Akira Beard recently became a tattoo artist so he could “go anywhere, tattoo, make money while I’m there, trying to open up doors of opportunity with my actual art,” he says.

From its official opening in 1885, the Crocker Art Museum (then known as the E.B. Crocker Gallery) has had a split personality.

Vicki Gonzalez brings 15 years of news reporting experience and a multicultural point of view to her new role as host of “Insight,” CapRadio’s one-hour morning radio program covering the Sacramento region’s issues and events.

“One of the things that has been so interesting about the pandemic is … seeing the way in which our tenants have risen to the challenge,” Wygant says. 

Jupiter Lockett paints in a free and childlike manner, but his subject matter focuses on the Black experience and is intended to make the viewer uncomfortable. 

Elyse Tolles is a one-woman show — a designer of artful jewelry and a former flutist.

Sacramento Ballet dancers Anthony Cannarella and Isabella Velasquez started Dance Graffiti in January 2019 to make ballet more accessible to the general public.

June Steckler is optimistic about the Capital Region’s art scene and her role in it as both artist and curator.

Miranda Culp and Laurelin Gilmore are accustomed to the look of wonder on the faces of the people who stumble into their independent bookshop, Amatoria Fine Art Books.