Also on View: the Center for Creativity’s inaugural exhibition in the Sequoia Gallery: Engaging Community: an exhibition of CFC Steering Committee Members. Curated by Nanette Wylde and featuring visual artists: Ian Bain, Terra Fuller, Gadget, Elizabeth Gómez, Sandra Keely, Kent Manske, Beth Mostovoy & NehaXStitch
Center for Creativity 800 Main Street (at Broadway), Redwood City in the historic Hotel Sequoia MAP
The San Jose Printers’ Fair and Wayzgoose
Check out local prints and printmakers in this enjoyable event at History Park! We’ll be hosting two tables with our print creations. San Jose Printers Guild
Saturday, April 27, 10am–3pm San Jose History Park (in Kelly Park) 635 Phelan Avenue in San Jose
Nanette has left META. No Facebook. No Instagram. She welcomes you to keep her informed of your ARTivities via email, which she usually reads, and the snail mail, always. smiles.
This selection of work addresses Kent’s emotional and philosophical conflicts as a contributor and participant in consumer culture while simultaneously having deep concern and empathy for the survival of other species.
Nanette’s monoprint Milagros for Times Like These is included in The de Young Open 2023. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco magazine featured Nanette’s work in the inside front cover! Additional work in this series may be seen at The Main Gallery in Menlo Park.
De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Garland Variations
A California Society of Printmakers Risograph Anthology
Seven new drawings from Kent’s 2023 series Existential Epistemologies were created for, and published in, Garland Variations, a Risograph Anthology publication. Master Risograph printer Zach Clark of National Monument Press shares “Garland Variations exists as an experimental publication in which each of the participating artists collaborated with me to make original works intended for Risograph printing, many for the first time. The results are a collection of work I feel is truly unique within the intersection of Riso and traditional printmaking.” Garland Variations features the work of Beth Fein, Megan Broughton, Kent Manske, Kelly Autumn, LeeAnn J. DiCicco, Kevin Harris, & AV Pike.
Kent Manske, from Existential Epistemologies, 2023
Nanette reviews Transcending Physicality: The Essence of Place
through December 16, 2023
After visiting Transcending Physicality at SFACG—it is a poignant and engaging show—Nanette wrote a review published by Slippage.net. The exhibition was curated by Minoosh Zomorodinia. Nanette has been following Minoosh’s projects since interviewing her during a residency at Recology. You can read that interview at Whirligig.
October is a celebratory month for us—a newly curated exhibition by Nanette at WORKS/San José, a new Entanglements anthology, a showing of Encyclopedic at Palo Alto’s Rinconada Library, and the deYoung Open 2023.
Curatorial Projects Biophilia and Entanglements will launch together in October
Note there is 90 minute free parking in the underground garage. Enter on South Third Street just before Santa Clara Street. Stairs up to Second Street and WORKS. There is an option for this free parking at the parking ticket machine.
This 2023 anthology curated by Nanette Wylde has a theme of biophilia and features artwork and projects by Arturo Araujo, Willa Briggs, Shari Bryant, Israel Campos, Binh Danh, Annette Goodfriend, Emily Gui, Yunan Ma, Kent Manske, Hector Dionicio Mendoza, Jiamao Yuan, J. Adán Ruiz and The Biological Reserve Cerro Hermoso
Poems by James Cagney, Aileen Cassinetto, Chloe Chou, Veronica Kornberg, Eileen R. Tabios
Interviews with Sharmon Hilfinger (by Katherine Bazak), Judith Selby Lang (by Nanette Wylde), Zach Pine (by Richard Whittaker)
We are exhibiting from a series of conceptual altered books/photographs at Palo Alto’s Rinconada Library through the month of October.
The de Young Open 2023
Tino Rodriguez, Moonji L. Pickering, Liz Boeder, and Nanette Wylde with their works at the de Young Open 2023. We met up in the Goddess section of the exhibition!
We are pleased to share that one from Nanette’s monoprint series Milagros for Times Like These is included in the triennial regional exhibition, The de Young Open 2023. This exhibition runs through January 7, 2024. The museum is free on Saturdays. Additional work in this series may be seen at The Main Gallery in Menlo Park.
This is a fun and engaging exhibition featuring many of our favorite Bay Area artists.
Our friend Katherine Bazak interviews her longtime friend, Bay Area playwright and author, Sharmon Hilfinger for Whirligig, Nanette’s online platform for interviews with creative entities. Read this enticing conversation to gain insight about the writing life and regional live theater here.
First Sundays Open Studio at Art Bias Sunday, August 6, 12–4pm
We will present Meaning Maker as part of our hallway art on display outside our Art Bias studio #215. Meaning Maker is a conceptual art project designed for personal self reflection. Five editions of Meaning Maker will be featured this month, free for the taking by Art Bias visitors. Popcorn will be served.
Hand Bookbinders of California, Annual Members’ Exhibition August 7–October 1, 2023
Arion Press Gallery 1802 Hays Street, the Presidio, San Francisco, California Opening Reception: Saturday, August 12, 2:00–4:00pm. Hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine served with friends and literary eye candy! Gallery Walk-through: Thursday, August 17, 5:30–7:00pm
Kent Manske, Corpus Animare Volumes I, II, & III, artist books
We are showing four photographs from a new body of work titled: Encyclopedic: Weathered Volumes. Kent is also exhibiting his artist books, Corpus Animare Volumes I, II, & III.
Spark Gallery 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Colorado in the Santa Fe Arts District
Westward Bound II is organized by Abecedarian Artists’ Books and asks the question What is The American West? Virtually every part of the United States except the Eastern Seaboard has been “the West” at some point in American history, linked in popular imagination with the last frontier of American settlement. For purposes of this exhibition, The American West refers to that vast stretch of plains, mountains, and deserts west of the Mississippi River. Kent and Nanette’s collaborative book Foodies: Seven West Coast Foodie Vignettes, and Kent’s book San Francisco Bay are on exhibit. The gallery is also featuring a separate exhibition of books by our artist friends Alicia Bailey and Rhiannon Alpers.
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
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
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.”
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.
Below are some art things we are growing alongside propagating seeds for the Summer garden and disrupting beautiful weeds nourished by Winter’s glorious rainfall.
Regional Collective
Corpus Animare III, artist’s book by Kent Manske, 2018
Exhibition: March 11—April 13 Gallery Hours: Monday -Saturday: 12—4pm Janet Turner Print Museum Arts & Humanities Building California State University, Chico, California
Print It!
Nests IVa, screen-based monoprint by Kent Manske, 2015
Both Kent and Nanette have work in this East Bay gallery exhibition.
Exhibition: March 16—April 21 Gallery Hours: Wednesday—Friday: 12—5pm, Saturday: 11am—3pm Village Theatre Art Gallery 233 Front Street, Danville, California
Left Coast Annual
Omnis Cellula e Cellula, screen-based monoprints by Kent Manske, 2018
Exhibition: April 12—May 19 Reception: Friday, March 12, 7—9pm Gallery Hours: Friday—Sunday: 1—5pm Sanchez Art Center 1220-B Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica, California
California Centered: Printmaking Exhibition
Acknowledge, monoprint dyptich by Kent Manske, 2016
Exhibition: April 16—June 1 Gallery Hours: Tuesday—Friday: 11am—6pm, Saturday: 10am—2pm Merced Multicultural Arts Center 645 W Main St, Merced, California
Silicon Valley Open Studios & Art Garage Sale
A few of the items for the Art Garage Sale
Open Studio: May 4 & 5, 11am—5pm Join us for camaraderie and conversation at our home studios. Site 27 in Redwood City. SVOS Kent Manske Nanette Wylde
Coming Soon:
Kent Manske: All Cells from Cells (solo exhibition) Exhibition: May 24—July 19 Reception: Sunday, June 2, 4—6pm Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, California
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!
We are metaphorically euphoric due to this Whirligig Interview with C.K. Itamura.
C.K. Itamura is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and producer.
Her work responds to a wide range of personal and social content; and is realized as richly engaging, metaphorically layered, participatory, conceptual installations.
C.K. is currently exhibiting a trilogy of works under the theme of s+oryprobl=m, in three North Bay locations.
Our own exhibitions during the month of May include: The Art of the Book at Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, California; and #Resist at the Nave Gallery in Somerset, Massachusetts.
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.
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.
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 inAl-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
The busy spring bees have us both showing books and prints in a handful of exhibitions. We are also excited to cross-pollinate our social practices with an upcoming Meaning Maker intervention.
We celebrated Dada’s 100th anniversary with a poetry reading : Nothing is Here, DaDa is its Name
Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Redwood City, California.
Curator: Michael Paulker.
Closing & Dada Performance: Sunday, May 1, 4pm.
Wanderlust 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Curator: Laura Russell. May 27 -Â July 30, 2016.
Wanderlust is a German word made from wandern which means walking and lust which translates as desire. We are showing CSI: Las Vegas in this exhibition.
LOOK! BOOK ARTSÂ
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, California.
Curator: C.K.Itamura.
April 14 – May 22, 2016.
Closing Tea & Salon: Sunday, May 22, 2 – 4pm.
March 5 – May 15, 2016
Museum of Contemporary Crafts &Â Multnomah County Library, both in Portland, Oregon.
Beau Beausoleil’s curatorial project which responds to the bombing of the booksellers’ street in Bagdad continues to inform, inspire and activate us.
Meaning Maker
We will be distributing our Control and U.S. Presidential Elections editions of Meaning Maker at:Â Open Engagement 2016 POWER, April 28Â -Â May 1. This social practice conference is headquartered at the Oakland Museum of California and includes many additional sites throughout the Bay Area.
In early April, Nanette and Nora Raggio showed their book, The Future, in Space Jam at The Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City. Nanette is exhibiting in The Illustrated Accordion at The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6 – 27.
YAY! Here’s cheers to all of the springy art abounding in our universe.
Whirligig is feeling the buzz
with a new interview: MicroClimate Collective is the curatorial project of Glenna Cole Allee and Victoria Mara Heilweil. In this interview they share their insights into the Bay Area Art Scene, discuss the concepts and challenges that go into curating diverse exhibitions, and reveal insights into their own creative processes and interests.Â
Read it here: whirligig.hungerbutton.org
The Undercurrents Portfolio which Kent organized last year has found three institutional homes in the Bay Area: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Oakland Museum of California, and The Peninsula Museum of Art. Many thanks to each of these for acquiring this rich and diverse portfolio of Bay Area printmakers.
Between Us, Nanette’s needle felted book, was recently acquired by Baylor University.
Printmakers Kent Manske, PreNeo Press, and Eric Kneeland, Black Stamp, will orchestrate a loosely planned, instinctually derived, multi-layered, site-specific vertical screen print directly on the gallery wall during the Wabi Sabi opening reception. Reception attendees will be encouraged to influence the work’s evolution throughout the evening.
1158 Howard Street, San Francisco
March 15-April 12
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 15, 7-10pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 12, 2-5pm
Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday 1-6pm
85 Years
Menlo College
1000 El Camino Real
Atherton, California
March 17, 2014 – July 11, 2014
Reception: March 26, 5-7 pm
Southern Graphics Council International Conference Undercurrents
Peninsula Museum of Art
1777 California Dr, Burlingame, California
Reception: TBA
We have a few things going on this season to share with you.
Book Arts Jam at Foothill College
Saturday October 15, 10 – 4
Nanette will be writing Poems on the Spot with Robert Perry as part of Spontaneous Word Combustion
Both Kent and Nanette will be showing book works in several of the Jam exhibitions, including a group showing of Focus Generator inspired projects.
Uncommon Threads
23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
September 23 – October 29
Encoded Structures: Interpreting the Story
Handmade & Bound, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, Tennessee
September 30 – October 31
15th Anniversary Exhibition San Francisco Center for the Book, 16th at Deharo, San Francisco, California
through November
Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze
SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco.
November 4 – 26
The Asian Connection: Art in a Global Age
Asian Arts Gallery at Towson University, Towson, Maryland.
through November 5
We are metaphorically euphoric due to this Whirligig Interview with C.K. Itamura.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, U.S. Presidential Elections Edition was on exhibit and take away in Vote your Subconscious at 
Whirligig is feeling the buzz
