Monica Bryant
Monica Bryant, Open Books-Frida Louise, wc 2015
Monica Bryant, Book Stack, Art Theory, wc 2015
Monica Bryant, Tailor Made, mixed media, 2015
Art Start Mural, Monica Bryant, lead artist, 2002
Monica Bryant/Barbara Morris, Way Out 1, 2001- Monica Bryant, Open Books-Frida Louise, wc 2015
- Monica Bryant, Book Stack, Art Theory, wc 2015
- Monica Bryant, Tailor Made, mixed media, 2015
- Art Start Mural, Monica Bryant, lead artist, 2002
- Monica Bryant/Barbara Morris, Way Out 1, 2001
After living three years in Singapore, 1996-1999, Bryant created distinctive mixed-media paintings using found photographs of South East Asia in the 60’s. These works were exhibited in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Caffe Museo during October 2005. In Santa Rosa, California, Bryant was the lead artist for the 2002 Art Start Mural on the Press Democrat Building: 50 Portraits of Those Who Shaped the 20th Century in Sonoma County. She exhibited with the Beauty Project and will exhibit in the 20th reunion exhibit at San Francisco City College entitled Glass Slipper to Glass Ceiling February 29 – March 23, 2016
Monica Bryant is a mixed-media artist. She was born in Kansas, received her BA in Art from the University of Hawaii and her MFA from UC Berkeley. In 2004 she was awarded a fellowship at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. Bryant is a credentialed Art Teacher who chaired the Art Department at Ursuline High School in Santa Rosa, CA for nine years. After Ursuline closed in 2011, Bryant instructed drawing and color theory at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in San Francisco. She also became the art teacher at Brush Creek Montessori School in Santa Rosa until June 2014.
As member of the newly formed women’s art collective, artFlare, she shares a studio and gallery and she also has her individual studio in Building 33 at 3840 Finley Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 9540. artFlare’s mission is to ignite, and illuminate the bond between art, nature and community. We do this with invitational exhibits and workshops.