Baren Digest Saturday, 31 May 2003 Volume 23 : Number 2244 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James G Mundie Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:44:16 -0400 Subject: [Baren 21661] SwapShop alert! Attention all Swappers, A new print by Darrell Maddis has just been added to the SwapShop gallery pages. You can see Darrell's creation at: http://www.barenforum.org/swapshop/2002_04/thumbnails.html. What is SwapShop? It's an ideal way to exchange prints with fellow printmakers -- without the hassle of large editions or even deadlines. All the details are to be found at: http://www.barenforum.org/swapshop/index.html The more people swapping at any given time, the more quickly you will receive back a set of new prints for your own collection. Cut! Print! Send! James Mundie, SwapShop coordinator ------------------------------ From: slinders#attbi.com Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:40:54 -0500 Subject: [Baren 21662] Publishing opportunity for women artists Hello, everyone, This opportunity appeared on the BookArts list. We have several artists in our group who might wish to offer prints for consideration. Sharen >If you feel your work fits the criteria she outlines below, >please do send her a jpeg file for consideration. Because the >publication date for this book is soon, your prompt response is >important. Please read the entire message for pertinent >information >before responding to Susan." > ><on the cover >of the expanded edition of Between Mothers and Daughters: >Stories Across a >Generation. The Feminist Press will pay $250 plus four copies >of the book for >world rights to use the image on the cover and on related >advertising ephemera >such as brochures and periodical ads. > >If you have a work you'd like considered for this purpose, >please send to me >a jpeg, 72 dpi resolution to . Include the >title of the >work, dimensions, medium, date produced and the artist's name in >the body of the >email and send the image with it as an attachment. > >As soon as we find something we think "right" for the job, we'll >stop looking >at new material and will post a notice saying we are no longer >looking. >Please do not contact me or the press for more information or to >learn of our >interest. We will contact you if we want to consider your work >more closely. The >selected artist will be asked for a higher resolution image in a >format usable >by the Press. This information will be made available at a later >date. Please >start sending your images ASAP. > >The book is scheduled to be published in time for Thanksgiving >of this (2003) >year. > >Please keep in mind that the stories are written by and are >about women of >various races, ethnicities, generations, regions, religious >backgrounds, >physical types, classes, sexualities, etc. The stories also >represent a wide variety >of literary sub-genres -- experimental fiction, short-shorts, >science >fiction, literary fiction, etc. > >You can see the original cover at >http://www.cornillon.com/nathan/susan/main.asp along with the >covers of various of my other books. The original cover >used a Mary Cassatt ("The Banjo Player") which I love but the >publisher believes >is too "soft" for the new cover. She's looking for something >"sharper." I >also love the Isabel Bishops used on two of my other books. The >publisher is >not crazy about them. We are looking for color, no abstracts. >We will be using >a work by Beryl Cook on the companion volume to be published at >the same time >("The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe" and other stories of >Women and >Fatness). > >The book is an expanded edition of my 1985 collection of short >stories >written by U.S. women writers about mother/daughter >relationships. The 1984 >collection included stories written between 1848 and 1980. The >expanded collection >will include all of the original stories but will include more >stories >published since 1980. The most recent story will be from 2002. >The collection is >called Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across a >Generation and I am the >editor, an historian of U.S. women's short stories, Susan >Koppelman. ------------------------------ From: ReadDevine#aol.com Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 19:35:16 EDT Subject: [Baren 21663] Re: Baren Digest V23 #2241 > I was actually thinking about asking a tipographer how much it would > cost to have a complete set of cards printed and laminated so that we > would all have an artist's set plus a commercial set with our own design > to play with. > > What do you think about this idea? > > Colleen Corradi > - - Italy. > > > I think it would be a great idea - if not too expensive of course. ------------------------------ From: "Maria Arango" Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:00:52 -0700 Subject: [Baren 21664] puzzle update Just one quick puzzle update before we all head off into the great expanses of mid-continent US... - - 15 of 44 blocks have been received with lovely designs on them (oh, allriiiiiight, I confess haven't looked at all of them but will soon! sheeesh...) - - 1 block was lost in transit and will be replaced at the Baren summit - - contributions from participants toward the project costs have been more than generous, thank you - - DEADLINE remains August 31st, printing will begin as soon as all the blocks are in, hopefully through September - - if you have misplaced your block, I will kill you in person at KC or if not attending, will hunt you down in one of my travels (that was a joke, for those of you who don't yet know my sick sense of humor) I am giving anyone that does not think they can carve and send their block by August 31st a LAST CHANCE to send me their block back. No questions asked. I will either find a replacement carver or give it to my cats to make their very artistic "marks" on the darned thing. Any further questions about the project please direct to: dontbothermewithsillyexcuses#mariarango.com Maria PS Incidentally, just a curious unrelated and trivial factoid, I am now getting junk mail for lostandpuzzled#mariarango.com gottheblastedthing#mariarango.com and possibly will begin getting junk mail soon at the dontbothermewithsillyexcuses#mariarango.com Ain't the web grand? Thank goodness for my spam filter... <||><||><||><||><||><||><||><||> Maria Arango Las Vegas Nevada USA www.1000woodcuts.com <||><||><||><||><||><||><||><||> ------------------------------ From: lillil Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:26:55 +0200 Subject: [Baren 21665] New printmakers website Hello, Recently I have been updating my website to reflect my work in progress as a printmaker/artist. I am currently studying an MA in multi-disciplinary printmaking at the University West of England. Please have a quick browse when you get the chance. http://www.lillil.com There is a long list of links and a brief description about photogravure at the KHIB in Bergen. If you were expecting samples of my work you will be disappointed. But there will eventually be visual examples of completed projects. I'd especially like to hear some feedback about a relief print project I will be attempting in South Africa later this year. It is called JackPrints and is aimed at developing ( very ) low cost printmaking techniques. Many thanks, Victoria ------------------------------ From: Myron Turner Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 06:50:48 -0500 Subject: [Baren 21666] Re: New printmakers website The Jack Press sounds like an interesting project. I couldn't locate a picture of this press through your website. Do you have one? What are the physical limits of the press, i.e. maximum image size? Myron ------------------------------ From: lillil Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:10:14 +0200 Subject: [Baren 21667] Re: New printmakers website Myron, Please follow the link to: http://www.lillil.com/ProgressatJackPress.html or more directly: http://www.lillil.com/JackPrints.html The idea is that I am going to build one to put into a suitcase to be easily transportable. But of course waiting to hear about funding at the moment. It should all be going ahead in August. There have been about four prototypes already and I sure there will be more as some one has suggest a wooden construction. But the prints are all about A4 size at present. Victoria ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V23 #2244 *****************************