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# Whirligig

Interviews with Creatives

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## Posts

- [Zach Pine, ecoartist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2023/zach-pine/) - Richard Whittaker Conversation with Zach Pine, ecoartist
- [Sharmon Hilfinger, playwright](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2023/sharmon-hilfinger/) - A conversation with Bay Area playwright and Bootsrap Theater Foundation founder Sharmon Hilfinger It is impressive to meet someone with Sharmon’s track record. Her produced plays include three dramas and nine ensemble plays with music in collaboration with composer Joan McMillen. These have been produced by San Francisco Bay Area theatre companies, including The Pear Theatre, TheatreFIRST, Inferno Theatre, Menlo Player’s Guild, BootStrap Theater Foundation, as well as Heartland Theatre Company in Illinois. In 1998, she founded BootStrap Theater Foundation which develops and produces original plays by Bay Area playwrights.
- [Sophie Loubere, visual artist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2025/sophie-loubere-visual-artist/) - A Conversation with printmaker Sophie Loubere
- [Cynthia Sears, Champion of the Arts](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2023/cynthia-sears/) - Cynthia Sears is a creativity explorer and the founder of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) on Bainbridge Island in Washington State. She is known for her extensive support of artists, writers and cultural entities. Her collections include paintings and sculptures; antique and finely bound books; and some 1800 artist’s books, which comprise the Cynthia Sears Artist’s Books Collection at BIMA.
- [Jan Rindfleisch, artist & curator](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2017/jan-rindfleisch/) - A Conversation with artist, educator, writer, curator Jan Rindfleisch Jan Rindfleisch 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, Rindfleisch laid the groundwork for an engaged and inclusive museum environment by continuously tapping
- [Michelle Wilson, papermaker & book artist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2017/michelle-wilson/) - A Conversation with book artist and papermaker Michelle Wilson 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
- [Valerie Raps, sculptor & gallerist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2011/valerie-raps/) - Conversation with Valerie Raps, sculptor & gallerist
- [Steven Andrew Kacsmar, singer songwriter](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2011/steven-andrew-kacsmar/) - Conversation with singer songwriter Steven Andrew Kacsmar of San Francisco's Phantom City
- [Jody Alexander, textiles & books](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2011/jody-alexander/) - Conversation with Jody Alexander textiles and book artist
- [Marion Patterson, photographer](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2011/marion-patterson/) - Conversation with photographer Marion Patterson
- [Julia Bradshaw, photographer](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2010/julia-bradshaw/) - 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.
- [C.K. Itamura, conceptual artist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2017/c-k-itamura/) - A Conversation with conceptual artist 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 Director of Marketing and Events for San Francisco Center for the Book and a board member
- [Judith Selby Lang, beach plastic](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2019/judithselbylang/) - A Conversation with Judith Selby Lang, beach plastic and book artist Judith Selby Lang's website states that she "is an artist committed to the creation of positive symbols and life-affirming images to help energize the conversation about social, political and environmental issues." This is a perfect description of the uplifting and transformative nature of her
- [Lisa Hochstein, collage, paint, fiber arts](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2012/lisa-hochstein/) - Lisa Hochstein, collage paint and fiber artist in conversation with Kent Manske
- [Angelica Muro, integrated artist, curator, cultural critic, and art educator](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2016/angelica-muro/) - A Conversation with Angelica Muro, integrated artist, curator, cultural critic, and art educator
- [Diane Cassidy, photographer and book artist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2012/diane-cassidy/) - A Conversation with photographer and book artist Diane Cassidy Bay Area photographer and artist Diane Cassidy celebrates her 82nd birthday this month with the showing of a new series of photographs at the annual San Francisco Altered Barbie show, and the launch of her first website. Cassidy studied photography at San Jose State University in
- [Kathleen Canrinus, author & memoirist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2022/kathleen-canrinus/) - Conversation with Kathleen Canrinus, memoirist and author of The Lady with the Crown: A Story of Resilience by Helen Gibbons
- [Beau Beausoleil, poet](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2014/beau-beausoleil/) - Conversation with poet, independent bookstore owner, and Al-Mutanabbi Street project initiator, Beau Beausoleil
- [Felicia Rice, printmaker and book artist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2018/felicia-rice/) - Conversation with printmaker and book artist Felicia Rice
- [Deborah Shea, muralist & pastels](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2026/deborah-shea-muralist-pastels/) - Conversation with Redwood City pastel artist and muralist Deborah Shea
- [Katherine Bazak, painter](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2026/katherine-bazak-painter/) - Conversation with classical figure painter Katherine Bazak by Sharmon Hilfinger
- [Stacy Speyer, textiles & math](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2011/stacy-speyer/) - Conversation with maths inspired textile artist Stacy Speyer
- [Pod Post, mail art collective](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2010/pod-post/) - Conversation with Pod Post, a mail art collective Carolee Gilligan Wheeler and Jennie Hinchcliff
- [Jane Reichhold, haiku scholar and poet](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2009/jane-reichhold/) - Conversation with haiku scholar, poet and visual artist Jane Reichhold
- [Jack Toolin, performance artist & photographer](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2009/jack-toolin/) - Conversation with performance artist and photographer Jack Toolin
- [Elizabeth Gómez, painter, muralist, mosaics](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2021/elizabeth-gomez/) - Elizabeth Gómez, artist and children's book illustrator. Her practice involves designing and managing community participatory murals in both paint and mosaic.
- [José Arenas, painter](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2010/jose-arenas/) - Conversation with painter, muralist, and art educator José Arenas.
- [Macy Chadwick, In Cahoots Residency: printmaking & book arts](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2025/macy-chadwick-in-cahoots/) - Macy Chadwick, In Cahoots Residency: printmaking & book arts
- [Christopher Hartshorne, printmaker](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2025/christopher-hartshorne-printmaker/) - A Conversation with printmaker Christopher Hartshorne
- [Kent Manske, printmaker & visual artist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2009/kent-manske/) - Kent Manske visual artist working in traditional and hybrid forms of print media
- [Rebecca Gilbert, printmaker](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2025/rebecca-gilbert-printmaker/) - A Conversation with printmaker Rebecca Gilbert
- [Sinjin Jones, transmedia artist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2024/sinjin-jones/) - Sinjin Jones is a transmedia artist, storyteller, and poet interested in the connections between diverse media forms which allow him to combine these in interesting ways. In 2019, shortly before the reality of a global pandemic, Jones became the Executive Artistic Director of The Pear Theatre in Mountain View, California.
- [Alice Templeton, poet](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2009/alice-templeton/) - Conversation with Bay Area poet Alice Templeton
- [MicroClimate Collective, Glenna Cole Allee and Victoria Mara Heilweil, artists curators](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2015/microclimate-collective/) - A Conversation with MicroClimate Collective, Glenna Cole Allee and Victoria Mara Heilweil, artists and curators
- [Minoosh Zomorodinia, Interdisciplinary artist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2021/minoosh-zomorodinia/) - Interview with Minoosh Zomorodinia an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist and curator working in time, space and the natural world; and located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- [Ever Rodriguez / La Feroz Press](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2020/ever-rodriguez-la-feroz-press/) - Interview with Ever Rodriguez of La Feroz Press. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area letterpress print studio La Feroz publishes poetry and artist books using hand set type.
- [Paul Davies, composer, music educator, concert pianist](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/2013/paul-davies/) - A Conversation with Paul Davies, composer, music educator, and concert pianist

## Pages

- [Whirligig defined](https://www.whirligig.hungerbutton.org/about/) - Whirligig is a platform for engaging in the lives and minds of creative individuals via the interview format. Historically, a whirligig is both a torture device and a toy, characterized by its whirling or spinning nature. Here, in these pages, Whirligig is a celebration of the creative life, which may sometimes be torturous, often leaves

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