate change, peace, beauty, health, and hope in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Micah Bazant is a visual artist and cultural strategist who works with social justice movements to reimagine the world. They create art inspired by struggles to end white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and transphobia.
Nicolás Gonzalez-Medina is primarily a printmaker, working with large scale woodblocks.
Art | Printmaking | Wood
Angelica Lopez uses multiple mediums such as acrylic, inks & aerosol to help shed light to empower & uplift communities of color such as her own. Born and raised in East Oakland, Ca has shaped the young Xicana she is today. Following her heart and mind to creatively tell stories, bring beauty, and build strong conections along the way.
Painting | Muralism
Vida Kuang is a visual artist whose works focus on healing as experienced by Asian womxn, and intergenerational joy, experiences of poor/working class peoples and solidarity to black liberation.
Art | Collage
Instagram | Art Booth | Form to purchase art | Venmo @V-K-1-15
Alexa Treviño | LexMex is a WOC portrait photographer and artist. She has a studio in the Mission district, and she creates portraits for all professions and for people who want her to capture their light.
Art | Photography
Instagram | Venmo @lexmex415 | Email: info@lexmexart.com
Caleb Duarte is a Fresno-based artist that works in painting, social sculpture, community collaborations with autonomous indigenous Zapatista collectives, communities in movement, and working children and refugees. He is currently working on a project called Embassy of the Refugee in Tijuana Mexico. Caleb's most recent installation is called The Monument as Living Memory.
Art | Community Engagement
Dulce López is an immigrant womxn from a small low-income rural village in México. Her practice uses painting, screen printing, watercolor, graphic design and performance to make art and information accessible, mobilize communities, unite people across borders, and represent her community’s story and identity.
Art | Activism
Florencia Manovil is a queer Bay Area-based Argentinian independent filmmaker, with a current web series called Dyke Central. Passionate about independent film, social justice, environmentalism, and queer identities, Florencia is committed to bringing underrepresented communities to the screen, as well as showcasing Oakland and the Bay Area at large.
Film
Jhovany Rodriguez is an Oakland-based Mexican self-taught mixed media artist and founder of La Gubia Gráfica. Specializing in printmaking, Jhovany’s images show influences of folk Mexican art mixed with Bay Area culture, portraying worldwide issues with a focus on empowerment and humor, alongside portraits of historical activists and individuals from his communities.
Art | Mixed Media
Website | PayPal | Instagram | Venmo: @jhovany | Jhova.art@gmail.com
Myriad Outreach Project is a direct action group located in the Bay Area that aims to connect intersectional people through shared experiences. Myriad engages in collaborative art activism: banner drops, flyering, posters, street murals, educational forums, and performance art, along with garbage pickup, crochet circles, and homeless outreach food drive components.
Art | Activism
Instagram | AffinityCollab | OaklandBuildersCollective | Facebook | GoFundMe
Yvan Iturriaga is a Bay Area-based Chilean filmmaker, currently working on a short film called "Aparecides," which is both a documentation of the social uprising that happened in Chile in 2019-2020 as well as an imagination of what is possible in the future. Please help get this important story and this moment of history out there! Visit the website.
Film
Thora Olsen is an interdisciplinary mask and puppet maker living and working in Berkeley. She is fascinated by the power of masks as ritualist objects that allow us to explore new forms of consciousness and ways of moving through the world. In her work she aims to explore the intersection of grief, resistance, playfulness, mischief, and awe.
Art | Mask-making | Puppets
Nicole Landreth is an artist and a creative entrepreneur. Curiosity and creativity are inextricably intertwined in her life, which is basically how she navigates the world & her experiences in it. She makes mandalas, macrame, and woodburning.
Art | Craft
Cece Carpio is a visual artist, curator, and cultural worker based in the Bay Area. Cece has produced and exhibited work in Cuba, Fiji Islands, Guam, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Norway, Philippines, United Kingdom and throughout the United States.
Taraneh Hemami explores themes of displacement, preservation, and representation through installations and collaborative projects that intermingle with the spaces they occupy.
Community Art
Regina Evans is an award winning social justice playwright/actor, poet, entrepreneur, costume designer, installation artist, and filmmaker. Her creative work largely focuses upon the healing of Black girls and women, the historical commodification of the Black female womb, and the fight against child sex trafficking.