Rock the Box

Clayton Lamb

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We Are Carl

We Are Carl is made up of Diana Hartman a visual artist and Bill Rupel a sculptor and musician. Combining their skills, they put together mixed media sculptures. They focus on creating work made up of repurposed and found objects. Their work is usually surreal, absurd and humorous. Diana also creates her own art work, often seen at City Art in San Francisco. They also work together to add artistic elements to performances of This Is Embarrassing, a band fronted by Bill.

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Chris Cook

I started designing graphics, printing t-shirts and selling them to local shops in Bradenton, FL in 2002, Later I moved back to Detroit, MI where I'm originally from and hit the art/craft show, festival circuit and sold tees at many big annual events including Wyandotte street art festival, Dally in the Alley etc.. I opened a Custom silkscreen shop in 2010 called ART ASSAULT.

Amaryllis Moleski

Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski was born in France but spent her life moving around the East Coast, Down South, and Midwest of the US. DeJesus-Moleski has received awards and honors in the areas of visual art including the ArtLA Student Artist of the Year, All College Honors, and is an Alumni of the AICAD New York studio residency program. Her work explores the tensions between private tenderness and public defiance, specifically within communities that are typically depicted as stressed and vulnerable. She has been working with organizations such as the Brown Boi Project, Strong Families, Third Root Health Center, and the Estria Foundation among others. DeJesus-Moleski has exhibited work in New York, LA, and the Bay Area. She is currently working on a continuation of her solo show entitled Thick Dig, which focuses on futuristic femme myth as it relates to marginalized communities. A recent graduate of the Individualized program at CCA, DeJesus-Moleski aims to practice the integration of multiple art forms as a way to make myth and tell the truth. She is an experienced muralist, performance poet, playwright, youth organizer, and visual artist. She is the co-founder (along with Cynthia Rufn and Jessie Workman) of the B.R.E.A.T.H (Building a Revolution of Expression through Heartwork) program in Albuquerque, NM that teaches poetry and performance to incarcerated youth as a means to heal, resolve conflict, and uplift. Amaryllis has dedicated her life’s work to stand with countless others in the movement that intersects the arts with activism, using creativity and expression as the tools necessary for community liberation, and the means by which we may all realize our most potent dreams.

Chris Koehler

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Trinidad Escobar

Trinidad Escobar is an artist from the South Bay, and living in Oakland. She is an alumni of San Francisco State University's Creative Writing Program and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, CO. She is an MFA candidate in the Comics program at CCA, where she is currently writing and illustrating her forthcoming graphic novels Crushed and Roosterhouse. She is the co-founder of Orpheus Forge Studios (a resource for creators of color in the comic industry), and founder of Affect/Effect (a strategizing company for artists who want to jump start their dreams).

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Corolyn Yagjian

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a graduate of the university of Pittsburgh with a BA in Studio Arts. Her work, which focuses on the figure, deals with themes of isolation, consumption, and the individual within a moribund environment. Her studio is located in Oakland California.

jamie&stephanie

Our art collective merges the talents of local Bay Area designers jamie+stephanie, two friends with an affinity for handmade & homemade, material-driven design. We are influenced by landscapes, delicacy, miniature figures and dioramas, comedy, puppetry, whiskey, and everything in between. Both graduates from California College of the Arts, Jamie trained in animation and Stephanie in sculpture.

Aaron Joseph

Aaron Joseph is a Bay Area native who studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His most recent gallery showing was as part of a group show, Queer the Art, in 2012 at Oakland's Show & Tell Concept Shop. Aaron's recent focus has been in the print and web design worlds, and he is excited to transition back into world of fine art. While past work has centered on themes of race and queerness, his planned Rock the Box piece is meant to be more light-hearted. It is a return to form with Aaron's trademark crocheted, gray acrylic yarn and synthetic hair.

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Jennifer Hennesy

New Orleans-bred artist Jennifer Hennesy’s work is a curious, vibrant and sensual exploration of relationships. Her pieces capitalize on the fact that line is the foundation of symbols, language, and expression. Jennifer currently resides in Oakland, CA.