Andrea Siedsma is an award-winning writer and communications and media strategist. With over 35 years of experience, Andrea has created compelling content across platforms and has partnered with everyone from global brands to startups, universities, nonprofits and city governments.

Sarah Gardner is a Cardiff mom, a practicing lawyer and a self-taught mixed media artist and teacher. She's been a teacher for well-known course platforms like Everything Art and Willa Workshops. She's also the author of "Share Your Joy: Mixed Media Shareable Art." Experience the joy of making something you love. Then, when you share it, someone else can feel all that joy.

Celia has been a Leucadia resident for almost thirty years. Graduating in 1988 from SDSU with a BA-Emphasis in Painting and Printmaking, she followed up with two successful wedding florist businesses. These bookended the raising her daughters & countless hours of volunteering-including years on the PEC PTA board including two terms as president. After handing off her latest floral business - she now has gone back to painting, and is lucky enough to have a feature wall at our local Leucadia Art Gallery. Celia is excited to be a part of all the good that comes from Art Can’t Hurt You community work.

Instagram @celiabartgallery

Jim McConlogue lives in Encinitas, California. He paints with oil, both in plein-air and out of his home studio. Jim has studied life drawing, painting and illustration through the Corcoran School of Art and U.C.S.D. extension courses, The Athenaeum School of the Arts, St. Mary’s College, and a number of plein-air workshops.

Jim is currently working on commissioned paintings, and his new original oils are being shown at the Corner Frame Shop & Leucadia Art Gallery in Leucadia CA, Cassidy’s Interiors in Solana Beach CA, Art in Framing in La Jolla, CA, and Coastal Custom Framing & Art in Carlsbad, CA. Jim also shows his work at Solterra Winery in Leucadia CA, and Hansen Surfboards in Encinitas, CA.