Megan Misako Darrough

Megan Misako Darrough is an artist and designer who works on social media and marketing for ArtHatch, helping other artists get exposure in the community and beyond.

Her passions include writing graphic novels, painting, drawing, and scaring people.

During Halloween season she works as a haunted house scare actor and does SFX makeup for monsters and zombies at her family's company: Dead Time Dreams Haunted Attractions. She holds a BFA in Illustration from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

She loves green tea ice cream and dressing up like zombies.

Be sure to experience Megan's hilarious posts on Last Spot's IG as well as her art first hand in our windows and in our uber cool new, Micro Gallery - all artworks 10 x 10 of smaller. You will fall in love with her characters and find them very hard to resist.

Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis is ArtHatch's extrodinary event photographer who captures all of Distinction's important events, including monthly receptions and all night Art-A-Thons! You can find him wandering the building with lots of gear and perfect timing as he subtly captures the night's events and his subjects demeanor.

Additionally he shows his fine art fine art photography around town and beyond including at The Photographer's Collective Eye and EThe Escondido Arts Partnership.

Stephen is known for his innate ability to capture artists doing what they love. His street photography as well as his portraits connect us to his subjects innocence.

Jessica Dickerson

Jessica is ArtHatch's lead graphic designer. She creates all of our ads, postcards, vinyl, websites, and related print and digital marketing materials.

She is meticulous, creative, and organized. She is a huge asset to the gallery and we are grateful that she has stayed with us for so many years.

Jessica is a local artist - she loves anime - as well as an avid biker, camper, and illustrator.

.If you are looking to hire a phenomenal free lance designer Jessica is available for outside jobs.

Suki Liebow

Suki Liebow is a contemporary artist who uses multi-media art including paint, micrography (tiny writing), wire, enamel, pen and ink, plaster, and pencil sketching as a form of emotional movement and expression. In Suki's more than 20 years of research on the impacts of emotional trauma on human psychology and behavior, her primary focus has been on the successful integration of emotional processing as a key component of achieving productive communication and healthy relationships. Much of her artwork is the outcome of her own emotional work.

Along with several other businesses, Suki Founded Suki Liebow Designs where she offers commissioned art and custom design work. She is a Studio Artist and Grant writer at Arthatch and is an executive board member of the Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation, and currently resides in Oceanside, CA.

Melissa Inez Walker

Melissa is the CEO and founder of ArtHatch. After craving a creative space to work ArtHatch was added to the complex in 2010. It has been the perfect way to work around other creatives as well as give back to the community.

Michael Walrond

Michael is ArtHatch's preparator and often assists in event planning.

As an artist, Walrond thrives in the surreal. His photos are never quite what they seem to be. Striking images of women are juxtaposed with flora or strokes of colored lights. In another, the figure is partially submerged underwater, creating a rippling effect that otherworldly mottled the skin. A few others were physically manipulated, either through rough pen scrawls or the mutilation of the negative itself.

Looking at Walrond's photographs is like looking through a dream-like haze into another universe only colored with bright colors or muted tones, never in between. It is impossible to focus on anything, yet you are intimately aware of everything.

Be sure to visit Michael in studio 5A. Hopefully you can experience his art in person before he heads off to Berlin for a summer residency, but don't worry he will be back soon and undoubtedly with a phenomenal collection of film based imagery.