With the mind of an architect and the soul of an alchemist, designer Sergio Penteado mixes balanced amounts of wit and poetry in his collections. His designs introduce elements of surprise with the movement of its parts, unexpected reflexions created by mirrored surfaces and, above all, by the flexibility they allow. By offering the possibility of multiple combinations, his work invites the wearer to play a fundamental part in the magical game of artistic creation and become its co-author.
Sergio graduated in Architecture and Industrial Design at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and studied Multimedia, Web Design and 3D modeling at San Francisco State University in California. He perfected his skills as a goldsmith, model maker and gemologist at the Revere Academy in San Francisco. He also experimented with sculpture, ceramics, blacksmithing and photography.

Shimmy's Beach is the name of my company, derived from many years of playing restaurant, store and the like with the name "Shimmy."  Shimmy’s Beach is a collection of items made from a variety of materials and inspirations from the Northern California Coast and Ocean Beach in San Francisco in particular. All of the items that are displayed are designed and made by Phylis Johnson-Silk.

For almost three decades Sharon Steuer has pioneered the merging of traditional and digital art forms. Sharon's recent work weaves together her oil paintings, drawings, digital paintings, photographs, and personal artifacts to explore and reflect fragmented memory. Awards for her artwork include the national Faber Birren Color Award, a Windsor Newton Painting award, and a Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her studio is in the 60-artist building Workspace Limited, studio 14a, 2150 Folsom Street (between 17th and 18th).

Sharon is also is an author who teaches how to use digital tools to create artwork in books (The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Books, Creative Thinking in Photoshop), videos (lynda.com/SharonSteuer), and as a regular contributor CreativePro.com.

Cynthia Tom is a visual multi-media artist, passionate about social justice, women’s issues and playing with the accepted norm. Surrealism is the platform for her ideas to ruminate, take form, solutions discovered and color to inspire.

    A seeker and philosopher about issues in her life, her ancestors and the community of women, she is inspired by dialog with friends and family, forming new themes and stories for her work. Collaboration and brainstorming are her playgrounds.

    Her work has been exhibited at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the De Young Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and various other galleries from New York to Washington to San Francisco. She lectures on her work, issues related to women, feminism in the arts and Asian American women in the arts, most recently for the College Art Association’s Annual Conference.

 Cynthia is included in the text book, “Women Artists of the American West”, edited by Susan Ressler, University of Purdue and “Traces of Migration and In-Betweeness: Poetics and Politics in Post-colonial Asian Women Artists”, by Laura Fantone PhD, SF Art Institute ,University of Padua Press, Italy.  Cynthia is currently Board President, Exhibitions Curator and Programs Chair of AAWAA, Asian American Women Artists Association.

    A third-generation Chinese American, Cynthia draws inspiration from divergent

cultures. The resulting contradictions are expressed in a variety of ways. Eastern and Western symbols often share space on the same canvas. Fanciful dresses portray a prophetic wish for people to raise their consciousness and her strong female images evoke a longing for freedom of expression and a life of choice.

    Symbols, cues and clues fill her art, which is described as “Cultural Surrealism”.

Cynthia’s paintings and installations persuade us to look beyond the aesthetic--to challenge stereotypes and traditional roles, questioning paradigms and

encourages our internal dialogue.

Living most of my life on or near the Pacific Ocean, the dramatic landscape of coastal California has become a doorway to inspiration for me:  the sweeping cliffs and tumbling waves, the linear horizon and the curved coastline, the textures and forms of rocks, sand and seashells -- these elements become the stylized lines and forms that give shape to my work.

Influenced equally by industry and the natural world, Betsy combines elements from both to create a body of work that is meant to be collected and worn in combinations that tell a tale of exploration, discovery, and personal meaning.