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Phil Taggart

Literature: Poetry; Media: Video; Visual Arts: Photography

Phil Taggart has four collections of poetry. Walking the Dog in a Time of Rage, Rick Sings, Opium Wars and an art book with artist Ann Harithas, Cowboy Collages. He has been a poetry editor for over twenty years for Art Life limited edition, and with Marsha de la O, the Askew Poetry Journal and Spillway. He has taught poetry workshops at Cal Lutheran, University of Pittsburg, local high schools, CAPS Media and elementary schools. He teaches Broadcast Digital Media at El Camino High School at Ventura College He is on the Board of the Ventura Cunty Poetry Project and the BreakBread Literacy Project. Phil has run and supported poetry readings in Ventura County and Santa Barbara since 1991. He presently hosts a weekly poetry reading at the EP Foster Library in Ventura.

Cassandra Tondro

Visual Arts: Painting

I have a long-standing interest in using nontoxic and eco-friendly materials in my artwork, and to that end, I use leftover acrylic latex paint – better known as house paint – in my contemporary abstract paintings. I rescue the paint from recycling centers before it is sent to landfills, and also comb the “mistint” shelves of home improvement stores.

Yessíca Torres

Literature: Poetry; Visual Arts: Other, Painting

Yessíca Torres is a Southern California-based gunmonkey with an affinity for pop art and firearms. Widely considered the first guerrilla girl, she has shaped modern society with her high-profile paintings and culturally significant kills. Her life as an assassin began at the age of nine when she dropped out of parochial classes and picked up a revolver. The lucrative kill contracts she carried out allowed her to follow her true passions, painting and poetry .... And so, gunmonkey art was born. www.gunmonkeyart.com

Mark Tovar

Visual Arts: Painting, Photography

Venturan Artist Mark Tovar creates whimsical and geometric narratives unfolding between colors, drifting, colliding, co-existing and communicating expression. Encouraged to paint at a young age, Mark began exhibiting his paintings when he won a competition in 5th grade at Robert Hill Lane Elementary in Los Angeles. He earned extra money creating his arts through high school in Alhambra. Recent Ventura exhibits of Mr.Tovar’s artwork include the Ventura ArtWalk, Michele Chapin’s Stoneworks Studio,The WAV & Gallery, Bell Arts,Aacapa Brewing Company ,Shanghi Beer Gardens and Ojai’s 525 Gallery.

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