![Jazel Muñoz holds up her zine, titled “You are Loved,” to the light of a window, exposing the intricate layers and transparency of the vellum paper. (Photo by Marie-Elena Schembri)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/aerexposed_munoz1.png?1721779801)
Art Exposed: Jazel Muñoz
For this queer, sober, vegan Chicanx printmaker and community organizer, art is both political and spiritual
The work of this Sacramento-based artist is steeped in the beauty and wonder of nature.
![Doug Winter, who is a partially sighted photographer, creates emotive images exploring perception and memory through the lens of visual impairment. (Photos courtesy of Doug Winter)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/artexposed-winter-1.png?1714572728)
Art Exposed: Doug Winter
Elk Grove photographer creates images exploring perception and memory through the lens of visual impairment
After suffering a stroke in his right eye in 2012, Elk Grove resident Doug Winter, a trained commercial photographer, began to think differently about sight and perception.
![Conrad’s murals often invite interaction, like this painting of a dandelion, titled, “The Wishing Wall,” which is located at Historic Alley and 19th Street in Sacramento. (Photos courtesy of Maren Conrad)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/copy_of_artexposed-conrad-2.png?1711734114)
Art Exposed: Maren Conrad
Meet the Sacramento muralist and designer who creates joyful spaces for women
Maren Conrad reflects on her iconic Sacramento murals and her latest project, the Jacquelyn.
![Sacramento artist Muzi Li Rowe, a self-described collector of “techno scraps,” uses technology and e-waste as both her subject and her medium in her mixed media sculptures, installations and photography. (Photo by Marie-Elena Schembri)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/artexposed-rowe-1.png?1709227423)
Art Exposed: Muzi Li Rowe
This mixed media artist and photographer explores culture through defunct technology
Whether it’s layers of tiny microchips or rows of dead batteries, each work in Muzi Li Rowe’s Magical Thinking series is like peering into a tiny museum where the most microscopic parts of now-defunct personal technology devices, from old Nokia flip phones to disposable cameras, become individual hallmarks of consumer culture.
![Jodi Connelly is an interdisciplinary artist and Sierra College art teacher who creates land-based and site-specific art that explores connections between place, the environment and people. (Photo by Marie-Elena Schembri)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/lead_artexposed-connelly-1.png?1706634573)
Art Exposed: Jodi Connelly
Meet the artist who uses dirt to explore the connections between people and the environment
Burnout from a 10-year career working in the nonprofit sector in Brooklyn led Jodi Connelly to a creative breakthrough in her art practice.
![Carlton creates vivid abstract paintings and whimsical mixed media pieces from her Sutter Creek home studio. (Photo by Marie-Elena Schembri)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/artexposed-carlton-2_lead.png?1697762104)
Art Exposed: Tracy ‘Indi’ Carlton
Meet the Amador County artist who traded in a 21-year nonprofit career to become a creative expression coach
Tracy Carlton took an unconventional path to her art career, launching a as a creative expression coach and teacher last year following a 21-year career at First 5 Amador, the Amador County branch of the statewide nonprofit commission dedicated to improving early childhood development.
![After an opera career that brought her to venues around Europe and the United States, Carrie Hennessey now focuses her energies on the arts scene of the Capital Region. (Photo by Symber Canepari Day, courtesy of Carrie Hennessey)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0823_blog_artexposed.png?1692727247)
Art Exposed: Carrie Hennessey
The vocalist, instructor and writer emphasizes positive energy and risk-taking, whether onstage or coaching others
Carrie Hennessey has been known to belt out a tune while walking her dogs outside of her South Natomas home, but the neighbors in this otherwise quiet neighborhood don’t seem to mind. She picked up the moniker “Opera Mom” while her two children (now in their 20s) were in elementary school, but there is a lot more to her.
![Davis-based artist Betty Nelsen is planning to move to a Buddhist community after a lifetime devoted to art. (Photos courtesy of Betty Nelsen)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/betty_at_show.png?1684549320)
Art Exposed: Betty Nelsen
On the art of how to look in the mirror
In revisiting her early self-portraits, Betty Nelsen has zeroed in on the strongest elements, cropping the drawings into pages that will go into a series of handmade books.
![Beti Masenqo is a singer and songwriter who was born in Ethiopia and now lives in Sacramento. (Photo by Miranda Culp)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/img_0582.png?1681832493)
Art Exposed: Beti Masenqo
The musician-singer-songwriter blends folk and rock with the Ethiopian songs of her childhood
When she performs, singer and songwriter Beti Masenqo leaves this earthly plane in a way that seems entirely effortless.
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Art Exposed: Summer Ventis
Artist and Sacramento State educator tackles the individual and collective trauma of the pandemic
With her recent exhibition “Heavier Than Air,” artist Summer Ventis encouraged viewers to externalize their held breaths by inflating a balloon.