Sandra Mueller is the founding director of BeARTrageous Creativity Workshops for women and serves as the Community Arts Advocate for A Window Between Worlds. She received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley in Intellectual History and later studied painting and visual thinking at Mt. St. Mary’s College. She had a prior career in publishing as an editor/writer and produced more than 50 interactive media titles. Her abstract paintings and collages have been shown throughout the Southern California region. She is a regional coordinator for The Feminist Art Project and serves on the national WCA board.

Katherine Kean is a visual artist. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, with a BFA in Film, Video and Animation. She co-founded Available Light Ltd., a visual effects company, working as a visual effects designer, animator and producer, on over 50 films. She has since turned entirely to painting, using landscapes, dreams and imagination as inspiration. Katherine's work has been shown in solo and group shows, galleries and museums, locally and across the country. Her work is included in corporate as well as numerous private collections. In addition to SCWCA, her affiliations include TAG Gallery, the California Art Club and Coach Art.

Libby Hartigan, a nonprofit consultant, is a mixed media artist. Previously employed as an editor at a teen newspaper and as a reporter at the Daily News of Los Angeles, she earned a comparative literature degree at Brown University and studied as a Rotary Fellow at the Universidad Javeriana Pontificia de Colombia in Bogota. As Grants and Fundraising Chair for SCWCA, she has written five successful grants on behalf of the organization, worked on several individual donor campaigns and done press outreach.

Linda L. Carlson has been a member of SCWCA since 2005. She actively worked on the Gallery Outreach Campaign organized by Ada Brown in conjunction with the Multiple Vantage Points exhibition in 2007. Linda is a Shaman, and is certified in 2nd degree Reiki. She has participated in classroom and self study with the goals of understanding herself and expressing this through her art. She creates artworks using layered symbolic imagery, in fiber collage and assemblage. Her work includes figures, shrines and shields. Linda’s art engages the viewer in a dialogue about her inner spiritual belief that all things are connected.

Ann Isolde has been a member of SCWCA since 1985. She has served as newsletter editor, Equity in the Arts co-chair, President (2003-2005) and is currently Program Committee chair. She received her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1969. In 1975 she moved to Los Angeles to attend the Feminist Studio Workshop and, subsequently, to work on The Dinner Party project with Judy Chicago. Her artwork consists of paintings, drawings, handmade books and installations that integrate both inner and outer landscapes. The symbolic images she creates focus on emotional and psychological journeys, the feminine principle and environmental issues.

Mahyar Nili was born in Los Angeles as a first generation Iranian-American. Her artwork, often in the form of video installation and participatory performance, examines complexities of the Iranian diaspora from a bi-cultural and intersectional feminist perspective. Mahyar recently graduated from UCLA with Bachelor degrees in Art and Women’s Studies. She was the founding member of fem•in•art, a feminist/art organization, and organized the 2007 symposium, “Beyond The Waves: Art Informed by Feminisms” at the Hammer Museum. While at UCLA, Mahyar also facilitated an undergraduate seminar, Art and Feminisms: Theory and Studio. She is a regional co-ordinator for the Feminist Art Project and plans to pursue an MFA degree and continue teaching Art.

Cathy Salser is a visual artist who works in collaboration with over 100 battered women’s shelters nationwide to build powerful links between the creative arts and the process of ending domestic violence. With the mentorship and fiscal receivership of the SCWCA in 1992, Cathy founded a nonprofit organization, A Window Between Worlds, that inspires women and children surviving domestic violence to reclaim their own creativity as a part of their healing and empowerment. Cathy’s portraits of survivors have been exhibited in 36 cities nationwide, including the Russell Senate Building in Washington D.C.

Julie Kornblum grew up sewing and doing needlework, which She practiced obsessively during middle and high school. She attended the fashion design program at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, followed by a career as a patternmaker in the garment industry in Los Angeles. Julie taught patternmaking and sewing for seven years at Otis College of Art and Design. Her interests in textile design and weaving evolved further in the Fiber Art studios at California State University Northridge, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in art. Julie uses traditional basket making and on-loom weaving techniques to create works of art out of surplus yarns, recycled materials, and discarded plastics.