Kathy recently graduated from the California College of the Arts with a major in Community Studies. She is currently the youngest member of the arts organization, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, in Oakland. She is an alumna of Out of Site and of Lowell High School. As a student at Out of Site she took photography, printmaking and other visual arts classes. She became a teaching assistant for photography, and joined the youth advisory board during high school. During her senior year of high school and freshman year of college, she was an administrative assistant at Out of Site, and mentored the youth advisory board.

Maggie is a native Northern Californian who earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts (CCA). Currently, she teaches photography at CCA and Out of Site. Her work has been exhibited widely in San Francisco galleries including Queens Nail Annex and The Spare Room. On the weekends she heads north to Sonoma County and works at her family’s organic farm and winery, selling produce at the farmer’s market, collecting eggs, herding cats, and documenting it all with her camera. Maggie has been teaching at Out of Site since 2009.

Mark has been teaching high school classes since he was in high school. As a teenager he interned and eventually worked for a non-profit specializing in health education & harm reduction. After going away for college, he continued on with the same organization becoming the head educator, and eventually was put in charge of running a teen center for Peninsula High School in San Bruno. He is also an active musician/producer/recording artist in the bay area. He enjoys helping young people foster a passion for the arts.

Alfie teaches Afro-Brazilian drumming and percussion ensemble. He has studied and performed with noted percussionists, Gamo Paz and Jorge Alabe from Brazil, and locally with Carlos Aceituno, Zeke Neally and Kwaku Dady as well as ensembles including Aguas de Bahia and Fogo Na Roupa. He is an accomplished salsa dance instructor and also teaches with Loco Bloco, the San Francisco Arts Education Project and Project Avary, a summer arts camp for at-risk youth. Alfie is also the musical director of both Loco Bloco & the dance company Sambaxé. He and his drumming students regularly collaborate with Sambaxé. Alfie has been with Out of Site for three years. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

Monica is an artist, educator and designer who constructs and fabricates complex sculptural constructions that reflect on urban architectural landscapes, industrial buildings, containers, and objects related to food surpluses. Martinez received her MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is a fellow of the Mac-Dowell Colony and the Sculpture Space. Her work has been exhibited in various international venues and in April 2011 she will participate in the category of New Positions at the Cologne Art Fair in Germany. She is the 2010 recipient of the FONCA’s Young Creator’s Grant from Mexico.

Raffaella teaches architecture and dance, has been the program manager, and is now the Program Director at Out of Site. She received a Master of Architecture from California College of the Arts (CCA), and first came to Out of Site as a Community Student Fellow from the Center of Art and Public Life at CCA. She received her B.A. in Psychology and a Minor in Art from UC Berkeley. She has taught in the Cornerstone Architectural Program in Oakland working with youth out of Juvenile Hall. In the summer 2007, she received a fellowship from CCA and worked with the favela community of Manguinhos in Rio de Janeiro under the Brazilian architect Jorge Mario Jauregui  and his Favela/Barrio project. She is the Artistic Director and founder of Sambaxé Dance Company which offers dance classes, performances and costume design. Her samba class was also awarded Best of the Bay 2004. She speaks Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

Josh is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on integrating art into public life and the urban environment. He is a conceptual artist and sculptor, frequently incorporating social and political content into his work—from garbage culture to border-crossings and performance in American life. Josh has made several public projects in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts, Galería de la Raza, Southern Exposure and the 16th Street BART station. In 2007 he was asked to speak as part of the De Young Museum’s Mapping the City Symposium. He is a founding director of the artist coalitions Hypersea and the Cardboard Institute of Technology. Josh holds a 3 degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and has a MFA from UC Davis and a BA in art from SF State University. He has taught at Out of Site periodically for 6 years.

Freddy is a theater artist and poet. As he is finishing his degree at the University of San Francisco in the Performing Arts and Social Justice department, he has developed an original theater performance with a group of men in the SF Jail under the auspices of the Sheriff’s Department. He has performed in stage readings and productions at Intersection for the Arts, Brava Theater, and with the Theater of the Oppressed. He has been an artist-in-residence with Community Works, and has taught at Oakland Tech High School as a teaching artist with Opera Piccola. Additionally, he is a poet mentor at Youth Speaks. Freddy is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Allison is an emerging Canadian artist and educator based in San Francisco and Toronto. Her public space interventions, sculptures and installations playfully employ scientific methodologies and research to interrogate human relationships to the natural environment. Allison has most recently exhibited her artwork at the 2010 Subtle Technologies Festival in Toronto, the 2009 inaugural Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and across Canadian Crown Land in 2008. She recently graduated with a Master of Fine Art in Social Practice at California College of the Arts.

A native of Salinas, California, Amy is a printmaker and visual artist. She received her BA in Art, with a concentration in Printmaking from  Yale University, and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She also received a collegiate teaching certificate from Brown University. Amy has taught at RISD and with Opera Piccola (in Oakland), where she also worked as an after school program coordinator. Before graduated school, Amy spent time volunteering and silkscreening at the Mission Gráfica of the Mission Cultural Center. Amy exhibits her work locally and nation-wide. She was awarded a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in the Spring of 2010, and will be a resident artist at the Luggage Store Gallery Annex this Fall. Amy is bilingual in English and Spanish.