IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD WHITTAKER

Richard Whittaker is the co-founder, with Rue Harrison, of the non-profit "Society for theReCognition of Art" and founding editor [1998] of the magazine "works & conversations". Earlier he founded The Secret Alameda [published from 1990-96]. He is also the West Coast editor ofParabola magazine. Although Whittaker has a background in philosophy [BA] and clinical psychology [MA] and has done graduate work at the GTU in Berkeley, his connections with art go back over forty years including photography, ceramics, painting and sculpture.