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Baren Digest              Saturday, 9 October 1999      Volume 09 : Number 735

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From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi <jy6@columbia.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:33:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Baren 6165] Getting Together 

Congratulations Maria and Ruth, nice page. My connection is extremely slow,
but the pages loaded quickly. Nice woodcuts, too! (which is actually the
point, right?)

Glad Bea is excited about her knee replacement, no stopping her now, with
two good knees! And Jean, I was hoping your treatment was finally OVER.
Soon, in any case. Good luck, you accomplish so much now, you will be a
real powerhouse when you recover your full strength!

Judy Mensch and I just put the final touches on the Baren Print Portfolio
show. We enlisted Ray Hudson to help up with the signage. I photocopied
Dave Bull's informational sheet for posting at the beginning of the show,
and Ray helped us hang them under plexi. Ray was in New York City for a
lecture at the Museum of the American Indian, and we three were able to
meet at Manhattan Graphics for dinner.

It was very nice to see his Chinese technique woodcuts. (He studied how to
do this technique in China, a 6 week course.) I begin to understand how
they are different from Japanese. He uses very thin paper, with very little
sizing, so the sumi ink bleeds out in places, like an ink painting. The
registration seems much more casual, and he has painted color on the back
of some of his prints, which shows through because of the thinness of the
paper, looking like a bokashi. He mounts the thin Chinese paper on heavier
western print paper.

So the show was a nice focus to meet Ray H., and I hope to meet some others
at the opening this Saturday. Sorry not to see Dave and Matt (and Lynita),
but hope you'll post some photos of your get-together in New Hampshire.

April Vollmer

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From: Shireen Holman <shireenh@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 11:03:01 -0400
Subject: [none]

I just looked at Ruth Leaf's site - very beautiful work!
Shireen

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:52:06 -0400
Subject: [Baren 6167] Re: baren show, Maryland show

Sarah

Congratulations on your participation in Walk on the Wild Side. What is the
show about?
I would be interested in the juried show of portraits that you mentioned. Do
they have a Web Site or e mail?

Jeanne

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From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:05:22 -0500
Subject: [Baren 6168] Re: Maria makes a Maria-baren 

Congratulations Maria on your second place award.....boy!  I never thought of
rats as a subject matter....but you really seem to have a gold mine going
there.....long  live the RATS!  Now what can I use that's more........how about
worms ?  Just kidding , great work......thanks for the info on "Out of the Wood"
series, I'll be in touch soon....thanks for putting up my contribution to the
mural....one suggestion here....it looks like the mural is really taking
off!.....I recognized lot of the artists contributions from visiting their
web-sites...but for many I wanted to know more...you can add a small tittle/text
to the html code so that when someones pauses the mouse over a mural photo the
artist's name & print title displays.....it's of course a little more work for
you....but when you start getting into the hundreds of photos....you'll be happy
you kept track and the viewers will be able to identify each print.....que crees
?

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From: <hudson@panther.middlebury.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 06:03:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Baren 6170] NYC Show 

(From Ray Hudson in Vermont)
As April mentioned in a recent post I was able to visit the Manhattan
Graphics Center on Friday and see the Baren show.   Judy, Sarah and April
have done a splendid job and the show looks stunning.   It was wonderful
to have met some "Bareners" for the first time, to get a tour of the
center, and to talk about printmaking.   Thanks! Judy, Sarah, and April!
for everything! (for plugging and painting the walls, for mounting and
hanging the prints, for arranging for the reception, for being the
generous and supportive friends you are to all of us!)
Ray

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