TOE IN THE WATER For the Mendocino Land Trust, 2001 I grew up knowing the land could be understood as human form, having played tetherball in the afternoon shadow cast by Mount Tamalpais, the sleeping woman. Her tree-lined breasts, her…
As a poet and designer with a background in letterpress printing and book arts, I’ve always had a fondness for the wealth of images to be found in Dover books, of which Colored Horse Studios has a considerable collection in…
Featured Artists of the Month at Art Center Ukiah http://www.artcenterukiah.org/weblog/2009/05/paulo-ferreira-and-theresa-whitehill.html The Corner Gallery is pleased to present two guests, Paulo Ferreira and Theresa Whitehill, in June as their Featured Artists. The opening reception will take place on the First Friday…
St. Peter at the Gate He was leaning against the gate with his hands in his jeans pockets like he’d been there a long time or wasn’t in a hurry. “All those receipts,” he said, “that you took such care…
Take one poet trained in typography and history of the book, add amazing beer and some great illustrators, and you would have a distinctive lineup of beer packaging that sets you apart as a craft brewery, which is exactly what…
The Ukiah City Council announced at their Wednesday, April 15, 2009 meeting the appointment of Theresa Whitehill as Poet Laureate for Ukiah for a two-year term. Whitehill, who has served on Ukiah’s Poet Laureate Committee from 2002 through 2007, is…
Communication Arts regularly features a favorite “Webpick” and the Stags’ Leap website project was their pick for March 18, 2009, www.commarts.com
When we founded our business, Colored Horse Studios, on Paulo’s birthday in April of 1993, we knew that, as artists, we had something to contribute to commercial design.
A broadside is a limited edition print with literary content. It is a poster with a poem in it, and usually, an image. This definition changes, however, depending upon which century you happen to be in. At one time it would have been hard to know anything about anything without broadsides.