1You Fitness
Artist/Designer, Maria Van Wambeke’s work centers around women and improving their self-perception. Maria understands the myriad of ways that society and external pressure can negatively impact the way a woman views herself. Her designs inspire a sense of community among women who love fitness, not because it makes them look good, but because it makes them feel good on both physical and psychological levels.
Maria will feature her 1You Fitness Tanks at the Creative Studio Pop-up. Each of the tank designs resonate closely with what Maria practices in her own life...a connection of body, mind, and spirit and lifelong dedication to finding balance.
Hilary Williams
Hilary Williams is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates fine art screen prints on paper and mixed media paintings in which she takes inspiration from her environments, the urban and natural landscapes.
Hilary received her BA in Printmaking from California College of the Arts in 2002 where she was presented awards including the Trillium Prize. Her work has been collected across the US, around the world and is currently displayed throughout the greater Bay Area and around the country. She also teaches workshops in screen printing online at Creativebug.com. Hilary creates her work from her home studio in Sonoma County where she and her husband have started a homestead. In between creating artwork you can find her milking goats, petting chickens, or canning vegetables.
View more of Hilary's work at:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/hilarywilliams?ref=l2-shopheader-name
Foundation CS
A perfect union of talent, Foundation CS was founded by an artistic husband and wife duo, Jason Foraker and Liz Kost.
Jason Foraker is a renowned commercial graphic artist specializing in packaging and branding design. Outside of his commercial work, Jason’s personal work is a collection of apocalyptic scenarios depicted using a mix of photography and digital renderings. The rising popularity of zombies, destruction and the end of days chimes with our current global economic uncertainties. In Jason’s work the figures are reduced to silhouettes giving them an expressionless and eery quality while the bright contrasting colors make the pieces reverberate with energy.
Liz Kost is a Production Artist by day and an entrepreneur/interior decorator by night. Co-Owner of a home décor company called Mod Acrylics, Liz is obsessed with designing using raw materials. The juxtaposition of raw materials, the mixing of acrylic with fur or concrete with wood, creates minimal designs with textural appeal.
Creative Studio Pop-Up Artist Bios
Check out the artists participating in our August event.
Anne Loarie
Anne is a jewelry designer that loves color. Shortly after college Anne joined the peace corps and lived for two years on the Ngobe indigenous reservation in Panama. Anne was inspired by the Ngobe people who wore brightly colored clothing that they hand sew in intricate patterns to reflect their landscape, often putting together colors that seem to contradict each other.
An homage to the Ngobe people, Anne creates jewelry by choosing color combinations that bounce off of one another and make each one seem brighter and individualistic.
Her jewelry items are made using pieces of nature since nature provides us with the most amazing and varied array of color available. no synthetics necessary.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AnneLoarie?ref=listing-shop-header-item-count
Lisa Knoop
Lisa Knoop is a visual artist living and working in San Francisco, California. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Lisa is fascinated by what is carried from the past, what collects in the present and what we bring with us into the future. Of particular interest to is how experience and time act upon each of us to make us who we are; each addition and subtraction making up the whole. Lisa's work investigates themes of transience,inheritance, and time. Working in various media—painting, drawing, photography, and mixed media, Lisa explores and re-presents artifacts of this journey.
View more of Lisa's portfolio at:
http://www.lisaknoop.com/Portfolio/Portfolio.html
Cheri Mendieta
Cheri Mendieta grew up in San Francisco. She designs and creates jewelry and other objects of art using techniques such as bead embroidery, wire wrap and Japanese kumihimo braiding.
Cheri Mendieta is inspired by the Art Nouveau period which uses nature as its principle source of inspiration, as well as the Art Deco period which is often characterized by rich colors and bold geometric shapes. Cheri especially enjoys working with odd items or found objects such as a belt buckle, an old broach or a broken piece of fashion jewelry.
Cheri's pieces can be purchased online at:
The Werk Shoppe
The Werk Shoppe is a unique cross-stitched jewelry line designed and handmade by Leah Pettis. Leah is a Santa Rosa native who moved back one year ago after living in other great cities such as Seattle, Pittsburgh, PA and Los Angeles. She has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Design and has spent much of her career in theater, film and television. She is an admirer of architecture and a fanatic for live music.
The Werk Shoppe line started as a result of spending too much time in front of a computer for work. She wanted to make something tactile and fun during her off hours. She took up cross-stitching for a wedding present and found she enjoyed the craft. From there it progressed into creating original patterns and finding ways to wear it. Leah is glad to be back in Sonoma County, designing and stitching away in this beautiful place.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheWerkShoppe?page=1
Lisa Elley
Lisa is a New Zealand native who has lived in both London and New York. Lisa now resides in San Francisco. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Auckland University and has always loved to draw and paint.
Lisa's paintings are rendered entirely with a painting knife. She finds painting with the knife to be cathartic, natural and really really addictive! She enjoys painting nature, particularly trees, as well as cities, buildings and the places she has traveled. In our modern world of change and uncertainty, it gives Lisa an amazing feeling of satisfaction to create something that people can enjoy.
You can view more of Lisa's portfolio at: