Baren Digest Wednesday, 20 June 2001 Volume 15 : Number 1465 From: "Robert" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:16:54 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14904] Re: more on giclees charset="iso-8859-1" Barbara, I have seen galleries use the authenticity statement on giclee'...Robert ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:13:14 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14905] Praise time My 12 year old angel is now a professional artist! She sold two of her prints today. they are: http://www.dandew.com/block_party.htm and http://www.dandew.com/Golden_tamarin.htm Her e-mail is: megsmail@tampabay.rr.com Applause, applause, chip off the old block ey? dan dew ------------------------------ From: "Bill H Ritchie Jr" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:46:26 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14906] I'm trying to eat, here! It's after 2:30 PM, PDT, and I'm trying to go to lunch. Dang! This baren list is TOO INTERESTING. Don't you people ever eat lunch? Dan Dew said: >But we cannot do "nothing", for by doing nothing, we allow the falsehoods to continue and thrive. Seriously folks, actually, un-seriously--that is what I think can be done more effectively to educate this so-called Public that people keep talking about. I heard it said that the "Public" was an invention of the industrial age mass communications industry. The newspaper, I believe it was. It might been Ben Franklin, or was it Mander, or . . . does it matter? Yes it does. I must remember their names. Education is important. It is key. But, to too many people today, such as it is, loaded with authoritarian words, is dull compared to movies, games, TV, etc. It's a problem we live with. Plus, when education gets dull, even for a few minutes, many people - especially the youngest - get turned off and tune out. Waiting for them, just off the side, is the handheld game, the TV, the headset. So the pathway I have taken is entertainment. Secretly, I whisper, "edu-tainment" which became a popular buzzword when the multimedia industry was making its first assault on the established beachhead of academe. The ancestors of printmaking generated not only free, fine art prints, but reproductions, multimedia and even this qwerty-style keyboard I am tapping on. So I suggest we continue telling our stories and exchanging yarns, amazing stories about $5K gicleee prints (!), but let us share them with the "public" in a made-for-public way, a way between the dying world and the world that is trying to be born. I propose a virtual world, a kind of on-line paradise we all might visit, as people who have a passion for prints, printmaking and, yes, printmakers -- dead or alive. For we all live on and off line. The next step would be to form a Real printmaker's paradise, to which and from which me might go. Let it be a safe Earth. One time I watched a TV show with Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, taped here in Seattle on a new "digital video" system that I guess was to be part of some futuristic interface (but which probably got eclipsed by DVD). Technicals aside, we all got a chuckle when they mentioned their plans to keep on working after they were dead. Somehow, as a media artist, I understand that. I call it legacy transfer. Now, for lunch! - - Bill ------------------------------ From: "eli griggs" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:49:39 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14907] Re: Praise time charset="iso-8859-1" Please pass on my very best regards and congratulations to your daughter. Her work is wonderful. Congratulations to you also for sharing your art with your child. I believe there are few finer gifts a parent can give a child. Cheers, Eli Griggs Charlotte N.C. USA eli.griggs@worldnet.att.net eligriggs@gocarolinas.com http://www.geocities.com/eli_griggs/mypage.html - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel L. Dew" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 5:13 PM Subject: [Baren 14905] Praise time > My 12 year old angel is now a professional artist! > She sold two of her prints today. > they are: > http://www.dandew.com/block_party.htm > and > http://www.dandew.com/Golden_tamarin.htm > > Her e-mail is: megsmail@tampabay.rr.com > > > Applause, applause, chip off the old block ey? > > > dan dew > > ------------------------------ From: news@barenforum.org Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:51:25 +0900 Subject: [Baren 14908] 100 Universes Contemporary Crafts Gallery, a non-profit museum, gallery and residency supporting fine crafts since 1937, located in Portland, Oregon, USA, is organizing the world's largest accordion book of prints in connection with the CROSSING BOUNDARIES: EAST WEST international print symposium being held here in October 2001. We are soliciting prints worldwide for this unique international project. Details about the accordion book project and the print symposium may be obtained at http://www.geocities.com/ccgpdx/100universes. A jpeg and a printed prospectus are also available via this email address or by contacting Contemporary Crafts Gallery, 3934 SW Corbett, Portland OR USA 97201, tel. (503) 223-2654, fax (503) 223-0190. Thanks. ------------------------------ From: "Walters, Stephanie J. (Nevada Color)" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:47:12 -0500 Subject: [Baren 14909] RE: more on giclees charset="iso-8859-1" Here, Here! You have a great way of putting things, Maria! ------------------------------ From: "Ramsey Household" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:35:12 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14910] Demonstrations Hi! I know that this is not always a simple thing to do when you are setting up your booth and you have so much paraphenalia, but one of the things that would really educate the public and maybe even help sell your work, would be to demonstrate your printmaking techniques. When I have done this, everyone, including children, is fascinated. It is so much better than words. If each of us tried this, even once, think how many people we could reach. Let the giclee makers try to demonstrate how they do it. That would open some eyes. Carolyn ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V15 #1465 *****************************