Baren Digest Saturday, 19 May 2001 Volume 15 : Number 1424 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wanda Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:31:29 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14474] Some New Stuff..... Good morning (on the west coast USA) fellow Baren members! My daughter (the painter L.Lauren Robertson) and I are having an exhibit beginning June 2 at Marylhurst University's Library. Please check out the web site that I slaved over for a week. :-) http://web-ster.com/robertson/streff Let us know what you think. Although I don't have any hanga work on the web site (yet) I will have a couple of pieces in the show. Yesterday, my good friend Barbara Mason helped me frame my work for the show & taught me some valuable lessons about mat cutting & framing. It was wonderful to see the finished product in those nice frames & *clean* glass. And what a relief to have it all done! Thank you *so* much Barbara! Frame with a friend - it's the funnest way. Now, I'm looking forward to the show & the preview (party) on the night before. Anyone in the area is cordially invited: June 1, 6 to 8 pm in the Streff Gallery in the Schoen Library at Marylhurst University. Print on! Wanda ------------------------------ From: slinder@mediaone.net Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:20:30 -0500 Subject: [Baren 14475] Milwaukee Art Museum There is an exhibit of printmaking, "Five Centuries, Five Printmakers" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Milwaukee Art Museum, with works from their collection by Du:rer, Rembrandt, Goya, Whistler, and Picasso. It's a gem of a museum on the shore of Lake Michigan. It's only an hour and a half north of Chicago! Congratulations on your show, Wanda! It's like having your children all dressed up in their finest to have your work matted and framed, isn't it? Wish I could be there for the show! Sharen ------------------------------ From: "Jeanne Norman Chase" Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:56:07 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14477] Mother and Daughter charset="iso-8859-1" Wanda What a wonderful exhibition to have! Like mother, like daughter. Nice presentation, much luck on the show. Jeanne N. ------------------------------ From: "Bill H Ritchie Jr" Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:59:14 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14478] Re: Baren Digest v15 #1422 charset="iso-8859-1" How hard it will be to overcome the conditioning and scripting we've inherited from the past 500 years based on those two complementary economic principles - double entry bookkeeping and printing. They have our society in a grip like an inherited disease or a genetic code. And my plan is - in 21 years - to make a change and relax the grip. For it is a case of a fatal error on the part of a few people to think that there is a universal system in two columns or black-and-white. Like rigor mortis, the grip is that of a dying world or way of performing. I don't have the answers but I have clues. I suggest that we associate through games and in this way suspend for short periods each day our dogged adherence to a system that is failing to do for us what it should do. (from the journal of a dead printmaker, dated Sept 1, 1999) ------------------------------ From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:10:00 EDT Subject: [Baren 14479] Re: inks, collabs I have been gone a week and reading all these messages. The one from Maria caught my eye. She said, for her, cutting a plate is changing the original image. I just started a new piece this week and knew the image would change as it needed to expand and be balanced better than the drawing was showing. So as i carved i changed it, still not done. But for me part of the printmaking process is doing the carving as a free spirited thing of its own, it takes on a new life far and away from the original image. That may not be tradition, but for me it is carving and part of the fun, watching it emerge as a thing all of its own with its own life and spirit. On the other hand I adore the images of David Bull doing his print. How amazing to see the transformations and see the delicate cuts and the true craftsmanship aquired. The other thing I lerned about was the depth of color aquired when overlaying, how wonderful that must look! even tho I my self am not doing this type of printing this is something to consider as I learn more about printmaikng. All the statements from various artists who have collaborated with such amazing success are wonderous to me. I have always worked alone, can't imagine that. But my background is painting. Marilynn portland oregon ------------------------------ From: barebonesart Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:04:41 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14480] Re: Baren Digest v15 #1423 Karen, Selling your work to a friend for $1 is perfectly ethical in this world. It is done all the time and is also done for art auction fund raisers. In that case two artists will "sell" each other their work and that way the donations to the auction can both be written off on income tax in the actual worth of the work, rather than just the frame and materials if you donate it yourself. I would guess the tax business works the same way for museum donations - Sharri ------------------------------ From: GWohlken Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:37:20 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14481] Re: Baren Digest v15 #1423 If you are in a show with several other people, do you still write a press release for just yourself? I am going to be in a show soon, in a gallery that is located closer to Cleveland than the small town where I live, and I know only one other person that will be featured in the show, a close friend of mine. But, I believe there might be some sculpture being shown. Would my friend and I write a press release together? What about the person we don't know? I know this probably sounds kind of naive, but I never had to do a press release. Usually someone else did it. It seems the gallery would do it, wouldn't it? But, we live out of Cleveland in small towns, and I suppose we could notify newspapers in our area. But, what do we do about the person we don't know who'll be in the show with us? Also, when we send out invitations that we make ourselves (not the gallery-created ones, which aren't that special, by the way--just a notice on a little yellow or blue card) , does my friend feature herself on the card, and not mention me, and I do the same? Or do I feature myself and give her a mention and vice versa--and again, what about that person we don't know? Gayle ------------------------------ From: Legreenart@cs.com Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:01:52 EDT Subject: [Baren 14482] Re: Baren Digest v15 #1423 Dear Karen, Having a museum accept your donation has prestige of its own, if the museum has any prestige at all. Since museums have acquisition committees that decide if a piece is worthy of possession by the museum, its not shabby no matter who donates it. An artist working with us, whose work has been shown is museums in important collections. donated a piece to a local art museum that he had done during our workshop their. We had to wait over 3 months for the committee to accept so that we could publicize the donation. Yours, Le Green Stonemetal Press Email: legreenart@cs.com ------------------------------ From: Cucamongie@aol.com Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 18:57:13 EDT Subject: [Baren 14483] press releases and such Interesting reading the thoughts on promo stuff, something I'm starting to deal with for an upcoming solo show - thanks all for the ideas! Regarding the idea of including a bio with a press release, I have been including a short bio within my press release, and that seems to work pretty well so far. Sarah ------------------------------ From: "April Vollmer" Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 07:52:23 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14485] RE: Baren Digest v15 #1423 charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, Deborah Waimon! You will find a lot of good information here at Baren. And don't forget to check the encyclopedia, there is lots of great technical information about moku hanga there. Deborah took a class I gave at the Brookfield Craft Center last summer. She made a nice print, but had trouble printing large areas evenly. That takes a lot of practice. Thank you all for the press release info, always good to get reminders...especially since I am in the throes of preparing for a show that opens next month. I sent out 50 press releases with a card so far. I don't know about telephoning. I just think every reporter in NYC would be innundated if everyone called to check on their press release! The show will include a portfolio of woodcuts, but mostly large format digital prints. It's been very liberating working with the flexibility of Photoshop. Of course the prints don't have the tactile feeling or beautiful color of woodcuts, but a nice change. I'll be putting them on my website closer to the date of the show. June 28 is the opening, at the Ceres Project Room, 323 West 39th Street, in case any of you will be in NYC. The hours and dates, and a few examples of work are on my website now. I'm also giving a six week hanga class at the Lower East Side Printshop, starting June 19. April Vollmer 174 Eldridge St, NYC 10002 www.aprilvollmer.com ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest v15 #1424 *****************************