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April 2022
Meet the Cohort of Artists
The Foundation is excited to be working with the current cohort of artists who are exhibiting their artwork at the CZI Community Space. Read about the October 7th art exhibition opening HERE.
Curator of Exhibitions is Heather Marx, Principal of Heather Marx Art Advisory.
To learn more about an artist, watch a video by clicking on their image.
Photographer Tania Cardenas
Tania Cardenas (B. 1977) is an artist who lives and works in beautiful Red- wood City, California. She received a BFA from San Jose State University in 2002. Themes in her work are nature and exploring emotional landscapes. She enjoys doing narrative, figurative paintings in oil. She is inspired by travel and enjoys sharing the world with her three young children @taniamcardenas | Taniamcardenas@yahoo.com | www.taniacardenas.com
Artist Halle Donovan
Halle Donovan is an illustrator and painter currently working on her BA
in Geography at UC Berkeley. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Halle grew
up in the surrounding redwood forests, playing with newts, building faerie houses, and making up stories. She works in a variety of different mediums and enjoys exploring new ways to express herself artistically. She hopes to honor the natural world and the various ways in which humans connect with it through her art.
@theharemoon | hallerosedonovan@gmail.com
in Geography at UC Berkeley. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Halle grew
up in the surrounding redwood forests, playing with newts, building faerie houses, and making up stories. She works in a variety of different mediums and enjoys exploring new ways to express herself artistically. She hopes to honor the natural world and the various ways in which humans connect with it through her art.
@theharemoon | hallerosedonovan@gmail.com
Fiber Artist Yunan Ma
Yunan Ma designs and handmakes each unique piece with natural fibers including merino wool, alpaca wool, silk, and cotton, that are carefully selected from top yarn mills around the world. The hand felted realistic flower collection captures the moment a flower blooms. Yunan transfers two dimensional images of flowers to three dimensional wool arts using her cre- ativity and craftsmanship to depict the light and shadow within the flower and the result exudes cheerfulness and beauty.
@yunanmadesign | www.yunanma.com
@yunanmadesign | www.yunanma.com
Artist Christine Ong-Dijcks
Christine Ong-Dijcks a Filipino-Chinese artist, offers comfort and fun through her warm, vibrant paintings of places and people and colorful, whim- sical images of our wonderfully complex world. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University and the Philippine Institute of Interior Design, she taught herself to paint in oil after settling in the Bay Area and focused on fulfilling her life-long dream of being an artist. Her work is inspired by her Filipino heritage, her family travels through Europe, and the Bay Area with its unique perspective on the impact of technology and globalization. @c_ongdijcks_art I twww.christineong.com
Artist Whitney Parker
Whitney Parker is a full time artist based here in Redwood City. Her artwork is abstract, but takes inspiration from nature and our surrounding landscape here in California. She aims to bring a unique interpretation of the environment while incorporating aspects of her fashion design back- ground into the art itself.
@artbywhitneyalyssa I artbywhitneyalyssa.com
@artbywhitneyalyssa I artbywhitneyalyssa.com
Photographer Gato Rivera
Gato Rivera is a street photographer, community volunteer, and classic car enthusiast. His journey as a photographer began at a young age, capturing the culture and vitality of life across the Bay Area. His collection of photos focus on the joy of people in the community. Gato resides with his family in Redwood City, California.
zugato@gmail.com | plumchevy.smugmug.com/czi
zugato@gmail.com | plumchevy.smugmug.com/czi
Digital Artist Karen Valdez
Karen Valdez is a young artist raised in the North Fair Oaks community of San Mateo County, California. She works at the Siena Youth Center with underprivileged kids of color and strives to inspire and empower them. Karen is a semi-professional chalk artist with exceptional skills in graphic design, photography, painting, and digital art. She attends art courses at the San Francisco Academy of Arts.
@valdezzzarts | valdezzzarts@gmail.com
@valdezzzarts | valdezzzarts@gmail.com
Collaborative - Sheena Wilton of Laurel Street Arts and Generations United
Laurel Street Arts is a locally-owned, full-service, crafts studio specializing in pottery painting, mosaics, and glass fusing. Owner Sheena Wilton partnered with the youth at Generations United to create an art piece for the exhibition. Generations United partners with local schools, congregations, businesses, and city government, mobilizing hundreds of incredible volunteers to help bring positive transformation to even more students, parents and extended family. Growing in literacy, math, science, and whole life skills, these joined lives – across generations and culture – bring health and renewal to the most vulnerable among these Peninsula communities.
Check out the slideshow to see more:
Art Advisory Work Group Members
Terra Fuller
Terra Fuller is the Executive Director of Art Bias and has over 20 years of experience in directing artistic programs, generating creative community, and fundraising in support of artists. Over a five year period, Terra led international cultural fieldwork projects supporting a women-led carpet weaving association in Morocco, a basket weaving cooperative in Namibia, and tigua painters high in the Andes in Ecuador. Terra has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MFA from Yale University School of Art, and an MA in Arts Administration from Indiana University. Terra is a practicing artist, most recently showing at Root Division and Jenny Lemons in San Francisco, and Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia. Her website is www.terrafuller.com.
David Jacobson
David Jacobson is a writer, writing coach, and marketing communications consultant at his firm, Inkflow Communications (www.InkflowCommunications.com).
Antonio Lopez
Antonio López is a poetician working at the intersections of education, poetry, and politics. He holds degrees from Duke University, Rutgers-Newark, and the University of Oxford as a 2018 Marshall Scholar. He is pursuing a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. He also serves as a district representative for CA State Senator Josh Becker (D-13). His debut poetry collection, Gentefication, was selected
by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Levis Prize in Poetry. Antonio his currently fighting gentrification in his hometown as the newest and youngest councilmember for the City of East Palo Alto. www.barrioscribe.com
by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Levis Prize in Poetry. Antonio his currently fighting gentrification in his hometown as the newest and youngest councilmember for the City of East Palo Alto. www.barrioscribe.com
Laurie Satizabal
Laurie Satizabal (@lauriemarte) is a graphic designer and illustrator based in the Bay Area. She's inspired by bold layouts complemented by fun lettering and organic shapes. In her illustrations she's interested in everyday settings and routines in which reflections on art, culture and nature come at a crossroads. Her work can be found at lauriesatizabaldesign.myportfolio.com
Ash Asaro
Bella Burns
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