7 JUN 2024 · Bob Borthwick, ASLA A licensed landscape architect and urban planner for over 55 years, Bob has lived in Laguna since 1974.  His clients have included both public agencies and private developers.  During his college years he worked for a city planning department and at a redevelopment agency. After graduation from Cal Poly Pomona in 1969 he worked for several firms for 10 years. Projects included portions of Disneyworld / Florida and Ronald Caspers Regional Park in Orange County.  He started his own firm in 1979 and incorporated with two partners in 1998.  He is now mostly-retired from his firm. Bob taught landscape architecture at U.C.I. Extension for 8 years and at Saddleback College for 9 years.  He served 2 terms as chair of the Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architectural Advisory Board and is currently Emeritus member.  Bob has been an invited guest critic / lecturer for ASLA student award presentations at UCLA, USC, and Cal Poly Pomona. Public projects include the Avalon Downtown Waterfront on Catalina Island, and the 2.4 mile long San Clemente Pedestrian Beach Trail.  Both of these projects have received professional design awards and national recognition.  A current public project is Phase 3 of the Crystal Cove Historic District on Newport Coast, working with the State of California. Projects in the private sector have included award-winning planned communities as well as commercial projects.   International projects have included China, Panama, Morocco, India, and Algeria. Bob has served the City of Laguna Beach on the Open Space and Trails Committee, the Laguna Canyon Flood Control Task Force, and the View Preservation Task Force. He was vice president of the Laguna Beach Beautification Council and received the LBBC Harry Lawrence Award in 2016. Current local activities include serving on the Board of Directors of the following organizations:  Laguna Greenbelt, Inc., Hortense Miller Garden, Laguna Canyon Conservancy, and the South County Crosscultural Council. In 2016 he received the American Society of Landscape Architects "Public Stewardship Award" for a career of providing pro-bono environmental planning and leadership. https://www.artwalking.art/so/bbO-imRtj/c?w=NkzFh_5nJUSYoQDgW_VlNHGxR-DUdRJRh5YstdS-Zro.eyJ1IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuamFtZXNoZW5yeWRlc2lnbi5jb20vIiwiciI6ImQ0M2EwMzdlLTJkODItNDJkYi00YTRiLTdlZjY0MjkwNWZhZSIsIm0iOiJtYWlsIiwiYyI6IjU0OTI5NDY3LTdkNDMtNDAyZC05NmJjLWZhOTIwOTRhMGFiZCJ9James been designing in Laguna Beach and surrounding areas for over 20 years. His architectural studies began while working with his father, Jim Ward Henry, a well known architect in Laguna Beach. James' design experience includes all styles of residential homes from traditional, historical to contemporary. His extensive knowledge and experience working with city approval and construction process is highly beneficial to his clients, contractors and subcontractors.

5 APR 2024 · DARLENE CAMPBELL: Darlene earned her B.A. in Art from the University of Redlands (1979) and her M.F.A. in Painting from The Claremont Graduate University (1986). Her work has been featured at the Nevada Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Loyola Marymount University, University of Redlands, the Laguna Art Museum, the Riverside Art Museum, Barnsdall Art Park, and the Frye Art Museum (Seattle). Darlene Campbell has also illustrated two published books. In 2004, one of her paintings was used as the cover artwork for D.J. Waldie’s book, "Where We Are Now: Notes From Los Angeles". Darlene currently teaches painting and drawing at the Laguna College of Art and Design. She has also taught on the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea program. Darlene Campbell lives in Laguna Beach, California. In what has become a hallmark of her work, Campbell employs beauty to disarm the viewer. To suggest history and age, she paints on either wood blocks or wood panels. Making use of golden-hued light and dramatic clouds, Campbell coaxes beauty out of the banal and, in so doing, mimics romantic 17th century landscape paintings. MAIA PELLEGRINI:  Maia has been drawn to and fascinated with the interplay between art and psychology throughout her life and career. Growing up in Laguna Beach, she is the daughter of Leah Vasquez, an artist, advocate, and talk show host. Maia's formal education in architecture became a means to manipulate form and structure to create spaces to relax busy minds. It led her to develop and explore possibilities and expand their mental capacities in the arts and psychology.  She completed her BA in Visual Art at UCSD and MSW at San Diego State University. She developed a confident mindset with a vision of working with people directly, fusing different mediums and psychology. She acquired certification as a life coach and career, providing much success with clients, including those met with blocks, stagnation, and struggling to find balance, honoring truth within themselves and others.  Maia continues to make art part of life, gravitating to three-dimensional forms, finding calm, and balancing the dominant left brain overload.

8 MAR 2024 · AMY JACKSON:  Amy Eidt Jackson is an artist of distillled light and interpreted environments. Her work reflects her love of nature and the inspiration of the natural landscape.She is a member of Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (https://www.artwalking.art/so/a3OuPwOkm/c?w=wXBgDY1YBCIpipUN54vvTkR2OnXjmjSbGZCoXledwSw.eyJ1IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9scGFwYS5vcmcvIiwiciI6Ijg2OTE3ZWExLTI1NTQtNGUzMC05NWFhLTQyNTZmY2U2M2U2YyIsIm0iOiJtYWlsIiwiYyI6ImMxMjZjMWQ5LWNkZGMtNDczNy05YTUwLTQ5ZjRmNzdhOGI5MyJ9), Los Angeles Art Association, SoCal Papa, and participates in exhibitions throughout Southern California.Eidt Jackson has studied art and art history in Southern California and on the east coast, as well as at the Universita di Firenze, in Florence Italy and the Cotswolds of England. She has created multi media works, as well as exploring the meaning of time as it relates to the Japanese lute.      CELESTE GILLIS:  Born and raised in Newport Beach, Celeste has lived in Laguna Beach for the past 25 years with her husband Graham. She is actively involved in the Laguna Beach arts community and serves as Vice President of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. She has served on LPAPA’s Invitational Planning Committee since 2013, joined the Board in 2014. Celeste is passionate about art and how it relates to our community. She graduated from the University of Southern California, and has been in luxury real estate along the Orange County Coast for over 20 years. Celeste, along with her husband and two sons, and like those early California painters, loves to enjoy the surf, sun, and outdoor sanctuary that is abundant in Laguna Beach.

2 FEB 2024 · HOPE RAILEY  Hope is a passionate and driven fine artist and teacher who has dedicated the last 20 years to painting in the studio and teaching future generations of artists. She is an Associate Professor and has served as chair of the Fine Arts department at Laguna College of Art and Design since 2011. She is a regional juror for the AXA Art Prize and has served on artist panels at the 2021 LPAPA Invitational.   NOEL LASHLEY  Noel is a multi faceted artist who shares his passion in part by teaching others. The proprietor of the Laguna Art Supply since 1986, he’s been the informative, helpful, friendly face artists go to for help. Take a minute, and meet this talented local artist. Laguna Art Supply is the source for all kinds of artist materials, helpful instruction and valuable resources.

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8 DEC 2023 · This month, Artwalking Radio brings you two guests, Ricardo, and Mike, as we explore their paths traveled and share life experiences - an artist's perspectives. All these guests have incredible histories and fascinating backgrounds, leading them to be passionate artivists artists called to action through their work. Artwalking is grateful to the Laguna Beach Beautification Council as its sponsor, which promotes and advances projects to enhance Laguna's natural and cultural beauty. Artwalking encourages listener support, including organizations and businesses advancing appreciation of natural resources that sustain the beauty of our surrounding environment. Each year, The LBBC recognizes and awards public and private beautification projects. It also acknowledges the Laguna Beach County Water District's generosity in hosting its meetings and awards ceremonies. RICARDO DUFFY: Ricardo is one of those people we call bi-racial; that is to say, he is a bridge person. Bridge people begin with their legs planted in one place and end up with their arms outstretched to someplace else entirely. For Ricardo, the bridges have spanned the distance between Costa Rica, where he has one residence, and California, where he makes his home in Laguna Beach. The distance underneath, the subterranean land bridge that connects the two Americas, is what Ricardo and his work have come to exemplify: the complex social, political, and infinitely spiritual relationship between the Americas. As all artists choose an approach to expression, Ricarrdo's approach is truly that of the social commentator. He is not tempted by commonplace dialogue with society that gently seduces opinions. His art is more direct in approach and more confrontational. Ricardo often uses gentrified consumerist symbols to illustrate the farce of shat our modern-day monoculture has become. Ricardo toys with the true meanings of words such as alien, migration, class, acculturation, border, and spirit. Ricardo is a self-identified Chicano and freedom fighter at war with growing corporate colonialism and the growing genocide of our earth. Greed is the cancer his art rebuffs. MIKE BEANAN: MIke grew up in Northern California in a large working-class family. They camped every summer for two weeks in State Parks and remote national forests so Mike developed a close relationship with Nature. As teens, he and his brothers surfed the cold, wild waves north of Santa Cruz. Leaving high school, he was faced with being immediately drafted for the Vietnam War so he joined the Navy to avoid the Army. Somehow, however, he wound up being assigned to SEAL Team One as a point man and platoon sergeant. The experience made him a lifelong anti-war activist. Leaving the military after turning 21, he pursued an education and eventually became the Assistant Dean at UC Irvine advancing programs to help veterans and other non-traditional students to succeed in their education. While at UCI, as a SCUBA Instructor, Mike developed the first SCUBA Project for paralyzed veterans. Having a strong art background and always loveing the ocean, he moved to Laguna to become an artist and added political cartoons to the Sawdust Festival in 1984. He also remain determined to protect the Greenbelt. His activism included arrest actions to draw media attention to challenging the Toll Road and became part of BC Space's artivism projects.

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8 SEP 2023 · BOB BORTHWICK: Bob is a landscape architect who has lived in Laguna Beach since 1974. He has designed numerous public projects in town, including significant portions of Heisler Park. His largest project in Laguna has been Alta Laguna Park in 1990, in collaboration with Ann Christoph. His firm designed the award-winning 2.4 mile San Clemente Beach Trail, the Avalon Waterfront Promenade on Catalina Island, and is currently completing the last 17 cottages of the Crystal Cove Historic District for the State of California on Newport Coast. Many other notable public and private projects throughout southern California were designed by his firm, in addition to selected international projects.Bob has devoted much time over his career to local open space preservation, beginning with the volunteer "Aliso Creek: Forest-to-the Sea" master plan in 1974. More recently he prepared a pro-bono plan for environmental enhancement of Laguna Canyon and Creek, in collaboration with Lance Vallery, which resulted in a $500,000 grant from the State of California to the City of Laguna Beach. He was honored for his work by the American Society of Landscape Architects "Public Stewardship Award" in 2016, and has received the Laguna Beach Beautification Council "Harry Lawrence Award" for his efforts in our community.   JANE LEARY: Jane Leary grew up in Fair Oaks (near Sacramento) and moved to Southern California in 1979. Sheretired in 2021 from a successful 40+ year career in outside sales, with the last 25 years spent in the medical device industry. In 1984 Jane earned her Bachelors Degree in Management from the University of Redlands and in 2019 Jane and her husband Greg Frock moved from Coto de Caza to their cottage in Laguna Beach, with their only regret being that they didn’t do it 25 years sooner! Upon retirement Jane became involved in the community embracing all that it has to offer. She became a member of the Laguna Beach Garden Club in 2020, was elected CO-Vice President in 2022 and President in 2023. You will find Jane enjoying the South Laguna beaches, hiking in the Laguna Canyon Wilderness, fitness walking the streets of South Laguna and attending events around town. And of course you’ll find her at the Lagun Beach Garden Club meetings! Regular meetings are held 9:30-11:30AM the 2 nd Friday of every month Sept through May in Tankersley Hall at Laguna Presbyterian Church. Come join us and become involved in this vibrant 95-year-old service organization committed to the advancement of gardening, horticulture, ecology and conservation through education and participation in related community projects.   KRISTY SANTIMYER-MELITA: Kristy has been dancing for a long time. Born near Pittsburgh, PA, she trained and performed as a young student with Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. Her adult years took her to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and others, in NYC. Later, her family moved to London, UK, where she owned and operated a somatic movement studio and teacher training center. Now settled in Laguna Beach, you can find her hiking in the canyons, walking at Crystal Cove, or birdwatching in the Hortense Miller Garden, where she also curates historical, art,and nature installations in the Aviary Gallery. Sky Is Falling Environmental Rap

8 SEP 2023 · BOB BORTHWICK: Bob is a landscape architect who has lived in Laguna Beach since 1974. He has designed numerous public projects in town, including significant portions of Heisler Park. His largest project in Laguna has been Alta Laguna Park in 1990, in collaboration with Ann Christoph. His firm designed the award-winning 2.4 mile San Clemente Beach Trail, the Avalon Waterfront Promenade on Catalina Island, and is currently completing the last 17 cottages of the Crystal Cove Historic District for the State of California on Newport Coast. Many other notable public and private projects throughout southern California were designed by his firm, in addition to selected international projects.Bob has devoted much time over his career to local open space preservation, beginning with the volunteer "Aliso Creek: Forest-to-the Sea" master plan in 1974. More recently he prepared a pro-bono plan for environmental enhancement of Laguna Canyon and Creek, in collaboration with Lance Vallery, which resulted in a $500,000 grant from the State of California to the City of Laguna Beach. He was honored for his work by the American Society of Landscape Architects "Public Stewardship Award" in 2016, and has received the Laguna Beach Beautification Council "Harry Lawrence Award" for his efforts in our community.   JANE LEARY: Jane Leary grew up in Fair Oaks (near Sacramento) and moved to Southern California in 1979. Sheretired in 2021 from a successful 40+ year career in outside sales, with the last 25 years spent in the medical device industry. In 1984 Jane earned her Bachelors Degree in Management from the University of Redlands and in 2019 Jane and her husband Greg Frock moved from Coto de Caza to their cottage in Laguna Beach, with their only regret being that they didn’t do it 25 years sooner! Upon retirement Jane became involved in the community embracing all that it has to offer. She became a member of the Laguna Beach Garden Club in 2020, was elected CO-Vice President in 2022 and President in 2023. You will find Jane enjoying the South Laguna beaches, hiking in the Laguna Canyon Wilderness, fitness walking the streets of South Laguna and attending events around town. And of course you’ll find her at the Lagun Beach Garden Club meetings! Regular meetings are held 9:30-11:30AM the 2 nd Friday of every month Sept through May in Tankersley Hall at Laguna Presbyterian Church. Come join us and become involved in this vibrant 95-year-old service organization committed to the advancement of gardening, horticulture, ecology and conservation through education and participation in related community projects.   KRISTY SANTIMYER-MELITA: Kristy has been dancing for a long time. Born near Pittsburgh, PA, she trained and performed as a young student with Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. Her adult years took her to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and others, in NYC. Later, her family moved to London, UK, where she owned and operated a somatic movement studio and teacher training center. Now settled in Laguna Beach, you can find her hiking in the canyons, walking at Crystal Cove, or birdwatching in the Hortense Miller Garden, where she also curates historical, art,and nature installations in the Aviary Gallery. Sky Is Falling Environmental Rap

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