Shadow Creek

Shadow Creek

Cover | Bill Cone

Shadow Creek (pastel on paper, 14″ x 11″). Bay Area-based artist Bill Cone has been painting for 20 years around the state and makes annual pack trips into the Sierra wilderness to paint with like-minded souls. His day job is production design for Pixar Animation Studios. Credits there include Cars, Toy Story, Toy Story II, Inside Out, and A Bug’s Life. He blogs at BillCone.blogspot.com. Cone exhibits his landscapes locally at the STUDIO Gallery in San Francisco and in the East Bay at Holton Studio Gallery, part of Holton Studio Frame-Makers (www.HoltonFrames.com), which, after 23 years in Emeryville, is moving to Berkeley. Watch for it to open soon at its new location at 2100 Fifth St. (at Addison) in Berkeley.


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In the Philanthropic Swim

In the Philanthropic Swim

Rockridge residents John Bliss and Kim Thompson may live far removed the gritty flats of East and West Oakland. But this philanthropic couple see themselves as one with the citizens of Oakland, particularly those who are struggling financially, and they’re leading a campaign to get their “financially blessed” peers to invest in the community like they have by funding city programs to teach kids how to swim.