[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Friday, 14 April 2000 Volume 11 : Number 971 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Arafat Alnaim Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Baren 9285] Karen Kunc Dear Wanda' Just put the name of Karen Kunc in any search engine and you will get a wonderful results. She is one of the artists that I admired. I like the way she doing colure prints. In one of the following links you can see a video about here works. (http://net.unl.edu/swi/arts/kunc.html) (http://www.catalog.com/artline/galleries/haslem/kunc/bio.html) (http://www.artline.com/galleries/haslem/kunc/reviews.html) (http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&q=Karen+Kunc). I have a lot of information about this artist, if you are interested in concrete thing my be I could help you. Regards Arafat ------------------------------ From: "Jaime Lee Hackbart" Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:29:26 -0500 Subject: [Baren 9286] Re: Karen Kunc Wanda, Regarding Karen Kunc, at one time I found 37 sites with reference to her. She is a highly respected artist. I live in Nebraska and have had the good fortune to study under her here. I received my MFA in printmaking and took many classes with her. While she is of International reknown, she continues to contribute very significantly to the Nebraska art community. She is active in the Nebraska Women's Caucus for Art. She was just awarded with artist of the year here also. You may find work of hers on sites for the Women Caucus and for the Nebraska Arts Council ( I am guessing here). I know that a gallery in Chicago called, Jan Cicero has her work on their web page. I hope that helps some. Jaime Hackbart ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:49:41 -0700 Subject: [Baren 9287] Re: Purdue print exhibit Thanks, Krista! I did a web search on Purdue, but still didn't find the exhibition pix. For those of us who didn't make it to SGC - how about an overview of this panel discussion? judy mensch wrote: > Wanda, If you can wait, Karen Kunc is doing a workshop where I work. > It's either the end of April or May. I could ask her. Judy NYC Cool! Do an interview asking her about her love for Japanese printworks for Baren-Suji. I found an intermediate teaching page on the web with Karen as teacher. Some interesting techniques. Kind of a cross between Eastern & Western methods. And Arafat, Thanks for the links! I did search Yahoo.com & found some neat stuff - but not the video! Wow! Gotta go see that. Jaime wrote: > Regarding Karen Kunc, at one time I found 37 sites with reference to her. > She is a highly respected artist. I live in Nebraska and have had the good > fortune to study under her here. And Jaime, Lucky you! My instructor at Mt. Angel, Dennis Cunningham, has had several conversations with Karen & he has been encouraging me to find out more about her methods, etc. Probably because I love those wild colors, too! This will be enough to keep me busy for a couple of days, now won't it? Let's see .... how can I transfer Western methods back to Eastern methods? Hmmmm......a multiple wood block reduction in water base pigments with embossing. Oh my gosh! Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. It's very much appreciated. Wanda ------------------------------ From: B Mason Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:13:09 -0700 Subject: [Baren 9288] Purchase Award Wanda Robertson and Barbara Mason, in order to promote printmaking and international good will announce: THE MASON-ROBERTSON PURCHASE AWARD awarded at the Kampala Baren Exhibit at the National Museum eligability: Uganda Printmakers Judge and Jury: our own Gregory Robison We are pleased to announce this award and if anyone else wants to do an award of their own, we will be pleased and not in the least offended. We can't do much about international terrorism and atrocities, but we can promote printmaking and artists. One step at a time! Barbara and Wanda ------------------------------ From: Arafat Alnaim Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Baren 9289] movie of Karen pulling a print To see a 6Meg movie of Karen pulling a print, go to this link (http://net.unl.edu/swi/arts/kunc.html0 in the middle of the page you will find it. it's great thing. you can see who she is applying Colure and print her works. Last year with Gregory Robison in Sofia we had anice disscution about her art. Regards Arafat ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:21:45 -0700 Subject: [Baren 9290] Re: Purchase Award Wanda and Barbara, Your contribution makes us proud to know you and honoured that you are a part of Boot Camp. Marnie and Graham Victoria BC An Island in the Pacific ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:29:20 -0700 Subject: [Baren 9291] Re: reduction prints Mary Krieger wrote..... >I have reduction prints using blended colors posted at my website in the >'Secondary Colours' area > >http://www.mts.net/~mkrieger It has been awhile since visiting your site.... The woodblocks Secondary Tones is very successful. Lovely work. Graham ------------------------------ From: "eli griggs" Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:52:41 -0400 Subject: [Baren 9293] Re: knives Jack wrote: >How will you do the tapered ferrules?" To be honest, I had not considered tapering the ferrules. Because the blade needs a straight cylinder 'inside dimension' wall to bear against and resist movement, it is unlikely that I will taper the outside of the brass. Simple sleeves seem to be just the ticket, as they are cheap, weigh little and stay in place just fine. But now that you've brought it up, I might just have to turn a few for a trial. Eli Griggs ------------------------------ From: Jack Reisland Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:35:38 -1000 Subject: [Baren 9294] Re: knives eli griggs wrote: > Because the blade needs a straight cylinder 'inside dimension' wall to bear > against and resist movement, it is unlikely that I will taper the outside of > the brass. Simple sleeves seem to be just the ticket, as they are cheap, > weigh little and stay in place just fine. On a traditional Japanese to, the tapered ferrule slides down on the taper on the handle to pinch the sides together and hold the blade tight. I have a hard time imagining a straight ferrule working to hold the blade tight enough so that it doesn't slide back in, and still being able to loosen the ferrule to move the blade out for further sharpening. Maybe the quickest way to produce ferrules would be to reshape brass tube over a tapered mandrel. It all sound like a bunch of work, but if you enjoy making tools (me too), it might be interesting to try. Jack Aiea, Hawaii ------------------------------ From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:46:27 -0500 Subject: [Baren 9297] tapered ferrules for knives Hi Jack, Eli.........here is a photo of David's tools that are on display in Skokie. Is badly out of focus but I think it gives a good idea of the shape of the knives and the taper on the ferrules. I will try to get a better shot of the open knife next time over to see the exhibit. Of course there are probably some good photos on the encyclopedia already. These knives are not much longer than six inches or so and a delight to hold in your hands. http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/images/aalib405x.jpg Thanks...Julio ps. The blowup photo is from the exhibit's photo page at : http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/libphotos4.html ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V11 #971 ****************************