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 a $4 million to a more than $49 million run rate in just 18 months.

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 MLB 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.

Mr. Brown still consults for high technology business 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.

Mr. Johnson is a photographer, designer and teacher. His work has 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. Stephen was awarded a Congressional Special Recognition Award by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998 for this work.

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. Stephen digitally edited and designed 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.

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.

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. Johnson's photographs are in public and private collections across the country, and have appeared in Life Magazine, American Photographer, Communication Arts, Camera Arts, Omni, Audubon, Sierra, Adobe Magazine, and more than 30 other publications.

He was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2003.

Stephen is finishing work on a major new endeavor, the groundbreaking digital national parks project “With A New Eye”, an all-digital triumph of masterful landscape photography encompassing work at more than 50 U.S. National Parks.

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.

"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 galleries, wineries and fine-arts fairs."

Thomas Patrick is a Sonoma, CA wine country artist, originally from Atlanta, GA. His creative output has flourished since moving West.

His original art incorporates elements of origami, puzzle-making and traditional painting combining in a style that creates three dimensional fine art, typically displayed in shadowbox frames, hung in the manner of more traditional two dimensional paintings.

Thomas has worked in many aspects of the art world, from picture framing to corporate sales, however he thrives on the actual creation of original pieces. His early work was traditional and representational. His more recent output is a body of semi-abstract mixed-media wall pieces incorporating paint, folded paper and found objects.

Jan Pablo Schurig has been involved in the arts since early youth. Always intrigued by the human body, Schurig spent much of his time sketching while studying human figures and anatomy. His curiosity about anatomy led him to pursue a degree in medical illustration.

Upon graduating from Virginia Tech he found his true passion in the style of impressionism rather than the technical and precise style of medical illustration. In 1997 Schurig was given an opportunity to study with world renown artist Don Hatfield, a master impressionist residing in Napa, CA. During his 2½ year apprenticeship, Schurig developed a unique style using vibrant color and dramatic lighting. Through his use of color and light Schurigs' art captures the emotion and essence of his subjects to create a bond between the art and the viewer.

Painter and graphic artist Don Ponte prefers to work directly with acrylics and oil paints, as well as the non-computer tools and palettes of graphic design.

Don was born in San Francisco and attended the San Francisco Art Institute, graduating in 1972. Don's graphic design clients have included the National Football League, the Royal Viking Lines and Sebastiani Winery.

Because Don derives much of his living as a Commercial Artist he is frequently called upon to produce a work "in the style of" historical artists of the ages. This has forced him to hone his skills and abilities to work in a number of different pallets and styles, yet his pieces form a body of work that is clearly his own.

Don's work is striking in its depth and detail, clearly the result of a patient effort to capture the spirit of a scene and to engage the viewer in interpreting the nuances of his work. He now paints full time at his studio / home in Glen Ellen, CA, where he lives with his wife Yannick and their son Jean-Paul.