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During the Gold Rush, San Francisco's
population soared from 400 to 25,000!
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Press
Releases & Media Resources
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For Press information, please contact the Fair
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 San Francisco County Fair Office
2nd Floor – The Cannery
2801 Leavenworth
San Francisco, CA 94133
Fair Manager
Wendy Nelder: 415.292.7722
wendynelder@harvestfromthesea.com |
PRESS RELEASES
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Press releases will be published
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MEDIA KIT
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Biographies
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Wendy Nelder, Fair Manager - wendynelder@sfcountyfair.com
Founder and CEO of San Francisco County Fair, Harvest
From The Sea is a lawyer who worked in Washington D.C.
and Chicago, Illinois, before she was elected Citywide
to three terms on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors;
she served as President of that board and also as a member
of many other boards including those advising the Golden
Gate Bridge District, The Sixth Army, The Salvation Army,
and the California Criminal Justice Council.
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Ruth Asawa, Sculptor
Creator of the San Francisco Seal, the mascot of Harvest
From The Sea, is an internationally acclaimed artist who
created such widely recognized and loved sculptures as
the Mermaid Fountain at San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square,
the San Francisco Fountain on the steps of the Hyatt Hotel
on San Francisco's Union Square and the Japanese Internment
Memorial in front of the US Federal Building on South
2nd Street in San Jose, California. Ruth was born in Norwalk,
California, and grew up on her parents' truck farm [where
they grew things like radishes, tomatoes, lettuce, beans
which they picked and trucked to Los Angeles markets].
In 1942, she was interned in Arkansas because of the war
with Japan. She graduated from high school in the camp
and left to go to Milwaukee State Teachers College; from
there she went to study at Black Mountain College in North
Carolina, with Josef Albers and Buckminster Fuller. When
Ruth left Black Mountain in 1949, she came to San Francisco
where her Black Mountain schoolmate, architect Albert
Lanier, was waiting for her. Ruth and Albert married and
raised 6 children who attended San Francisco schools.
The San Francisco Unified School District has been the
beneficiary of many Ruth Asawa gifts and programs including
the ceramic studio at Alvarado Elementary School which
produced the magnificent tile mural, "The Tree Of
Life" with the combined efforts of children, teachers,
neighbors, and Ruth.
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Amy
Nelder, Artist
The artist who created the painting for the San Francisco
County Fair, 2006 Poster and on which the website art
is based, is a San Francisco artist with a studio [open
weekends from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and weeknights by appointment]
on the second floor at The Cannery at Leavenworth and
Beach Streets in Fisherman's Wharf in the City. Amy
is also the forensic artist for the San Francisco Police
Department.
Amy Nelder Art - and reproductions of the original
San Francisco County Fair poster art - is available
at Lahaina
Galleries at 645 Beach Street.
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Julie Smith, Website Manager - juliesmith@sfcountyfair.com
The website designer has been designing and building websites
for Fortune 500 clients and sophisticated small businesses
since 1997. Her company, Polaris Interactive,
has helped clients — including food, wine, high-tech,
advertising, real estate, medical, retail, e-commerce,
non-profit, and arts/entertainment — present a strategically
oriented message in an attractive, engaging format.
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images, please
contact the Fair Office.
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