About Jenn Procacci
Jenn Procacci b. 1983 is a visual artist, journalist and community advocate residing in Covelo, CA. She has been a resident of Covelo since 2012, prior to which she lived and worked in her hometown of Philadelphia PA. She works both two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally, utilizing murals, painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture in her art making. Her practice often intersects with community engagement and social practice. Procacci has worked with at risk youth in public schools to create murals that address social issues in their communities, such as gun violence and environmental protection. In 2016, she was commissioned by the Friends of the Round Valley Public Library in Covelo to create an 80′ long mural, “River Spirit” on the Library Commons building. She has worked extensively with The Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia since 2009, a world renowned public arts organization, as a muralist and mural restoration artist, and has been involved in the creation and restoration of over 25 large scale murals. She was the co lead artist on a 2015 complete restoration of an original Keith Haring mural in Philadelphia PA, sponsored and overseen by the Kieth Haring Foundation of New York. Procacci has been a board member of the Arts Council of Mendocino County since 2015. Since 2018, she has been the host of a biweekly public affairs radio program on Mendocino community radio station KZYX. She has shown both nationally and internationally, and her work is held in the private collections of Tyler School of Art and Temple University Rome Gallery of Art. Jenn received a Bachelor of Art in Visual Art from Tyler School of Art in 2006.
About Michelle Peñaloza
Michelle Peñaloza is the author of All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems, winner of the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award and the James Laughlin Award, which is awarded by The Academy of American Poets to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. (Persea Books, 2025). She is also the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019), and two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). Michelle has received support from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Upstate California Creative Corps, Loghaven, Willapa Bay AIR, Caldera, 4Culture, Artist Trust, PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists), VONA/Voices, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among others. You can find her work at The Seventh Wave, Poetry, Honey Literary, Bellingham Review, New England Review, Lantern Review, and featured in American Life in Poetry. The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI, raised in Nashville, TN, and has lived in Covelo, CA since 2017.