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Baren Digest                Friday, 16 July 1999        Volume 08 : Number 630

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From: Gayle Wohlken <blueman@nacs.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:44:44 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4966] Re: Baren Digest V8 #628 

Okay, Baren Exchange #1'ers--Here is what you put
on your resume:

1999, June, Third KIWA Exhibition and Tour, Japan

There were 93 participants

Here are the Baren member names included in this show:
John Amoss
E. B. Atwood
Roger Ball
Phil Bivins
Dean Brink
Matthew Brown
David Bull
Jeanne Chase
Jean Eger
Ray Espositio
Don Furst
Karla Hackenmiller
Sarah Hauser
Ray Hudson 
Mary Kreiger
Haydee Landing
James Mundie
Andrea Rich
Bill Ritchie
Julio Rodriguez
Graham Schooles
Roxanne Sexauer
Richard Steiner
April Vollmer 
Gayle Wohlken

Attendance to the show was over 1200 people.  The work has
gone into the KIWA Collection--It will be cataloged and
kept in archival boxes.  At a later date, it will be displayed again.
At no time will the work be sold.  Individuals wishing to purchase
it will be directed back to the artist.  

The six prize winners this year wee:
     Dong Suk Kang     Korea     KIWA Prize
     Stavislave Tropp     Slovakia   KICH prize
     April Vollmer             USA          JAWK I Prize
     Carolina V Pacheko  Chile       JAWK II Prize
     Ji-Xin Shong                China      Dr. Iwasaki Prize
     Leonardo Gotlyb         Argentina   Sirius Prize 

There were nine judges and six advisors who had voting rights. 
The judging was held May 2 in the afternoon in the Kyoto International
Community House.  A strict policy is not to reveal the identity of the
judges or advisors.  They themselves do not know one another for the
most part.  

The show will go to Morioka City and one other city in shows this
Fall and next Spring.  The next  Exhibition will be in the year 2002.

The only thing I can figure out about this might be that Richard 
entered all of his Baren Exchange Prints in the show as one entry
or "installation".  Since mine came separately, he didn't see me as 
part of the Baren Exchange (which technically I wasn't).  

April, I do have to add that on the written page (where I got the above
information) you are listed as JAWK I prize winner, but in the photo
montage it looks like you are JAWK II prize winner.  I guess you will
have to check with Richard about that.  

Hope this helps.

Gayle

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From: James G Mundie <jimandkatemundie@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 23:15:17 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4967] Back from Paddy's Green Shore 

Hello, all...

Kate and I just dragged our sorry butts back home from our three week
romp in Ireland.  The worst part was just trying to get to Philadelphia
from the Newark airport via the various trains -- we crossed the Atlantic
in the same amount of time.  But I digress...

We saw many interesting things and we had quite a lovely time.  As a bit
of a lark to pass the time waiting for our flight, Kate and I began
writing humorous haiku.  This continued throughout the trip and became
something of a travelogue.  We know have a notion to produce a smallish
book featuring our exploits and the poems, of course.  I think it will be
a mixed media affair involving woodblock, litho, silkscreen and
letterpress so I will surely be picking the brains of Greg and John of
Oz.

One neato little woodblock thing we came across were some lovely Chinese
and Thai woodblock prints in the Derek Hill collection at Glebe House in
County Donegal.  Mr. Hill is a painter of some repute who one day about
ten years ago donated his house and all of the the possessions therein to
Eire.  Lovely little active gallery on the grounds, too.   The prints
were items Hill had picked up himself in the 1930's.  Not nearly as
refined as the hanga tradition, but wonderful bold compositions with
complicated color use.  Having read the descriptions in the 'pedia of the
peculiar way in which the Chinese approached color printing, those prints
at Glebe were all the more extraordinary.   In deference to Japan and in
an adjoining hallway were hung a beautiful collection of Hokusai and
Yoshitoshi (I think) prints -- nothing too audacious, mind, just a
tasteful grouping of twelve or so exquisite prints.  Sigh...

Incidentally, Sylvia, I am sorry that I wasn't able to contact you.  Our
plans to be "up north" unfortunately coincided with 12 July, and I
thought it better to stay on the Republic side of Ulster during the
marching and protests.  It's just as well as you were probably in Galway
for the festival.   Next time.

~ James Mundie, Philadelphia USA

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From: April Vollmer/John Yamaguchi <jy6@columbia.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 08:52:19 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4968] Gentle Beating 

Dave, the paper information is very helpful. Torinoko swells and shrinks
more than hosho and the WAY indivisual sheets are made makes a difference.
The fibers have to be evenly distributed in all directions. Right?

For my Lower East Side hanga class, we were fortunate to have a one hour
demonstration of Japanese paper making by Mina Takahashi of Dieu Donne
Papermill. I asked her about the paper shrinkage problem, and she said an
overbeaten pulp will also result in greater changes in paper size. Her
feeling was that if the fibers were more intact, less damaged in the
beating, they would absorb less water and remain more stable.

She thought that one of the reasons asian papers change size less than
western is because the kozo fibers are more intact with the gentler
beating. I think this is no longer done by hand, but still gentler than a
hollander beater. Any experience?

April Vollmer

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