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Chris Bailey

Music: Composition, Instrumental, Other, Vocal

Seeking to expand the influence of the ukulele in all musical works.

Dane Baylis

Literature: Poetry; Music: Instrumental, Vocal; Theatre: Acting, Technical; Visual Arts: Painting, Photography, Printmaking

DANE FRANCIS BAYLIS was born in South Boston, Massachusetts in 1952. He has traveled extensively through North and Central America, Europe, the Near and Far East while in and out of the military. His first published work appeared in the STONE SOUP ANTHOLOGY, published by Stone Soup Press, Boston, in 1975. He has since appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, most notably, TEN CALIFORNIA POETS, ARTLIFE, RIVERTALK, THE ARCADE POETRY PROJECT, PANGOLIN, VERVE, THE DANCE OF THE IGUANA, ASKEW POETRY JOURNAL, LUMMOX PRESS, THE MEN’S HEARTBREAK ANTHOLOGY, and POETRY IN MOTION PUBLICATIONS. He also served on the editorial committees of RIVERTALK and THE POULTER’S MEASURE. Dane is presently a member of the Ventura Artist’s Union and Editor-In-Chief of DANE BAYLIS PUBLICATIONS where he brings to bear a multi-faceted background in art, photography, music, and prose in the production of his distinctly urban style of poetry. His Irish heritage informs his love of the poetic form and his uncompromising belief that everything tells a story creates a unique voice full of wry compassion and unbending artistry.

Aliza Bejarano

Literature: Poetry; Visual Arts: Painting

My work is born from the idea that Adults are the children they came into the world as; now beings filled with insecurities and temperaments of their past. The Inner Child buried beneath a façade of what the adult believes to be socially acceptable. Like the fate of that child, I may influence the work that I create, but the result of my Mock Resin method is sometimes unpredictable and out of my hands. I build and improvise until the piece seems to make evident that there could be another world away from this one. One in which the Inner Child knows well but the Adult can only see.

David Benders

Crafts: Fiber Art; Media: Audio; Visual Arts: Painting

David Benders Visual Arts: Collage, Fabric, Hand-made books of vintage papers and ephemera. Media: Radio Broadcaster, Writer, Interviewer, Producer, Sound Curator. Ventura, CA. I have been a radio broadcaster for 42 years. I worked at the NPR station in Buffalo, NY, WBFO, as program director and assistant general manager. I enjoy listening, sound, recordings and program presentation. I arrived in Ventura in June, 2014. I am also an artist working in fabric, sewing, collage, vintage papers, ephemera, collectables and souvenirs. I have been a field producer/contributor for NPR (National Public Radio) with recorded live music performances, edited, produced, scripted and interviews for episodes of “Folk Festival, U.S.A.,” “Options,” and “All Things Considered.” • Author/editor: WBFO program highlights & local events list WBFO-L (1993-2003). Listserv online resource. • Author: “On Segues and Other Smooth Transitions” (2008), Buffalo Rising.com • Audio artist, "Artpark: 1974-84" (exhibit) University at Buffalo Art Gallery, “Hobbs and Alberty: Artpark Mobile Ranch.” (interview, recorded music),2010. • Artist, contributor (group exhibit), “LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL: Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media.” University at Buffalo (2011) • Author/Contributor/community stakeholder: Letters To The Superintendent, A Community Responds. (2012) Book by Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram. Communication makes the world go round. I am communication, facilitator. Connect, communicate, cooperate, collaborate, build community. My purpose, my passion, values -- people are good but we need to be able to navigate the info/idea stream, the info glut. Improve info services because the world is complex, in a fragmented media landscape with many different platforms. Literally we need a sort of literacy literacy. Build our sensitivity to the information ecology: text, sound, visual. These days we lack the cultural pedestal (foundation) on which to build consensus. I invite you to join me in this next adventure.

Megan Bisbee

Crafts: Jewelry; Visual Arts: Painting

I am a recent east coast transplant. I moved to California less than a year ago to attend Pacifica Graduate Institute, following my passion for exploring the psyche through art, movement, meditation, and psychotherapy. In my studio, I make colorful paintings and whimsical found-object sculptures. In each piece I create surreal vignettes by re-contextualizing recognizable imagery, and combining it with exuberant abstraction. I do not pre-plan my artwork. Instead my work guides me through an intuitive, nonlinear process of inspiration, awareness, and integration of newly conscious experience. My creative practices function for me like a psychotherapeutic relationship between therapist and client, or between healer and patient within and shamanic ritual. Psychologist Philip M. Bromberg calls the space where the unconscious and conscious meet the “interface of dissociation” in psychotherapy. Holding this safe space within my studio allows previously unknown parts of my psyche to show up as imagery and emotional experience. The integration of these experiences endows a sense of wholeness that Bromberg calls, “the primary source of healing and growth.” Aesthetically, My works speaks to Surrealist artists Max Ernst and Gorgio D’Cirico, Visionary artists Mati Klarwein and Pablo Amaringo, and contemporary artist Sarah Sze. The contemplative function of my artistic practice along with the visceral and emotional qualities of my imagery, speak most directly to the work of artist Frida Kahlo. The imagery in my work is not representation, rather a journey itself. Lately, I am especially inspired by the Katie Sanford and Carl Jung's use of painting in their individuation processes.

Jerry Breiner

Music: Instrumental, Other, Vocal

I am and have been a professional musician, singer and songwriter for over 45 years. I perform regularly in one of 3 bands in Southern California, 2 amazingly unique cover bands known as Big Adventure, Trippin Wild and The Tossers.

Jason Brock

Media: Audio, Video; Music: Composition, Instrumental, Vocal; Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Photography

Composting reality one chord change at a time.

Bonny Butler

Bonny Butler always loved creating art but raising a family had her go in a different direction. Family grown, she returned to art, her first love, first with watercolors and Chinese brush, then onto alcohol inks and encaustic wax. Most currently acrylics and oil pastels. She explores, creates, and relishes the ever-changing outcomes and spontaneity of her mediums. Her whimsical, loose-style paintings, now exhibited around the world, range from blooms and gardens, to expressive landscapes, to abstracts, the occasional portrait of people and pets and most recently her exploration into abstract art. Her art is a technique and process-oriented practice which focuses on colorful expressive imagery. Butler’s objective is to transfer to her audience the joy of creation through a constantly animated wealth of bold colors, shapes and form.

Elizabeth Butterfield

Crafts: Ceramics, Other; Music: Instrumental; Visual Arts: Painting, Sculpture

I have always been interested in some medium of art expression. My current venue includes torn paper art, clay sculpture and floral design. The last is my day employment the others are my night rendezvous. Most start without a pattern. The process is the most challenging but rewarding.

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