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Support BeExposed!’s sister series in Racine.

From Nick Demske, BONK! curator:

“The full scoop on the February BONK!:

BONK! 17
SATURDAY, FEB 27th
RACINE ARTS COUNCIL
316 6TH STREET
RACINE, WI
6PM
(doors open at 5:30)

• poet RICHARD MEIER
• writer KATIE O’SHAUGHNESSY
• musician CHRISTINA COLON

The time for BONK! has come again and what a stupendous lineup! Please join us this Saturday as we enjoy the fine talents of these three fine artists.

What ever did we do to come into such fortune?!”

SE YOU THERE!!!!

Searching For a Starry Night – A Miniature Art Mystery

by Christine Verstraete

Local author Christine Verstraete (”Searching For A Starry Night, A Miniature Art Mystery”) will be among the authors signing books and talking with educators at the Racine Barnes and Noble’s Educator’s Night, 4-7 pm, Weds, Oct. 15.

Barnes and Noble is located at Hwys. 11 and 31, Racine, WI, 262-598-9757. For information, on the book see http://cverstraete.com

A book by Nick Cibrario

After the success of his “Garden of Katmandu Trilogy”, Dominic Cibrario is ready with his new book which focuses on Wisconsin farm life circa 1951.

“The characters are all people we can readily identify with (well….maybe not after we get to know them), because they are all right out of Middle America. If you are looking for stories about 4-H clubs and the dignity of tilling the soil through the sweat of one’s brow, you will be disappointed. The novel is both a fictive ethnography of middle American rural life – as it is really lived, according to Cibrario, not as it is imagined or portrayed in Norman Rockwell paintings – and a sobering account of the way the effects of the war continue for decades to form and distort the lives of those who were active in it.”

Excerpts from a review by Jim Fisher, Anthropologist at Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota

Nick received his BA from the University of Wisconsin in LaCrosse and has an MS from the College of Racine. He also did graduate studies at Marquette University and the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been on display at the Anderson Arts Center, the Wustum Museum and the Kenosha Public Museum. He has studied with teachers such as Tom Hoffman and Gerhard Kroll and is a long-standing member of the Kenosha Art Association and the Racine Art Guild. Continue reading →

The latest novel of Dominic Cibrario.

During July of 1951 Adam is traumatized on the family farm in Wisconsin. He’s unable to tell his parents what happened to him in the barn. Burdened by his secret, the ten-year-old boy begins to exhibit bazaar behavior. His worried parents don’t know how to help him. They are preoccupied with earning a living and their own secrets. Adam’s father, Giovanni Montanya, leaves the farm each morning to work on the assembly line at Nash Motors with Uncle Pete. Both men were drafted into the army after Pearl Harbor and suffer from the horrors of the war as the Korean War escalates. Adam’s mother, Gertrude, drives the truck daily to the Farmers’ Market to sell vegetables. Sometimes she takes Adam, his brother, Karl, or Grandma with her. The entire family works hard but their routine is harsh. Giovanni escapes by going to Jim’s Bar while the women and Aunt Clara seek comfort in the Catholic Church. As the secrets are revealed, each person is changed for better or worse in this novel.

You are invited to Nick Cibrario’s Book Signing

• At Party on the Pavement: Saturday, October 4, 2008 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
  MARTHA MERRELL’S BOOKSTORE
  600 SIXTH STREET
  RACINE, WISCONSIN 53403
  262-652-0215
• At Kenosha’s Second Saturdays: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 1:00 – 9:00 p.m.
  Evening Reception – Gallery Night 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
  POLLARD GALLERY
  514 56TH STREET

  Click HERE to go to Nick Cibrario’s website (PomeloTree.com)
  KENOSHA, WISCONSIN 53140
  262-657-7529

Click HERE to order the book.