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Learn more about The Ornamental Artwork Collection as curators Alex Farkas and Madeline Stafford answer questions about the making of this collection in 16 words or less.

Sally Adams' f trees, birds, and skies take the viewer on a path to a peaceful life. The minimalism of her colors and subjects draw the viewer right into the heart of these intricately knitted symbols and guide us further along into a tremendously profound system of metaphors.

Watercolor painter, bike aficionado, and California native, Nancy Muren has the wheels turning on a mission to catalog the beauty of San Francisco’s bicycle population in a new series of brightly colored, slyly humorous watercolors.

Artist of the Week Nava Lundy has mastered shadowy, dreamlike impressionism.

Onelio Marrero turns everyday moments into impressionist masterpieces.

Lisa created California Love in Point Lobos State Park where wonderful marvels and curious creatures began to appear around her.

It was not what the papers said, but rather, it was the fact that the papers even existed at all that made them so unusual.

It was the end of 2007 when Sheila Finch sat in the car with one hundred small fractures in her foot, three spiral breaks at her ankle, and one broken Fibula just below the knee.

Every so often, as a special treat, a young DL Watson and her family would pile into the car – DL in the backseat as the car slowed over the bump of the planked wooden bridge that would, if only for an evening, compress the distance between South Florida and tropical Polynesia.