Jeff Faeth, a self-proclaimed "industrial folk artist" and modern Dadaist, is the driving force behind Sanctuary143. Based in Orange County, he has exhibited paintings and sculpture at several venues throughout Southern California. Jeff is committed to engaging his audience and promoting creative transformation. Through his signature "art tours" he offers viewers a glimpse of his process - a combination of industrial materials, bold color, street art inspired technique, and deep thought. He comments on the human condition and industrial and political issues through large scale, powerful imagery.

Jeff contributes his insider knowledge of the street art and punk rock scene to Sanctuary143; manages the events' lighting design and set construction; and inspires the team with unparalleled enthusiasm and wisdom.

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Although native to San Diego, Stacy has explored extensively through studies and professions, including wanderings throughout Mexico and Europe and past lives in Seattle, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Austria. Her artwork is inspired by her background in interior design and fine art, involving diverse mediums such as thread, wood, paint, vintage pieces, and textiles. Drawing inspiration from environmental issues and Mexican and Victorian culture, Stacy's pieces are often sculptural assemblages of found objects which reinterpret history and mythology with a modern aesthetic.

A co-founder of Sanctuary143, Stacy co-creates concepts for shows and directs event planning and public relations.

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born and raised in the foothills of santa barbara, sean has been strongly influenced by his natural surroundings. his studies in ceramic sculpture and his profession of graphic designer have taken him to seattle, berkeley, and now sunny leucadia. of late, he has rediscovered hand crafting, including paint and assemblage, as an escape from his primarily digital work of the last 5 years, experimenting with process and material. his messages are imbued with political and social commentary, attempting to challenge the status quo and catch the viewer off guard.

as a co-founder of s143, sean is responsible for brand management, creative direction, event concepting, and uniting artists and musicians.

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Eneri Abillar is a highly skilled industrial designer working with San Diego based Vapor Studio. He received a Masters of Industrial Design from Pratt Institue, as well as a BA in Studio Arts and BS in Biology from Santa Clara University. He has worked for notable brands including Lexus, UNIV, Pepsi, and Crooks & Castles. His eclectic background merges street culture and high style, and he further extends his designs into fabrication, model making, and sculpture. In his free time, Eneri modifies motorcycles, cars, and bikes, such as the Abelasol Lowrider Bike, which he built in collaboration with Univ for the Pepsi Street Motion Tour and DUB car show.

Gerardo Yepiz, the man behind the name, grew up in Ensenada, attended school in Tijuana, and moved to San Diego ten years ago. In the 1970s he was drawn to the skate, punk rock, straightedge culture, which ignited his interest in art. Since then, he has mastered visual arts, photography, graphic design, and illustration on his own terms. He is always sketching, etching, carving, and cutting stencils, experimenting with Xerox machines and vintage printing methods and inventing techniques. He lives and creates by example, incorporating his feelings about art, food, spirituality, and life into all of his creations and actions. He is intensely creative and hardworking and is a dedicated vegan and cat lover. Gerardo has a passion for sharing knowledge and resources, inspiring others, traveling, lecturing, and riding bikes.

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Anthony Bareno resides in San Diego, working by day at local grassroots bike repair shop Velo Culture. He is inspired by the bike world to create graphic designs and black and white photography that capture the tools and subtle beauty of the trade.

Amy Burkhart was born and raised in southern California. She studied fine art at Colorado State University and now resides in San Diego, where she works as a full time graphic designer and photographer. Amy incorporates found objects or everyday discarded things into her artwork, creating large and small scale assemblages and collages. Her pieces are elegant and expressive, carefully crafted through a broad range of materials, including paint, wood, industrial elements, paper, graphics, and photographs.

tony focuses on industrial photography of the urban landscape. tony's life and travels have taken him from the middle east to asia to mexico, and his explorations of these cities on bike have inspired and allowed him to photograph the often inaccessible "guts" of urban infrastructure. in 2000, tony was instantly attracted to the results of the holga camera and since then has continued to experiment with it to montage the images he has discovered.

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a california native, skye resides in north county san diego as a painter and graphic designer. skye's work is organic in nature and revolves around human nature, mortality, and mankind's connection with earth and its future.

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Keikichi Honna divides his time between painting and creating in his Oceanside art studio and hunting down vintage and unusual tools. He is at once a philosopher, artist, hammer collector, and curator of his own Pop Zen Institute. His art is graphic design inspired and always imbued with his own intriguing sense of humor and take on life.

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Josh Higgins was born and raised in San Diego, California. Surrounded by a booming creative culture, he found a way to contribute to it through his music. As bass player for fluf, an iconic San Diego rock trio, Josh traveled the country, touring with notable acts like Jawbreaker, Fugazi, Blink 182, and Sublime. By the mid 1990s, his music led him to study design and eventually to establish himself in the field not just locally, but internationally, through his design work for Fender, The Tony Hawk Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, KROQ FM, and Perry Ellis International. As part of the Board of Directors of the San Diego chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Josh has enjoyed the opportunity to curate exhibits and lecture series for local and visiting photographers and designers.

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Born in Mexico City in 1982, Jorge Tellaeche called several cities around Mexico home before settling in Tijuana, where he now lives and works. It was while studying French and painting in Luxembourg that he discovered his passion for nature, a core fundamental of his artistic style. His landscapes involve a chaotic yet calming use of color to create living, breathing, organic forms - clouds, flowers, and trees - that capture the complex relationship between life, love, and pain in the simplest of nature's imagery. An engineer in graphic design, Tellaeche also operates Twig, a clothing and functional project, and is co-founder of the Adapta Project.

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born in inuyama, japan, aki began a back and forth journey between southern california and japan at age 15. aki worked at the children's museum in san diego and created multimedia designs and children's workshops for the 2005 world exposition in aichi, japan. her work includes illustration, paper cutouts, product design, silkscreen printing, and film. while her pieces are intricately crafted with traditional japanese techniques, they are imbued with devilish intellect.

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Mark Klammer gained a passion for working with his hands as a child in his carpenter father's workshop, where he spent hours building models, toys, and contraptions from scrap materials. After growing up in Escondido, Mark moved to southern Mexico in 1971 and lived there for ten years, surfing and managing a papaya and mango farm. It was there that he began his endeavors in painting. Upon returning to San Diego, he cultivated skills in sculpture and thereafter successfully exhibited along the California coast his compellingly realistic animal sculptures crafted with interesting and diverse materials and textures. His current evolution as an artist brings him to a body of work that he calls "cultural penetration", unexpected modern sculptures that convey political messages and intense spiritual search.

Sandee's studies have taken her to Bellas Artes and Instituto Allende of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and San Francisco State University, where she received a BA in Painting and Ethnic Studies. Currently she resides in Oceanside, California, where she shares an art studio and enjoys dancing tango, skipping rope with kids, and creating portraits, jewelry designs, and meticulously crafted works of art.

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hogie has enjoyed a long career as an illustrator and art director in the entertainment industry. his diverse endeavors include designing computer games, creating set designs for steven spielberg, and serving as art director to elton john in the '70s. hogie operated and MC'd at the world famous rock venue, the continental club in hollywood. his original pen and ink piece, "populis panorama," was recently exhibited at the museum of contemporary art in los angeles.

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Ron Miriello is the founder and director of Miriello Grafico, a graphic design and strategic marketing firm in San Diego, and a founding member of the San Diego chapter of the American Institue of Graphic Arts. Ron studied at Colorado State University and completed his design degree in Italy at La Poggerina, where he later taught and lived for two years before moving to San Diego in the early 1980s. His current project involves interviewing and photographing craftsmen of everyday objects in Italy for a book series showcasing the art and value of handcrafted products in a world of global mass production. Ron divides his time between his studio in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego and Radicondoli, Italy, where he finds the freedom to focus on his creative pursuits.

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Born on a Wednesday morning, Gabriel Salcedo was raised in San Diego in the vibrant neighborhood of Logan Heights. As a child, he loved listening to his dad’s records, drawing for hours, and building his own toys. Gabriel wears many hats as a self taught artist, designer, photographer, bike smith, and dj. Gabriel is a digger by nature, whether it be for records, bike parts, or other vintage finds. He enjoys finding the beauty in forgotten and neglected objects from the past. His current venture is restoring vintage road bikes through his business "Bici Bella". He uses his photography to share quiet, hidden moments and to reveal the beauty of decay. He is always listening, always learning.

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a self-proclaimed "jack of all trades, master of none," thatcher experiments with industrial art forms such as welding and pin-striping, in addition to traditional mediums such as painting, screen printing, and sculpture. thatcher's bikes are always intensely unconventional, designed for obscure riding and racing methods unfamiliar to most.

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Born in Cuba, Tocayo now lives in San Diego, where he paints and operates Tocayo Design, a freelance agency specializing in graphic design and illustration. His paintings, exhibited throughout San Diego and often created live at events, show off his bold use of color and his skillful ability to merge rich, soulful cultures and concept with street art inspired graphic elements.

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With a background in graphic design and screen printing, Sean Ward also manages the installation of major art pieces and is constantly drawing on his involvement with the art community for inspiration. Sean experiments with the transfer of images into art pieces, often using only black and white color and an application of resin. Sean creates work inspired by Pop Art and contemporary culture, simultaneously merging ideas and images from the present and the past.