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Visual Art- Performing Art - Literary Art
Artists are listed below by art type: Visual Artists, Performing Artists, and Literary Artists; and medium. Artist websites are listed for your convenience: to solicit their service for performances and commissions; to request participation in exhibitions, events, anthologies; to purchase artwork and books; to network; to hire instructors, and for other projects and artistic needs.
Categories and media will be continuously adjusted as new artists register. Each art type will have a separate page as the registry grows.

Visual Artists
Animation/Digital Art
Carla Rokes- Drawing, Painting, Digital, Film: Mixed media, tradigital, experimental, comic abstraction. www.carlarokes.com [Visual Art/ Wilmington, NC/ American]

Drawing/Painting/2-D Mixed Media
Sarabjit Singh- Visual Artist/Muralist: Painter. Sikh female Artist painting to increase understanding of Sikh Diaspora. www.artofsarabjitsingh.com [Visual Art: Painting/Santa Clara, CA/ Sikh, Woman]

​Laura Bell–Paintings, mixed media: the intersection of the natural & human-made arenas, the battle between leaf & junk. www.lauraelizbell.net Collaboration with poet www.thecorpses.com [Visual Art: Paintings, mixed-media/Bronx, NY, female]

Regina Calton Burchett- Drawing/Painting: Pastel, Oil, Charcoal, Landscapes, skies and clouds, impressionist and realism, music. www.reginaburchett.com [Visual Art: Painting, Drawing / Concord NC / American]

Paula Marie Deubel - Artist: Magic Realism, Traditional, and Conceptual Symbolism. http://www.paulamariedeubel.com [Visual Art: oil and acrylic paint / Detroit, Michigan / Woman]

Jodi DiLiberto- Painter: acrylic, nature, portraits, whatever inspires me. www.fromthepurplehouse.com [Visual Art: Painting/West Belmar, NJ/Italian American/woman]

Laura Allen- Painting/Assemblage/Writing: painter, sculptor and poet inspired often by feminist themes. www.laurawaltonallen.com [Visual Art, Poetry/ Seattle, WA/ woman]

Jessica Maffia- Drawing: inspired by the overlooked, residue, decay, microscopic imagery, the cosmos, meditation, etc. www.jessicamaffia.com/ [Visual Art: Drawing/ New York, NY]


Hadi Aghaee*- Acrylic on Canvas: Mainly Realism, Pointillism. Various subjects, www.hadiaghaeefineart.com [Visual Art: Acrylic, Digital painting/ San Jose, CA/ Persian]
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Joyce McEwen Crawford- Drawing/Painting: figurative, expressionistic, portraits, oil, acrylic, mixed media, art instructor, women's groups, workshops, www.joycemcewencrawfordartist.com  [Visual Art, Drawing,painting/ San Jose, Ca/ African American]

Moira Donohoe*- Oil painter/pastel artist: Landscape of the West, especially Sierra Nevada. Born/raised: Yosemite (historical pioneer family). www.moiradonohoe.com [Visual Art: Painting /Mariposa, CA/Irish American]


Rebecca Lippert Huber - Photography & Painting: Acrylic painting focusing on landscape, color & small creatures. www.alightfilledroom.com [Visual art/ Durham, NC/ woman]

Monica S. Camin- Painter/Sculptor/Mixed Media: Immigrant heritage, national hybridity, multicultural, www.monicascamin.com [Visual Art: Painter&Sculptor/New Jersey&Houston, Texas/ Latina,Argentina, woman]

Eric Saint Georges - Sculptures and drawings, mostly figurative. Clay, bronze, wood, stone, and charcoal, ink, watercolor. www.ericsaintgeorges.com [Visual Art: Sculpture, Drawing/ Los Gatos, CA/ French]

Shannon Amidon - Mixed Media Encaustic artist inspired by natural history. www.shannonamidon.com [Visual Art: Mixed Media/ San Jose, CA/ Woman]

Eugene Rodriguez*- Painter/Filmmaker: U.S. History-Oil Painting-Portraiture-Film Shorts, www.eugenerodriguez.com [Visual Art: Painter/Filmmaker/San Francisco/Latino/Chicano]

Gabriel Navar- Painting and Drawing: pop-surrealism with references to technology, www.gabrielnavar.com [Visual Art: Painting/Drawing; Oakland, CA]

Raúl Villarreal- Painting: artwork inspired by issues of identity and multiculturalism, www.raulvillarreal.com [Visual Art: Painter/Gainesville, FL/ Afro-Cuban, Cuban-American]

Lucy Ghelfi*- Oil and Acrylic Painter: Mixed Media Abstracts, Ceramic Sculptor: Busts, anamorphic abstracted sculptures www.lucyghelfi.com [Visual Art: Sculptor, Painter, San Jose, CA, Latina/Mexican American]

Nelson Alvarez-Painter: Industrial landscape painting, Optical sculpture, Installation, Public Art and Participatory Art  www.nelsonarte.com [Visual Art: Painting / New York City, NY/Latino, Cuban]

Majella Pinto- Oil, Impressionism. http://www.artbymajella.com [Visual Art: Painting / Campbell, California / American of Asian Indian Origin, Female]


Carla Rokes- Drawing, Painting, Digital, Film: Mixed media, tradigital, experimental, comic abstraction. www.carlarokes.com [Visual Art/ Wilmington, NC/ American]

Barbara Lawrence- Oil on Canvas Paintings: Landscape and Figurative Art.  www.barbaralawrenceart.com [Visual Arts: Painting/Santa Cruz, California]

Ewa Gavrielov- Works on Paper: mixed media: abstract, www.ewagav.com [Visual Art: Printmaking,Drawing,Works on paper/Palo Alto, CA]

Adrian Delgado- Oil painter: mosaic, print maker, mixed media, experimental: Impressionist, textured, art about struggle and balance, www.adelgadoart.com [Visual Artist: Painter/ Bay Area, Latino, Chicano]

Harriet Garfinkle- Acrylic and oil painting, watercolor, pen & ink, pastel, mixed media. www.harriet-garfinkle.com [Visual Art: painter/ Woodside, California/Ashkenazi Jew]

Cedric van Eenoo- Music; Painting; Film. www.vaneenoo.com [Visual Art: Painting/New York City, NY]

Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo*-Acrylic/Oil Paint/Sculpting: Identity, transformation, empowerment. Mesoamerican/Anahuak imagery, Mixtec&Aztec codices, codex glyphs. Mexika dance. www.ejmontelongo.com [Visual Art: Paint,Sculpt/Santa Clara, CA/Xicana, Mexican, Woman]

Film/Cinema
Eugene Rodriguez
*- Painter/Filmmaker: U.S. History-Oil Painting-Portraiture-Film Shorts, www.eugenerodriguez.com [Visual Art: Painter/Filmmaker/San Francisco/Latino/Chicano]

Carla Rokes- Drawing, Painting, Digital, Film: Mixed media, tradigital, experimental, comic abstraction. www.carlarokes.com [Visual Art/ Wilmington, NC/ American]

Glass (2-D)
Joseph Cavalieri- Painted and silk-screened glass artist and educator: Pop art mixed with stained glass. [Visual Art: stained glass/ New York, New York/ Italian] www.cavaglass.com

Graphic Design/Digital Art

Illustration/Comics/Cartoons

Ernest Hogan- Writer/artist/cartoonist: Novels, stories, essays, art/illustrations, www.mondoernesto.com [Literary and visual art, Chicano]

Installations/Conceptual Art

Mixed-Media

Laura Bell–Paintings, mixed media: the intersection of the natural & human-made arenas, the battle between leaf & junk. www.lauraelizbell.net Collaboration with poet www.thecorpses.com [Visual Art: Paintings, mixed-media/Bronx, NY, female]

Carla Rokes- Drawing, Painting, Digital, Film: Mixed media, tradigital, experimental, comic abstraction. www.carlarokes.com [Visual Art/ Wilmington, NC/ American]

Photography
Aliona Kuznetsova - Photographer: dark romanticism + vivid surrealism. Fine art, Portrait, Fashion. www.alionakuznetsova.com

Craig Scoffone- Fine Art Photographer: Landscapes, urban abstracts, figurative studies.  www.craigscoffone.com [Photography/San José, CA/Italian American]

Rebecca Lippert Huber - Photography & Painting: Acrylic painting focusing on landscape, color & small creatures. www.alightfilledroom.com [Visual art/ Durham, NC/ woman]

Printmaking
Susan Barbe Fecho- Printmaker, Surface Designer: Appalachian & tidewater landscapes/architecture; vernacular imagery; indigenous flora/fauna. The past as a personal/cultural/historic artifact.
www.fechodesigns.com [Printmaking/ NC&VA/Appalachian heritage, German/ Scotch Irish/Female/ Caucasian]


Ewa Gavrielov- Works on Paper: mixed media: abstract, www.ewagav.com [Visual Art: Printmaking,Drawing,Works on paper/Palo Alto, CA]

Sculpture/Pottery/Other 3-D Arts

Alysia Fischer - 3D Artist: re-purposed materials, Textile Artist. www.alysiafischer.com [Visual Art: Sculpture and Textiles/ Weaverville, NC / Caucasian, Woman]

Robert W. Milnes- Ceramic Sculptor. Arbitrary Forms Studio. Ceramics: geometric polychrome forms and vessels. www.robertmilnes.com. [Visual Art: Ceramics Sculpture - Asheville, NC, USA / caucasian male]

Monica S. Camin- Painter/Sculptor/Mixed Media: Immigrant heritage, national hybridity, multicultural, www.monicascamin.com [Visual Art: Painter&Sculptor/New Jersey, Houston, Texas/ Latina,Argentina, woman]


Mel Bennett- Visual Artist (Sculpture): Found-object sculpture made of wood and steel, focusing on nature and wildlife. www.mel-bennett.com [Visual Art: Sculpture / Canton, NC / Woman]

​Eric Saint Georges - Sculptures and drawings, mostly figurative. Clay, bronze, wood, stone, and charcoal, ink, watercolor. www.ericsaintgeorges.com [Visual Art: Sculpture, Drawing/ Los Gatos, CA/ French]

Damien Olsen Berdichevsky- Sculpture/Objects/Assemblage: Surrealism/Abstract Expressionism. www.damienolsenarts.com [Visual Art: Sculpture/Brooklyn, New York/Caucasian]

Lucy Ghelfi*- Oil and Acrylic Painter: Mixed Media Abstracts, Ceramic Sculptor: Busts, anamorphic abstracted sculptures www.lucyghelfi.com [Visual Art: Sculptor, Painter, San Jose, CA, Latina/Mexican American]


Jon Barlow Hudson- Sculpture (site-specific, abstract): stainless steel, granite, marble, water, light; ISC and Royal British Society Sculptors; www.hudsonsculpture.com [Visual Art: Sculpture, /Yellow Springs, OH]

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Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo*-Acrylic/Oil Paint/Sculpting: Identity, transformation, empowerment. Mesoamerican/Anahuak imagery, Mixtec&Aztec codices, codex glyphs. Mexika dance. www.ejmontelongo.com [Visual Art: Paint,Sculpt/Santa Clara, CA/Xicana, Mexican, Woman]
*Artists participates in The Artist Patron Project
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Hadi Agahee ocean sea painting boat
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Performing Artists
Dance
ShaLeigh Comerford- Choreographer: Creating socially-engaged dance for theatre, stage, and public spaces. www.shaleighdanceworks.com [Performing Arts: Dance/ Durham, NC/ Irish and Cherokee, Woman]

Everything Fitz- The Fitzgerald Family Band- Canadian Fiddle Champions/Ottawa-Valley Step Dancing: Celtic, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Jazz, Folk. A high-energy program for all audiences!  www.everythingfitz.ca [Performing Art: Music/Dance, Canada]
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Music (Instrument, Singing/Vocals)
Jodi DiLiberto- Painter: acrylic, nature, portraits, whatever inspires me. www.fromthepurplehouse.com [Visual Art: Painting/West Belmar, NJ/Italian American/woman]

Bands/Groups/Ensembles
Everything Fitz, The Fitzgerald Family Band- Canadian Fiddle Champions/Ottawa-Valley Step Dancing: Celtic, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Jazz, Folk. A high-energy program for all audiences!  www.everythingfitz.ca [Performing Art: Music/Dance, Canada]


Stand-up Comedy


Theatre/Acting




*Artist participates in The Artist Patron Project

Literary Artists
Drama/Playwrighting/Screenwriting


Fiction/Novels/Novellas/Short Stories/Other Prose

Ernest Hogan- Writer/artist/cartoonist: Novels, stories, essays, art/illustrations, www.mondoernesto.com [Literary and visual art, Chicano]

Lisbeth Coiman– Author&Poet: Bilingual work explores intersection of class, race, immigration, mental health. Venezuelan. www.lisbethcoiman.com [Literary Art: Author&Poet/ Lakewood, CA/ Afro Latina]d, CA/ Afro Latina]

Poetry/Poems
Lisbeth Coiman– Author&Poet: Bilingual work explores intersection of class, race, immigration, mental health. Venezuelan. www.lisbethcoiman.com [Literary Art: Author&Poet/ Lakewood, CA/ Afro Latina]d, CA/ Afro Latina]

Adela Josefina Najarro- Writer (Poetry&Prose): Subjects include: Nicaraguan heritage, Spanglish, social justice, bicultural & bilingual experience. www.adelanajarro.com [Literary Art: Poetry&Prose, Capitola, CA/ Latinx, Woman] 

Non-Fiction/Essays/Articles


Youth and Children's Literature


*Artist participates in The Artist Patron Project

Categories and media will be continuously added and adjusted as new artists register. Each art type will have a separate page as artist registration increases.


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