MUZ is a Bay Area art collective. We work with artists and art organizations to provide opportunities for connection and collaboration. We are dedicated to working on projects that benefit the arts community and communities in need by raising funds through art sales.

Shirin Khalatbari is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Oakland, California. She received her MFA in Art Practice from San Francisco State University in 2019. She also holds an MA in Archaeology from the University of Rome. Shirin has exhibited in Rome and throughout the Bay Area including venues such as SOMarts, Embark Gallery, and Doug Adams Gallery. She was the recipient of the Jack and Gertude Murphy Award in 2018. Her work confronts the entropy of memory and history. 

Natasha Loewy is an artist and curator based in Oakland, California. She received a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in 2008, a Single Subject Teaching Credential in Art from Mills College in 2012, and an MFA in Art Practice from San Francisco State University in 2022. Drawing from personal accounts of family trauma and a shared socio-political climate, she creates works that use tension and fragility to explore the relationships between anxiety, humor, and healing. In 2021, Loewy received a Cadogan scholarship from the San Francisco Foundation. She has exhibited locally at galleries such as SOMArts, Root Division, Pro Arts, Hit SF, and The Great Highway Gallery. She has taught art in elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as within youth art programs throughout the Bay Area. 

Beril Or is a visual artist, educator, and curator from Turkey, based in Oakland, California. Her interdisciplinary works explore time, memory, trauma, and healing through rest and move between comfort and disturbance. She has shown in galleries such as Marin MOCA, Your Mood Gallery, /room/ /slash, SOMArts, Root Division, Berkeley Art Center, Palo Alto Art Center, ICASF, SOEX, Galeri Nev, and Zilberman Gallery. In 2009 she received the State Contemporary Artist Award in Turkey. She received Sher-Right Scholarship, the Christine Tamblyn Award, the Steve Wilson Award, and the Cadogan Contemporary Art Award. Beril holds an MFA in Art Practice from San Francisco State University and BFA in Sculpture from Hacettepe University.