Teaching Artists

e bond makes digital spaces by day, handmade books by night, hangs out with trees on weekends and writes something close to poems in the spaces between. Under the studio name roughdrAftbooks—created in 2003—she makes one-of-a-kind artists books, printed pieces and drawings that merge and blur the boundaries of art, craft, design and poetry.
e holds a BFA in graphic design and art history from Moore College of Art & Design and an MFA in Creative Writing and Book Art from Mills College. For over 20 years e has worked as both a print and web designer for companies like Anthropologie and Gap Inc. while also serving as professor of Graphic Design and Book Art in various college and university art departments. Her work has been published in 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form, by Lark Books and 1,000 Artists’ Books: Exploring the Book as Art by Sandra Salamony.
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https://ebondwork.com/

Kenyatta Forbes is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses her own experiences in exploration of fiber as a lease for understanding the world. Using a mixture of traditional hand techniques like macrame, weaving, knotting, sewing, and leather making, she combines elements to create narratives through fiber.  She is passionate about building community and sees workshops as a space for making, healing, meditation, and togetherness.  Focusing more on process than completion, pieces are not planned but born and developed over time. 

https://www.urbanmacramefibers.com/home

Erin works with paper and found materials - cutting up, grouping, reconnecting, and rearranging in a process of transformation - an intentional act of reusing what has been discarded, breaking things apart and putting them back together again.  Her process – no matter the material – starts with color and is additive and iterative - letting the pieces themselves determine the construction methods that she will use. Walking and collecting materials is an important part of Erin’s process.
Erin has a BA in studio art and art history from Beloit College, and an MFA from California College of the Arts. As an undergraduate, her did an intensive study of traditional brush painting at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata-shi, Japan. Erin is a faculty member of the 92nd Y School of the Arts in New York City and teaches collage and mixed media classes throughout the Bay Area. Erin’s artwork is licensed and sold through West Elm, Minted, and Samsung. Erin has been an Artist in Residence with the City of El Cerrito, the City of Walnut Creek, and Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

https://www.erinmwheeler.com/

Kaci Smith was born and raised in central New Jersey, but has been a resident of California's Bay Area since 1996. She holds a BFA in Textile Design from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, and has worked professionally as a hand-weaver of rugs and upholstery fabrics. Although currently making two-dimensional mixed media artwork, Kaci's life-long passion for pattern, color and fabric is the endless well of inspiration in her work. 
In 2021, Kaci completed the Creative Visionary Program (CVP), a master class in abstract painting from an incredible stable of artists including Nicholas Wilton and Terri Froelich.

https://www.kacismithart.com/

Lisa Solomon received her BA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley in 1995 and her MFA from Mills College in 2003. Her work is shown internationally and is in numerous public and private collections.

Profoundly interested in the idea of hybridization [sparked from her Hapa heritage – she is ½ Japanese and ½ Caucasian], Solomon’s mixed media works revolve thematically around discovering her heritage, the notion of domesticity, craft, feminism, and the pursuit of art as science/research. She is frankly obsessed with color/color theory and is drawn to found objects, tending to alter them conceptually so that their meanings and original uses or intents are re-purposed. Ms. Solomon’s work was featured in a monograph entitled Hand/Made published by MIEL press in 2013. In August 2019 her book A Field Guide to Color - a watercolor workbook all about color and color theory was published by Roost Books. 

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​http://www.lisasolomon.com/index.html

With hands permanently covered in plaster and paint, I'm happiest working in Old World ways. I trained for my craft in the cobblestoned streets of Florence, Italy, and continue to bring that antiquated sensibility to all of my projects today. You'll find me on every job site, working each layer of color and detailing solely by hand.

I'm passionate not only about creating amazing interior environments but also in helping my clients find and express their own distinctive style. No two jobs are ever alike. Whether it's a boutique hotel in Napa Valley, an expansive winery estate, or a private residence, my approach is always the same: create a space that is utterly authentic and magically artful.

https://www.carolinelizarraga.com/

As an elementary school art teacher I share my young students’ enthusiasm and love of color. I hope to transmit their spirit and freshness into my work. Whether figurative or abstract, at its core, my work is narrative, rooted in the power and meaning of storytelling. Borrowing a color palette from the elementary art rooms where I teach, my work is bright and playful. I love working with tempera paint, crayons, fabric scraps and felt. My work recognizes the importance of, and takes pleasure in, ordinary materials common to teaching and learning spaces.

Collaboration is vital for the growth of artists and thinkers. Collaboration is a cornerstone of my teaching practice as well as my personal art practice. I enjoy working with teachers and school administrators to bring artistic thinking and creativity into the classroom.

I am the illustrator of the children’s books Brown:The Many Shades of Love, Black:The Many Wonders of My World and Blue:The Many Feelings I Feel, written by Nancy Johnson James. My debut author/illustrated picture book biography, Rosie Lee Timpkins: A World Stitched Together, will be published in spring 2026.

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https://www.constancemoore.com/