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  1. [Baren 40282] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V49 #5072 (Dec 21, 2009) (Andrew Stone)
  2. [Baren 40283] Baren Ads & Ops December 2009 (Mary Kuster)
  3. [Baren 40284] Re: Baren Ads & Ops December 2009 (Diane Cutter)
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From: Andrew Stone
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:25:04 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40282] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V49 #5072 (Dec 21, 2009)
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Message 2
From: Mary Kuster
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:56:39 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40283] Baren Ads & Ops December 2009
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*Baren Ads & Ops*


December 15, 2009

*_For Sale_*

*For sale: *Four Oceans Press 2010 Print Makers Calendar

http://www.fouroceanspress.com/calendar_classical_elements.html

* *

*For sale*: Sequim Washington Griffin series III Etching press. It has a
32"x55" bed, 81/2" roller and is motorized. Asking $6000. Contact Ld
Lawrence at ldlawrence@olypen.com



*For sale*: High quality tools I am looking to sell them to someone who
would continue using them. They belonged to my father who is now
deceased. He apprenticed himself to a Japanese Ranma master in the early
60s when we were stationed in Kuyshu, Japan as he was in the Navy at the
time. They are high quality tools, hand forged white steel, and I'm sure
someone would appreciate them. There are 23 in all, plus a few carver
knives. I am asking $40 per tool and have some photos. Contact Melissa
Ward at melissa@mwardonline.com

*_Training_*

*Rich Media eBook: Your First Print*

*Author**: *David Bull**

*ISBN**: *978-4-90367214-4**

The book is available for immediate downloading. At
http://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/0057.shtml

This eBook contains approximately 60 'pages'. In addition to the
standard text and illustration material, it also contains numerous audio
and video clips showing every important stage of the printmaking process.



*_Workshops_*

*Multicolor Japanese Water-Based Woodblock Printing
*Six Tuesdays: January 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 23; 6-9pm
Great for beginners
Make a multicolor woodblock print from start to finish while learning a
water-based, portable printing method that is easy to practice at home.
Learn special effects such as gradations and textures. Supply fee
includes a set of five Japanese carving tools. Minnesota Center for the
Book Arts http://www.mnbookarts.org/index.html*__*

*The Educational Study Trip III in Japan (February 2010)*

The Third Educational Study Trip is taken place in Japan in February
2010, arranged with Via Japan Holidays (UK).

The trip consists of 11 days (from 14-24 February, 2010) in Tokyo,
Fukui, and Kyoto.

For further information and booking, please contact Megumi Mizumura
megumimizumura@aol.com with your name, e-mail address, name of your
company/institute if appropriate, and name of your country of residence.

*_Marketing Tools_*

*Art Festival Guide*

Making a living as an artist, the brave way! An entertaining and thorough account on how to launch a career as an art festival

artist. http://www.1000woodcuts.com/projects/artfestivalguide/book.html

*_Artist Opportunities_*

*Woodblock Teacher Needed*

Snow Farm Williamsburg, MA

Anyone interested in teaching woodblock printing from April 25 to May 1,
2010, at Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program in Williamsburg, MA,
should contact Janet Weber, program director, at eh@snowfarm-art.org
for information.*__*

*Teaching Assistantships *

State University of New York at Buffalo**

http://visualstudies.buffalo.edu/graduate/mfaOverview.html

Questions: Contact: Adele Henderson, Director of Graduate Studies, Head
of Print Media

email: adeleh@buffalo.edu (preferred) or
716-645-0554 (academic year only)

* *

*Graduate Assistantship*

Illinois State University

Additional information is available. Please telephone us: (309)
438-7530. Access information on the web at: http://www.ilstu.edu and
http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/art/mfa.



*MFA / Graduate Assistantships*

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green, OH

For admissions information, please see:

http://art.bgsu.edu/degrees/graduate/index.cfm#MFA

For questions specific to the Printmaking program, please contact Janet
Ballweg, Head of Printmaking, at jballwe@bgsu.edu .

*_Exchanges _*

*From Four Oceans Press*

Are you looking for another exchange?**

*Street Signs* Alphabet Exchange Series due January 15, 2010.

http://www.fouroceanspress.com/exchange_alphabet.html

*The Print for Peace* - Print Exchange Series due March 15, 2010.


http://www.fouroceanspress.com/exchange_collaborations.html

*East* - the second in our Cardinal Directions Series

http://www.fouroceanspress.com/exchange.html

*The 3-D Art Exchange*

http://www.fouroceanspress.com/exchange_3D.html

First annual collaboration now has sign ups.

A hand-pulled print exchange in collaboration with Grabados por la Paz
Mxico
http://www.fouroceanspress.com/exchange_collaborations.html



*SSNW09*

Southern Summer Northern Winter Solstice.

DEADLINE FOR SIGN-UP: December 21, 2009

HOW TO SIGN-UP: Send private email to: CharlesGMorgan@ yahoo.com


TECHNIQUE: Any editionable technique is acceptable.

PAPER SIZE: 7.5 X 11 in., or 19 x 28 cm

IMAGE SIZE: anything that fits on the paper

THEME: open

COORDINATOR: Charles Morgan, 77 Moss Street, Victoria, B.C. V8V 4M2, CANADA

DUE DATE: Prints are due in the hands of the coordinator by March 1, 2010.

PARTICIPATION FEE: $15 Canadian, US, or Australian



*10th Annual Postcard Print Exchange*

Iowa State University's Print Club

ENTRIES DUE: February 20, 2010

For more information: http://www.design.iastate.edu/gallery.php or email
Daniel Stender dlstender@gmail.com

*_From The Net_*

Japan Society Gallery to Show Forerunner to Today's Manga Artists

Art Daily
The vast majority of the 150 color *woodblock* prints on display are
from the Arthur R. Miller Collection, New York, generously loaned to
Japan Society by the *...*

**

Japanese *woodblock* prints pdf Download

Eighty nine eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese *woodblock*
prints from the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art and the
Library of Congress were

* *

*_Jobs_*

*Tenure stream Assistant Professor specializing in Digital Media*

University of Pittsburgh

Application Deadline January 4, 2010

http://www.studioarts.pitt.edu



*Adjunct faculty person needed to teach Beginning Printmaking*

Mount Mercy College

Cedar Rapids, IA

Mount Mercy College, 1330 Elmhurst Drive NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 or
khagy@mtmercy.edu


*_Call to Artists
_***

*2010 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition*

University of Hawaii at Hilo Campus Center Gallery

May 5, 2010 CD - entry forms, SASE, and entry fee are due.

A prospectus may be downloaded at

http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~art/exhibitions.php


* *

*Process Impact, an exhibition of activist art*

*Eagle Art Gallery**
**Murray State University**
**Murray, KY 42071*

*Postmark Deadline: January 11, 2010*

For more information, http://www.processimpact.blogspot.com/ or email
Stacey processimpact@gmail.com *//*

* *

*The Kyoto International Woodprint Association (KIWA) *

Only original woodblock and woodcut prints, unframed, no larger than
100cm X 100cm, and made within the last three years, will be accepted.

DEADLINE: July 30, 2010. Prints received after July, 2010, will be held
for the 7th Exhibition in 2015**

http://kiwa.net/

*_Exhibits _***

*Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008*

Towards a Universal Pictorial Language

January 23 - April 18, 2010

http://www.kiarts.org/page.php?menu_id=118


* *

*Art Retrospective: Range & Depth*

Presenting the art of Carol Lyons

The Greenburgh Public Library presents an exhibit of artworks by the
imaginative Westchester artist, Carol Lyons. The exhibit will be on
display in the Howard and Ruth Jacobs gallery at the Greenburgh Public
Library. Ms. Lyons will present a lecture about her work and a reception
will be held on January 16, 2010, at 3:00 p.m.

Exhibit dates: December 22, 2009 through February 18, 2010

Lecture & Reception: Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

For information call: (914) 721-8225 Greenburgh Public Library, 300
Tarrytown Road, Elmsford, NY 10523

(Lecture & Reception Snow Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 3:00pm)

Free and open to the public. http://www.greenburghlibrary.org


* *

*Blocks of Color: American Woodcuts from the 1890s to the present*

Voorhees Special Exhibition Galleries - Sep 01, 2009 - Jan 03, 2010

_http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu//exhibitions/?id=81
_





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Send your ad or opportunity request before the 13th to
ads@barenforum.org

Newsletter coordinator: Mary Kuster
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Message 3
From: Diane Cutter
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:13:36 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40284] Re: Baren Ads & Ops December 2009
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What a wonderful job you are doing on the Baren Ads & Ops, Mary. It's so full of information, I've had to bookmark it this month. Thank you to you, Mary, and the council for coming up with this useful tool.


Diane

www.DianeCutter.com
www.theitinerantartist.blogspot.com
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