Ashley Tattersall-Diaz
Ashley Tattersall-Diaz (she/her) b. 1991, St.Petersburg, FL. Ashley is a mixed media artist working primarily in paper, powdered charcoal, and themes of death. She is influenced by abstraction, science fiction, historical Black cemeteries, and poetry. Formally trained in printmaking, Ashley has an MFA from the University of Florida and a BFA from the University of South Florida. She has attended residencies in Ottawa, Ontario; Willapa Bay, Washington; Calusa, California, amongst others. Ashley now continues to make art out of Prism Space Studio and works as a legal assistant at an employee-side labor law firm in Sacramento, CA. Ashley is Puerto Rican with mixed African, Filipino, and Indigenous Caribbean ancestry.
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Chaitra Bangalore
Chaitra Bangalore is an artist and arts educator in Sacramento, California. She received a BA in Design from University of California, Davis in 2015 and an MA in Arts Education from Rhode Island School of Design in 2017.
Bangalore’s work explores South Indian identity and iconography. Whether it is an homage to Rangoli patterns found in many Indian homes or figurative work showcasing body hair and adornment, her practice speaks to a sense of belonging and comfort. She works in a variety of mediums, currently focusing on oil painting, wool felting and papermaking. Regardless of medium, texture and harmonious color schemes are a constant throughout Bangalore’s work.
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Heather Hogan
Heather Hogan (b. 1978) is a Sacramento-based artist, professor, and designer who layers modern and traditional media into colorfully detailed compositions. Themes explored in her work include placemaking, tenacity, and the roles and responsibilities of women. Her recent public art projects include steel panels on Highway 99, artwork about the multi-modal Del Rio Trail, trail beautification in Rancho Cordova and Natomas, and collaborative murals at Sacramento State and the Pannell community center. The current Vice President at Axis Artist-Run Gallery, she is a studio resident at Prism Art Space in Sacramento. Her work can be found at Atrium/Shop Sacramento, Amatoria Fine Art Books, and Constellation Marketplace.
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Michael LaHood
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Michael LaHood is an interdisciplinary artist living in Sacramento, California. His work focuses on how interactions between individuals begin to form a larger social fabric. With an academic background in Human Biology and Media Studies (BA Stanford, 1999 and MA Stanford, 2000; respectively), LaHood worked in San Francisco doing video production. In this role, he began a pursuit of live video performance. As his pursuit progressed, LaHood formalized his practice, attending and graduating from Columbia College Chicago, receiving an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art and Media in 2013.
Iso Marcus
Iso Marcus is a California based interdisciplinary artist who explores the entanglements of human and ecological care through performance, sound, clay, and therapy. They hold a license in clinical social work and their primary training is in trauma-informed care. They are interested in the human and the more than human relational plane as materiality. They center process, reciprocity, and experimentation and have contributed to numerous collaborative art and music projects (VVD WNDWS, Confetti Collective, Touch Points, Worm School) over the last 15 years.
| isoisoiso.xyz | @_isoisoiso_ |
Jazel Muñoz
Jazel Muñoz is a queer Chicanx printmaker, zinester, and activist. Through printmaking, Jazel carves intricate linoleum blocks to tell narratives with plants, animal sentience, the human condition, and spirituality. Each of their prints is meticulously hand-pulled without a mechanical press. Since 2017, Jazel has been committed to supporting artists with disabilities through their work at a nonprofit art center called Work of Art. Since 2022, they have served as the curator for the WAL Public Market Gallery, where they facilitate opportunities for diverse artistic expression and amplify the voices of marginalized communities. They actively engage in organizing and collaborating on various local events, including the Latino Center of Art and Culture Zine Fest, the Sacramento Print and Zine Fair, Sounds of Solidarity 916, and other initiatives that prioritize mutual aid, inclusion and accessibility.
@jazel.print
Jillian Bruschera
| @themobilemill @twotigerpress |
Julie Bernadeth Crumb
Julie (Bernadeth) Crumb is an interdisciplinary artist anchored in intuitive joy, preserving cultural memory, and religious decolonization. With a comprehensive background spanning fine art, public art fabrication, and curatorship, Bernadeth employs vulnerability and a vision for a sustainable future as catalysts for constructive dialogue. Raised in a multi-generational household in the coastal town of Pagadian City, Philippines, her upbringing cultivated a philosophy of reciprocal collectivism. A practice she aptly terms “love work.” She graduated with a BA in Studio Art from California State University of Sacramento in 2023, where she served as a Preparator and Archive Assistant for the University Galleries. Bernadeth is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship through Youth Speaks and The California Arts Council for 2023-2024.
Justina Martino
| www.arttonic.org | @justinamartino @art.tonic |