Baren Digest              Monday, 13 November 2000      Volume 13 : Number 1213


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From: "C. L. Stevens" <clswdcut@intersurf.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 06:39:06 -0600
Subject: [Baren 12073] Re: Anyone in  S.F.? 

ArtfulCarol@aol.com wrote:
> Is anyone out there in the San Francisco area?

Dear Carol, Though I am in Baton Rouge, I will also be in the San Francisco area
for the Thanksgiving week, visiting my eldest.  Would love to meet if possible.


Dear Lawrence,  Thank you so much for giving me another perspective
about handprinting!  That was simply wonderful.  " What can be most
marvellous in a
print is to close your eyes and run your hands over the page, feel the
paper, the type and the print, embossed it comes alive in the finger
tips."  I have noticed that when people see my woodblocks, they
invariably have to touch them as well.  This also applies to the mosaic
frames.  I always feel like my work has just made "contact with their
souls" when they do.  Thanks again.


Catherine L. Stevens clswdcut@intersurf.com


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From: jenvey@juno.com
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:09:05 -0600
Subject: [Baren 12074] Re: [Baren 12050 Greeting Card Paper. 

Am wanting to order some Cards & envelopes to print an image on from a 
woodblock for Christmas mailings. Hoping to have the finished card be
suitable for framing so deckle edges of some sort is a plus. 

Have looked through all of Daniel Smith. Hoping someone would have a
suggestion for the best card/paper to use and is Dan Smith the best
supplier to order them from?

Thanks for any assistance/opinions

Jean J. 




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From: Artsmadis@aol.com
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:32:41 EST
Subject: [Baren 12075] Re: what's it all about 

In a message dated 11/11/00 8:50:04 PM Central Standard Time, 
muriloap@newsite.com.br writes:

<<  african art, it seems like it doesn't exist anymore.  And for now we 
do'nt konw nothing about their prints,
 their paintings... >>

Maria at the Printmaking Studio has a guest artist from Africa.   <A 
HREF="http://www.printmakingstudio.com/momodouceesay/mceesay1.html">Maria's 
Art Gallery: Invited Artist Momodou Ceesay</A> 
Yahoo search gives quite a few sites for contemporary African art   <A 
HREF="http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=contemporary+african+art">Yahoo! 
Search Results for contemporary african art</A>

Hope this helps.
Darrell 

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From: Wanda <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 10:51:04 -0700
Subject: [Baren 12076] Touching prints & What's it all about <200011110748.QAA20392@ml.asahi-net.or.jp> <200011120954.SAA51186@ml.asahi-net.or.jp> 

Lawrence, thank you for your explanation of William Ivans theories. I
find that very interesting. Especially as it applies to the art that
most of us on Baren are producing. Whether with oil inks & chunky, or
smooth with a beautiful image, or combinations on both of those - it is
very tactile work for the most part. It must have been a high point to
hold a page of the Nuremberg chronicle. I get a kick out of just seeing
a Durer print under glass at our Portland Art Museum!

I had to chuckle at your getting into trouble at the museum. I hope it
was  Henry Moore that felt people should touch his work - as it is
almost irresistible to reach out a hand & trace those smooth rounded
figures. I've gotten into trouble in almost every museum I've been in
for just such things! 
I didn't know I was "gromfondling" though. :-) Thanks for adding a new
word to my excuses.

Murilo, last year we had a Baren member, living in Kampala, Africa. And
he put on a Baren exchange exhibit there. Then last summer at Graham
Scholes' workshop in Canada we were privileged to see some of the work
done by the printmakers who exhibited alongside the Baren exchange
prints. Really stunning and innovative work. I think some of those
printmakers may be on Baren. We were really impressed with the imagry
and the work done by the Kampala printmakers. Perhaps there is more art
work being produced in Africa than we are led to believe.

Catherine, you are truly in the right place here on Baren. I forgot to
tell you that my favorites of your work on the web site are "Winning
with the Night Mare" (as it is with everyone else) and "Fragile Spaces".
I, too, am drawn to the natural world for inspiration. You have such a
rich & diverse nature to draw from where you are - I hope it is not
disappearing as fast as it is here.

Wanda



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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:48:28 +0900
Subject: [Baren 12077] Re: what's it all about 

Murilo wrote - African artists:
> I appreciate if any .../Baren/ member  owns their links . 

Murilo,

If you go to the 'Exhibitions' section of the woodblock.com website (the
link is right down near the bottom of the main page), you will see a
section 'Printmakers from Uganda'.

The section is still in preparation, and a lot of the information is
missing, but at least you can see some images of very interesting new
prints from Uganda.

Dave


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