Franklin Williams (b. 1940, Ogden, UT, lives and works in Petaluma, CA) is one of the most visionary artists to emerge from the Bay Area in the 1960s. His deeply personal work is significantly influenced by his family, quilt-makers and folk artists, who taught him to sew and crochet as a boy and encouraged the pursuit of his highly individualistic voice. He studied at the California College of Arts & Crafts, where he began to develop a body of work that combines fantastical landscapes, biological forms and the history of ornament. His work was included in the legendary Funk exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum in 1967 and is currently held in many permanent collections including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Berkeley Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.