Baren Digest              Saturday, 22 March 2003      Volume 22 : Number 2167


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From: ArtfulCarol#aol.com
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:20:53 EST
Subject: [Baren 21078] Baren Group 

Hi Paul,
I appreciate your last response to the group ,Barbara, and Dave.

I can tell you from first hand experience meeting Bareners in person over the 
years and being involved with many of them  on the Web  that you will not 
find a more supportive, helpful (and creative ) bunch!!!

IMHO
Carol Lyons

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From: Barbara Mason <barbaramason45#yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:09:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 21079] interesting post 


Here is todays post from Robert Glenn, I thought it appropriate
to us artists, but if you want no politics at all, delete now. If
you want to subscribe to his newsletter, go here:
http://www.painterskeys.com

Best to all,

Barbara

Over the past months there have been a few letters from artists
with remarks about the situation in the Middle East.  My first
instinct was to leave the political stuff out of these letters
and our Painter's Keys service.  As you may have noticed we
have published a few and then gathered representative letters
and published them into two separate response sections.  If we
include "one liners" there were about 20 who were "pro-war" and
300 who were "anti-war."  In another 10 it was difficult to
tell.  The heartfelt anguish of artists has brought both
eloquence and rancor to our pages.  The percentages are
interesting.

On this dawn of another war most artists of our community are
against it.  Our "anti-wars" are higher than in international
polls.  Despite the silent majority, it looks to me as if many
artists see war as a failure of creativity.  As well as
honouring beauty and goodness, art is a process that thrives in
times of peace.  Peace and the wish for it are in the hearts of
artists.  In spite of elements of shock, ugliness and
deconstruction that are currently evident in some art,
creativity is generally a builder.  Creativity does not
normally destroy or kill.  Furthermore, creativity implies
dialogue.  Mankind enters a wasteland when dialogue breaks
down.  Dialogue is reduced to rhetoric and posturing. 
Simplistic "good and evil" visions get promoted.  Both sides
claim God to be on their side.  But artists have an eye for
truth.  I believe that the nature of our work and our creative
philosophies give some of us a kind of historical perspective. 
What's disappointing to many is hearing "the same old stuff."  

One of the more striking letters that we included in our
responses was entitled "Art knows."  It described the recent
cover-up of Picasso's "Guernica," in the foyer of the UN when
Colin Powell was to go on camera.  The painting depicts the
horrific results of the Nazi bombing of a Spanish town during
the Spanish Civil War. "Not appropriate," was the reason given.
There were instances of similar cover-ups, silencing of poets,
denials of the freedom of information.  But there, under that
shroud, lost to sight, was everything that we artists honour. 
To let our great and our humble speak.  To be seen.  To make
our contribution.  That day, and others, there was a
realization of another type of death.  We do not like that. 
Art knows.



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From: Julio.Rodriguez#walgreens.com
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:01:46 -0600
Subject: [Baren 21080] Re: Calendar Signup 

Just a quick note to let you know the Prints-only Landscapes & Nudes 
calendars are now both closed. I will take entries for a waiting list in 
case someone needs to drop out along the way. 

Still have openings for PAGE and POSTCARDS calendars. I will make some 
final announcements in the next day on print sizes, orientation and 
edition size.......and then off we go carving and printing !!!!!

http://barenforum.org/calendar/


thanks ....Julio


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From: "Maria Diener (aka Arango)" <maria#mariarango.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:03:15 -0800
Subject: [Baren 21081] 10 down 34 to go 

Hello all,

Bea and Shireen, received your puzzle pieces today, I'm starting to get
shaky like a teenager on her first date. These images are very exciting and
I can almost start to "see" how this will look.

Thanks all for playing and for your generosity in contributing to the
paper/shipping piggy bank.

Maria

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