Paula Bellacera

Paula Bellacera is an award-winning artist, accomplished in a wide variety of media. This year at Sacramento Open Studios, she will be previewing two new series of art: ceramic wall relief plaques, and ceramic rock cairns or totems both featuring her charming animals. Additionally she will be selling her ceramic animal sculptures and paintings. The major theme of her work is unity -- people and all of nature are connected. 

Bellacera is a Sacramento native. She studied animal behavior in the swamps of Louisiana and received a PhD in experimental psychology from Tulane University. Bellacera’s fascination with animals and the hours she studied their unique characteristics in the wild gave voice to her artwork. She explores how domestic and wild animals literally and metaphorically mirror human nature reminding us that we share emotions and DNA.