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Maria Ramos-Chertok

Writer; Teaches the Butterfly Series, a writing and creative arts workshop for women who want to explore what's next

Maria is a writer, workshop leader, and coach who facilitates The Butterfly Series, a writing and creative arts workshop for women who want to explore what’s next in their life journey. Her essay "What Matters" was selected for the 2016 San Francisco production of Listen to Your Mother and her poem, "Womanhood" was recently published in the Apogee Journal. She participated in San Francisco’s 2016 Lit Crawl with the group "Write on Mamas," along with several other women reading stories about misbehavin’ mamas. In 2017, her essay "Meet Me By the River" will appear in All The Women in My Family Sing, the forthcoming anthology edited by Deborah Santana. Since 2014, she’s hosted Women’s Salons – gatherings showcasing women of color artists who share their work in film, writing and music. She is finalizing her debut novel, Rosie’s Blues, a story inspired by the experience of her mother opening their family home in Hackensack, New Jersey as a shelter for battered women and children and is working on her next book, Jobs: Life Lessons through Paystubs. She is a member of Write on Mamas, a San Francisco Bay Area-based writers group.

Meg Reilly

Visual Artist

Meg Reilly maintains a studio in San Rafael at the Marin Society of Artists art center. Her work is collected throughout the United States and Europe. She also holds "creating in the company of others" gatherings on Zoom.

Margo Reis

Mixed Media Artist; Visual Artist; Abstract Artost

Using acrylic paint, a variety of mark making drawing materials, and, occasionally collaged papers I experiment with line, colors, shapes and textures. Relying on intuition and "not knowing" along the way, my intent is to create paintings which often surprise and delight me with vitality, originality, and authenticity. I try not to play it too safe or to recreate what has worked in the past. It has been said that the best work is still tomorrow's and not in the past.

Mark Rice

Writer

I write short fiction and poetry on the creases within tensioned relationships, about Mt. Tam, hikes, California, and Serendipity as strikes a mood. Mainly PG-13; sometimes not. I have published in MV Lit Literary Salon, a book on youth coaching “Coach the Flow State” and technical articles and books involving heavy engineering and high-end construction. I live in Marin, love it, and also like to get away to find myself in fresh surrounds and provoked perspectives.

Sally Robertson

Visual Artist

My watercolor paintings have developed over more than four decades, inspired in great part by my own garden in Bolinas. Sometimes it is the morning light on a petal which evokes a painting, other times a serene still life, and more recently the reflections and movement of the water garden. I try to search out the most telling and revelatory aspects of my subjects, always pushing the limits of the descriptive power of watercolor. Although my work is characterized by a strong sense of realism, I have a reverence for the poetic quality of watercolor, and believe that watercolor applied wet into wet has a spontaneous life of its own and an exuberance that reflects nature most powerfully. My challenge and my goal is bringing together the clear eye of a gardener and the magic vision of an artist.

Laura Roebuck

Visual Artist

I am an abstract painter in oils and mixed media influenced by abstract expressionist, color field, minimalist, and arte povera painters. Through intuition and movement, I explore the interplay of color, shape, and texture, using palette knives, paintbrushes, and assorted household and construction tools. I make paintings of varying sizes; however, creating large-scale work is what excites me most. My process is primarily unconscious, yet coherent. When I approach my canvas, it is often without a specific plan, and the evolution of the piece is unpredictable. In the studio, something will initiate the process; it may be a color, a shape, a tool, a thought: a mark, a gesture, a stroke of paint. I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. I received a B.A. in psychology and a minor in dance from Boston University and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1992. I moved to San Francisco to pursue a career as a psychiatrist and practiced in the Bay Area for 13 years. My first art studio was in San Francisco's Mission district. In 2008 I moved my studio to Marin County, where I now live and maintain my art practice. My work is available locally at Upstart Modern and Poet and/the Bench.

Hannah Rosenberg

Mixed Media Artist

Hannah Rosenberg has always had a love of working with her hands. She studied apparel design at Drexel University, and worked for ten years in New York City designing and developing women’s clothing. She pursued her artwork in her small New York apartment creating, notably, a series of miniature chair sculptures. Later her career took her to California where she worked as both an apparel designer and product designer while also pursuing her artwork. She transitioned to two-dimensional pieces, working in colored pencil, watercolor and eventually mixed media collage. Her later works in collage nodded back to her apparel design roots with the use of thread, stitching and fabrics mixed with recycled papers and paint. Through experimentation, her work became rich with texture, color and depth, using collage in her own unique way-in more of a painterly fashion.

Shelley Rugg

Performance Artist; Visual Artist

Shelley Rugg Born in Oakland, CA Raised in Long Beach, CA Lives & works in Inverness, West Marin, CA I love to paint people and animals because of my endless fascination with all the permeations of form and color that make each individual unique. Much deeper than that though, is a response through the act of creation itself that is on an intuitive level, and allows me to connect with the psychology and soul, or being essence of an individual.

Bill Russell

Visual Artist

Bill Russell is a multi-disciplinary artist. For 40+ years, Bill’s creative life has included fine art, illustration, visual journalism, teaching and web design. He earned his degree from Parsons School of Design in 1976. Bill stays creative working in a variety of media and skill sets, as a painter, web site designer, illustrator and visual journalist. He has shown his work at MarinMoCA in Novato and the Reactor Gallery in Toronto, Canada.

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