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Whirligig Interview with Jody Alexander

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alexander_artistinstudioThe book is open on a new Whirligig Interview with Santa Cruz bookmaking artist, Jody Alexander.

Alexander’s work celebrates collecting, storytelling, and odd characters.

Alexander currently has two solo exhibitions open through May 31: Jody Alexander: Sedimentals at Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music and Art in Mountain View, California; and The Odd Volumes of Ruby B.: An Installation at Saffron and Genevieve in Santa Cruz, California.

Read Jody’s interview at: whirligig.hungerbutton.org.

Photo by r.r. jones.

Hello Catty!

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Hello Catty! by Karen Chew and Nanette Wylde

Karen Chew and Nanette Wylde are meowing up a storm over the completion of their new book Hello Catty!

Hello Catty! is a light-hearted, yet poignant play on catty behaviors couched by a feline perspective and inspired by the meanness of others.

Designed as a movable board book, it consists of five two-page spreads. Each spread contains user interactive elements: wheels, pop-ups, pulls, spinners, windows, flaps, a game and ephemera.

A Hello Catty! celebration event is scheduled for late April. Contact either Karen or Nanette to be included in the guest list. Space is limited.

See more about Hello Catty! at Hunger Button Books.

Whirligig Interview with Marion Patterson

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mpatterson_ptlobosWhirligig is pleased to announce a new interview with photographer and Bay Area native Marion Patterson.

Patterson was mentored by Ansel Adams, and has experienced a rich history surrounding the early California art and photography scenes. She was photo faculty at Foothill and DeAnza Colleges for 28 years.

Patterson has several new bodies of work coming out based on recent travels to Antarctica and the Galapagos. Her monograph Grains of Sand: Photographs by Marion Patterson was published by Stanford University Press.

Read Marion’s interview at whirligig.hungerbutton.org.

Whirligig Interview with Stacy Speyer

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PreNeo Press is tickled pink to publish a new Whirligig interview with textile artist Stacy Speyer.

Speyer recently completed a residency at the Exploratorium in San Francisco where she created an interactive exhibit of metal geometric forms known as polyhedra for the Exploratorium’s traveling exhibition Geometry Playground.

Visit Whirligig to read Stacy’s interview:
whirligig.hungerbutton.org

New Year Events

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01doll-christopher3Gualala Arts presents Dolled Up, featuring the works of Signe Barrar, Elaine Benjamin, Matthew Christopher, Eileen McGarvey, Jane Reichhold, Shannon Shea, and Nanette Wylde.

In this exhibition artists push the limits of how we understand and think about the doll using installations, video and animation, portraits, books, narratives and unique doll objects.

The reception is Friday, January 7, 2011 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The exhibition runs through January 30, 2011.

More info at: Gualala Art Center

While you’re in the stunning left coast towns of Northern California catch José Arenas’ book signing on Saturday, January 8 at the Phoenix Restaurant in Point Arena. 5:30 – 7ish pm.

José’s book,  A Little Piece of Happiness, was recently published by PreNeo Press’ Hunger Button Books .

Image: Matthew Christopher, Western 1:47

A Little Piece of Happiness: Paintings of José Arenas

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josecover300Hunger Button Books is delighted to present A Little Piece of Happiness: Paintings of José Arenas. This monograph features 53 of the paintings Arenas created between 2005 and 2009.

José Arenas is an Oakland, California and Brooklyn, New York based artist who spent much of his childhood traveling between Northern California and Guadalajara, Mexico. His experiences navigating cultures, past and present, is a point of investigation in his work. Themes in his imagery include migration, memory, childhood, rites of passage, and disjointed identities.

Book launch and signings are in the works. Tentative schedule includes PreNeo Press Studios in Redwood City on December 20 and a Gualala/Point Arena locale on January 8.

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Whirligig Interview with Julia Bradshaw

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Whirligig has a new interview with photographer and video performance artist Julia Bradshaw. Bradshaw is exhibiting seven different series of work in her first one person show at Fresno City College this month. Her work often comments on language and the mixed messages of cross-cultural exchanges.

Visit Whirligig to read Julia’s interview:
whirligig.hungerbutton.org

PreNeo Projects included in Southern Exposure’s Art Publishing Now Library

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Three PreNeo Press related projects are included in Southern Exposure’s Art Publishing Now Library and Archive: Meaning Maker, Hunger Button Books, and Whirligig.

The Art Publishing Now Library is a physical and online archive of Art Publishers in the Bay Area. It was created in conjunction with a two day summit in October on the state of Art Publishing in the Bay Area. The library is installed at Southern Exposure from October to December 2010 and will then go on to find a new home in the Bay Area.

Southern Exposure is located at 3030 20th Street in San Francisco. You can visit the card catalog online at: artpublishingnow.org/

Meaning Maker at Roy C. Moore Art Gallery

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Meaning Maker Periodic Personal Evaluation edition is included in the exhibition Identity, August 19 to September 16; and Relationship to Nature edition is included in Wild Culture: Ecological Perspectives, September 23 to October 26. Both are at the Roy C. Moore Art Gallery on the Gainesville State College campus in Oakwood, Georgia.

Meaning Maker at The Schneider Museum of Art

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Meaning Maker American Citizenship Edition is included in the exhibition The Mythical State of Jefferson, May 6 to June 12 at the Schneider Museum of Art.

The Museum is on the Southern Oregon University Campus in Ashland, Oregon. The exhibition addresses a 1941 movement to create a new state, out of parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon, for the purpose of copper mining .

Meaning Maker in Philadelphia!

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PreNeo Press launched a new Meaning Maker edition: Higher Education Edition at the annual Southern Graphics Council Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference was held in conjunction with a rich and expansive city-wide celebration of print art phenomena, the triennial Philagrafika.

While touring historical Philly, Meaning Maker American Citizenship Edition was inserted into all of The Great American Citizenship Quiz books in the gift shop of the Independence Visitors’ Center. This amazing information center is run by the National Parks Service. This public service action is also known as shopdropping.

Meaning Maker News

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mm_logo_smMeaning Maker Academic Conference Edition is published in Visual Communication Quarterly. This special edition of Visual Communication Quarterly is focused on Analog Interactivity and is guest edited by xtine. Volume 16, Number 3, July – September 2009.

Family Gathering Edition is included in the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts democratic assemblage project None of the Above. More at: Minnesota Center for the Book Arts.

Periodic Personal Evaluation Edition will be included in FLAT Journal, an annually released, journal-shaped, mobile art gallery comprised of original, editioned works.

And new Meaning Maker editions are on the horizon!

Meaning Maker, for a value-added existence.

Book Arts Jam 2009

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PreNeo Press and Hunger Button Books are delighted to participate in the 8th Annual Book Arts Jam, Saturday, October 17, at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California.

Saturday, Oct. 17, 10am – 4pm

We will have books, prints, Meaning Makers, and democratic multiples for your visual and intellectual amusement. Additionally, Nanette will be writing poems on the spot at Spontaneous Word Combustion, a BABA fundraising collaboration with Robert Perry and members of Bay Area Book Artists.

Directions and info at: http://bookartsjam.org

Open Studio on Saturday, Sept.12

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PreNeo Press will be participating in an Open Studio event at Linden Street Artists’ Warehouse in Redwood City.

Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009
Time: 6 – 9 pm
Location: Linden Street Artists’ Warehouse

275-B Linden Street, Redwood City, California
Across the street from the Target Shopping Center on the west side of El Camino Real (just south of Hwy 84/ Woodside Road). Behind the Chinese Restaurant.

http://www.artsopolis.com/event/detail/54407

We hope to see you there!
Kent & Nanette

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