Explore the creative process with master artists and craftspeople in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their works are examples of how locally-made goods and services can contribute to dynamic and diverse communities.
Willie first studied basket weaving so he could teach his daughters the dying craft and soon realized that it was a whole lifestyle. He has been weaving for over 20 years.
Willie gathers and dries plants from a local forest to weave into his basket designs.
"I teach weaving to others so that I can share the connection to the earth that it gives us." - Edward Willie
"Flamenco is often considered an older person's art form because the dancer needs maturity, self-assurance and deep expression." - La Tania
Carla Hall has been making decorative ironwork for seventeen years. "The process is a great stimulation of many senses - smell, sight, feeling of warmth, physicality."
"I love the experience of metal when it is cooling from a thousand degrees to a point where it can be handled and interacted with." - Carla Hall
Kreutz lets his dough leaven naturally and bakes the bread in a woodfire oven.
Tanahashi was born and trained in Japan. Solo exhibitions of his calligraphic paintings have toured the world for over thirty years.
"Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief." - Kazuaki Tanahashi
