Who’s Involved – The People Behind North Street

Natasha is a writer, artist, and creative strategist who believes in the power of reinvention. She founded The North Street Project to create a space where artists and writers—especially those in mid-to-late career—can find new momentum, connect deeply, and make work that matters.

Her career has woven through philanthropy, education, and the arts, always centered on the question: How do we create spaces where people can thrive creatively? She began as a classroom teacher, later working in nonprofit leadership and philanthropy, always pushing for new ways to support bold, world-changing ideas.

A lifelong lover of words and images, Natasha’s artistic practice is rooted in storytelling, nature, and regenerative creativity. She draws inspiration from landscapes, history, and material intelligence, seeking to reimagine the narratives we inherit and the ones we choose to write. Her work explores the intersection of language, memory, and environment, often incorporating found materials, layering text with image, and weaving together personal and collective histories.

She is particularly influenced by artists and thinkers who bridge art and ecology, including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Janine Benyus, Agnes Denes, and Andy Goldsworthy. Her work is deeply attuned to the cycles of nature—the way land, seasons, and materials tell stories of their own. She believes that art is a form of listening, a way to be in conversation with the world rather than imposing upon it.

North Street is the latest evolution of this work—a moving, living space for artists who are stepping into their next chapter. It reflects her deep commitment to collaboration, resilience, and the creative process as an ongoing, regenerative act.

She holds degrees from Yale University and has worked with leading philanthropic institutions, but her true education has come from time spent among redwood forests, artists’ studios, and the creative communities that shape the world.

When not writing or making art, you’ll find her hiking in Northern California, experimenting with printmaking, planning the next adventure with her daughters, or discovering a new way to bring creative people together.

 Aurélie is a French/Dutch multidisciplinary artist. She lives in San Francisco, CA with her family. 

After studying interior architecture in Paris and pattern making in Brussels, she worked in hat making. In 2010 she started a company with her sister, making bespoke wedding attire and accessories. Since moving to San Francisco she has volunteered at schools, taught elementary school art and made drag costumes, learned ceramics and woodworking.  She has a boundless interest in all things craft. She is inspired by observation of her fellow humans, the three beings that call her maman, the importance and of words. 

Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, mother, and educator with a background in geology whose work investigates the relationship between body and spirit, where they intertwine and diverge. Her practice is rooted in the act of visual listening. Using sound as a skeleton upon which materials such as liquid latex, seawater, and crushed minerals are hung, battered, folded, or bounced, the resultant videos, photographs and sculptural paintings transpose the senses, disrupt perception, and push the viewer into the space between belief and knowing. 

Joyce is an East Bay native and the founder of the food education nonprofit The Breakfast Project. She enjoys telling and learning stories through cooking and eating, parenting two teens, singing with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, attending youth baseball games, nurturing decades-long friendships, exploring local public libraries, and connecting with her parents' cultural roots in Taiwan. 

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Energy democracy advocate by day, family caretaker in the between hours, Ingrid’s creative pursuits include fiber arts (crochet, paper arts, and garment making), and converting her rental’s backyard into a pleasure garden for birds, bees, and neighborhood babies. The Vienna Opera House Quilt project is her second exploration of this city's industrial design and its engagements with social relations. You can see some of her previous reflections on this theme at Play In The City. 

Judy is the author of three poetry collections, including Sky=Empty which won the New Issues Prize. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she moved to California to study poetry at Mills College. On fellowships from the Japanese Ministry of Culture, she spent five years living in Japan, where she trained in Butoh dance and Noh theatre. At Dominican University of California, she teaches poetry writing and live storytelling. She lives in Berkeley with her nature guide and their young daughter.  

Jamie is an artist, wife, and mother in her 30’s living in San Francisco. Born and raised in Idaho, she studied French language and literature at the University of Idaho. Art has long been a hobby and an outlet of hers, but during the isolation of 2020’s quarantine (combined with being a new mom), it became more of a lifeline. Through this rediscovered passion, Jamie has been using her art to work through and share some of the new life changes she is experiencing and processing older emotions. The intention behind her body of work is that the delicate nature of the florals, and of the watercolor to depict them, are highlighted by the stark nature of the acrylic backgrounds. Through this project, Jamie is diving into the physical toll motherhood takes on the body and celebrating the strength required to endure it. She hopes that in sharing this work, she can connect with other people who may be experiencing the same things and celebrate their strength