Image: Glass Orb created at Fernhill Glassblowing, November 2019 by Darby and Claude in Astoria, Oregon Our sojourns from San Francisco to Astoria, Oregon began in September 2017. Up the majestic 101 stopping overnight in Bullard’s State Park to camp, stopping in Yachats, onward to Astoria crossing over Youngs Bay Bridge on U.S. 101 into … read more
I, as an artist with the AAC, have not posted here in a couple of years or so, for my part. I have been involved in making artwork, exhibitions, etc and started exploring writing on substack, a burgeoning YouTube channel, an AAC instagram post here there where. I enjoy real life way beyond virtual life, … read more
On Sunday, September 28, 2025, two remarkable Belvedere spirits, Charles Edward Auerbach and Carole Mignon Stitt-Bruner, were remembered in a grand way with the gift of MIRANDA from MARIN SERIES (the character from Shakespeare’s The Tempest). The 35mm film photograph is printed on Awagami Kozo natural paper (Japanese mulberry). Gifted by the Auerbach Artist Colony … read more
A goal of ImagineARiver Press is to be a supportive space for collaborative artistic exchange through the medium of printing. Whether it’s teaching printing as a new medium to an artist or helping a poet handset their poem in type, the press (“Bertha” a 1922 Chandler & Price housed in an 1896 Carriage House) has … read more
We traveled up the West Coast to Oregon with a tent, our trunk of bookbinding art supplies, and our open and curious spirits ready for an adventure through nature and learning. Darby will add here that she was also honoring Sy’s completion of their Masters of Library and Information Science. Books and learning were in … read more
May 16-June 1, 2025 Light Artist Melissa Auerbach Schaeffer Artist Statement: A grove of trees in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. Lining a path. Believed to be elm trees. Each bark its own skin. Protecting the tree. Guarding its witness. Shielding its inner workings. Growing and shedding with time. Photographed in 35mm film over a … read more
Educating is ever learning Art Education adding Joy and Hope Writing from my beloved mother Marianne’s fingers through mine Marianne Gianella Auerbach a Blessed Memory a gifted pianist and teacher in San Francisco Putting feeling into her fingers as she taps the magical keys on her Hamlin and Mason Carrying her artistic energy bringing Joy … read more
a dream is a night rainbow thank you to the nurture pod podcast of ginger edwards and iris sullivan daire where they explore together and their findings and sharings lead us into deep contemplation and revelatory discussion as a family of artists and educators we listen in a multitude of places and spaces and sometimes … read more
ELIZABETH 2015/2016 Of MARIN SERIES (portraits of Shakespeare’s female characters and Queen Elizabeth I cast as the nature of Marin). 35mm film transparency photographed at the Ink Wells in Lagunitas in September 2015. Framed in redwood from an 1896 Mill Valley home. History is memory, remembered. What we love endures. In blessed memory of Jonathan … read more
Light Artist: Melissa Auerbach Schaeffer Title: The Memory of Summer Candlelight Contentment Series: Biohazardous Series: A Healing Series (Series of 44 different trees, a grove) Photographed 35mm film: Spring 2014 Luxembourg Gardens, Paris France (elm bark) Developed: 2014 Light Waves, San Francisco Printed: 2018 Blue Moon Photography Portland, Oregon Framed: 2019 Underglass, San Francisco, Frame … read more