Baren Digest Monday, 21 October 2002 Volume 21 : Number 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jarvis" Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:10:03 +0900 Subject: [Baren 19624] Exchange 14 arrives Exchange #14 arrived here in rural northern Japan in perfect condition. I am sending this to the forum as the [baren]14 site expects a different server. The case was supposed to have fit inside the box the prints were sent in. It seems my estimates were 0.5cm too short and 0.5cm too thin. I am thrilled with the prints. The range of technique and high level of execution is fascinating. G.Jarvis ------------------------------ From: "Bill H. Ritchie, Jr." Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 09:37:25 -0700 Subject: [Baren 19625] RE: Teaching and Chops "Teaching and Chops" - doesn't that sound like a main course at dinner? Someone ought to start a dinner club--but make it vegetarian, please. April asked, >G.Jarvis? Who is that? I think G. Jarvis will not answer immediately, if he's like he was when I met him in 1972 at the UW School of Art in Seattle. Not the most self-promoting guy. So I'll tell you who I think he is. George, if you're reading this, I hope you don't mind. George Jarvis went to art school--he was in some of my classes--in the early '70s when I taught there. He was among the "pioneers" of a kind of reform movement I was instigating (without intending to!) in the printmaking division. He's no rebel, but he was an important contributor. For example, he signed up along with a half-dozen other students to pilot a "distance learning" class. I went around Washington State making videos of printmakers, brought them back, played them for George and the others and then connected via a conference call to those printmakers for a live Q&A regarding the tape and what they'd said and demonstrated. They produced an "exchange" something like Baren's, but in the form of a bound book, each one of us producing a "chapter". It was labeled "A Seminar in Printmaking" I think. I still have mine, of course, and I can look at George's article, and also each student made a print and it's bound in there, too. George graduated and soon went to Japan. I think he started out teaching English in a private school. Every year he sends me greeting cards and show announcements. Always he asks me what's happening, but I am embarrassed to confess, I didn't always write back. Sorry, George! He's married now and has kids, plus his students. He's a loyal teacher and stays with his work. I, too, was grateful for his explanation of "chops". I'm proud to think I may have contributed to the positive benefits he's given us here on Baren, even if it was 30 years ago! - - Sign me, Pleased in Seattle (By the way, George, this Saturday in Seattle there's a "EAT Reunion" where the hell-raisers of the '70s Experiments in Art and Technology are meeting to talk about the old days. I heard through grapevine they're showing a video of me interviewing David Ross, so I'm sneaking in and watching--in all my vanity!) Professional Career Site: www.seanet.com/~ritchie First Emeralda Portal Site: www.artsport.com Bill's Virtual Art Gallery & e-commerce Site: www.myartpatron.com Experimental Free Site: www.freeyellow.com/members/videoprint Snail Mail: 500 Aloha #105, Seattle 98109 e-mail: ritchie#seanet.com ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V21 #2001 *****************************