Our Team

  • Mark Wagner

    Founder and Creative Director of Drawing on Earth. Mark Wagner’s first artistic adventures were in rural Pennsylvania where as a second grader when he began to draw monsters and spaceships. Wagner credits his brother for sparking a desire to draw and his mother for her encouragement. Wagner’s artistic endeavors span 40 years. He holds a MA from John F. Kennedy University, and a BFA from Pratt Institute. Wagner is involved in the film industry as a professional concept artist working with the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History and Pixar, in addition to his work as graphic designer, illustrator, author, musician, and fine artist. Wagner has taught art and creativity in a variety of venues from digital art colleges to graduate school and prison. www.heartsandbones.com
    Wagner is also the author of “The Art of Being A Dad.” www.theartofbeingadad.com

    Gail Rossiter

    Board of Directors – Secretary. For nearly 35 years Gail was an educator, first as a classroom teacher and later as a school administrator. As a teacher she always felt that the arts were an essential part of a child’s education. She believed that integrating art lessons into different aspects of the curriculum helped children access and develop their visual and spatial intelligence, and allowed them to express the unique creativity inherent in all children. Gail recently retired and wanted to keep the deep connection to children and the arts, so she accepted a board position for Drawing on Earth. When she is not working on DoE projects she can be found volunteering at the local shelter, gardening, hiking or playing with her granddaughter.

    Peter Davis

    Board of Directors – Treasurer. Peter has been a Computer Programmer/Analyst for the past 35 years and is currently a Solutions Consultant for Kaiser Permanente of Northern California. When not working Peter has a personal interest in the arts, especially Drawing On Earth and the recently successful Kids’ Chalk Art Project. A father of three grown children, Peter resides in the San Francisco East Bay area.

     

    Advisory Board

    Tracy Lee Stum

    Tracy Lee Stum is an internationally recognized American streetpainter who specializes in spectacular, interactive 3d chalk art street paintings.  A visionary and master in the chalk art world. Tracy began street painting in 1998 and is considered by Madonnari peers, festival directors and viewers among the finest street painters today. Tracy has participated as an invited featured artist in many festivals and events in the US and internationally where her paintings have won numerous awards & accolades – she currently holds a Guinness World Record for the largest street painting by an individual. www.tracyleestum.com

    Ana Moreno

    Artist, Producer. Ana was our Venezuela connection which launched the first chapter of our Global Illustrated Story Project. Ana’s official title was Specialist in Creative Stimulus for the Instituto de las Artes de la Imagen y el Espacio (IARTES) with the Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura. She brings the knowhow of creating a 2 day chalk drawing event with 1,500 people (850 school children) and does it with beauty and grace.

    Rev. Alexandra Childs

    Sasha and Mark have been friends for over 30 years having meet in art school. Sasha now is a practicing minister and artist, designing stages and interiors for national church conventions. She is deeply connected to the Earth and Native ways.

    Patrick Summar

    Since 1989, Patrick has been working in both the corporate and non-profit sectors with individuals and groups in the areas of life and business coaching, leadership/management training, and personal productivity consulting. He specializes in coaching successful business owners in how to stabilize their success, reclaim their balance and quality of life, and make an even bigger contribution. www.patricksummar.com

    Daniel Dancer

    Daniel Dancer is a part Mohawk art-activist-educator-author-photographer-filmmaker- and environmental community developer. He is also founder/manager of the only wilderness cemetery in America who wields various media in an effort to break the culture–wide amnesia that endangers all life on Earth. His world-wide Art For the Sky residency programs which inspire a new way of perceiving the world along with his recent book, Desperate Prayers: A Quest for Sense in a Senseless Time, signify Dancer as a pioneer for the emerging new paradigm.

    Ben Schick

    Ben has owned and/or managed a number of for-profit and non-profit companies in the last 20 years. He is a media executive, video producer, and also coaches organizations and individuals through processes for strategic and tactical planning. He is currently CEO of MediaOne, a digital media company in San Francisco; founder and director of Living Networks, a strategy and technology company for web3.0 solutions; board director for The Pachamama Alliance and Four Years. Go; and strategic advisor for the Womens Earth Alliance. Ben has a MA in organizational development from Antioch University and lives in Oakland with Amy and his son, Sam.

    Gail Gurewitz

    Gail is a former professional ballet dancer who performed internationally. She currently teaches Anusara based Yoga and dance. A mother of three, she has worked extensively with children and occasionally runs rites-of-passage retreats for young women.

    Zander

    He’s our animal representative for the team, always wanting to be part of things, and sometimes found covered in chalk.