2025 Artists
Featured
We are veteran burners, a camp of all sorts; builders and welders, electricians and a lighting engineer, photographers, artists… teachers, lawyers, and a hairstylist — and filmmakers!
Ron Shafer was raised and forged by the spirit of this rivertown. Inspired by a photo of his great-grandfather, Ron developed a deep respect for the trades early in life and immersed himself in Petaluma’s creative community from a young age. He earned a formal education at Santa Rosa Junior College and brings nearly two decades of experience in welding, sculpture, and metalwork to his practice.
Jonny Hirschmugl is a painter, builder, and a main character in this satire of life. In all is creative endeavors his main qualities are ever present: Nostalgic, romantic, and delusional. A petaluma native, he is influenced by the riverscape story of this town. Buried in the iron facades of downtown's structures, to the labyrinth sewers below. And the heritage farm lands with forgotten tales that only the ravens can recite so well.
WonderStump is an immersive art experience and creative venue that will be opening its doors THIS SUMMER in downtown Petaluma!
WonderStump brings multimedia, story-driven environments to life—blending bold sculpture, interactive tech, and hands-on play to spark curiosity and connection. Part gallery, part playground, WonderStump invites visitors of all ages to enter otherworldly realms where you can touch the art, follow your curiosity, and lose yourself in the magic of the moment.
Most of Kevin’s work incorporates the element of fire in them which only adds to the drama of their majestic size and beauty. With his brother Dustin, Kevin also owns three full service hair salons which he also designed and built and which contain more of his wonderful sculptures.
Karen Lockert was always the kid who daydreamed her way through school, seeing beauty in what most other people thought was quite ordinary, if not downright ugly.
Her career was launched only after retiring as a high school art teacher in Los Angeles, when she began to understand that she had been repeatedly “re-birthing” and “re-homing” herself through her art work.
Astro Botanicals sculptures create an immersive garden playground. These giant angelic plants are playful, engaging and elegant. The larger than life flower shapes give the viewer a transformed perspective that causes a symbiotic response. Similar to traditional stone ornament and devotional art, the sculptures represent a healthy relationship with nature and imagination. Astro Botanicals promote kindness and creativity.
Working with his father on residential construction sites, being a boat mechanic, endlessly tinkering at home and always looking for a path to use his skills to be helpful, Jim eventually found his way to making things for a living.
Although trying to flush his mother's jewelry box down the toilet, when first learning to walk, might not strike you as the marker of a curious mind, the fact that Stephen did it several times may tell a different story! This learning adventure was a preamble to many more focused attempts at wrangling understanding from a world of constraints, but it was certainly NOT the messiest.
Tony Speirs is an artist and illustrator living and working in Sonoma County, CA. He had shown his narrative works throughout the Bay Area for over 25 years and his illustrations have appeared in several national and regional publications and books.
Tony and his wife Lisa Beerntsen collaborated as Art Farm to create the interactive “The Game of Hope and Fear” which they are bringing to display at Rivertown Revival this year.