Luminaria helps seasoned and returning art makers find community, move through self-doubt, and re-establish connection with their practice through coffee and compassionate conversation

Art doula services to support the emotional labor of making your art:

  • Reconnect with your intuition

  • Heal your art practice

  • Share your work with more ease and confidence

Testimonials

  • “Carmina’s feedback has me and the work feel seen in a way that is really moving. It is … the practice of seeing art in a way that is really a gift.”

    Caroline N.
    Artist + Fine Art Photographer

  • “Compassionate, innovative, highly skilled.’”

    Visual Storytelling Student
    Cabrillo College

  • “Extremely organized, responsive, and enthusiastic. Carmina has a personalized, warm, and kind approach”

    Lesley L.
    Photography Instructor + Department Chair, Cabrillo College

Experience

Carmina Eliason’s work is informed by over 20 years of professional practice, studies of photographic culture, and experiences growing up in a bi-cultural home.

Her art has been exhibited globally at the DeYoung Museum, Root Division, and SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco; the University of Queretaro in Mexico; and Alzhara University in Iran. Carmina is an artist-in-residence at Space Bar Gallery with pop-up locations throughout Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. She has also completed residencies at Old Furnace Art Residency in Harrisonburg, Virginia and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in California.

She has given talks and workshops nationally and internationally at Stanford University, the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Willamette University in Oregon, and the University of Queretaro in Mexico. Carmina holds an MFA in Photography from San Jose State University and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from CSU Monterey Bay. She has studied mixed media storytelling with the Story Center and art business development through Intersection for the Arts’ Accelerator Program. Carmina is currently an instructor at Cabrillo College in California where she teaches Visual Storytelling and Digital Photography.