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Art City Collective – 1992 Botke, Cornelis – 2002 (post.) Botke, Jessie Arms – 2002 (post.) |
Britton, James (post.) – 1999 |
Forbes, John – (Art City, 1994) Fox, George -2009 |
Hannon, Catherine (Art City, 1994) |
Johnson-McMillin, Gerri – 2006 Knauff, Steve (Art City, 1994) |
Layman, Dan – (Art City, 1994) |
Richards, Eric (Art City, 1994) |
Sol, Demper – 2004 Stewart, Albert (post.) – 1999 Stinsmuehlen-Amend, Susan – 2006 Texana (post.) Berger, Wendy – 2003 |
Richard Franklin
Figurative Artist/Ceramist/Architect
“Creativity,” says Richard Franklin “is what life is all about. It is important to all our humanity.” When FOTM designates an individual as a “Master Artist,” various criteria are…
Aimee French
Fiber Artist
Silk painter Aimee French loves the tactile sensation of moving the paint onto the silk with her brushes. Whether abstract or realistic, that sense of motion and color are inherent elements in her paintings. Her…
Carl Friedlander
Fiber Artist
Carl Friedlander, a retired computer scientist, is well-known for creating prayer shawls worn at Jewish religious services. His fiber art gene seems to have come…
Barbara Fumagalli
Engraver
Barbara Fumagalli knew she would be an artist at around age seven when she began sketching and painting on family outings. Instead of playing volleyball and baseball, the family would pack up sketch pads, paint…
Orazio Fumagalli
Sculptor
A renowned sculptor and teacher, Orazio Fumagalli was known for his “figure fragment” sculptures of the human form that evoked fragments from ancient ruins. Fumagalli also worked in…
Matt Furmanski
Sculptor & Land Artist
Matt Furmanski — educator, artist, public arts commissioner and, oh, yes, surfer dude.– is driven by passion — passion for his art, passion for teaching, passion that drives him to make…
Monica Furmanski
Photographer
Monica Furmanski, photographer and installation artist, directs the viewer’s experience, blurring the lines between image and reality. In 2002 Monica placed window-sized, slightly out-of-focus transparencies…
Ted Gall
Sculptor
Ted Gall began his career in art in the mid-1960s as an animator for teaching films, and continued to broaden his skills as a package and graphic designer. In 1973, he began a 22-year association with automotive gasket…
David Gallup
Painter
David Gallup, plein air painter and teacher, creates works that exquisitely capture a sense of place. A broad color palette and multi-layered paint only partially describe the paintings that explore nature’s character…
Luther Gerlach
Photographer
Luther Gerlach is a photographer whose work captures modern images using old-world techniques. He is an ambrotypist who has built his own camera and who produces negatives in the waxed paper collotype…
George Geyer
Sculptor
“George Geyer’s sculpture toys with the mind,” explained the late distinguished museum director and educator Henry Hopkins. “What we know and what we see are two different…
Dane Goodman
Mixed Media
Dane Goodman is one of the Central Coast’s most accomplished artists. Working in a broad range of media, his artwork has been shown throughout the United States and is in numerous museum and private…
James Graca
Creative Director/Designer/Illustrator
Highly acclaimed graphic artist James Graca discussed his extraordinary work and career. Graca is an award-winning creative director / designer / illustrator with over 30 years of…
Donna Granata
Photographer/Art Historian/Archivist
Donna Granata is the Founder and Executive Director of Focus on the Masters (FOTM), a highly respected non-profit educational program documenting contemporary artists. An accomplished artist in her own right, Donna Granata is an internationally published and award winning…..
Carlos Grasso
Painter
Carlos Grasso studied both visual arts and music as a child while growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He worked as a professional flautist and graphic designer before moving to Southern California where he found his passion for painting.
Colin Fraser Gray
Draftsman/Sculptor/Public Artist
Colin Fraser Gray’s eye on world events, ear for social nuance, and wry sense of humor have shaped his artistic path. His drawings, sculpture and public art are quirky, sometimes…
Porfirio Gutierrez
Weaver
Porfirio Gutierrez is an extraordinary weaver who combines ancient Zapotec traditions with a modern sensibility. Growing up in Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico, he was immersed in the ancient art of weaving….
Tony & Daphne Hallas
Astrophotographers
Tony and Daphne have always worked together as a team. They became enamored with the stars in 1986 when they bought their first 8 inch telescope. They viewed Saturn and were so fascinated…
Mary Beth (MB) Hanrahan
Muralist
While attending a field trip from Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California, Mary Beth toured the Foster & Kleiser Billboard manufacturing facility. Later that day, staring at the awesome billboards as…
Lynn Hanson
Painter
Lynn Hanson’s work stems from a rapt attention and visceral connection to the natural world: from a childhood spent stalking garter snakes at Whiskey Ditch in rural Minnesota to a daily ritual of exploring…
Shamsia Hassani
Born April 1988, is the first female graffiti artist of Afghanistan. Through her artworks, Shamsia portrays Afghan women in a male dominant society. Her art gives Afghan women a different face, a face with power, ambitions, and willingness to achieve goals.
Tim Hauf
Photographer
We can explore the world’s most interesting places without leaving home. Pick up Sunset, Smithsonian Magazine or a National Geographic publication and chances are…
Wayne Alaniz Healey
Painter/Sculptor/Muralist
“I think of myself as a journalist,” says Wayne Alaniz Healy, a painter, sculptor, muralist and retired aerospace engineer who understands the passion and political power of art. Through his…
Otto Heino
Potter
Otto Heino was a man who dedicated his life to his passion. In doing so, he was rewarded with serenity, true contentment and peace of mind. He was born to share his gift with others: his students, his…
William Hendricks
Photographer
Bill Hendricks is drawn to disappearing and shifting cultures, to the vulnerable among us, to the moment that separates today from tomorrow. His lens captures time and isolates it, giving us the…
Lee Hodges
Mixed Media
Lee Hodges combines disparate objects — jewels, copper wire, recycled paper, cast-off plastics, and layers of iridescent paint — to form artwork that shimmers. The fusion of her passions for art and her faith into…
Bobby Houston
Filmmaker
Mighty Times: The Rosa Parks Story, a short (forty minutes) film by Bobby Houston and Robert Hudson of Tell the Truth Pictures, used vintage film stock and cameras to create images that are virtually…