Barbara “Bibi” Gelfand Summer has been a fine artist and art director in Marin County for numerous years. She has received awards from the American Graphic Design Association, the Western Publishing Association, and the Tube Council of North America, and her art has been exhibited at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, the Town Center Corte Madera, and the College of Marin. She attended Pratt University’s Graduate Communications Design program after receiving a bachelor’s degree in journalism with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Summer's fine art and design style is whimsical, disarmingly uncomplicated, and often humorous. She creates and forms ideas by continuously being adventurous, spontaneous, and fearless. Patterns, board games, and paths play an oversized role in much of her artwork.

Gelfand Summer has served as a City Commissioner for the Architectural Heritage and Landmarks Commission (Vallejo), Co-President of a Marin County PTA, President and Board Director of a Solano County preschool, and is presently on the Steering Committee and the Special Events Committee at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. Pro-bono design work includes the Mill Valley Historical Society, Zero Breast Cancer, Marin Ballet, and the Marin School of the Arts. Gelfand Summer has worked in Media Relations for USTA and Masters tennis tournaments and has been a Bicycle Tour Guide in the U.S. and Europe.

Currently, Gelfand Summer lives in the rolling hills of Marin County with her husband, a multi-Grammy Award-winning cellist, while sharing space with dogs, horses, chickens, goats, screech owls, and the occasional peacock. She teaches Book Arts, has led Handwriting the Constitution programs in Marin and Sonoma County, and when the spare moment comes, she is on the tennis courts trying to improve her net game.