The Coastal Collective

We believe the coast feeds more than your body—it feeds your eye, too. That's the idea behind the Coastal Collective, our rotating in-house art series spotlighting the painters, photographers, and makers who call this stretch of shoreline home. Each month we turn our walls over to a new local artist, giving their work a real audience over green juice and salt air, and giving our community something fresh to look at while they refuel. It's our small way of keeping Long Beach's creative tide rolling—no gallery fees, no gatekeeping, just good food and good art sharing the same sunlit room. Are you a local artist who wants in? We'd love to see your work. Reach out to margo@barrierbeets.com to join the Collective.

Stefani Jarrett is a watercolorist and mixed-media painter whose work is all about movement and feeling. She grew up in Newburgh, NY in a deeply creative family—her mom painted, her dad did local musical theater, and her grandmother ran a nightclub in NYC—though she says she didn't fully realize how artistic her roots were until later in life. She picked up a paintbrush about 15 years ago when her mother handed down her watercolor supplies, and she was immediately drawn to the way water and pigment move together to create their own colors, texture, and depth. These days she's experimenting with acrylics on natural wood surfaces, leaning into the grit and texture those raw materials reveal. Her philosophy is captured in the Thoreau line she lives by—"It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see"—and her goal is simple: to make people feel beautiful about themselves and the world around them. Learn more about her art at https://www.stefanijarrett.com/.