The Silver Thread

Biographies & Memoirs

Theresa Cerrigone

Memoirs

Pentimento Press

"How great to see such a holistic, 360 degree view of such an essential thing."- Rachel Maddow. Droughts, floods and water quality issues cast harsh light on how we use water in our lives, our agriculture and our environment. California's water policy and use are changing in dramatic ways. Water: More or Less provides intriguing insight as to how we got to this point, and proposes options for solutions and answers. Presented as an anthology in three dimensions – art, history, and story, it captures moments of change both visually and verbally. Artist and essayist Stephanie Taylor captures images of people and places in paintings and words, portraying a slice of the daily lives of fishermen, farmers, biologists and others. Journalist Rita Schmidt Sudman, long-time observer of the California water scene who also led the Water Education Foundation, follows the history of geographic water conflict and provides context for the past while suggesting options for the future. Twenty top water policy leaders add their diverse voices with personal essays written just for this book, and tell why they care so passionately about water. Interview with Lester Snow, Water Foundation Introduction by Kevin Starr, State Librarian Emeritus and author of the Americans and the California Dream series Personal essays written just for this book by: Tom Birmingham, Westlands Water District Jennifer Bowles, Water Education Foundation Celeste Cantu, Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority Michael Cohen, Senior Associate, Pacific Institute Kim Delfino, Defenders of Wildlife Laurel Firestone, Community Water Center David Guy, Northern California Water Association Thomas Harter, Groundwater Hydrology, University of California, Davis Carl Hauge, formerly with California Department of Water Resources Campbell Ingram, Delta Conservancy Kevin Kelley, Imperial Irrigation District Jeffrey Kightlinger, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Sunne Wright McPeak, Delta Vision Foundation Dave Orth, California Water Commission Tim Quinn, Association of California Water Agencies Tim Sloane, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations Frances Spivy-Weber, State Water Resources Control Board Maureen Stapleton, San Diego County Water Authority

Water More or Less

Science & Math

Stephanie Taylor

Rita Schmidt Sudman

Nature & Ecology

"How great to see such a holistic, 360 degree view of such an essential thing."- Rachel Maddow. This updated 2017 edition reflects California's constant state of change. Presented as an anthology in three dimensions – art, history, and story, it captures moments of change both visually and verbally. Droughts, floods and water quality issues cast harsh light on how we use water in our lives, our agriculture and our environment. Water policy and use are changing in dramatic ways. Water: More or Less provides intriguing insight as to how we got to this point, and proposes options for solutions and answers. Artist and essayist Stephanie Taylor captures images of people and places in paintings and words, portraying a slice of the daily lives of fishermen, farmers, biologists and others. She is a freelance Op-Ed contributor to the "Sacramento Bee." Journalist Rita Schmidt Sudman, long-time observer of the California water scene who also led the Water Education Foundation, follows the history of geographic water conflict and provides context for the past while suggesting options for the future. Twenty-one top water policy leaders add their diverse voices with personal essays written just for this book, and tell why they care so passionately about water. Interview with Lester Snow, Water Foundation Introduction by Kevin Starr, State Librarian Emeritus and author of the Americans and the California Dream series Personal essays written just for this book by: Tom Birmingham, Westlands Water District Jennifer Bowles, Water Education Foundation Celeste Cantu, Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority Michael Cohen, Senior Associate, Pacific Institute Kim Delfino, Defenders of Wildlife Laurel Firestone, Community Water Center Letitia Grenier, San Francisco Estuary Institute David Guy, Northern California Water Association Thomas Harter, Groundwater Hydrology, University of California, Davis Carl Hauge, formerly with California Department of Water Resources Campbell Ingram, Delta Conservancy Kevin Kelley, Imperial Irrigation District Jeffrey Kightlinger, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Sunne Wright McPeak, Delta Vision Foundation Dave Orth, California Water Commission Tim Quinn, Association of California Water Agencies Tim Sloane, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations Frances Spivy-Weber, State Water Resources Control Board Maureen Stapleton, San Diego County Water Authority

Water More or Less 2017

Sudman, Rita Schmidt

An anthology of art, essay, policy and history about water in California.

Water: More or Less 2018: An anthology of history, art and essay

Taylor,Stephanie

Earth Sciences

In November 2018, a wildfire struck Butte County, a Northern Californian foothill town 90 miles north of Sacramento. The loss was catastrophic and unprecedented. "Simple Objects: An Excavation" is a collaboration between artist, Stephanie Taylor, and writer, Christy Heron-Clark, who were both born in the area. Together, they visit Christy’s two adjacent family homes to find objects that might have survived. While Christy responds to these simple objects with what she remembers, Stephanie ponders each as it exists now, transformed and mutilated. This is a story about what we retain when we lose, and how we can move forward with resilience. This might be a story about California. “The tragic Paradise fire left a once beautiful town in utter shambles blanketed in sorrow. Stephanie Taylor, one of northern California’s finest artists, visited Paradise following the inferno with Christy Heron-Clark, whose childhood homes were destroyed by the fire. There, Taylor saw something in the blackened ruins that only a person of her creativity could visualize and embarked on an artistic collaboration with Heron-Clark. Charred common place objects like a pair of eyeglasses fused into its protective case, a hammer head without its handle, hub caps, shattered glass, and blackened fishing flies have taken on a new life of unparalleled beauty and uncommon expression.I had the pleasure of visiting Taylor’s studio where I saw the photographs that she had produced and the mesmerizing drawings she had created using charcoal from burnt Paradise lumber. It gave me both a hollow feeling contrasted with utter astonishment over her genius in conceiving of this exhibit.”Gary F. Kurutz, Curator Emeritus, California State LibraryPast Library Director of the California Historical Society Former Curator of Photography at the Huntington Library

Simple Objects: An Excavation

Arts & Photography

Heron-Clark, Christy

Photography & Video

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