[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Saturday, 22 April 2000 Volume 11 : Number 982 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: B Mason Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:38:46 -0700 Subject: [Baren 9401] prints Dave, These prints look very nice. do you think we are talking too much in the council and not enough on the baren? We need to be careful of that, or they will be mad at us! I think all the baren would like to see these, can you post this on the "other" site? What are you doing surfing ebay anyway when you are supposed to be working? Barbara ------------------------------ From: Jack Reisland Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:56:57 -1000 Subject: [Baren 9402] Re: prints B Mason wrote: > Dave, > These prints look very nice. do you think we are talking too much in the > council and not enough on the baren? We need to be careful of that, or > they will be mad at us! Oh-oh, now you've done it! Can't take it back now that you've pushed the button! No wonder the Baren postings have been slim. Where do we download the council edition of Baren? Jack Aiea, Hawaii ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:32:54 +0900 Subject: [Baren 9403] Re: Council Jack wrote: > Oh-oh, now you've done it! Can't take it back now that you've pushed the > button! No wonder the Baren postings have been slim. Where do we download > the council edition of Baren? What do you mean 'postings have been slim'? If [Baren] were any noisier, we would all have to retire from our jobs and just sit at the computer screen all day! But I can understand that people are a bit 'suspicious' that the [Baren] council is some kind of wonderful and interesting 'club' that they are being excluded from. That's not so actually - it's just a place where some of the more active people in the group (meaning the 'volunteer' type people) spend a bunch of time thinking and discussing how to make things run smoothly around here. You would like an example? Here's a copy of the 'digest' from the other day: http://woodblock.com/temporary/council_digest_volume1_29.txt Have a read through, and then _you_ decide if you want to read all that sort of thing every day! How to get 'into' the [Baren] council? It's easy ... look at Julio's example - volunteer for a big project, and work at it 24 hours a day ... you'll soon need some help from the others ... Dave ------------------------------ From: Bella1yopp@aol.com Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 01:58:25 EDT Subject: [Baren 9404] Back again It will take me a few days to get back into the swing of the Baren mail but it will be a joy. I have suffered and slaved over my decsion of which grad school to attend. I narrowed it down to three University of Wisconsin in Madison, Cranbrook, and RISD. After visiting the schools and hearing all the numbers (financial aid stuff) I have decided to go to the University of Wisconsin. I am relieved to now know where I will be in 6 months!! Well, now I've got to design my invites to my party celebrating my decsion .... a wear your underwear on the outside/wine and cheese party. Gotta go--- its good to be back, Amanda Yopp Tucson, AZ ------------------------------ From: Studio Dalwood Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 16:00:21 +1000 Subject: [Baren 9405] Hi Matthew . "currently i am having difficulty keeping them = stacked six feet tall. at about 5.5'" How about filling them with sand to give them some weight? "ideally i would like = to find a paper that would completely disintegrate in water" I made handmade paper and then tried to soak it for intaglio printing. It dissolves in water, believe me........ Josephine ------------------------------ From: Jack Reisland Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:33:07 -1000 Subject: [Baren 9406] Re: Council Sorry Dave, I forgot my smiley face, I was just kidding. I am happy to have all those administrative details _way_ behind the scenes. Jack ------------------------------ From: news@woodblock.com Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 16:37:37 +0900 Subject: [Baren 9407] NewsFeed, April 22 2000 ************************************************* [Baren] NewsFeed ... #6 ... April 22nd, 2000 ************************************************* MEMBERS' ACTIVITIES Lynita Shimizu, out in the wilderness of Connecticut, has been exhibiting her work in local coffeeshops and restaurants this past winter. She reports that sales have been steady, and very encouraging. NewsFeed asked her to what she attributed this success, and she replied " I think my prints sell because they are affordable, from $60 - $180 (framed and matted)." Lynita was too modest to add that they are also very attractive! Maria Arango over in Vegas is still going crazy ... she will be exhibiting and demonstrating at the 4th Annual Celebration of the Arts, which will take place in Summerlin Hills Park, May 6 & 7. "In addition to handcrafted items by over 200 artists, music and games for children promise to make this event another huge cultural success." (Actually, we think Maria only signs up for those activities to help keep her 'streak' here in the NewsFeed going!) CALL FOR ENTRIES "The American Print Alliance is pleased to announce the call for entries for its next travelling exhibition - 'On/Off/Over the Edge'. Subscribers to our journal, 'Contemporary Impressions', and members of Alliance councils are invited to submit prints, paperworks or artists' books with no entry fee. The deadline is July 15! See the complete prospectus at our web site. Also visit our Internet gallery, read technical articles, and much more." http://www.printalliance.org EXHIBITIONS Reminder that the exhibition at the Skokie Public Library is still open, and will be up until May 3rd. If you've got friends or relatives in the area, let them know about it! The Library has an info page on the exhibition: http://www.skokie.lib.il.us/happen/baren.html WEB UPDATES * An interesting new print from member Dan Dew is tucked away on the web site: http://woodblock.com/forum/members/dew/proverbs_16_30.jpg * Last week's request for update information on the 'Printmakers on the Web' pages brought in some new info. The page has been updated with new prints, and new printmakers .. http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/017_01/017_01_frame.html REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Browsing through eBay the other day, your NewsFeed editor came across this description on one of the items there: "... was trained at the Chicago Art Institute and the University of Colorado. He was Supervisor of the Colorado WPA Block Print Project in 1936-37." What was this WPA Block Print Project all about? Anybody know? Answers out on [Baren] please ... BLAST FROM THE PAST (*) Now showing at the Paper Museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (until December 31st): Lankes Woodcuts - exhibition of woodcuts by J.J. Lankes with original blocks, tools and materials used in the work. IN THE MARKETPLACE Now on eBay : * Item#: 311966524 A great small woodcut of the late 15th century, by this rare German artist, Hienrish Holsmuller When your editor first stumbled across this, the bid was $0.01. Since then it has moved up to around $20. It closes very soon, so if you're interested, don't hang around! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=311966524 --------------------------------- Also on eBay : * Item#: 313976356 woodblock print of two tropical fish by Onno Bakufu If the price doesn't creep up too high, this one should also be a nice item for your collection ... http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=313976356 --------------------------------- This week's 'find' on Bibliofind : * Mueller, Hans Alexander: Woodcuts and Wood Engravings: How I Make Them Interesting, informative, and full of examples. Dozens of copies are available, priced from $17.50 to $275.00? Which copy will _you_ order? http://www.bibliofind.com/cgi-bin/texis.exe/s/search/search.html?dealerid=&qauthor=Mueller&qtitle=Engravings&qcomments=&minp=&maxp=&daysback=at+any+date ADMINISTRATION Remember that a section of 'quick links' to [Baren] affairs is always available on the main website. When you can't remember 'where to go', check that page ... (It also includes a link to the 'on-line' copy of the most recent NewsFeed ...) http://woodblock.com/forum/admin.html (*) Today's 'Blast From the Past' is from December 1940 - ------------------------------------------------------------------- This has been the [Baren] NewsFeed, trying to keep you in touch with what's going on in [Baren]. We encourage submissions of items that members feel would be of interest to the membership, but which can't wait until the next 'Baren-Suji' newsletter ... ****************************************************************** Send items for the next NewsFeed to news@woodblock.com ****************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: Jack Reisland Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:24:28 -1000 Subject: [Baren 9408] Re: NewsFeed, April 22 2000 > What was this WPA Block Print Project all about? Anybody know? > Answers out on [Baren] please ... The Works Projects Administration (WPA) was, of course, part of President Franklin Roosevelt New Deal politics. The WPA was created in in 1935 to employ workers on public projects in an attempt to put money back into the economy, boosting the depressed economy and helping the "little guy" at the same time. While most of the projects were construction; dams, bridges, roadways buildings and the like, it was decided that the out of work arts community also needed help. One of these programs was the Federal Arts Program, of which the Printmaking project was a subgroup. Participants in the Federal Arts Program had to pass a jury of their peers to be granted funds, and were strongly encouraged to work within certain guidelines. The administrators of the Federal Arts Program decided that the Program was to be a spearhead for a new American art, divorced of European art ideals and images, an art celebrating American history and the American worker. Most of the WPA art that is still familiar to the American public are the many murals that were done in public buildings, even though they were the minority of works in art produced. This is because, according to WPA guidelines, all of the works on paper and canvas produced were stored in huge government warehouses, and when the program was finally cut in 1943, these works were sold of by the pound and mostly lost. Jack Aiea, Hawaii ------------------------------ From: "Philip Smith" Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 03:18:05 -0700 Subject: [Baren 9409] Re: NewsFeed, April 22 2000 Jack,...I think Barbara could find out if the collection in Portland has any WPA prints,....and if you would like to see a couple of nice murals, whence next in San Francisco,....Coit Tower and the main post office downtown have good examples,... Philip ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V11 #982 ****************************