Scott Holmquist - Director and designer.
Robert Arena - Production manager.
Robert is owner and operator of Bug Press, Inc., which recently received a Certificate of Merit from Printing Industries of America, a national organization, and a Gold Award from the National Association of Litho Clubs in Northern California.
He managed the production of the award-winning book Humboldt Heartland and will oversee production of Low Tide.
Joseph Massey - Writer, editor.
Joseph is author of two books of poetry, Areas of Fog (Shearsman Books, 2009) and At the Point (Shearsman Books, 2011), as well as over a dozen fine press, limited edition chapbooks and broadsides.
Much of his work springs from observations of the Bay.
Robin Pagliuco - Project manager.
From 2008-2011, Robin worked as the Managing Director for a small Arcata-based radio program, A World of Possibilities, carried on over 1000 stations nationwide and internationally.
Carolyn Jones - Project manager.
Carolyn is a lifelong Californian with interests in Mayan hieroglyphic writing, book arts and complex data systems. She has a degree in philosophy and works as a data consultant for non-profit healthcare organizations.
Joan Berman - Archivist.
Reference Librarian at Humboldt State since 1972, responsible for the Library's Humboldt County Collection and Archives, and has participated for a number of years in local water and planning issues.
Joan currently serves on the Board of the Trinidad Museum Society.
Edith Butler - Archivist.
Reference Librarian at Humboldt State University Library's Humboldt County Collection and Archives.
Suzanne Guerra - Archivist.
Suzanne is a historian and archivist with decades of professional experience. Her work focuses on comparative ethnic labor histories; cultural landscapes and the intersections of technology and historic and natural resources.
Website
Design - Scott Holmquist
(after Andrew Persoff's
Kulturpark).
Production/Programming - Fox Hysen.
About Scott Holmquist
Scott is a researcher, designer and writer who lived from 2007-10 in Humboldt County, where, working with Robert Arena and Joseph Massey, among many others, he produced the chronic freedom series of books concerned with Southern Humboldt marijuana life.
The series is recognized as ground breaking by local authorities on SoHum history, such as writer Ray Raphael, state history; Steven Black, Head of the Acquisitions Division at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library; and nationally by Mark Dimunation, Chief of the US Library of Congress's Rare Book and Special Collections Division.