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All this rain floats our art spirit

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You are the Tree exhibits in the North Bay
EcoArt: Envisioning Strategies and Solutions

Exhibition: February 3–March 25, 2023
Gallery Hours: Thursday–Saturday, 1–8pm
Receptions and Art Walks: February 10 & March 10, 5–8pm

You are the Tree in EcoArt: Envisioning Strategies and Solutions

Gallery 1337
Art Works Downtown
1337 Fourth St., San Rafael, California

Curated by Deanna Pindell
In collaboration with Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD)

Interactive and often playful, these eco-artworks offer inspiring visions, strategies, and solutions to help our communities build resilience for our changing climate. Each of these widely accomplished artists have created projects in service to the world beyond the gallery.

Several are games that help us solve regional issues; others combine play, work, and education to restore beaches, riparian habitats, and redwood forests. Our love of trees, grief over rising seas and extinctions, concerns about waste, and passions for the cultural histories of our local places are each addressed in enterprising community-engagement designed by artists and architects. Viewers are encouraged to envision a most desirable future.

Immunity by Kent Manske, Dimensions open: 9 x 105”
One word per page reads: When Does Difference Lead To Slaughter

Truth: Artist Books and Broadsides

Exhibition: January 12–February 12, 2023
Gallery Hours: Thursday–Monday, 11am–5pm

Gallery Route One
11101 Highway One, Ste. 1101
Point Reyes Station, California

The Visiting Artist Program at Gallery Route One presents, Truth: Artist Books and Broadsides, an exhibition juried by Sas Colby. The word “truth” has become politicized in the US and continues to take a beating in politics and social media. Can “truth” still mean anything? Can an artist embody or express truth in their artwork?

For centuries, the book, in its various forms, was identified with the notion of “truth” —through encyclopedias, dictionaries, and books of scripture. Because of their visual and material relationship to historical books, contemporary artist books as presented here can be a medium for the expression of political, philosophical, and spiritual ideas.

Sas Colby is a visual artist whose practice includes artist books and work with text. Colby notes, “Truth is a rich and provocative subject in today’s world which one might say is more attuned to ‘truthiness,’ the quality of seeming to be true out of a desire for something to be true, as coined by Stephen Colbert. The concept of truth has long been associated with books, and there was a time when the printed word was taken for truth. In a gentler century, Emily Dickinson wrote, ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant,’ not wishing to shock with the totality of a revelation all at once. Our digital world lacks this subtlety and our culture fiercely defends the principle that we’re each entitled to our own truth.”

Between the Burners by Kent Manske

In the News

Nanette was included, along with Paloma Lucas and Bryan Kring, in a feature article on Bay Area artists who make books.

The fascinating world of book arts: 3 Bay Area makers share their stories by Jessica Yadagaran, was included in a special magazine section called Bookish published by the Bay Area News Group on Sunday, January 15, 2023. Bookish was included in a handful of Bay Area newspapers including San Jose Mercury News, the Marin Independent Journal, and the East Bay Times.

Kent’s photograph Beyond the Reach has recently exhibited at the University of Iowa, the University of Illinois, and P21 Gallery in London as part of the Shadow and Light project, compiled by Beau Beausoleil, a poet and activist in the Bay Area, that memorializes Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003–2013. 

WORKS San José is having their annual community auction. Check it out!
Exhibition opens First Friday February 3, 5–9pm
Exhibition dates February 4 through March 3
Auction night Saturday, March 4!

Entanglements, Nanette’s 2022 curatorial publication, is now available at the following locations: The San José Museum of Art (San José), The San Mateo County History Museum (Redwood City), Gallery Route One (Pt. Reyes Station), The Main Gallery (Menlo Park), and online at Hunger Button Books.

All Tangled Up with Entanglements

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We have an exciting new curatorial project to share with you, this time taking form as a book: Entanglements: A curated collection of contemporary culture is a 126 page, full color print production featuring:

Artworks by Shari Arai DeBoer, José Arenas, Ellen Bepp, Harlan Crowder, C.K. Itamura, Bodil Fox and Larnie Fox, Reiko Fujii, Kathy Fujii-Oka, Elizabeth Gómez, Richard Lang, Cynthia A. Osborne, Linda MacDonald, Melissa Pagluica, Agnes Pelton, Na Omi Judy Shintani, and Minoosh Zomorodinia.

Essays by Katherine Bazak, Lyn Bishop, Richard Lang, and Jan Rindfleisch.

Interviews with Kathleen Canrinus, Elizabeth Gómez, Jane Reichhold, and Minoosh Zomorodinia.

Poetry by Georgina Marie Guardado, Lauren Lin, Jane Reichhold and Anonymous.

Helen Gibbons interviewed Palo Alto author Kathleen Canrinus specifically for Entanglements. You can read this insightful conversation online in Whirligig.

With the exception of the interviews posted online in Whirligig, Entanglements is a print only publication. Find out more.

Pathways Exhibition at Art Ark Gallery

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Nanette curates Pathways: An exhibition about mapping, navigation, wanderlust and borders

Spirit Bridge for Brian by Neil Murphy

Nine Bay Area artists will be exhibiting in an interdisciplinary, themed exhibition at Art Ark Gallery in San Jose. The exhibition is curated by Nanette Wylde. It includes a wide range of media including artist books, conceptual works, glass, mixed media, painting, performance, printmaking, sculpture, sound, video, and installations. A collaborative, site specific vinyl installation for the gallery’s west facing windows is by José Arenas and Kent Manske.

Murmuration, detail of two-story vinyl window installation at Art Ark Gallery, José Arenas and Kent Manske, 2022

Artists: Afatasi The Artist, José Arenas, Carolina Cuevas, Casey Jay Gardner, Caroline Landau, Kent Manske, Neil Murphy, Melissa West, Minoosh Zomorodinia

Exhibition Dates: March 4–April 1, 2022
Receptions: March 4 and April 1, 6–9 pm
SoFF: South First Fridays Art Walk
By Appointment:  genevieve.hastings.artark@gmail.com

Gallery Talks  (performance*)
March 5: José Arenas, Caroline Landau, Melissa West, Carolina Cuevas*
March 12: Casey Jay Gardner, Kent Manske
March 19: Afatasi the Artist, Carolina Cuevas*, Neil Murphy
March 26: Minoosh Zomorodinia, Nanette Wylde

Art Ark Gallery 1035 South 6th Street, San Jose, California

The Gravity Series by Casey Jay Gardner

Catalog Available: publishing.hungerbutton.org
For more information visit the Pathways exhibition page.

Nanette in The Fierce Urgency of Now: Socially Engaged Printmaking

Nanette’s 2021 print, Milagros for Times Like These VI, is included in The Fierce Urgency of Now: Socially Engaged Printmaking, at the Janet Turner Print Museum, CSU Chico, Chico, California. The exhibition was juried by Aaron S. Coleman.  From the Turner, “The work submitted was extremely strong, and the juror’s job very difficult–with 133 artists submitting 436 pieces for consideration. Coleman chose work by 36 artists for the exhibition.”

For more information: Janet Turner Print Museum

Kent Exhibits and Reads in Shadow and Light at Arion Press

Beyond the Reach, Kent Manske, 2019

Kent is exhibiting a photograph in SHADOW and LIGHT: Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here at Arion Press in San Francisco. A public reception and reading will take place on Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 3pm. 

For more information: Arion Press

Little pieces coming together

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Local artist Elizabeth Gómez has been working on a mosaic mural for the Magical Bridge Playground in Red Morton, a Redwood City park, for two years. Now it is done. Nanette made an opportunity to visit Elizabeth on site and came home with a Whirligig Interview.

Elizabeth’s mosaic mural is beautiful! and a wonderful gift to our community, not just because of the beauty of the mural, but also because she involved so many community members in the making of it during these last 20 months of covid. Read Elizabeth Gómez’s Whirligig Interview here.

Elizabeth Gómez, Magical Bridge Mural, 2021

We are pleased to have our You Are The Tree project included in an upcoming book, Embodied Forest, published by ecoartspace.

Twelve of our artist books are now being carried by Country Lights Books at the San Gregorio General Store in San Gregorio, California. Spot on if you made the connection to City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. Country Lights proprietor George is a big fan of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who apparently was also a big fan of the San Gregorio Store as a music venue.

Positioning, Artist book, Nanette Wylde, 2019

Nanette is showing Positioning in the 23 Sandy Gallery exhibition UNSEEN. The exhibition takes place at form + concept, in Santa Fe, New Mexico through November 20. We are pleased to learn that The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Washington state has acquired a copy. Thank You BIMA!

Redacted Babar: ABC Free, Artist book, Nanette Wylde, 2020

Her book, Redacted Babar: ABC Free is on view in a Hand Bookbinders of California exhibition at the American Bookbinding Museum in San Francisco through October 30.

O Humboldt, O Muir: Worldviews, monoprints, Nanette Wylde, 2019

REI Co-op wonderfully and unexpectedly acquired two prints from Nanette’s O Humboldt, O Muir: Worldviews series for a new store in Sunnyvale, California. These monoprints were created at a Palo Alto Art Center printmaking residency in 2019. Thank you REI and Thank you Palo Alto Art Center. We are curious to see what REI does with them.

Lighter & Brighter

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The days are getting longer, Northern California is opening up, the Spring cleaning is underway, the garden is in, we are starting to feel lighter and brighter, and we hope that you are too.

The Art of the Book at Seager Gray Gallery

We are pleased to be showing our collaborative book From This Earth in the 16th Annual Art of the Book exhibition at Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, California. The exhibition runs through May 27.

Elephant Books at the Main Gallery

Redacted Babar: ABC Free by Nanette Wylde
Nanette Wylde, The Circus, Artist's book
Nanette Wylde, Remember Elephants, artist's book

Nanette is showing three of her elephant themed books including her newest, Redacted Babar: ABC Free, at The Main Gallery in downtown Menlo Park, California.

Also on view are prints from Nanette’s 2021 Milagros for Times Like These series.

Milagros for Times Like These I by Nanette Wylde
Milagros for Times Like These VI by Nanette Wylde

Nanette would enjoy a visit with you at the gallery. Let’s make a date.

The Main Gallery
Tuesday—Sunday, 11am—5pm
883 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, California

Finding Balance in 2021

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Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss

With environmental stewardship close to our hearts, we are pleased to be participating in EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention which seeks to provoke societal change by exposing and interrogating the negative social and environmental consequences of industrialized natural resource extraction.

A six page article about our 2020 installation You are the Tree was published in the Extraction Catalog & Exhibition Guide, section 5, pages 556—561.

Extraction Art 2021

New projects addressing extraction issues include:

Kent Manske & Nanette Wylde, From this Earth, 2020

From this Earth is a collaborative artist’s book written, and produced while sheltering-in-place during the 2020 pandemic and while wildfires raged across California. It is a story of transformation. An individual journeys through a devastated landscape seeking relief, motivated by an inner impetus. Text by Nanette Wylde.

Kent Manske, Resurrection, 2021

Extraction Series 2021 features seven new prints by Kent Manske with more on the way.

Nanette Wylde, Milagros for Times Like These, 2021

Milagros for Times Like These, a new edition in progress by Nanette Wylde

Extraction Art Exhibitions 2021

We are honored to have work selected for this California Society of Printmaker’s exhibition.

Searching for Meaning in our Changing World Environment
April 3—May 9, 2021
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California

Kent Manske, I, You, Me, We, Us, 2021

New Books

Six of our new trade edition books are available through Hunger Button Books. Trade edition books provide us opportunity to reach a wider audience than our limited-edition and one-of-a-kind handmade books.

Election Countdown 2020, Kent Manske
and change became, Don Drake & Kent Manske
Thomas from Delaware, Nanette Wylde
From this Earth, Kent Manske & Nanette Wylde
Redacted Babar: ABC Free, Nanette Wylde
Diverse Paths, Nanette Wylde (a flip book, what could be more fun!)

Book Arts

We are pleased to have Foodies showing in:
C O N T E N T: an Artist Books Exhibition
April 2—May 1, 2021
The Artery Gallery, Davis, California

Six and a half months in

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Whirligig Interview with Ever Rodriguez

We feel so lucky to have been spending some of our screen time getting to know more about Ever Rodriguez and his lovely La Feroz Press.

Ever is a letterpress printer, artist, poet, musician, community activist, and librarian! Read Ever’s Whirligig Interview here.

Election Countdown Series 2020
46 images/46 days/46th president

On September 17, Kent Manske launched a new series of artworks exploring reasons to consider casting a vote. One image per day via instagram. The series is documented here.

September 24. 39 Days to Vote! 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A deep thank you to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her unselfish work providing opportunities to women and men to discover their potential and break the destructive pattern of uncivil control and dominance over people’s lives.

Kent Manske, Thank you RBG, 2020.

Bird, Nest, Nature

The Bird, Nest, Nature exhibition will officially reopen at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, California from October 13—December 20, 2020 with advance reservations required. The exhibition can also be viewed virtually. Kent’s Nest IV was selected for this exhibition.

Emotional Numbness: The Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems

Nanette Wylde, On Judgment: The Book of Bully

Nanette’s On Judgment: The Book of Bully is included in this international exhibition in Tehran, Iran, curated by Atefeh Khas and Minoosh Zomorodinia.

View the Iranian exhibition in 3D interactive format here. Head upstairs to view On Judgment and many of the works in this exhibition.

A virtual version of this exhibition may also be experienced via the Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) website.

Emotional Numbness: The Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems
September 18—October 16, 2020
Platform 3, Tehran, Iran

Resilience at The Main Gallery

Nanette is now represented by The Main Gallery.

The gallery’s first exhibition in this Menlo Park location is Resilience. It features the work of 18 gallery artists. The gallery is open to visitors.

Resilience
October 7—November 22
883 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, California
Gallery hours: Wednesday—Sunday, 12—6pm

Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival

Our publishing platform, Hunger Button Books, participated in the 17th edition of the San Francisco Center for the Book’s Steamroller Printing Festival. This big equipment printmaking extravaganza was held online in September with live streaming of the steamroller as urban printing press.

Wyldeflower Gardens Free Library

The upside of sheltering-in-place is the time we have given to tending projects both incomplete and in-waiting.

We recently got our tools out and made a neighborhood library box which is getting considerable visits and many transactions.

Remembering Big Basin

Our last visit to Big Basin State Park, 25 miles as the crow flies from our home, was a year ago on a research trip for our project You are the Tree. Weeks ago, in mid-August, fires swept through the park. The survival of Big Basin’s old growth, redwood tree groves are yet to be determine. Park Headquarters and campground facilities did not survive.

Memories of Big Basin hold a special place in our lives, from dancing around the campfire on our wedding night to our many overnights and hikes to Berry Falls. We honor the lives, sanctuary and the wisdom of these ancients. Pictured below is Methuselah, estimated at over 1800 years old, the oldest living tree in the Santa Cruz Mountains outside of Big Basin State Park. See Nanette in her preferred element, smiling in the upper right.

Art Contemplates

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It has been a troubling and thought provoking 2020, fueled by a pandemic, wildfires, a hurricane, election propaganda and overdue calls for social justice reform. People across the globe, including friends and family, are facing unfathomable challenges. 

We are seeking sanctuary in the garden and the arts as we grapple with current situations and potential futures. The studio continues to be a place to process, make things and share them for further contemplation, discussion and debate. 

We send this update of some recent activities with wishes for your own good health and safety, and encourage you to vote.

Fallout: Art in this Time

Kent was recently interviewed for this online exhibition. Fallout asks artists to reflect on the ways their lives and artistic practices have shifted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and consider their work in the context of a post-pandemic world. Indian University Bloomington- Grunwald Gallery

In Cahoots Artist Residency

In June 2020, Kent produced an 8 x 12 foot print mural during a California Society of Printmakers sponsored two-week, shelter-in-studio artist residency at Macy Chadwick’s In Cahoots Artist Residency in Petaluma, California. Weave looks into the wonder and beauty of natural systems, our interdependency on them and the perils we face, and will face, if we do not respect the natural order of things. To see the completed work and how it was made, visit Weave.

Work-in-progress at In Cahoots Residency. Weave, screen-based monoprinting and chine-collé, Kent Manske, 2020.

Come to Your Census

Kent aided the 2020 Census campaign by providing artwork for their public service announcements.

Public service artwork, Kent Manske, 2020.

Bird, Nest, Nature

Bird, Nest, Nature features artists inspired by the exquisite beauty of creatures of flight. Birds have long captured the attention of humankind, the earliest evidence of which can be found in cave drawings that reflect all that we cherish in nature from flora to fauna.

Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts
Walnut Creek, California

Nest IX, screen-based monoprint, Kent Manske, 2018.

Women Eco Artists Dialog: The Legacy of Jo Hanson

Nanette recently co-curated an exhibition of environmental artwork with Janice Purnell of YoloArts in Woodland, California. Sixteen WEAD artists were featured in this dynamic and engaging show which ran March 19—August 22. Pictured below is Judith Selby Lang’s homage to Jo Hanson who was known for sweeping the streets of San Francisco.

Judith Selby Lang, Clean Sweep, Brooms and fishing rope, 2020.

Happy New Year!

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detail You are the Tree, paper pulp, 2020.
detail You are the Tree, paper pulp from local craft industries’ byproducts.

Happy New Year!
We look forward to seeing you with wide open eyes in 2020.

Save the Date
For the last four months, we have been working with over 30 local Redwood City craft industries collecting and making paper pulp out of their byproducts. Our conceptual and sculptural installation, You are the Tree opens February 1, 2020 in Downtown Redwood City.

Please join us for this community celebration of art, history and local labor.

You are the Tree
Opening Reception
February 1, 2020, 4 – 6pm

Redwood City Art Kiosk
2208 Broadway, Courthouse Square
Downtown Redwood City

For a sneak peak of this work in-progress and our community partners:
preneo.org/youarethetree 

Smiles,
Kent & Nanette

You are the Tree was commissioned by Fung Collaborative Projects in collaboration with Redwood City Improvement Association for the Redwood City Art Kiosk in 2020.

Ink to Paper

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The garden is producing, the cats are purring, we are exploring, and art is everywhere! Here are few current group exhibitions we are pleased to show in.

Palo Alto Printmaking Residencies Exhibition

O Humboldt, O Muir: Worldviews, monoprint, Nanette Wylde, 2019.

Over the course of the summer, five Bay Area artists were granted nine-day residencies which focused on using the Palo Alto Art Center’s small press to create a wide range of prints. The residency artists were: Angela Smith, Amy Hibbs, Michael Oechsli, Nanette Wylde, and Aileen Lum. 

Nanette created a series of 33 monoprints based on her photographs of severed trees.

Exhibition: through August 31
Reception: Thursday, August 22, 6—7:30pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am—5pm; Thursday, 10am—9pm; Sunday, 1—5pm

Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Road
Palo Alto, California

Perception of Place

San Francisco Bay, artist book, Kent Manske, 2012.

This print exhibition, a collaboration between California Society of Printmakers and MPC Printmakers, was juried by Marianne McGrath. Kent and Nanette are showing three recent artist’s books.

Exhibition: September 6—October 24, 2019
Hours: Wed—Sat, 12 – 5pm; Sun, 12—4pm
Reception: Friday, September 6, 7—9pm

Pacific Grove Art Center
68 Lighthouse Avenue,
Pacific Grove, California

Eco Echo: Unnatural Selection

On Longing series, monoprint, Nanette Wylde, 2016.

In this third iteration of the Eco Echo Collective, artists Anne Beck, Barbara Boissevain, Ginger Burrell, Judith Selby Lang, Richard Lang, Kent Manske, Michelle Wilson and Nanette Wylde continue their environmentally themed collaboration with new as well as previously shown work.

Exhibition: September 13—October 20, 2019
Hours: 11am—5pm every day except Tuesday
Reception: Saturday, September 14, 3—5pm

Gallery Route One
11101 Highway One, Ste. 1101
Point Reyes Station, California

Sun’s Out

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All that magnificent California rain has made for a showy summer garden and bountiful art season.

Kent Manske: All Cells from Cells

Cell 2 & Cell 27, screen-based monoprints by Kent Manske, 2018

Exhibition: May 24—July 19
Reception: Sunday, June 2, 4—6pm
Gallery Hours: Monday—Friday: 8am—10pm, Saturday: 8am—9pm, Sunday: 10am—6:30pm
Concert Night: The World Harmony Chorus will perform a free concert at CSMA on Monday, June 10 at 7:30pm. The gallery is open all evening. Kent will be in the gallery before and after the performance.

Community School of Music and Arts
Finn Center, Mohr Gallery
230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View, California

Omnis Cellula e Cellula (all cells from cells) presents invented organisms, membranes, bacteria, genes and cancers. These individual cells express the artist’s exploration of wonder, beauty, interconnectedness, reason, traits, evolution, healing, aging and death. The works celebrate the 50 trillion cells in each human body, the ecosystem of our planet and the Universe—all space, time, matter and energy. Corpus Animare, Volumes I, II & III, are one-of-a-kind large format artist books. In Latin, corpus translates to body and animare to give life. Making imaginary cells gives the artist hope that creativity and intelligence will prevail over the greed and ignorance that contributes to the destruction of species biodiversity.
CSMA Interview with Kent Manske

Summertime Group Exhibitions

Hand Book Binders of California 47
Nanette is showing her newest book, Positioning, in this HBC 47th Annual Members’ exhibition.
Exhibition: June 8—September 2
Reception: Saturday, June 15, 2019, 2—5pm
Skylight Gallery, 6th Floor
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin St, San Francisco, California

ebaybie Kim by Nanette Wylde
ebaybie Kim, intaglio print by
Nanette Wylde, 2004

Traditional Techniques, Contemporary Prints
Kent and Nanette both have work in this California Society of Printmakers and TANA (Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer) collaborative exhibition.
Exhibition: May 16—August 15
Gallery Hours: open by appointment. For more information contact YoloArts at 530-309-6464.
The Barn Gallery
YoloArts
512 Gibson Road, Woodland, California

Palo Alto Art Center Residency
Nanette has a printmaking residency at The Palo Alto Art Center in July.
Reception: August 22, 2019, 6—7:30pm
Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Road
Palo Alto, California

Bound Unbound V
Aesthetics 4, from Nanette’s series of wearable altered books in included in this library exhibition.
Exhibition: August 26, 2019—January 3, 2020
University Libraries
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

Aesthetics, wearable altered book
by Nanette Wylde, 2017.

Autumn 2018

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September is an active month in the Bay Area for art and environmental action.

The Global Climate Action Summit will bring together leaders in the sciences, health, education, politics and engaged citizens in San Francisco September 12 – 14, 2018.

Affiliate events throughout the Bay Area, open to the public, are being hosted by diverse organizations and include exhibitions, talks, interactive events and live music. On Saturday, September 8, thousands of activists/participants will gather near Sue Bierman Park in San Francisco before marching down Market Street to Civic Center Plaza, where 55 murals will be painted in and around the park to create, what organizers are calling, the biggest street mural ever.

These are our current exhibitions:

ClimART: 2018 Climate Action Exhibit

For ClimART Kent will exhibit print installations, Omnis cellula e cellula (all cells from cells) v1 & v2. The exhibition features 48 international artists making print-based works about our environment.

September 8 – 23, 2018

Opening Reception: September 13, 6 – 8pm
Academy of Art University Cannery Galleries
2801 Leavenworth Street, San Francisco, California

Eco Echo: Art and Environment Laboratory 

Bay Area artists Anne Beck, Barbara Boissevain, Ginger Burrell, Judith Selby Lang, Richard Lang, Kent Manske, Michelle Wilson, and Nanette Wylde (from the environmental art collective Eco Echo) will create a dynamic, interactive art exhibit celebrating the relationship between art, science and the environment.

The Cubberly Studios ARTLab will be transformed into an art/science laboratory where the public can participate in art “experiments” allowing children and adults to investigate the interrelated spheres of art, ecology, environmental science and conservation. The spirit of this event is to celebrate the experimental nature of scientific inquiry and the art-making process. Each artist will create a lab specific to his or her own media and process, challenging the viewer to engage with the environment on a deep and creative level.

Kent and Nanette will orchestrate a CoLABorative Screen Printing Event at the opening reception. Come pull some prints and take home art. This event is great for kids.

September 15 – 23, 2018

Opening Reception & CoLABorative Screen Printing Event: Saturday, September 15, 7- 9pm
Gallery hours: September 16, 22, 23: 11- 4pm

ARTLab Gallery
Cubberley Artist Studio Program
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, California

Thinking outside the Frame

There is one more month to experience Kent’s installation Genetic Garden v5.17.18 in this California Society of Printmakers’ exhibition featuring works that fall outside of the realm of traditional printmaking, including large-scale prints, installation and book arts.

through September 30, 2018

NUMU
106 E. Main Street in Los Gatos, California

Connect and Collect

Our artist’s book Foodies: Seven West Coast Foodie Vignettes is included in this annual SJICA exhibition, auction and fundraiser.

September 29 – October 13, 2018

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 7th, 1 – 4pm
Silent Auction: Saturday, October 13th, 5 – 8pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 10 – 5pm; Saturday/Sunday, 12 – 5pm

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
560 South First Street, San Jose, California

Book Arts Jam 2018

The Book Arts Jam is a one day celebration of the book, print & paper arts held on the peninsula, midway between San Francisco and San José. Activities include: exhibiting artists, a gallery exhibition, material and ephemera vendors, make & take activities, letterpress printing demonstrations, speakers and artists’ talks.

Sunday, October 21, 2018, 11am – 5pm

Redwood City Community Activities Building
1400 Roosevelt Avenue
Redwood City, California

Our thoughts are with all who are experiencing the effects of drastic climate challenges such as the devastating fires here in California.
Kent & Nanette

Silicon Valley Open Studios & Spring Activities

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Silicon Valley Open Studios
May 5 & 6, 11am – 5pm
at our home studios: in Redwood City.
SVOS

Thinking Outside the Frame, a group printmaking exhibition featuring works that fall outside of the realm of traditional printmaking, including large-scale prints, installation and book arts.
Contact Kent for an invite to the private reception on Thursday evening, May 17.
May 18 - September 30, 2018
NUMU, 106 E. Main Street in Los Gatos, California

San Francisco Center for the Book’s Inaugural BOOKWORKS: An Artist’s Book Fair!
May 18, 5:30 – 8pm
San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island Street in San Francisco, California
Admission is free! R.S.V.P. here

About Bookworks: An Artist’s Book Fair
Bookworks at the San Francisco Center for the Book is a great place to start your artist’s book collection, to meet fantastic book artists, and spend time with friends over cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres. The vision for Bookworks is to encourage the beginning artist’s book collector, support local book artists, and provide a social event for the community.

Betweenscapes
as part of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
May 3 – 24
Reception: Thursday, May 3, 6 – 9 pm
SOMArts, 934 Brannan Street in San Francisco, California

Points of Departure
a California Society of Printmakers exhibition
May 7 – 25
Reception: May 19, 3 – 6pm
Bridge ARTSpace, 23 Maine Avenue in Richmond, California

and for our midwestern friends:

Tales of the Sea
May 19 – July 14
Reception:  Saturday, May 19
South Haven Center for the Arts, 600 Phoenix Street in South Haven, Michigan

Whirligig Interview with Jan Rindfleisch

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We are appreciating our Bay Area Art Roots with this new Whirligig Interview with Jan Rindfleisch.

jan rindfleisch

Jan is an artist, educator, writer, curator and cultural worker. She was the executive director of the Euphrat Museum at De Anza College in Cupertino for 32 years. During that time she laid the groundwork for an engaged and inclusive museum environment by continuously tapping the diverse local voices of Silicon Valley.

Jan continues her work as a community builder with Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley’s Arts Community, a history of the art of the greater South Bay area from the post-Mission era artifacts of our First Nation peoples to the artists and activists that have made the western/southern half of the Bay Area the rich and vibrant scene it is today.

Read her Whirligig Interview here: whirligig.hungerbutton.org

Upcoming Events
Book Arts Jam 2017
Sunday, October 15, 2017
11 am – 5 pm

A celebration of book arts presented by the Bay Area Book Artists (BABA), featuring:
• exhibition of artists’ books
• artists selling handmade books
• artist’s talks
• sale of donated books, art, and tools
• demonstrations and hands-on activities

Free Admission & Parking
Program, Schedule, Directions & Parking Info: www.bookartsjam.org

Palo Alto Elks Lodge
4249 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA
Map to Palo Alto Elks Lodge

Mark your calendars
Artists’ Holiday Open Studio
Saturday & Sunday, December 2 & 3, 2017
12 noon – 5 pm

Over 100 artists at 11 sites in Redwood City & San Carlos
www.rwcahos.com

PreNeo Press & Friends
33 Dexter Avenue
Redwood City

Whirligig Interview with Michelle Wilson

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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! It’s a new Whirligig Interview with papermaker, printmaker, bookmaker, conceptual and social practice artist, and art educator, Michelle Wilson!

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Michelle Wilson is a papermaker in an extremely complex sense. Her work with paper is both conceptual and concrete as it extends from the making of sheets for artist’s books and printmaking to social practice, sculpture and installation. As a somewhat recent transplant to the Bay Area, Wilson has quickly embedded herself and her work into the consciousness of the local art scene with a residency at the School of Visual Philosophy, a Small Plates commission from San Francisco Center for the Book, teaching at both San José State and Stanford, engagement with a handful of arts organizations, and many exhibitions.

You can read Michelle’s interview here: whirligig.hungerbutton.org

Our own current activities:

Kent is showing in Pressing On — Contemporary Printmaking at the Richmond Art Center. June 13 – August 19 with a reception on June 10.

Nanette is showing in Art of Our Century at the Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University June 1 – September 9.

Yay! for summer break, the garden being in, kittens, and studio time.

Foodies at Codex 2017

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Two years in the kitchen and we are salivating to serve up Foodies at Codex February 5 – 8.

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Foodies: Seven West Coast Foodie Vignettes is a portfolio of seven letterpress printed folios, each with wood type printed cover, two color interior screen print illustration, and original story which explores the diversity of meaning in food related language. Foodies is housed in a letterpress printed portfolio.

The print work for this project includes 46 press runs of 25 colors. The stories are by Nanette Wylde. Illustrations and design by Kent Manske.

You can see and read more at: preneo.org/projects/foodies. Or visit us at Codex!

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It’s pARTy time!

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Join us at Anne and Mark’s Art Party & Opening Night Gala on September 24th. There will be 300+ exhibiting artists, live music, dance, spoken word, fire arts, fashion shows and food trucks. This event is at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San José, California. Get your tickets in advance at: artpartysj.com

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Kent will exhibit new works from three print series: Conditions narrate states of being and coping strategies. Nests is a series of one-of-a-kind experimental prints. Cells explores imaginary living organisms and microbiome.

Nanette will exhibit four images from On Longing, a series of 50 unique monoprints completed this last summer. Each print is a mandala which contemplates and celebrates the natural world. The series takes its name from Susan Stewart’s book: On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. The Art Party is discussed in the Mercury News, where Nan’s work is also featured.

Photo of the studio while the On Longing series was still in-progress, Spring 2016.

Photo of the studio while the On Longing series was still in-progress, Spring 2016.

Meaning Maker is 10!
Of course, we are trying to make sense of the upcoming November election. Thus we have created a new and improved version of Meaning Maker U.S. Presidential Elections Edition. Download your free copy at the Meaning Maker website, and distribute as you will.

Meaning Maker LogoIn the San Francisco Bay Area, U.S. Presidential Elections Edition was on exhibit and take away in Vote your Subconscious at Works/San José and will be exhibiting in: POLITICS (NOT) AS USUAL at Branner Spangenberg Gallery:
275A Linden Street in Redwood City from Oct 7 – Nov 13, 2016.
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct 7, 2016, 5:30 – 7:30pm.

This Summer we hand-delivered Art Viewing Experience Edition and U.S. Presidential Elections Edition to two significant events in Europe: The 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Germany; and the opening of the Tate Modern Switch House in London. Other European museum and gallery locations which experienced bursts of Meaning Makers include: Brussels, Paris, Dresden and Prague.

Don Drake and Kate Jordahl invited Kent to write the afterword for Kate’s True North Editions, one poem book, no. 6, featuring Don’s poem, End. The book launch for one poem books no. 5 and no. 6 will be at Don Drake’s Studio, Dreaming Mind, on Saturday, October 8th from 2 – 4 pm. There will be readings! 5664 Sun Ridge Court in Castro Valley, CA.

Kent is also showing in Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: In Defense of Culture at the San Francisco Main Library, Skylight Gallery, 100 Larkin Street, from September 17 – January 1, 2017.

The Future, an artists’ book collaboration between Nanette and Nora Raggio, will be showing the month of October in Words|Matter, Chicago.

Nanette’s Storyland v2 was invited for exhibition in Shapeshifting Texts, International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality in Bremen, Germany. Her print, Propagare, was exhibited at the Graphic Arts Workshop, Scuola Internaziale di Grafica in Venice, Italy; and she received a juror’s award for her needle felted book, Between Us Two, at The Art of the Book, Sebastopol Center for Art in Sebastopol, California.

Our collaborative photo book, CSI: Las Vegas, was included in 23 Sandy Gallery’s summertime Wanderlust exhibition and subsequently acquired by UCLA’s Fine Arts Library.

On another note, we’ve decided to take an extended leave from facebook. We still want to hear about your Art Adventures, however. Our individual emails are the best way to let us know what you are doing. We continue to engage with instagram: @kent.manske @nanwylde