Queen of Arts  Kax Herberger's generation knew the importance of
perpetuating the arts. Will a younger generation be as giving?
Hirsch says that instead of building objects, he wanted to
document what artists were doing and thinking in the last 10
years of the 20th century. He invested about $100,000 a year in
the effort, each summer inviting a different group of artists.
The farm project compiled the sessions in a series of books
filled with esoteric notions that he's still trying to figure
out.  "This couldn't be done with public money, because public
money requires you to have a specific result as part of the
project. This thing, I never knew what I was going to get."  He
sees the Circle effort as a similar kind of open-ended
collaboration.  Lori and Howard Hirsch organized the Five Arts
Circle to cultivate new arts patrons in the Valley. Paolo Vescia
"It's another one of my experiments. And I don't know how it's
going to turn out, but we need it. These are people who are
coming here, spending their wint