jonathan fenske artist and author Jonathan Fenske is a children’s book author/illustrator and artist who lives in the northern suburbs of Denver, CO. He is the author/illustrator of Woodward and McTwee, Love Is in the Air, Guppy Up!, and A Pig, A Fox, and A … Continue reading
leslie sophia lindell photographer Leslie Sophia Lindell is a food, travel, and lifestyle photographer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her most recent cookbook, The Stone Edge Farm Cookbook, was nominated as a finalist for photography by the International … Continue reading
xanthe berkeley photographer Xanthe Berkeley is a photographer, film-maker & visual story-teller. Filling the frame with bright colours, movement, sunshine and smiles; her work centres around family life and adventures. A wide variety of projects keeps her photography and film business busy. … Continue reading
chloe may brown artist Chloe May Brown is a hands-on maker who draws inspiration from the land and the sea. She dyes & sews fabric, builds sculptures, plays with clay, designs & screen prints textiles, paints pictures, and loves to … Continue reading
kristin zecchinelli
photographer
Kristin lives in southern Maine with her family. Her car and house are full of sand, and that’s a good thing. She prefers bare feet and all things thrifted. Lately she captures her everyday moments with her iPhone. You can find Kristin and her work on her blog, maine momma.
e. terumi woods
artist
Terumi Woods hesitates to call herself an artist. She’d rather say she’s a compulsive creator — fascinated by architecture, urban spaces, and nature, particularly when they intersect with each other.
Through real-world training in an architecture office and the variety of classes she took at City College of San Francisco, she realized there is a real tension between keeping the artistic inspiration alive and the tedium of the details. Her drawings try to represent that tension. Terumi is starting to really play with watercolor, a medium she finds both intriguing and terrifying … and she’s in love.
Find Terumi at Woods Work Studio and on Instagram.
julia shipley
poet
Julia Shipley is the co- founder of Chickadee Chaps and Broads, a hyper-local micro press. She’s also the author of newly released, Adam’s Mark: Writing from the Ox House a collection of lyric essays about writing and farming. Her third poetry chapbook is forthcoming from HoneyBee Press in July. A contributing editor for Yankee, her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in FIELD, Green Mountains Review, POETRY, Taproot and The Toast. Her website is www.writingonthefarm.com.
Bio photo by Howard Romero.
michele graham
photographer + mixologist
Michele Graham grew up on the border of upstate New York and Vermont but has spent most of her adult life on the West Coast. She has been a paint maker’s apprentice, cheesemonger, graphic designer, and a tiny roadside cafe owner in Baja California. Michele works at an arts non-profit in Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her husband and young daughter. She also creates and mixes drinks at small events and gatherings. She loves food anthropology, cocktails, gardening, photography, knitting, and taking walks.
Find Michele at cider & rye. She also posts way too many photos on Instagram.
jessica ojala lives in northern vermont with her husband and two daughters. she sews, knits, takes photographs, keeps a garden, plays the violin (not very well, just yet) and generally leads a quiet life. she loves tide pools, gingham, swimming at night, hollyhocks, and a good pot of strong black tea.
lisa congdon
illustrator + artist
Lisa Congdon is a San Francisco-based illustrator and fine artist. Raised in both upstate New York and Northern California, she grew to love the trees and animals that surrounded her. That love is now expressed through her colorful paintings, collages and drawings. She is also the author of A Collection a Day, which was spawned from a 2010 creative endeavor. Lisa and her work have been featured in Martha Stewart Living, The New York Times, Dwell, The San Francisco Chronicle and 7×7 Magazine. She lives in the Mission District of San Francisco with her partner, Clay Lauren Walsh, her 10 pound chihuahua, Wilfredo, and her two cats, Barry and Margaret. She works at her light-filled studio several blocks from her home. She’s an avid cyclist, swimmer and vegan. Lisa is represented by Lilla Rogers Studio.
Visit Lisa’s art + illustration website at lisacongdon.com. Continue reading
jennifer judd-mcgee
artist
jennifer judd-mcgee lives and works on mount desert island in maine. mixed media and illustration are her favorite mediums, and she draws her inspiration from her coastal maine surroundings. she has shown her work in galleries across the country and is represented for licensing and illustration by lilla rogers studio. please visit her blog or her etsy shop for more information.
jen altman
photographer
Jen Altman is a photographer, writer, and editor. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America and is held in private collections across the globe; her photography can be seen in publications by Chronicle Books, Somerset Studio, Small magazine and online at Oprah magazine and Epicurious.com. She recently shot and styled Super Charged Smoothies for Chronicle Books and is currently writing Instant Love: How to Make Magic & Memories with Polaroids for Chronicle to be published in Spring 2012.
claire dollan
photographer
a reader, daydreamer, music lover, bike rider, sewer, novice gardener, homemaker, picture taker, and an anti-plastic crusader. i remind myself i am so much more than what i do to earn a living.
