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Mia Ante is a 3rd generation Filipina/Chinese/Spanish American-San Francisco native.   She has been creating art for as long as she can remember, and has been making jewelry since the age of 7. Mia has always had a calling to work with beads and materials from around the world for it's their flavor that makes each piece unique, thus blessed with love and divine energy.   All of her work involves cowries, for she speaks through them during her expression; cowries represent birth and fertility throughout the world.

Mark Baugh-Sasaki was born and raised in San Francisco.   He spent his college years in Pittsburgh, PA, while attending Carnegie Mellon University.   The city of Pittsburgh had a profound impact on the way that he perceived the relationships between humans and their environment.   He describes the tenuous relationship in which industry and the natural environment interact with each other through the combination of organic materials and industrial processes and forms, to create an object that illustrates this tension.   Since returning to San Francisco he has spent his time creating sculpture that examines the relationship formed between our urban society and the natural environment around us.

Brian Camarao is a first generation Filipino, born and raised in the Bay Area.   He went to art school at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a concentration in Graphic Design.   He has a long history with illustration that began when he was a small child and continues today.   Recently, Brian became increasingly intrigued with photography and image manipulation.   He would like to think that an understanding of Photoshop is one of his strongest assets.

Michele Carlson was born in Seoul, Korea in 1980 and is currently completing an MFA in Printmaking and an MA in Visual Criticism from the California College of Arts.   She also holds a BFA in Printmaking and BAs in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and American History from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.   She currently lives and works in San Francisco, California.

Ian Cheng thinks a lot about augmented reality, augmented space, the economic and cultural shift toward China, and new Radiohead songs. His recent work in interactive installations and video attempt to explore these interests, but really, he wishes he could just augment his modest microwave dinners. He is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, with a B.A. in art practice and cognitive science.

Peikwen Cheng is a photographer and designer whose work has exhibited in galleries in New York, San Francisco, and Houston. He was a recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission grant and a finalist for the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for his photography. He was also awarded a United States patent and Industrial Design Excellence Award for his designs. In September 2006, he will represent the United States at the 9 th International Photography Gathering in Aleppo, Syria.

Paul Escolar is an Advertising student at the Academy of Art, where he often draws on bathroom stalls. Shhhh! Don't tell no one.

Amir Esfahani

Taiko Fujimura is a San Francisco-based mixed media artist. Her three-dimensional work is designed to invite the viewer to interact with each piece to discover their personal aesthetic within the microcosm of what Taiko presents as the broader representation of beauty. Taiko's work bridges contradictions around us by unifying space and is strongly influenced by Japanese wabi-sabi and Japanese calligraphy. She graduated from the Japan College of Foreign Languages in Tokyo and studied fine arts at San Francisco Art Institute, as well as graphic design at the California College of Arts and Crafts between 1999 and 2001. Her works have exhibited at galleries, shows, and private collections both nationally and internationally.

Iranshid Ghadimi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1960.   She adopted the United States as her home in 1985. She attended San Francisco Art Institute where, in 2002, she received her BFA with a major in painting.   Iranshid then attended Mills College in Oakland, where she received her MFA in 2004.

Michael Goff is a local San Francisco artist specializing in portraits, night photography, and urban landscapes.   He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 12 years, attending UC Berkeley and working as a software developer in downtown San Francisco.   He began taking photos while on the yearbook staff in high school. Capturing the fun and innocence of that time inspired his initial interest in photography.   Since then he has been interested in capturing unique sights while traveling, as well as the personality of his portraiture subjects.   His artistic education includes photography classes taken at UC Berkeley and the College of San Mateo.   His work has been used in promotional materials for local fashion models and jazz vocalists, along with package imagery for retail products.

An installation artist, Taro Hattori received his BFA in Clinical Psychology from Sophia University, Tokyo, and his MFA in Time Arts/Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.   He has also studied Theater Design at Rutgers University, New Jersey.   He is the recipient of a Kala Fellowship Award, Djerassi Resident Artists Award, Taipei Artist Village Fellowship, and other distinctions.   Taro's work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including Mission 17, San Francisco; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito; Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago; the Chicago Cultural Center; and the Asian American Arts Center, NYC.

Barbara Horiuchi's work is an extension of herself. Feelings, sensations, and visual imagery from past memories influence her thinking process. Barbara grew up in rural Santa Clara County where her parents grew chrysanthemums. Finding beauty in the patterned underside of a piece of wood left to rot in the dirt or the view of a grassy field through the old, brittle plastic of the hothouse are images remembered and are visual influences in her work today. Her parents' and grandparents' immigration and internment experiences and the subsequent stories heard affected her deeply at a young age. Their scars becoming her scars are another aspect to her artistic expression. Barbara has been creating art since she was a child. She began painting ten years ago, balancing motherhood, careers in healthcare and education (teaching middle and elementary school children).

Phillip Hua is a Vietnamese-American artist living and working in San Francisco.   Born in 1979 to immigrant parents, he was born and raised in San Jose, California, the heart of the Silicon Valley.   His mother is a financial analyst and his father is an engineer. In 2003 he graduated from the Academy of Art University with a degree in illustration, but found that his interest in art expanded beyond pictorial storytelling.   He is a member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters and his painting shave been exhibited in local, regional, national, and international juried shows.

Kaoru Kanai was born and grown in Yokohama, Japan. Her specialty was originally woodworking.   Kaoru learned and made several pieces of wooden furniture and tableware during her BA program at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. After college, she moved to the U.S. and studied sculpture, video shooting, and contemporary performance in an MFA program at San Francisco Art Institute.

Laura Kim holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Regional Studies: East Asia, and an A.B. from the University of Chicago in Political Science and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.   Her background is rooted in Asian Studies, the international human rights movement, feminist theory, and social and political activism.

Lucien Kubo is a Sansei (third generation Japanese American) who grew up in the Bay Area. Her parents were interned during WWII at Topaz, Utah.   She attended SF State and became involved in both the SF and LA Japanese/Asian American communities.   Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, she helped mobilize for communities affected by redevelopment, Redress & Reparations (internment), and an unjust and racist war (Vietnam).   Her art reflects personal parts of her life experience but also strives to understand the "human condition."

Susanna Kwan uses ink, water, and words to tell the stories she collects from around the corner and across the planet, in cities and in deserts. Her work stems from observations of the tension and grace that can be found in any human relationship. She is a native of San Francisco.

Amy Lee is an artist from South Pasadena currently living and working  in the Bay Area.  Amy has been drawing  since she was three years old, painting since she was thirteen, and making  zines since she was twenty-three.  Her  paintings range from self-portraits to fantastical works with horned  creatures.   After graduating from UC  Berkeley with a double major in art and architecture, she moved to San Francisco where she  currently lives as an artist.  In  addition, Amy Lee produces zines and illustrations.  Amy Lee is also interested in bookmaking and  has produced a number of artist books.  She  is part of the arts and crafts trio "Catnip Dream" with Christina Steurer and  Andrea Lofthouse.

Anne Leong

Lucy Lin is a digital video installation artist currently living in Oakland, CA.   She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Fine Arts in 2005.   As another transplant from southern California, she has no plans of returning. Lucy has recently become a vegetarian after watching a video clip on foie gras.

Andria Lo is interested in the contradictions of photography and aims to create images that bring out the medium's polar nature. She enjoys the process of composing images, but is also drawn to the spontaneity of photojournalism. Born in Rhode Island, she grew in many corners of the U.S., received her B.A. in Art from the University of California, Berkeley, and currently lives and works in San Francisco.

Taro Masushio grew up in Saitama, Japan, came to the US when he was 16, and started studying photography at the same time. He has exhibited work in the Bay Area as well as in Japan.

Born outside of Boston, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Moy is a photographer based out of San Francisco, California.   She received her MFA in photography in 2005 from the California College of the Arts, in San Francisco, CA and her BFA in painting in 2001 from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Currently, she is working on a photographic project entitled Boundary Extension.  

For the past eight years, Michael Namkung has dedicated himself to drawing and painting. His primary practice has been to carry a sketchbook with him and to draw what he encounters on a daily basis. He has taught middle and high school visual art for the past five years, as well as an adult drawing class at the Richmond Art Center this past year. Michael will be starting an MFA program in drawing and painting at San Francisco State University this fall. In the meantime, he has been keeping myself busy with a commission from Walter T. Helms Middle School in San Pablo to do four murals in the main hallway, depicting students and adults engaged in various school activities.

Susan Sue-Ah Park is a conceptually based sculptural artist living and working in Oakland, CA. She received a B.A. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also studied social, cultural and post-feminist theory.   Her passion and voice for fine arts didn't develop until a few years after college.   She is also a budding sound artist.  

Dinesh Perera was born in Sri Lanka and lived in Oman, before moving back to Sri Lanka and finally coming to California, where he has lived since. In high school Dinesh got involved in art by learning the steps to put together his own comic book. Dinesh attended UC Berkeley, where he majored in Architecture.   Now he is currently working as an apprentice architect while using his spare time to see and do as much art and design as possible.   Dinesh's dream is to design and build his own tea shop.

Han Pham is a storyteller. Her stories have been featured on the radio, in the McGraw-Hill anthology Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry , and in publications including the non-fiction webzine Ostrich Ink, Hyphen Magazine, and Nguoi Viet. She has also written, choreographed, and performed for the Vietnamese theater ensemble Club O?Noodles, on both stage and film. She is active in the Asian American art community as a performer, artist, and producer. Han?s upcoming projects include As Is , an anthology of Vietnamese art ande writing by the Vietnamese Art Collective.

In 1995, Vikki del Rosario received her high school diploma from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, FL.   It was here where her influences and interests in the visual arts began.   Later in 2002, she earned her BFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute.   During her four years at SFAI, she was the recipient of the Bernard Osher Fellowship Grant - a four-year merit-based scholarship - as well as the recipient of a Bernard Osher Travel Grant in 2001. Vikki has exhibited in many spaces throughout the Bay Area, including Bindlestiff Studio, Galeria de la Raza, the Lab, and the Triton Museum.  

Mark Santa Ana is an avid collagist, full-time detritus enthusiast, book lover, and urban tourist.   Born in the Phillipines, he emigrated to California at age 17.   He received his BFA in graphic design from California College of Arts and Crafts in 2001. Mark lives in the Tenderloin.

Shizue Seigel is a San Francisco writer and graphic designer. Although trained in fine arts, this is the first time she has shown her work in many years.

Sandhya Sood was born in East Africa and grew up in North India before she came to Berkeley, to pursue a Master's in Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. Through the mediums of poetry, film and visual art she attempts to express her diasporic experiences in both the historical and cultural contexts as an immigrant and a woman of the world.

Amita Sreenivas is a first generation, "American-South Asian" woman who thinks she is an anti-Heather, considers herself quite confused when it comes to defining her culture, and thinks it would be "neat" to be a documentary photographer...but only for something useful. Currently, she is an unemployed public health graduate with the hopes of using various forms of media to make people think once in awhile. 

Food wrappers, silks, newspapers, produce netting, and papers stretch across Corinne Okada Takara's wire forms.   These gatherings of fragments create a dialogue of memories from three generations and pay homage to Corinne's Japanese-Hawaiian heritage and its thrifty Meji-era values.   Her sculptures are inspired by family stories of plantation-era Hawaii. Fixed in her imagination are tales of apple wrappers folded into kimonos for homemade dolls and blankets sewn from hundreds of tiny tobacco bags.   Toy boats were made of leaves and pinwheels of flowers.   Thriftiness and creativity mingled in wonderful harmony.   By knitting together modern Asian disposable artifacts with the spirit of reuse of earlier generations, her work muses on the evolution of cultures at home and in the diaspora.   Takara attempts to abstractly voice muted memories and pay respect to creativity born of necessity.

Vasanthi Victor is self-taught artist and writer, as well as a long time resident of the Bay Area.

Patricia Wakida is the proprietor of wasabi press, a tiny green Chandler and Price platen letterpress stashed away in her garage studio in Oakland. Patricia cut her teeth in the book arts and printing business as an apprentice papermaker in Gifu, Japan, and with letterpress printer and hand bookbinders, the Arts and Crafts Press, in Berkeley. Her whimsical linoleum block prints, letterpress books and other ephemera have appeared in exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center, SOMArts Gallery, New Langton Arts, the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Main Public Library, Needles & Pens, Deep Roots Urban teahouse, and Post, Poster, Postest in Tokyo. She currently serves on the board of the San Francisco Center for the Book and is a TA at the Mills College Book Arts program.

Jenifer Wofford was born in San Francisco, but grew up in Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia. She moved back to California for high school. With the exception of numerous escapes, adventures and residencies, she's lived in the Bay Area ever since. Jenifer received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995, and will receive her MFA from UC Berkeley in spring 2007. Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area at the Richmond Art Center, a.o.v, Babilonia 1808, Southern Exposure, Intersection for the Arts, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, nationally at New Image Art (Los Angeles), the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum (Salt Lake City), the Philippine Consulate (Honolulu), and internationally at Future Prospects (Manila, Philippines), and Galerie Blanche (Mandelieu-La Napoule, France). Jenifer has undertaken artist residencies at The Living Room, Malate, Metro Manila, Philippines, Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Chateau de la Napoule, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France. Awards include a 2006 Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship. She's worked in arts education since 1993, via such organizations as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Southern Exposure, San Francisco Conservation Corps, Casa De Los Jovenes, Leadership High School, Galileo High School, the b.a.y. fund, and Out Of Site. Since 1995 she has also been 1/3 of the manic, brilliant, highly delusional artist team known as the Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. They have produced projects for such venues as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the DeYoung Museum, , and The San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

Lauren Wong works primarily in drawing and digital media.   She received a Bachelor's degree in Studio Art, with a concentration in Digital Media, at Scripps College in Claremont, California.   Lauren has exhibited her work in San Francisco galleries such as Red Ink Studios, Kearny Street Workshop, The Canvas Gallery, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Garage at 147 Minna Street. In the past, she also had the opportunity to work with Seyed Alavi, Sol LeWitt, and Rigo.   Lauren continues to seek new meaning in the process of artmaking that has led to collaborative projects and continued exposure in the San Francisco art scene.   To see more of her work, visit www.laurenmarikowong.com .

Mi Ran Yu was born in South Korea and moved to Canada at the age of seventeen to pursue her dream of becoming an artist. She received her BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada. She
is currently a candidate for a MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Mi Ran's work deals with the political and cultural issues around her. Her work generates open discussions and brings different perspectives for the viewers. Her work has been exhibited in Korea, Canada, and USA and is a part of private collections in Korea and Canada.

Joy Hae Yung was born in Korea and was adopted by an American family when she was two years old.   She grew up in South Carolina, and sometimes the scent of magnolia makes her cry, even though the trees do not reach their native grandeur in her current home of San Francisco.   Just because she majored in English doesn't automatically mean she's neurotic.

Michael Zheng graduated with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including an intervention project Art For Sale! with the 9 th Baltic Triennial of International Art at the ICA in London, 2005.   Locally, his work was included in the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; and he had a solo exhibition at the Mission 17 Gallery in San Francisco this past June. Michael received residencies from the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire in 2005 and from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2003. In 2005 he was nominated for the prestigious SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.