Brook is a painter and illustrator who has been working and teaching in the SF Bay Area for the past 15 years. In addition to her personal art practice, she has held positions in non-profit management, high-end art advising and real estate marketing. At BayVAN she uses this diverse skill set to help clients find creative ways to use original art as a powerful marketing tool. Brook takes great pleasure in using original art to bring together beautiful and unique spaces while creating economic opportunities for fellow artists.

Kerri Johnson is a working artist, arts administrator and curator. She is the co-owner of Blankspace gallery, a contemporary art gallery she co-founded in 2005. Ms. Johnson has been a member of the Bay Area fine art community for 9 years and has worked with internationally renowned artists including Keith Boadwee and Anya Gallacio.

Kerri currently serves on the Curatorial Board at the Richmond Art Center and has been an invited to sit on juror panels and discussions at many Bay Area institutions including the San Francisco Art Institute, Berkeley Art Museum, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, The City of Oakland Cultural Affairs Department and Southern Exposure. Miss Johnson's curatorial work has included a one-year residency as curator at Mixed-Use Modern, a co-curated two week performance event */form-reform/* with renowned Bay Area performance artist Margaret Tedesco and an international exchange exhibition with *Gallery126* in Galway, Ireland. Her exhibitions have been written about by Kenneth Baker and featured in numerous publications, such as San Francisco Magazine, Artweek, Cafe Magazine and Shotgun-Review. Her efforts have been fundamental in helping to launch careers for emerging artists including Misako Inaoka and Case Simmons.

Ms. Johnson is an active member of the Oakland arts community as a participating member of the Oakland Art Murmur and ArtTable. She has close ties with artists and arts organizations throughout the Bay Area and West Coast.

Ms. Neditch has been part of the Bay Area Art community for over a decade, as an independent curator, arts administrator and graphic designer.

In 2002, Ms. Neditch opened the Mama Buzz Cafe and Buzz Gallery. From this modest cafe locale, she exhibited over 150 bay area based artists, giving a large number of artists their first solo exhibition opportunity. As more and more galleries began to inhabit the Uptown and North Oakland Neighborhoods Ms. Neditch, along side other local gallery owners founded Art Murmur, Oakland's "First Friday" art walk, which now hosts thousands of Bay Area residents at more than 15 galleries surrounding the Mama Buzz Cafe. This grassroots monthly event organized by gallery owners to increase visibility of the arts and artists has been a seminal influence in revitalizing the art scene in Oakland.

In the design world, Ms. Neditch is perhaps best know for her work as the creative director of Kitchen Sink magazine, a Best of the Bay and Utne Magazine award-winning arts and culture publication, in print from 2001 to 2009. Ms. Neditch led the design teams who created the website and the print publication. Kitchen Sink Magazine highlighted the work of a countless number of artists and writers living in the Bay Area and distributed the work internationally. Kitchen Sink was also known well in Oakland for throwing lavish warehouse parties that featured the musicians, artists and writers featured in the print publication.

Her commitment to Oakland's art scene resulted in being hired as a consultant for the Oakland Art Gallery, the City's municipal gallery. Her task was to work with the City, Board and Staff to create a plan for long term sustainability. She worked with Gallery's board of directors to form a working partnership with ProArts gallery, one of Oakland's premier galleries and prime mover of the Open Studios East Bay.

With more than a decade of experience in design, marketing and Bay Area arts administration, Ms. Neditch recently designed and executed OaklandArts.org, the definitive guidebook and online resource for Arts and Cultural information in Oakland. Drawing from her experiences as a curator, graphic designer and artist's consultant, Ms. Neditch created OaklandArts.org to fulfill the needs of artists and arts oganizations, identified by the Oakland Partnership and Cultural Arts and Maketing Department.

Ms. Neditch serves the larger Bay Area community as Vice-Chair of Oakland's Cultural Affairs Commission; as a board member at the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, where she continues to advise the new Bay Area-based youth empowerment and music camp about effective board facilitation, marketing, promotion and social entrepreneurship; and most recently, Ms. Neditch was asked to join the Richmond Art Center's Curatorial Committee, where she hopes to help expand the artist membership base and utilize the expansive gallery space to show emerging East Bay artists.