JANET SELF Presents transformations: The Creativity of Change (April 2025)
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About the artist: Janet’s passion for fostering community arts and creativity began with her founding a nonprofit organization dedicated to these goals. She started the Art@OddFellows series in Mendocino, which she led for 12 years, organizing 135 exhibits that showcased thousands of local artists, including youth and children. The series attracted 14,000 visitors annually and became a central hub for community engagement. Janet also spearheaded the Children’s Banner Project, which took creativity into the streets and schools with murals, classroom projects, and special events.
Her project, The Ocean Upwelling, focused on highlighting the coastal ecosystem while engaging youth through art, science, and activism, in partnership with the Noyo Center for Marine Science. Beyond her leadership in these initiatives, Janet is also a mentor, advisor, and ally to other community artists, exhibit leaders, and youth interns. |
In addition to her work in community arts, Janet explores a wide range of artistic mediums, with a recent joy being ceramics. She loves to take old art pieces of hers and reinvent and transform them, bringing fresh perspectives and life to her past creations. It’s this constant drive to innovate and transform that continues to fuel her passion for both personal and community growth through the arts
Oma Art -sharing Joy! A Gift from me to you aimed to foster kindness, connection and joy!
ART OF CONNECTION April 2025 at Flockworks’ Cobalt Gallery, Fort Bragg.
Art is signed and numbered. This is an experiment about connectivity. Choose your Art, then email me with the number, where you’re from and did this make you smile? Your kind help is appreciated.
Janet Self, Artist
Robert Ross Presents KIMONO (May 2025)
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Artist Statement: I’m an old guy. I’ve been drawing and learning my work for nearly 70 years. I think the main bias in my work is my dependence on drawing. No matter what medium I’m working in, and regardless of matters of so-called realism or abstraction, the experience of drawing informs all of it. Drawing is fundamentally a practice in seeing.
Non-representational work seems tougher for viewers to grok than pictures of people, things or places. But what seems to me to be ‘realistic’ in an artwork is its confluence of color, composition, shape, rhythm, and the physical, visceral impact of material and scale. |
I have been fortunate to spend my life as an artist and teacher. I’m grateful for my teachers, including so many artists of the past; and for my family and my friends and my home in this marvelous north coast of California. I’m grateful for my preoccupation with the struggles of achieving beauty. It’s my hope that my work nourishes a similar sensibility in others.