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		<title>Valerie Raps</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Bay Area artist Valerie Raps recently completed a public art commission for the Alum Rock History Corridor Project.
Cultivating Community is a life-size, stylized spring tooth harrow created from fabricated steel and cast bronze. The tines of the harrow are made from casting the arms of ten San Jose community members. The sculpture is located at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Andrew Kacsmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Andrew Kacsmar is a San Francisco based singer songwriter. His band Phantom City has just released its second CD Off the Map.
Whirligig: Off the Map is Phantom City&#8217;s second CD and your third. What goes into making an album and how do you determine the arc of the music?
Steven: My songs come from my experiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jody Alexander</title>
		<link>http://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2011/jody-alexander/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 00:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanette</dc:creator>
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Santa Cruz based artist Jody Alexander is known for creating complex characters whose narratives are revealed through an array of artifacts which almost always include handmade books and are often exhibited as interactive art installations.
 Her work celebrates collecting, storytelling, and odd characters.
Alexander has just completed two solo exhibitions: Jody Alexander: Sedimentals at Mohr Gallery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marion Patterson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Photographer Marion Patterson has several new bodies of work coming out based on recent travels to Antarctica and the Galapagos. Patterson was mentored by Ansel Adams who became a lifelong friend. She also studied with Dorthea Lange, Pirkle Jones, Jerry Uelsmann, and Minor White. She studied philosophy at Stanford and received her Masters in Interdisciplinary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacy Speyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stacy Speyer recently completed a residency at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. For the Exploratorium&#8217;s traveling exhibition Geometry Playground, Speyer created an interactive exhibit of metal geometric forms known as polyhedra. Subsequently she began work on a book on this subject called Understanding Polyhedra. Speyer was trained as a textile artist (MFA California College of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Bradshaw</title>
		<link>http://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2010/julia-bradshaw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photographer and video performance artist Julia Bradshaw is exhibiting six 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. Bradshaw was born in Manchester, England. She spent nine years working and living in Munich, Germany before coming to California in 1994. She received her MFA from San José State University in 2007. Bradshaw is Assistant Professor of Photography at CSU Fresno, California.]]></description>
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		<title>Pod Post</title>
		<link>http://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2010/pod-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanette</dc:creator>
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Pod Post, the mail art duo comprised of artists Carolee Gilligan Wheeler and Jennie Hinchcliff, has become an icon at Bay Area print, book, and zine fairs. Their presence is memorable in part due to their complete-with-merit-badge uniforms, their much sought after collectible mail art ephemera, and their passion and advocacy for all things postal.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>José Arenas</title>
		<link>http://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2010/jose-arenas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bay area painter José Arenas recently completed a mural commission in his hometown neighborhood of downtown San José, now the up and coming art district of the United States&#8217; 10th largest city. Arenas is art faculty at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California; a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and UC Davis, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Reichhold</title>
		<link>http://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2009/jane-reichhold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whirligig interview with Jane Reichhold, internationally recognized and award-winning artist and poet, prolific writer, editor, publisher, and scholar based in Gualala, California. Jane has written thousands of poems and published nearly 35 books on haiku, tanka, and renga, including Basho: The Complete Haiku (2008); Ten Years Haikujane (2008); and Writing and Enjoying Haiku: A Hands on Guide (2002). Jane is a co-editor of LYNX, the publisher of AHA Books, and editor of AHA! POETRY where she keeps the practice of writing successful haiku and other Japanese poetry forms alive and lively.]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Templeton</title>
		<link>http://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2009/alice-templeton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But also there was something always mysterious to me about language and particularly about poetry. I didn't understand it. I still don't think that I understand it, you know, in any absolute sense. I think that that mystery, that continual ambiguity of What is this? Why do people do this? What does this mean? How come it makes me feel this way? Why is this beautiful and this line isn't? or Why is this poem so striking and moving and this other one some how doesn't live up to that? ]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Toolin</title>
		<link>http://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2009/jack-toolin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid, say ten, eleven years old, I had an ethical problem with money. I don't know where that came from. Especially since my neighborhood was white, conservative, and middle class — it was not the center of revolutionary politics. I was like the rebel hippy kid and I rebelled against profit motive at an early age. Then it got worse or was enhanced by the plight of my father who was one of the early victims of corporate downsizing and corporate maneuvering for profit.]]></description>
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		<title>Kent Manske</title>
		<link>http://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2009/kent-manske/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kent Manske is a visual artist working in traditional and hybrid forms of print media. He is a professor of art at Foothill College where he teaches graphic design, printmaking and books as art. His MFA is from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This interview was conducted upon the publication of a book on Kent's work titled Re:ad.

Whirligig: Why do you make things?

Kent: To make sense of things I don’t understand, like my feelings about humanity. I’m compelled to process matters of our existence, like why we believe what we do. I make things to find my own peace, even though much of what I explore is not peaceful. Sixteen thousand people die per day of hunger related causes. The Arctic is melting and the oceans are rising. Exploring issues and concerns help me recontextualize my own reality and make sure I’m not living in a total state of deception. Art helps me to take responsibility for the privileges I’ve inherited.]]></description>
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