STEPHEN BROWN
Mr. Brown is the founder and President of Proteus Workshop, a Sonoma based Giclee printmaking and digital service bureau company serving artists, designers and arts related institutions.
Beginning in 1979 when he joined Vivitar Corporation fresh out of college, Mr. Brown led Sales and Marketing teams at companies including FedEx, QRS, Tumbleweed and PlaceWare over a career spanning 25 years. His career highlights include shareholder value doubling during his tenure as VP Sales at QRS, a very successful IPO at Tumbleweed where he was Director of Business Development, and ultimately the acquisition by Microsoft of PlaceWare, where he was VP Worldwide Sales. During Brown's tenure at PlaceWare, sales grew from $4 million to more than $49 million in just 18 moths.
Mr. Browns’ interest in the arts was first sparked in childhood by
his father Don, a newspaper editor and publisher, who provided him with
a salvaged box camera in 1962. In 1973 he began a five-year apprenticeship with industrial photographer H. Lee Hooper in Southern California. Here he refined his technical skills to
the standards demanded by Hooper’s major industrial and advertising
clients. Concurrently, Brown photographed regional and national sporting events, including the Baseball World Series, on assignment from several publications. During college Brown studied experimental photographic methods as well as documentary photography and history at California State University at Long Beach under Dr. Bill Wittich and Dr. Robert Routh.
Before graduating in 1978 with a B.A. in Political Science, he began photographing
and assembling the pieces of what became in 1981 the book, The Pike:
Past its Peak.
Now held in over 300 public and university libraries nationwide, The
Pike: Past its Peak is a documentary monograph chronically the last
years of the famous (now defunct) amusement park in Long Beach, CA. Originally
priced at less than $20.00, used copies of this book can now be found selling
on the Internet for more than $1000.00.
Returning to his roots as an artist and photographer after his corporate career by founding Proteus Workshop, Mr. Brown still consults for high technology and digital services firms in the Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
Brown's artwork has
been displayed at the California Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles,
the Downstairs Gallery at CSULB, Photokina in Cologne, Germany, the William
Wade Gallery in Naples, CA, the Long Beach Museum of Art and at The Saret Gallery in Sonoma, CA.
STEPHEN
JOHNSON
Mr. Johnson is a photographer, designer and teacher.
His photography explores the concerns of a landscape artist working in
an increasingly industrialized world. His work has also concentrated on
refining the new tools of digital photography and empowering individual
artists to use these tools to express their ideas. He was the Curator,
and Editor/Designer for At Mono Lake, a book and National Endowment for
the Arts funded exhibition which toured the United States from 1980-1983,
reaching an audience of over two million people. In 1988, he was awarded
a Congressional Special Recognition Award by the U.S. House of Representatives
for his work on behalf of Mono Lake. Mr. Johnson was co-creator of The
Great Central Valley Project (a photographic exhibit and book) that
used landscape photography to examine the dramatically human-altered heartland
of California. Using a Macintosh computer, he edited, designed, and created
the graphics for the award-winning The Great Central Valley: California's
Heartland a 264 page book published by the University of California
Press in 1993. His Making a Digital Book was published late in
1993 documenting how computers were used in creating California's Heartland.
Since 1989, Johnson's photographic work has explored computers as new
photographic and design tools. He is finishing work on a major new endeavor,
the groundbreaking digital national parks project With A New Eye, using
digital sensors to make his photographs rather than film. His work in
digital photography, desktop color separations and digital imaging consulting
has included software and product development for clients such as Adobe
Systems, Agfa, Apple Computer, Eastman Kodak, Foveon, Leaf Systems, Newer
Technology, Radius, Ricoh Corporation and SuperMac Technology. His work
with Adobe included the creation of the duotone curves shipped with Photoshop
and two quadtone posters.
Internationally recognized as a digital photography "pioneer,"
Johnson's photographs are part of the permanent collections of many institutions
including the Oakland Museum and The Getty.
Photographic clients have included the Ansel Adams Publishing Trust, the
Friends of Photography, the National Park Service, and the Fine Arts Museums
of San Francisco. In 1999, Folio Magazine declared the publication of
Johnson's digital photographs in Life Magazine to be one of the Top 15
Critical Events in magazine publishing in the twentieth century. He has
taught for the Center for Creative Imaging in Camden Maine, numerous workshops
for industry, designed digital photography programs, and has an ongoing
photography, publishing and consulting business.
Johnson has lectured for leading digital and photographic industry forums:
Seybold, MacWorld, Image World, VISCOM, PhotoEast, PhotoWest, PhotoPlus,
Fotofusion, the Agfa Technology Expo, FOGRA (Germany), Digital 95 (Great
Britain), the International Symposium on Electronic Photography at Photokina
(Germany), the University of California, Xerox PARC, and at Stanford University.
Johnson's photographs are in public and private collections across the
country, and have appeared in Life Magazine, American Photographer, Communication
Arts, pdn's PIX, Camera Arts, Omni, Audubon, Sierra, Publish, Hemispheres,
Electronic Publishing, Adobe Magazine, California Magazine, California
History, MacWeek, MacUser, Photo District News, Photo Electronic Imaging,
MicroPublishing News, Landscape Magazine, Popeye Magazine (Japan), Hall
Magazine andd Fotografisk Tidskrift (both from Sweden), Page Magazine (Germany),
Advanced Imaging Magazine, IdN Magazine (Hong Kong), the Adobe Photoshop
Deluxe Edition CD ROM, Nautilus CD ROM Magazine, The Los Angeles Times,
The New York Times, On-Line Design, Digital Video Magazine, and featured
on television's The MacNeil Lehrer Newshour, The Discovery News, New Media
News, and The Computer Chronicles.
JUDY
THEO
Judy Theo, M.F.A., is an accomplished painter
working energetically in her Red Wolf Studio-Gallery on the Plaza in Sonoma,
CA. In the past five years she has developed her expertise in printmaking
as well as acrylic-on-canvas. The results are colorful, energetic, multilevel
abstracts, figures and landscapes. Her work reflects her dynamic, passionate
spirit.
Discussing her work, Judy explains, "As a third generation San Franciscan
from Irish roots, I came to serious painting late in life. Perhaps it
was the delay in creative expression that accounts for my current dedication
and large body of work. I have had other careers: mother, teacher, and
gallery sales person, that contributed to my becoming the artist I am
today."
"In the late 1960’s I had wonderful training and experiences
at the California College of Arts and Crafts, then completed a Master
of Fine Arts degree in Fiberworks at a Berkeley campus associated with
Lone Mountain College of San Francisco. I also taught in the Berkeley
School System for eleven years while continuing to explore themes in painting,
printmaking and performance art."
"When I moved my family to Hawaii, I took a hiatus from painting,
returning to teaching in Marin several years later. It took the beauty
and slower pace of Sonoma to inspire me to return full-time to my first
love - creative visual expression in painting and printmaking. Today I
paint full time in my studio in the Northern California town of Sonoma
and exhibit at wineries, galleries and fine-arts fairs."
Click here to go directly to Judy’s gallery
of fine art.
DARREN CAMPEAU
Darren Campeau has been an independent web, logo
and print designer since 1986 and has provided design solutions for a
variety of clients in fields such as the arts, travel, environmental organizations
and Silicon Valley software corporations. Mr. Campeau designs and implements
a complete visual theme that starts with a business identity and logo,
and is then developed into a consistent application for web sites, signage
and printed marketing materials. His clients benefit from a single-source
approach and the end-result is a unified presentation of their company
image.
Click here to see Darren's on-line portfolio.