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California Digital Arts Workshop participant, 1998 |
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| As Poet-in-Residence at Stags’ Leap Winery in Napa Valley, California, Theresa Whitehill collaborated with artist Patrick McFarlin of Santa Fe, and prose writer Rod Smith of San Francisco to produce portraits of the Napa Valley community, in a special project sponsored by Beringer Wine Estates during the spring of 1998. Their project, Napa Valley: Portrait of a Community, culminates in an exhibit of McFarlin's art and the prose writings of Smith and the poetry of Whitehill, at the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville, California. The opening reception will be held Friday, January 15, 1999, and the exhibit will run until April. In November of 1998, Whitehill was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of fifteen California artists to participate in the 1998 California Digital Arts Workshop at their Los Angeles campus, of which her literary site BroadsideOnline, and the online poem, “Évora a Doce,” is the result. Her interviews, travel articles and poetic essays appear in Appellation Magazine, with forthcoming articles on Portugal, and the Fado music of Lisbon.
Born in Sacramento, California, of Irish-Scots descent, Whitehill is the fourth generation of her family to be raised in California. Trained in book arts, letterpress printing, and typography at Mills College in the early 1980s, she went into commercial printing, and for eight years worked as Production Manager for Zida Borcich Letterpress, a letterpress design shop in Fort Bragg, California. During this period she also spent two years in Greece, studying Modern Greek poetry and the dances of the Aegean islands. Theresa Whitehill currently lives on the Mendocino coast of northern California, where she and her husband, artist Paulo Ferreira, formed Colored Horse Studios in 1993, providing creative services for marketing and publishing, including graphic design and copywriting. Her literary letterpress broadsides are in the collections of the following institutions: the John Hay Library of Brown University, the New York Public Library, the Special Collections Department of UCLA, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Public Library, Mills College Special Collections, and City College of San Francisco. She has written a collaborative novel, Metamorphio’s Café, with Mendocino coast writers Christy Wagner, Karin Faulkner, and Lydia Rand. Whitehill's chapbook of poetry, A Natural History of Milltowns, was published by Pygmy Forest Press in 1992. |
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Theresa Whitehill's California Digital Arts Workshop project |
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