Last time I was at the Rialto in Santa Rosa for a fundraiser my friend Lesley and I were practically the only women amongst hundreds of enthusiastic BMW bikers there to follow actor Ewan McGregor's epic Long Way Down from Scotland to South Africa.

Thursday night's special benefit for The Arts Council of Sonoma County on the other hand, was a very different demographic. Women from all over the county gathered to view artist,writer, filmmaker, activist Pamela Tanner Boll's magnificent Who Does She Think She Is documentary film on five female artists around the United States, following their paths to creative freedom.

I think my favorite of the five compelling women featured in the film was Janis Wunderlich, Mormon mother of five and on the face of it, a stereotypical stay-at-home, soccer mom. Taking a peek into her extraordinarily limited non-parenting time (sometimes a mere one hour a day), we were able to glimpse the phenomenon of her prolific, dark, quirky, compelling, two-headed sculptures, laden with animal-like creatures and kids. "I've never been anywhere," says Janis, "but my artwork has."

In fact, her artwork has reached such critical acclaim that it comes as quite a surprise to her fellow churchgoers, who have her pegged as the quintessential Mormon mom as she dashes around from schools to piano practice. if you'd put her in a line up of women artists, you too would be unlikely to pick her out as the sculptor creator of such fantastic creatures.

Each character in the film is an inspiration for women wondering how to find the time for creativity and how to put this as a priority in their lives.

The film runs at the Rialto through Monday.