Artist Biography

Kent Manske creates images and symbols to inquire, process, manage, convey and assign meaning to ideas about human existence. He uses both traditional and digital printmaking and book publishing processes to create one-of-a-kind and limited-edition works on paper. Manske has a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was Professor of Art at Foothill College from 1990-2015. In 1992 he co-founded PreNeo Press in Redwood City, California. His work can be found in public and private collections, including the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums and the Oakland Museum of California. preneo.org/kent

California born Nanette Wylde is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural worker making socially reflective and often language-based works using a variety of hybrid media. Wylde has a BA in Behavioral Science from San José State University. Her MFA is in Interactive Multimedia and Printmaking from Ohio State University. She is Professor Emerita of Art and Art History at California State University Chico where she taught for 21 years. Wylde currently serves on the Boards of Directors for Women Eco Artists Dialog and The California Society of Printmakers. Her artist’s books, prints and electronic works are included in significant international collections. Wylde’s interests include: language, personality, difference, beliefs, systems, ideas, movement, history, identity, perceptions, structures, stories, socialization, definitions, context, memory, experience, the natural world, change, and residue. preneo.org/nwylde