Marie-Elena Schembri is an award-winning journalist reporting on education, art, culture and community-facing issues. She lives in the Sierra foothills and is associate editor for the weekly Calaveras Enterprise newspaper. Schembri graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a Bachelor of Arts in studio art-visual media and has an associate’s degree in commercial photography, but her passion is working with sustainable and experimental analog photographic processes in her home darkroom. Her writing has appeared in Comstock’s magazine, Sacramento News and Review, The Sacramento Observer and the Calaveras Enterprise.
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Art Exposed: Doug Winter
Elk Grove photographer creates images exploring perception and memory through the lens of visual impairment
After suffering a stroke in his right eye in 2012, Elk Grove resident Doug Winter, a trained commercial photographer, began to think differently about sight and perception.
Art Exposed: Maren Conrad
Meet the Sacramento muralist and designer who creates joyful spaces for women
Maren Conrad reflects on her iconic Sacramento murals and her latest project, the Jacquelyn.
Art Exposed: Muzi Li Rowe
This mixed media artist and photographer explores culture through defunct technology
Whether it’s layers of tiny microchips or rows of dead batteries, each work in Muzi Li Rowe’s Magical Thinking series is like peering into a tiny museum where the most microscopic parts of now-defunct personal technology devices, from old Nokia flip phones to disposable cameras, become individual hallmarks of consumer culture.