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Message 1
From: Tiberiu Chelcea
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 33458] RE: 19th Century Japanese prints
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Mike and Barbara, thank you for the wealth of information regarding these prints and auction sites. I am kinda waffling about starting collecting ukiyo-e prints, but since recently seeing the Modern Japanese Prints exhibition at Carnegie Museum, I'm seriously considering buying a few -- I've seen lots of reproductions of Japanese prints in art books, but seeing the originals is an entirely different experience. And, besides, even with less famous prints, I can still learn quite a bit from studying them.

Tibi

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Message 2
From: roy # azleroux.com
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:40:13 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Baren 33459] Are exchanges editions?
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I have an opportunity to show some of my prints in a local gallery, and I
have been considering selling some on-line. I have several prints left
over from baren exchanges and am wondering about selling them. Are the
recipients of the exchanges expecting to be the only ones having these
prints? In otherwords, are they considered limited edtions? What is the
conventional wisdom on this -- the ethical thing to do? What if I
considered them artist's proofs. Then what rules would apply?

Roy

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Message 3
From: "Mike Lyon"
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:37:49 -0500
Subject: [Baren 33460] RE: Are exchanges editions?
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Dear Roy (et al),

You're free to print as many baren exchange prints as you like -- prints
submitted for Baren exchanges needn't be limited editions -- open
(unlimited) editions are perfectly acceptable. If exchange submissions ARE
from limited editions, those editions needn't be limited to editions of
31...

Baren Forum sponsors the quarterly print exchanges as part of its
educational mission to promote woodblock printmaking -- our exchanges aren't
intended to be 'commercial ventures'. But that doesn't mean that YOU
shouldn't be a commercial venture or that you shouldn't sell your print!

If you pull 200 prints from a block or block set and submit 31 of them to a
baren exchange, you are VERY welcome to sell the remaining 169 however,
wherever, and to whomever you please.

If your 'extra' exchange prints sell, feel free to let fellow exchange
participants know how valuable their portfolio has become! (FUN)!

Mike (Baren exchange manager) Lyon
Kansas City, MO
http://mlyon.com/blog

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Message 4
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:57:23 -0500
Subject: [Baren 33461] Re: Are exchanges editions?
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Roy writes:
"Are the recipients of the exchanges expecting to be the only ones having
these
prints? In otherwords, are they considered limited edtions? What is the
conventional wisdom on this -- the ethical thing to do? What if I
considered them artist's proofs. Then what rules would apply?"

Roy, normally exchange participants are free to do with their extra prints
whatever...most of us do extra prints for sale or just
keep the edition open...the Baren exchanges are not considered limited
editions...only you can set those guidelines on yourself.

I usually do a run of 35-45 prints for a Baren exchange and from that I
select the best '31' prints to send to the coordinator....the rest I am
free to do with
as I want...

thanks...Julio

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Message 5
From: "Jean Womack"
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:18:37 -0700
Subject: [Baren 33462] Santa Cruz workshop
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Dear April Volmer!
Help!
I am coming to your workshop in Santa Cruz this weekend despite a wart removed from my index finger which has made my right hand temporarily almost useless for carving. No brains--I forgot how painful it is to have one of those removed or I would have timed it better. I will be camping in a nearby campground and I want to bring my dog with me. He is a very nice 20 lb 2-year old dog. He will not bark or bite and I have a portable kennel which I can set up in the corner of the classroom and he will sleep contentedly all day. I hope this is all right with you. Please let me know ASAP. jeaneger@jeaneger.com And is there anything I can bring down there for you? I am bringing Createx pure pigments, rice paste, Iyo glazed paper, four blocks with the pattern already on them, knives, etc. I am so excited and thrilled to see you again and get your input for printmaking and have a chance to get away from Richmond for awhile.

I will be sad, though, remembering Karen Tossavainen. The last time I was there, she taught that workshop. I was completely floored when I found out she had passed away. She showed me the most beautiful spit-bite aquatint she made at Kala of a horse skeleton model. That was the Year of the Horse. She did not look sick or complain of anything being wrong. I say, if something is wrong or bothering you, complain about it! Tell somebody about it! Don't wait until you are dead to start complaining!
Thanks, April.

Jean Womack

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