FLAX Canvas

Date of event: June 11, 2011, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Miles is a furniture maker and found materials artist, building with common materials such as cardboard, cork, and copper. Using the ready debris of our everyday lives, found in such places as Craig’s List, recycling yards, dumpsters, and the street, Miles designs and builds carefully crafted furniture. His pieces strive to achieve both longevity and graceful function as well as provoke questions about perception of value, the nature of w …

Date of event: May 7, 2011, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm An artist who emphasizes surreal-style painting and drawing. She works mostly with acrylic, graphite and pencils, but uses many different mediums depending on the mood and feel she wants. Originally from Sonoma, Alicia is attending the Academy of Art and discovered Flax and our Live Artist program on Facebook. “I am an artist. I paint, draw, create, photograph, travel, see, experiment, breathe, write, and live. I love looking at people, not …

Date of event: January 15, 2011Angela Oswald began painting in high school much as a journal entry, a place to release the fervor of young years that occurs in all of us when struggling to adapt in a seemingly nonsensical world. Having spent her early years beside the ocean furnished her love for the element that most all of life relies on, water. Her work is a blend of organic derived shapes and surreal suggestions. She approaches the canvas as both a personal and public place to reflect, …

Date of event: March 19, 2011 Trish Tunney is a professional photographer living and working in San Francisco. She has been voraciously making pictures since she was given her first camera in 1979. For her live demonstration she brought her typewriter and wrote live poetry for a project of 50 mixed media photography and poetry haiku pieces. Trish received a Masters Degree in Engineering and spent 15 years working as a Computer Engineer. When she left her first career to pu …

Date of event: January 21, 2012, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pmWe are pleased to welcome Chiyo back for her third visit as a Live Artist. Come see the artist behind our second artist signature series T-shirt, now on sale!Artist’s StatementArtist may have freedom, but they may not. They can create their art by struggling for their freedom. I wish I had wings and were free from the burden of my flesh, and I am wondering what the world look like if I could see from beyond space and time. But the reality is that …