This project was inspired by my artistic journey as a painter. After years of painting people, I found new inspiration in painting the land. Our land is timeless and bears witness to every person who ever traveled through. As I studied Mother Nature, I was reminded of human nature and how short our life spans in relation to the natural world. We are as infinitesimal as ants, but our actions can cast a long shadow.

I paint what I know and love. My fascination with nature brought my work back to people and how they relate to each other and the land they call home. For more information please visit www.HolliHarmon.com.

Tina attended Brooks Institute's film school 2002-2004. She later wrote, directed and edited, many short and feature micro budget movies, which had film festival exhibition, several winning awards and some licensed to SHORTSHDTV (on DirectTV and internationally). IMDb credits here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2589792/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Through word of mouth referrals, Tina has been hired locally to help create a wide variety of video content (documentaries, portraits, business promos, crowdfunding videos, corporate videos).

 She is also a screenwriter with several spec screenplays. “The Red Shoes” was recently a winner in The Screenplay Festival 2017 https://screenplayfestival.com/?cat=17.   It was also an Official Finalist of the New York Screenplay Contest (Sept. 2016),  ZED FEST, Back in the Box Screenplay Competition, and a Semi-finalist of Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards.  Her short  film, (which she directed and edited)“Duende:The Red Shoes,” won Best Dance Film at Ladyfilmmakers Film Festival in Beverly Hills (September 2016). It  has been in many film festivals and licensed to ShortsHDTV on DirectTV.

Katherine is a writer and landscape painter working in California and the Southwest. She studied with visual anthropologist John Collier, Jr. at San Francisco State University and at the San Francisco Art Institute, and is a member of SCAPE. She has also enjoyed a career in archaeology, with a focus on the Channel Islands.

Writing for "The Portraits of the Central Coast" project is a wonderful way to help celebrate our extraordinary neighbors and their day to day contributions, providing a sense of the unfolding history of our region, and illustrating the connections between all of us. 

Visiting museums and perusing National Geographic magazines as a child created some of Monica Wiesblott’s earliest memories; the allure of far off places. Born in Los Angeles, by the age of seven she was handed a 110 camera and so began the journey into image-making. Inspired by the work of social documentary photographers, Monica realized that recording culture is what fueled her passion and set her wandering. In 1992 Ms. Wiesblott was selected as a delegate to represent the United States in China, for a conference on Motism.  Ms. Wiesblott was a member of the press and photographed the opening of Getty Center in Los Angeles and in 1999 she worked with pygmy mammoth specialist to document paleontological findings from the local Channel Islands. Ms Wiesblott has studied studio art and art history in Europe and Asia and completed a “round the world trip” beginning in Nepal.  Ms. Wiesblott currently exhibits her photography and printmaking both in the US and internationally.