Dolores Mitchell received a BA in studio art and a PhD in art history from UCLA in 1970 and taught “Renaissance to 20th Century Art History” at Chico State for 30 years. She co-founded Chico’s Avenue 9 Gallery, where she exhibited her art until the gallery closed in 2015. Dolores now focuses her energies on painting. Erika Esau was born and raised in California, but lived and worked in Australia and Europe as well. She received a PhD in art history from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. She taught modern art history at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She also worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a librarian in the Rifkind Collection of German Expressionist Studies. She is the author of books and articles on Californian, Australian, and German art.

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