Colored Horse Studios was created by a poet trained in printing technologies, and an artist trained in publishing. We have found that our ongoing practice in fine arts and literature adds a vital dimension to our commercial projects.
Theresa Whitehill, poet, graphic designer, and letterpress printer, was born and raised in California, attended UC Santa Cruz and Mills College, and has traveled through Europe and the Pacific. In Spain and Portugal, she studied the life and work of the poet Garcia Lorca, and the fado music of Lisbon, and in Greece, modern Greek poetry, language, music, and island dancing.
In recent years, she has designed and written a five-volume limited edition guide to the estate of Stags’ Leap Winery in Napa, collaborated with chef Shannon Hughes on culinary poetry art dinners, attended the American Film Institute's innovative Digital Arts Workshop, served as Poet-in-Residence at Stags' Leap Winery, and has written a collaborative novel with three other Mendocino coast writers. Her travel essays and poetic interviews have been published in Appellation Magazine, and her poetry appears in regional literary journals. She reads her work regularly on the radio, and in cafe venues all over northern California.
Paulo Ferreira, painter and sculptor, was born in Lisbon, where he attended Art school. He has lived in Ibiza, Paris, London, New York City, and Los Angeles, before moving to Mendocino county in northern California. His design projects have included the Phillis Restaurant in Ibiza, the Estee Lauder and Escalade department store display in London, and various theater and multi-media events in New York, where he managed the Ohio, an off off Broadway theater. Most recently he has been sculpting in marble from his native Portugal, working in clay and bronze, encaustic, and assemblage.
The literary letterpress broadsides of Colored Horse Studios and the poetry of Theresa Whitehill are in the collections of the John Hay Library at Brown University, New York Public Library, Getty Center, Special Collections Department at UCLA, Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, Special Collections Library at Mills College, San Francisco Public Library, City College of San Francisco, Los Angeles Public Library, Stanford University, and Columbia University, along with many private collections.
Photo of Theresa Whitehill and Paulo Ferreira (page top) by Luc Quaglia
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