Who maintains the Jean Varda Project website? :
The Jean Varda Project is maintained by Heide Foley. She enjoys the creative arts and reserach. Her work focuses on the excavation of information from public and private resources on the art and artists who have contributed to our American culture in California from 1930s to the present. She has a background in the visual arts and history.

Regarding the Varda Project, Heide interviews professionals, locals, artistans, friends & neighbors and anyone who claims to have known or been influenced by Varda under any circumstance. She has retraced many of Varda's travels, tracked down letters he wrote, memories, stories, reminiscences and a few old photographs. She has had the benefit of finding Varda references in newspaper articles, magazines, industry journals, books and films. She is also a volunteer at the Historical Society in Sausalito, California where she lives.

What is the Jean Varda Project website? :
The Jean Varda Project was started from a hobby to satisfy the curiosity of finding out who Jean Varda was. The results of that search have lead to further goals, such as, demonstrating a body of work by Jean Varda, tracing his life through other artists and contemporaries he knew, and seeking to understand his art theories.

When was the Jean Varda Project Website Started? :
In June 2002 many questionaries, letters of interest, and other probes were sent out to potential sources and due to the sufficent number of responses the project has been continued.

Where is the Jean Varda Project Located? :
The home of the Jean Varda Project is located on the S.S. Vallejo ferryboat in Sausalito, California.

The Jean Varda Project
P.O. Box 3126
Sausalito, CA 94966
415-331--6203
heide@heide.to