"When I am drawn to the shoreline of the East Bay, Mt. Tamalpais looms in the distance. This imagery recalls many swimming dreams I've had, faces turned away – the location blurring the lines of many swimming holes and beach days morphing into one dreamy location." ~ Ocean 

Ocean Escalanti (She/Her) is an indigenous visual artist and writer currently residing in Oakland, CA. She is a printmaker, monitoring at Max's Garage Press and also an artist facilitator at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, CA. Ocean has exhibited, presented or facilitated workshops at BAMPFA, Contemporary Jewish Museum, SFMOMA, and the San Francisco Public Library. She was a recent artist in residence at In Cahoots Residency in Petaluma.