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Baren Digest               Sunday, 26 April 1998       Volume 03 : Number 138

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From: Blueman <blueman@pantek.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:10:23 -0400
Subject: [Baren 679] Re: Baren Digest V3 #137 

Hi Baren,

The forum sure was interesting today!  I'm envious of you people
who are going to New York for April's show.  That's the day
my son, Jeremy, gets home from Marywood U. in Scranton and
he's about as burned out as anyone in grad school can be after
a year.  He wants to garden with his Dad for a few days.  And
eat homebaked bread.  When he gets back to Marywood, he's
planning to attend James' CAN's Exhibit in Philly, however.
I think that's one I might be able to manage, too....not for the
opening, but sometime before the Exhibit is over.  I'll have to 
check back through the archives and see how long April's show  
will be up.  Philly is close to New York.  My husband's mother
lives in Danbury, Conn.  So maybe we could swing around and do it all!

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Dave, I changed my bookmarks and am happy with the new
address.  I don't understand address changes, what they mean
exactly.  Are you with another server?  You mentioned it isn't
from Tokyo any longer.  Where is it?  Just curious because like
with Hanga, with the Internet, too, I'm still learning.

Meanwhile, there's just nothing like the Encyclopedia and Baren.  I seem
to hang out only there these days with an ocassional visit to the other
members' websites.  Dave, it seems everyday or so something new pops up 
and I can't tell you how appreciative I am for what you are doing.  When
I was giving my little demonstration of woodblock printing on Thurs-
day at Kent/Geauga (pronounded Jee-yawga--all run together and
more emphasis on the awga), I mentioned hanga and The Baren and
my enthusiasm for woodblock printing in general seemed to rub off
on the students because I was asked to come back next Tuesday and
teach a class of seven how to do basic woodblock printing (not 
hanga, yet).  What I'm trying to say is The Baren and the Ency-
clopedia keeps the flame alive and working.  That's what I'm 
thanking you for, Dave.

Also the one-point lesson on sumi ink sounds intriguing.  Reminds
me of cooking.  We don't have calligraphy stores anywhere I know
of, so I won't have the pleasure of the sumi ink fragrance and the
jar of black mud.  I wish, though.  Maybe I could do a little one with
some sumi ink pieces I have in my studio, just for the authenticity
of it,  I mean.    

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Bill wrote:
> Over there, on the shelf behind me, my old baren is just flipping around
> >with excitement!

Welcome to Baren, Bill.  I like your description of your baren's
excitement.  Let's hear about  what you do with that baren. : )  Phil
said you have things to share with us.

Gayle Wohlken

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From: David Bull <davebull@asahi-net.email.ne.jp>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 23:43:53 +0900
Subject: [Baren 680] Re: getting sumi 

Gayle asked:
>  Are you with another server?  You mentioned it isn't
> from Tokyo any longer.  Where is it? 

It's in Pittsburgh.   At least most of it is.  Some of it is still here
in Tokyo.   And of course, when you access those Encyclopedia pages in
the 'Directory of Woodblock Printmakers on the Web', the data comes down
to your browser from all over wherever ...


> Also the one-point lesson on sumi ink sounds intriguing.  Reminds
> me of cooking.  We don't have calligraphy stores anywhere I know of ...

I think you probably do.  Surely in a town or city near where you are
there must be one of those Chinese shops that has all sorts of imported
stuff - food, pictures, furniture, etc.   Those kind of places always
have sumi sticks, usually 'el cheapo' type - great for making printing
sumi.   See if they've got some broken stuff lying around ... but if
they don't, just get a bunch of whatever they have, haggle them down on
the price (it's sure to be inflated in value), and get soaking!

Dave

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From: jimandkatemundie@juno.com (James G Mundie)
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 11:30:36 -0400
Subject: [Baren 681] another reason to be in Philadelphia this month 

Hey folks,
	I know you are all just _dying_ to come to Philadelphia to see
the Creative Artists Network show.  Here is yet another reason to be in
Philadelphia-- today an exhibition of one hundred and twenty-five of
Utagawa Kuniyoshi's prints opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art:

	"Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi"
	25 April to 28 June 1998

	The exhibition was organized by Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum in
conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Society for
Japanese Arts.  Philadelphia will be the only United States venue for
this exhibition.

***
	Several weeks ago I had ordered frames for the C.A.N. show, and I
was supposed to pick them up today.  I called ahead to make sure they
were ready... my framer had lost my invoice and hadn't made the frames
yet!  As I need to deliver the work ready for hanging on Monday, I'm a
bit miffed.  The framer swears up and down, though, that he will have
them for me tomorrow.  Dave is probably chuckling to himself now...

Sla/n go foill,
James Mundie

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