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Date of event: January 22, 2011Vietnamese-born artist and sculptor Thai Bui makes haunting works of art that speak to a sense of displacement and longing that has characterized the artist’s own turbulent life. Bui’s extraordinary works combine references to his experiences in both the United States and Vietnam, simultaneously communicating a witty humor and penetrating sense of loss.Growing up in Hanoi during the Vietnam War, Bui’s childhood was marked by uncertainty and terror. In 1981, at the …

Date of event: September 10, 2011, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pmBorn in Rochester, New York, raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Mr Rogers has always found some kind of artistic outlet. In high school, he was inspired by a friends’ darkroom to learn photography. He pursued this for the next twelve years while focusing on science minded studies in school.After nearly completing his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he moved back to San Francisco to work in the computer industry. By this time, his …

Date of event: October 28, 2010Nataliya Tyaglo was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she began to study plein air painting on the shores of the Dnipper River. In 1994 she immigrated to the United States where she attended School of the Arts in San Francisco and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2007. Today she is gaining recognition as a Ukrainian-American painter and a Live Painting performer. Much of her work is about the celebration of life. Trained to paint in plein air, Nataliya Tyaglo has a re …

Date of event: March 12, 2011, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pmMallika was born in Delhi, a city which has strands of bygone empires running together in a mystic tapestry of ages and cultures. Legend has it that fire-formed spirits called Djinns have ensured Delhi’s vitality, no matter how many conflicts the city had to endure.Mallika has in her Delhi’s soul, resolutely re-inventing herself for a more sublime future in the midst of the material present and the nostalgic past. Spinning fire, singing, strumming, …

Date of event: March 12, 2011Art with Purpose Alicia Guckenheimer-Harrell is a native Californian. She has been formally trained in Advertising/Marketing with a minor in Art. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Chico, California. Her formal education has taken her many places, but it is her love of all animals that has inspired to do the work she does now. Creating her business, Pet Portraits, has allowed her to work in the medium she loves, gouache (vivid pigmented watercolor) and t …