Addressing themes of reciprocity and stewardship, Jennifer Peart’s artwork draws inspiration from science fiction novels, retrofuturistic architecture and pristine natural landscapes. Her intricate, vivid landscapes, often featuring familiar landmarks, are delicately painted on sustainably sourced wood panels.

Whether creating elaborate jewelry inspired by pre-colonial harvest rituals, collaging woodcut prints into an altar homage to her Filipino homeland or sculpting clay into aquatic life forms for an underwater installation, award-winning multidisciplinary artist Julie Bernadeth Crumb uses her hands to forge materials into meditations on culture, identity and Indigeneity.

Processing emotional trauma and her disease through her work, Katharine T. Jacobs creates analog photographs, sculptures and intermedia works that address her identity as a mother, survivor of domestic abuse and a woman with a chronic illness.

“A lot of my work stems from this idea of what I call being stuck in between,” says multidisciplinary Elk Grove artist Taner Pasamehmetoglu.

The work of this Sacramento-based artist is steeped in the beauty and wonder of nature.

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. 

Maren Conrad reflects on her iconic Sacramento murals and her latest project, the Jacquelyn. 

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.

Burnout from a 10-year career working in the nonprofit sector in Brooklyn led Jodi Connelly to a creative breakthrough in her art practice. 

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.