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Falling into Winter

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Another round of seasonal and cultural shifts is upon us. Here, on the west coast, we are fortunate to be able to immerse ourselves in environments of positive cultural expression where generosity of spirit is realized and celebrated. We hope that you, likewise, find much creative generosity in your own communities, and are able to experience it openly and with joy.

Here are our two current happenings:

Entanglements: a curated collection of contemporary culture

After many months of researching, considering and selecting the work of regional creative entities and individuals, Nanette has completed curation and production on the third iteration of Entanglements: a curated collection of contemporary culture. This year’s publication has a focus of creative community. 

Entanglements will be a pop up at Art Bias’ December Open Studios event
Sunday, December 8, 11am–5pm.
1700 Industrial Road in San Carlos

This year’s anthology includes: 

  • Artwork, projects, and essays by Stacey Ardelean/Fuse Theatre, Shana T Bryant, Anne Beck & Michelle Wilson, Kelly Choi & Maggie Wang, Zach Clark, Fernando Escartiz, Tess Felix, Terra Fuller, Art Hazelwood, Heike Mansel, Jean LaMarr, Robin Lasser, Kija Lucas, Remedios Rapoport, Sarah Sense, and Chun Yu
  • Poems by James Cagney, Benjamin Gucciardi, Sinjin Jones, Lauren Lin, and Kim Shuck
  • Interviews with Sinjin Jones, Jan Rindfleisch, Cynthia Sears

Entanglements is a printed book. More on this project is here.
Cover Image: Fernando Escartiz

Encyclopedic: Weathered Volumes

Encyclopedic is currently having its sixth showing at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts.

Views 13, 14, 15, 16 in a single print, 36 x 24 inches

Mountain View Center for Performing Arts
500 Castro Street, Mountain View, California
November 20, 2024–January 12, 2025
Hours: Wednesdays–Saturdays, 12–3pm; and an hour before performances. You can also enter through the cafe whenever it is open.

More about the Encyclopedic project here.

Art Takes Time

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Encyclopedic: Weathered Volumes

Nanette is the currently exhibiting
Encyclopedic: Weathered Volumes
January 5–February 25, 2024

2nd Friday Receptions: January 12, 5–7pm & February 9, 5–7pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays–Sundays, 11am–5pm, and by appointment​

The Main Gallery
883 Santa Cruz Avenue
Menlo Park, California

The American Educator Encyclopedia was first published in 1919. It was discontinued in 1977. This ten volume set of encyclopedias was used by Kent in his youth from the mid 1960s to around 1978. In the late 90s Nanette turned the books into art objects, painting them pure white. After exhibiting them a few times she put them outside in the garden where they were left for several decades. 

At some point it was decided the books had reached an aesthetically pleasing degree of decay, needed rescue, and were brought indoors. In 2023 we determined it was time to document the books, thus, Encyclopedic: Weathered Volumes was photographed to create this conceptual body of work.

Series of 20 views presented as archival pigment prints on Arches in an edition of five each
Project webpage

Art Focused Community Service

In the collaborative spirit, Kent works tirelessly with other volunteers to advance art opportunities for our community. Two significant public projects achieved milestones in 2023.

Healthy Community Mural Project
This community-inspired mural is 19 panels located on the 5th Avenue underpass pedestrian walkway in North Fair Oaks. Artist Emily Fromm completed the murals in September 2023. The need for public art in this location was identified in 2016. Visit Healthy Community Mural Project to learn more.

Center for Creativity
The Center for Creativity is a grassroots vision to bring a permanent arts center to Redwood City. In Fall 2023 we completed an independent feasibility study and are now presenting it to civic leaders, officials, developers, philanthropists, and the public. Community discussions about the need for a local arts center began in 2012. Visit Center for Creativity for more info and how to become a supporter of this vision. If you have ideas how to raise 50 million dollars, please contact Kent.

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.

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

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.

Holiday Open Studios

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Artists’ Holiday Open Studios
December 2 & 3, noon – 5 pm

• 11 locations in Redwood City & San Carlos
• 100+ Artists

Join us here at PreNeo Press for two enjoyable afternoons of art, conversation and libations. We are featuring local artists, printers, writers, poets and photographers: Ann Baldwin, David Edward Beres, Ever Rodriguez and Nora Raggio. This is a great opportunity to see behind the scenes of a local print & book arts studio engaged in book binding, screen printing, monoprinting, etching, relief printing, letterpress, digital and hybrid media.

PreNeo Press
33 Dexter Avenue, Redwood City

Preview of All Locations
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Google Maps to All Locations

Printable Map

Wylde Over It

WORKS San José Benefit Auction
We support WORKS San José
365 South Market Street, San Jose, California

Auction night: Saturday, December 2
Party starts 6pm, live auction starts at 7pm!

Exhibit on view: November 4 through December 2
Hours: Fridays 12-6pm, Saturdays/Sundays 12-4pm
Click here for Auction previews and full list of artists!

Poop Alert
Nanette got tired of seeing dog poop bags left on the trail, so she intervened on this poopy problem. I left my dog poop bag on the trail

Thankful
This Thanksgiving, we are particularly thankful for the biodiversity of our planet with an understanding that diversity is critical to our survival. We appreciate individuals who take action to protect and preserve our natural world.

Blooming in 2017

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With both Spring and politics in the air, we both had fun writing tracts for free distribution. Find racks filled with tracts on the wall at:

Alternative Facts at Works/San José.
Reception: April 7, 7 – 10pm
Exhibition Dates: April 8 – 23, 2017
Location: 365 South Market Street, San José, California

Foodies is currently showing at:

Art of Gastronomy II, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, California. March 8 – May 14.

Celebrate!, Anderson Academic Commons, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. April 7 – June 25.

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Nanette has artists’ books in two traveling exhibitions:
Global Matrix IV International Print Exhibition, Robert L. Ringel Gallery and the Stewart Center Gallery at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Idaho Booker’s Dozen 2017,  Idaho Center for the Book, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.

and a print from her recent On Longing series is showing at:
2017 Wheaton Biennial: Printmaking Reimagined, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

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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Early Fall Art Events

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Friends,

We both have work in ELEMENTAL: Interpretations of Water, Earth, Air & Fire at:

Art Ark Gallery
September 4 – 19
1035 South Sixth Street, San Jose

Opening Reception: September 4, 6 – 9pm.
Part of South First Fridays Art Walk + Street Market

Artists’ Talks & Closing Reception: September 19, 11am – 1pm

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North Fair Oaks Public Art
Kent’s recent public art project is up in four locations in North Fair Oaks, our home community.

Project information here.

North Fair Oaks Art Walk & Public Reception:
October 3, 10am – 12 noon
Reception Location: TBA

Book Arts Jam 2015 

Our imprint, Hunger Button Books, will be at this year’s Jam event, put on by the Bay Area Book Artists.

Lucie Stern Community Center
1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA
October 17, 10am – 4pm

CSI: Las Vegas

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CSI: Las Vegas Cover PreNeo Press is dancing in the streets and putting on the Ritz with the launch of CSI: Las Vegas.

CSI = Cultural Spectacle Investigation.

CSI: Las Vegas is the second in a series of urban photographic explorations which result in full color, print-on-demand, artists’ books. CSI: Las Vegas was created by Kent Manske and Nanette Wylde. It is published by Hunger Button Books.

To receive your personal invitation to the costume extravaganza launch party, scheduled for Saturday, October 26, 2013 at PreNeo Press in Redwood City, California, email to: csiparty@preneo.org.

Rumor has it Elvis will be in the house!

Launching U.S. Presidential Elections edition

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PreNeo Press encourages patriotic citizen action with the launch of
Meaning Maker U.S. Presidential Elections edition.

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The conventions have commenced. The debates are on their way.
Meaning Maker is an unbiased tool for navigating presidential elections.

Download your’s today! Meaning Maker!

Focus Generator

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fg_icon_colorPreNeo Press is focusing in on creative strategies with a new online project:
Focus Generator.

Focus Generator is a tool for artists who enjoy the challenge of randomly set project parameters; and for those who find that preset parameters help them to focus their creative energies into projects beyond their previous imaginings.

Focus Generator comes in three flavors: Focus Generator, is the primary engine and provides the highest level of challenge for the contemporary creative. Focus Light is a mid level machine for those who know their media yet enjoy the challenge of content triggers. Custom Focus provides the the highest level of individuation as it allows Participants to custom select from four areas of randomly generated stimuli.

Take the Focus Generator Challenge and check out the creative work of Focus Generator Participants: http://focusgenerator.net

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.

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.

launching Whirligig

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PreNeo Press and Hunger Button Books are pleased to launch Whirligig.

Whirligig is a platform for engaging in the lives and minds of creative individuals via the interview format.

Launching interviews are with Jack Toolin and Kent Manske.

Visit Whirligig.