Quarterama on PBS' "Between The Lines with Barry Kibrick" rediscovers America's 50 State Quarters®

Aug. 30, 2011 - PRLog -- Quarterama on PBS' "Between The Lines with Barry Kibrick" rediscovers America's 50 State Quarters ®.

    Los Angeles, CA --- Tapping into 36 billion circulating coins as living history lessons, author Garrett Burke offers a surprising tour inside America’s favorite pocket change. "Quarterama: Ideas & Designs of America’s State Quarters" reveals how an idea becomes design, and how our country’s most valued ideals are expressed on the state quarters of our nation.

Wednesday, August 31, 7:30 - 8:00pm
PBS station KLCS-TV in Los Angeles
Airing on PBS stations nationwide in the coming months


About Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick  http://www.klcs.org/btl/

    Host Barry Kibrick interviews top thinkers, writers, business leaders, artists, and others, drawing out the essence and layers of the subject. The program originates out of Los Angeles on PBS station KLCS-TV and is currently in over 50% of the country and entering new markets every week. Barry’s guests include some of the world’s most respected authors, directors, musicians, scientists, doctors, professors, philosophers, and business and political leaders.

    "Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick" has won the Los Angeles EMMY for Best Host and Studio Show the past three years in a row (2011, 2010, 2009).

About Quarterama  http://www.quarterama.com

  "Quarterama: Ideas & Designs of America’s State Quarters" (Hardbound ISBN 978-0-9845624-0-4; $50.00; Softbound ISBN 978-0-9845624-1-1; $34.95; Newtona, February 2011) is a lavishly designed 160-page gift book that examines America’s popular State Quarters. Beyond the who, what, where and when of each design is revealed the essential why inside each coin’s idea.

  Author Garrett Burke is a graphic designer whose work is immersed in pop culture. His designs are seen in everything from Star Wars to James Bond. And, almost everyone in the country has held his art work in their hand, for Garrett is the concept designer of the California State Quarter, part of the U.S. Mint’s phenomenally popular 50 State Quarters® coin series.


Garrett is an experienced public speaker for TV, radio, and telephone interviews. Beautiful high resolution book art and coin images are easily emailed to accent any story. Contact at:

makecents@quarterama.com    http://www.quarterama.com     310-488-6723

Quarterama is available online, from all major wholesalers, bookstores, and directly from Sunbelt Publications.