Lora Martens is a landscape architect and artist from Northern California.  Her work in landscape has been system-based, with projects that strive to use the land to its full potential – as ecological infrastructure, a place of exposure and deep connection, as well as a place of beauty. Marten’s Recology residency allowed her embark on […]

Peter Munder Good was raised in the Pennsylvania countryside where he developed a keen appreciation for nature.  He started Goodscapes in 1980 and has designed and installed many residential gardens throughout the Bay Area.  His solid reputation comes from having a keen eye for design details, a commitment to quality, and a broad knowledge of […]

Born and raised in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, Faheem Carter has experience working with many local gardening organizations and is an active member of the Native Garden Project and the Florence Fang Asian Community Garden Carter.  He is pursuing a career in horticulture at City College of San Francisco and will soon be attending San […]

My art practice stems from my love of making and building. I grew up designing and manufacturing surfboards, and this early experience with the creative process led me to start making sculptures in college.  My other love is the ocean, and I was lucky enough to have found an interdisciplinary environmental science major at Stanford […]

I am interested in the fragmented aspect of daily life — information — emotion — image — thing — the eye is blinking and everything is shifting between — intention and perception — things we keep — things we discard — slipping like language. Fragments of conversation — of meaning — we begin in one […]

Rigid materials resist change under force. Malleable materials welcome this change and can be pressed or hammered into an entirely different shape without breaking or cracking. The materials I select for my work: copper, steel, brass, and silver all share this rigid/malleable dichotomy. They grow more rigid when stressed and yet have the ability to […]

I love a good tape measure.  I obsess over organizational flow charts, phone directories, diagrams, and maps.  It must be from my background in political science.  I’ll pore over these charts looking for others and myself — ourselves among others — everything in its place — justification in the world.  I have a desire for […]

I often feel that I am very similar to a nine-year-old boy. I have trouble sitting still, love stripes, dinosaurs, candy, overalls, trains, trucks, ask too many questions, bug people, run when I should be walking, and play when I should be listening, but probably not for the same reasons as most young boys. I am […]

Brittany Watkins is currently an MFA candidate at California College of the Arts in studio arts.  She received her BFA from Montana State University with an emphasis in sculpture. Her work uses found, obsolete, and every day materials to create environments that explore and catalog the personal histories of the detritus.  Through the use of […]

My aim is to rearrange reality through a process of equal parts creation and discovery. With a strong use of appropriation — whether it’s from canonical art history or the free section on Craigslist — I am attempting to recreate the world from the world, resulting in new and unexpected contexts.  The objects I make […]