“Sausalito Morning” photo by Evaristo Buendia. Artist Bio is below.
Evaristo “Vari” Buendia-Carrera was born in Mexico City and studied Graphic Design and Communications at La Academia de San Carlos, the School of Fine Arts at the University of Mexico.
After graduating with a B.A. in Art, he became a teacher of silk screen printing and serigraphy in the School of Design. Two years later he founded a successful vocational training center called The Silk Screen Printing Institute and Workshop. Hundreds of students attended his programs, traveling from all over Mexico to study under his direction.
Vari immigrated to the U.S. in 1994 to work for Spanish publications as a sports photographer and writer in Texas, and continued to work on refining his skills in screen printing and serigraphy. He moved to Sausalito in 2004.
Despite all his training in printing and printmaking, his greatest passion in life is Photography. . He won a national photography competition in Mexico in 1981; was invited to show his ‘digital flowers’ at the House and Garden Show in San Jose in 2008, and won the first place award in the Wildcare Center Photography Contest in 2009.
Vari is a contributing photographer to OurSausalito.com. In addition to his photography, he is currently studying to earn his California Teaching Credential through U.C. Berkeley. He can be reached through evaristobc (at) sbcglobal.net.
