Madi Reyes (she/her) is a Filipina-American graphic designer specializing in branding and illustration. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of San Francisco with a B.A. in Design and minors in Advertising and Asian Pacific American Studies in the spring of 2024. Currently, she works as a junior designer at Penguin Random House with the Potter Gift team while simultaneously working on personal and freelance illustration and designs. 

Art and design have been outlets that have brought her a way to express her thoughts and values, as well as heal and come to terms with challenging topics or events in her life.

"Magical Girl" is a risograph print/illustration that celebrates the magical nature of centering yourself and your needs, and reflecting on nostalgia. This piece is inspired by Sailor Moon, an iconic figure who brought Reyes joy when she was younger and taught her valuable lessons about fighting for what you believe yet still caring for yourself while doing so. "Magical Girl" also aims to celebrate the softness of the feminine while not having to sacrifice strength, hardness, or androgyny.

"Little Whale Song" was inspired directly by a dream where I tried to reunite a whale made of stars with his pod.

Addi Miyako (she/her) often turns towards folklore, storytelling, dreamscapes, and elements of childhood when creating personal art.

"Ritual at Dusk" recalls personal ingredients for feeling better - moon-gazing, breath work, plants, long soaks, Ghibli movies, and tiger balm.

Addi Miyako (she/her) often turns towards folklore, storytelling, dreamscapes, and elements of childhood when creating personal art.

“Return to Spark” is a piece I created to capture the essence of pure emotion—love, wonder, hurt, joy, and peace. I imagined what that raw experience looked like and used it as a reminder to myself to not suppress feelings but to embrace and process them fully. To me, art is a way to translate the way you process the world and transfer that to an entirely different person's worldview into how they observe the world. That's the magic of art.  

Hello! My name is Madeline, the artist behind Notebeans Stationery—an art and stationery brand dedicated to bridging creativity and kindness. My mission as an artist is to tell meaningful life stories through the dreamy adventures of my three characters. My work often evokes a dream-like world where deep connections and escapism happen.

I started this journey four years ago and continue it today, creating stationery and art products, bringing creative visions to life through commissions, and connecting with incredible creatives, artists, and businesses across the Bay Area through events and tabling.

You can explore more of my entire art gallery, hire me for commissions, or see my product collection at notebeansstationery.com.

Oil Painting on Canvas | 24” x 36” | 2022

$3000

Jackie Liu | she/her

Forgiving is hard – even when you truly want to. The process is riddled with bitterness, loss, and risk, but also promises potential healing and new beginnings. Opposing forces compete in this painting: luminosity and shadow, serenity and grief, flourishing and withering, redemption and regression. A soaring white dove is shadowed by its darker inverse, mourning doves. Píng guǒ huā (apple blossoms) are symbols of peace and healing, used in traditional Chinese medicine to restore balance in the body. Across the canvas, they atrophy, sink, and dissipate into wisps of shadow, or float in full bloom, emitting rays of light like little suns. The journey of forgiveness is fraught, protracted, and far from linear. But trying to forgive is often the first step toward dispelling ghosts of the past and healing from personal and collective trauma.

Jackie Liu (she/her) is a disabled Chinese American painter, writer, and video creator from the Boston area studying Art Practice, Philosophy, and Environmental Justice at Stanford University. By articulating and sharing her own stories of trauma, identity, and resilience, she aims to celebrate vulnerability, invite conversation, and foster communion and healing. Right now, she’s interested in making art that captures moments of joy, while also feeling viscerally joyful to create. 

Framed Giclee Fine Art Print of Oil Painting | 17” x 21” | $115

Margaret Luo | she/her

Contemplation is the first painting of The Thought Collection, a series of six 12”x16” original oil paintings on canvas, that came out of the desire to gain internal peace, calm, and quietness of the mind. By projecting the rhythmic patterns of ocean waves, painting helped me fall into more restorative and tranquil thought patterns.

Margaret Luo’s (she/her) artistic practice centers around developing emotional connections with people and nature to understand the land where we live and what our environment can teach us. Each of her artworks starts with going outdoors to see the details and variations of patterns in nature. She is captivated by places that have dynamic relationships with water. Luo creates artwork that shares a reflection of the Earth’s resilience and its renewing cycles and highlights the random and repeated patterns of the world. In her artwork, Luo reminds viewers that nature reflects, contributes to, and is impacted by humanity’s patterns and processes on all scales of life.

Margaret Luo is a self-taught artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Traditionally trained as a data scientist aimed to improve well-being for people and communities through policy research, Luo turned to oil painting to develop a more human connection to people and nature.

Ceramics | $380

Michelle Tam | she/her

Michelle is a Bay Area native and graphic designer who loves exploring with playful color and nature-inspired shapes. She works with many different art mediums, including painting, collage, and textiles, with handbuilt ceramics being her latest focus. Most recently, she's been exploring the balance between sculpture and functionality.

Art has been a way for me to escape and express myself for as long as I can remember. I started my ceramics journey around a year and a half ago, and as much as it frustrated me when I first started, I appreciate it so much now for teaching me patience, how to let go when things don’t go your way, and how valuable the process of making is. With every new piece I create, I learn something new. 

With so much of our time spent in front of screens, I’m especially grateful to work with my hands in the clay studio and zone in on sculpting and glazing. I’m naturally an anxious person and ceramics has been so helpful in getting me to regularly step away from life’s chaos. It’s also given me a community space to meet other artists and host events to encourage others to freely create and play.

Ceramics | $65

Michelle Tam | she/her

Michelle is a Bay Area native and graphic designer who loves exploring with playful color and nature-inspired shapes. She works with many different art mediums, including painting, collage, and textiles, with handbuilt ceramics being her latest focus. Most recently, she's been exploring the balance between sculpture and functionality.

Art has been a way for me to escape and express myself for as long as I can remember. I started my ceramics journey around a year and a half ago, and as much as it frustrated me when I first started, I appreciate it so much now for teaching me patience, how to let go when things don’t go your way, and how valuable the process of making is. With every new piece I create, I learn something new. 

With so much of our time spent in front of screens, I’m especially grateful to work with my hands in the clay studio and zone in on sculpting and glazing. I’m naturally an anxious person and ceramics has been so helpful in getting me to regularly step away from life’s chaos. It’s also given me a community space to meet other artists and host events to encourage others to freely create and play.