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Baren Digest               Saturday, 12 June 1999       Volume 07 : Number 594

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From: "Jean Eger" <jeaneger@LanMinds.Com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:35:49 -0700
Subject: [Baren 4631] Re:   Baren Digest V7 #593  

Dear Roxanne,

Arizona State University is indeed impressive, at least compared to San
Francisco State University, which is really all I am familiar with.  Don't
get me wrong, I'm not complaining about SFSU, which has the BEST teachers.
(Good teaching is emphasized at SFSU because it started out as a teacher's
college.)  But the facilities at ASU Tempe are magnificent.  I was staggered
by the beautiful big art museum, built adobe style with no windows, so as
to protect against the hot summer sun (my high schoolers would love to get
their fingers on the light switches in there).

We heard a talk by a founder of the printmaking department who mentioned how
they threw money at it in the 40's or 50's.  (I'm writing this from memory,
so it could be the 60's.)  Then we went out into the courtyard and a very
nice gentlemen from SUNY in New York asked me what my impression of ASU was.
I blurted out, I think they are made out of money, which of course was the
wrong thing to say.

So after that I tried not to talk so much, expecting to have to extract my
feet any minute.  They were wonderfully gracious hosts, and never gave me
wrong directions while walking across the campus.  The Sintra demonstration
was very clearly done.
Roxanne, I didn't really look at the printmaking studios with a professor's
eye,  so I can't describe them except to say there were a lot of them.  SFSU
has basically two printmaking studios, with three etching presses and three
litho presses, last time I looked.  ASU Tempe has a lot more than that.

ASU Tempe is in the Sonoran desert, just for the information of the
international Baren crew.  Tempe is a suburb of Phoenix, a BIG city.  My
sweetie loves the desert, so we drove across it a few times in the last few
years.  I got a guidebook on deserts.  One should learn the difference
between a saguaro cactus and an ocotillo cactus.

Next time we visit a relative in Long Beach, I'll definitely look you up,
Roxanne.  My mother has an etching that your father (I think) made of a man
in a wide brimmed hat with his face all in shadow.  That was your father,
who was a famous printmaker, right?

By the way, the suggestion to print once on acetate was a good idea, but not
mine.  However, I think that would work for oil based, not water based.  The
rice paste ink would not stick to the acetate or mylar.

I'm having fun working on Baren Exchange 2;  coming up with Warhol colors,
just by adding white to the ink (rice paste plus pigment).  Maybe it's the
real me.

Jean Eger

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From: Jack Reisland <reislandj001@hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:16:56 +0000
Subject: [Baren 4632] Re:   Baren Digest V7 #593 

Jean wrote:
> Arizona State University is indeed impressive, at least compared to San
> Francisco State University, which is really all I am familiar with.

I grew up in the Phoenix area, and graduated from ASU, although that was a long
time ago. I knew the ceramics department best but you are right, the art
facilities were VERY good, and have gotten better since I was there. They tried
hard to attract the best faculty members they could get, and had a very good
visiting artist program. They also have very good art collections in many
fields. Tempe is a nice place to live (better than most of the rest of the
Phoenix area), but it got hard for me to bear the summer as the years went by.

Jack R.

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From: Gary Luedtke <GLuedtke@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 07:23:16 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4633] Re: Shark skin saga 

Graham, 
     I don't know how large your sharkskins are but when I mounted one last
year I did it this way without any problems.   I used no glue at all.   I
simply stretched the wet skin over the mounting board and used upholstery
tacks around the edges.   Put a lot of them in because as it dries, it gets
tight as a drum and will pull out the tacks if you don't have enough in.  
Still tight as a drum a year later.

Gary

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From: "Lezle Williams" <lezlewilliams@gwtc.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 07:49:32 -0500
Subject: [Baren 4634] Re: Baren Exchange #3 

Dear Julio and Baren,

I've been debating this (Baren #3) and would love to, but am keeping my eye
to see when the deadline may fall.  Since I'm going to be gone the month of
September- I'm waiting to see if it looks like it will be October or
November-  I don't want the added responsibility of doing an edition before
I leave.  And I'm sure when I return fron Italy I'll be all fired up with
inspiration!  If it doesn't work timewise- I'll certainly be at the front
of the list for the Baren #4.

Lezle

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