Up-cycle Artist- creates art and functional items out of discarded materials.
Examples Of Items Made: String Art, Lightbulb Planter, Jar Lid Magnet, Collage, Fish Caves, Refinish Furniture, Lamp, Designed Key Holder
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Photographer, mixed media artist, organizer, promoter, event planner, energy connoisseur, universe thanker, life enthusiast. Originally from New York City, I’ve been living in Petaluma for about 3 years and I love it. Getting to know so many members of the community, I’m surprised that there arent more art centers or creative communal spaces, besides the back of the Phoenix. I’d love to bring more of that to Petaluma. “I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature. All of this is art to me.” — Hunter Reveu
I have always been interested in wildness and wild things, and the ways people live with the natural world. Natural history and human history are strong influences in my creative process. Since completing my degree in Environmental Writing from Scripps College in 2012, I’ve found myself painting on sheep farms, cattle ranches, old boats and beached ice bergs. Along the way, I’ve picked up stories from people who work the land and sea, including rhubarb farmers in Poland, seal hunters in Greenland, ranchers in Norway, sheep farmers in Iceland and boat builders in the Canadian Maritimes. Much of my work is inspired by these stories. I also find myself inspired by the flora, fauna, and farms of California, where I’m from. Watercolors, acrylics, and printmaking are my primary mediums. My work has appeared in educational material, on school walls, and in publications such as the Inverness Almanac and the West Marin Review. I enjoy painting on large walls, dusty old book pages, and trash I find lying around the desert.
Jonny Hirschmugl investigates new ways to “force paint”. With mostly figurative work, he often applies techniques similar to the abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock, who happens to be a great inspiration. Jonny paints like a tree exploding through all of its seasons, in the blink of a camera shutter. If you’ve ever burped and whistled at the same time, you may begin to understand a bit of his personality. Nostalgic, a romantic, and delusional. Jonny’s work encompasses all of these qualities and more.
Isis is influenced by the wind and the salt and the craggy shores of her native Northern California coast, while being inspired too by the urban angles of the cities in which she has lived. Isis studied visual arts and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, NY and printmaking at Fondazione Il Bisonte in Florence, Italy.
Story is our medium. Through novels and films to journalism and conceptual art, we trawl the space between truth and fact, both personal and public, to create parallel possibilities that edify and entertain.
Geddes jones. 27. Illustrator and Tattooer. Kingston NY- Boston MA.
P is a Maryland native who relocated to Ulster County in 2003 and has resided in Kingston since 2012. She works as a visual artist. Through her time in Kingston she has worked on developing her own personal narrative and style through bright, abstract and surreal drawings while capturing her ever growing personal community through photography.
John Walter, aka Exactly, has a background in technology, but found his true love in producing and showing the special transformative True Mirror, the only mirror that reflects you correctly, without being backwards. So many elements are required to make them optically perfect, but the real magic comes from his discovery that they reflect our personalities properly. We stay present in a True Mirror and get lost in backwards mirrors. It’s not just what you look like, but who you are and how you are. In 20 years of showcasing the mirror, he has found that events like O+ have the best quality of people to be receptive to this experience – artistic and perceptive, interested and interesting, deep and developing. His mission is to guide people to their own “AHA moment” with themselves in the True Mirror, and to figure out how best to make this a tool for true self-awareness, discovery and inner peace.
Frank is an Assistant Professor in Photography at SUNY New Paltz. From 2003 to 2012, she was a full-time lecturer in Photography at M.I.T. in Cambridge, MA. She received her Diplom with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and her MFA from Parsons in New York City, where she also participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Recent solo exhibitions include Galleria Michela Rizzo in Venice, Carroll and Sons in Boston, Edward Thorp Gallery in New York, and the Kunsthalle Göppingen in Germany. She received numerous grants and fellowships including the DAAD, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, and a collaborative SUNY Network of Excellence Arts and Humanities grant (lead PI).
