Baren Digest Thursday, 14 August 2003 Volume 24 : Number 2341 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "marilynn smih" Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:04:41 -0700 Subject: [Baren 22557] Re: Baren Digest V24 #2340 I definitely think the reasons we make our art are important. Many may say that doing pictures of flowers is not anything very envrionmental or political. But I can disagree. I used to walk here at the coast when we came for holidays and pick wildflowers and find joy in painting them. over the years there have been fewer and fewer to paint or draw. Why? Because we spray to rid ourselves of weeds along the road. Weeds??? These are lovely flowers that grow naturally in our environment. How long before they reach extinction? At least there will be someone who has loved them enough to draw and paint them. Our land is changing with every stroke. Here on the bay we have an imported grass that is closing in on the water and making it more land, the scenes are slowly chainging. Even though a lot of what I have been doing more recently is abstract, there are still pictures of the bay as it is now and pictures of my beloved Baja as it is now, an artist's view, not a photographer's. So , yes it is more the feeling of the moment and the feeling of the time, but i still feel it must be important or why do it? If I can make one person aware that they should stop and smell the flowers then I will be happy. And I should say that because of the place I love and live in I see many birds and fish that are slowly reaching extinction as well. So I am thinking on my mini print being a bird. Marilynn ------------------------------ From: Mike Lyon Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:21:11 -0500 Subject: [Baren 22558] WebCam Playing Cards started... I have finished Cecily's _beautiful_ little dining room table (I'll put some pix up later) and have begun work on Colleen Corradi's playing card exchange -- should be at it from 8am to 6pm daily give or take an hour at http://mlyon.com and select STUDIO WEB CAM or just visit http://lyonstudio.inetcam.com -- three blocks, two of them reduction blocks, about 17 'blocks' per print... After that, Julio Rodriguez's Nude Calendar prints will be underway... - -- Mike Mike Lyon mailto:mikelyon#mlyon.com http://www.mlyon.com ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:32:48 -0700 Subject: [Baren 22559] A message from Jean Eger Womack Dear Friends, We will have an "Art and Music" festival out here in Point Richmond neighborhood of Richmond, California, (the Richmond end of the San Rafael-Richmond bridge) this coming Saturday August 16, from 12 to 7:30. I will have a table, selling T-shirts, quasi-frescoes, etchings, and woodcuts. It would be great to see you here! Here's a web site for information: http://www.pointrichmond.com If you want to look it up on your computer map, you can put in 117 Park Place, Richmond, CA 94801. Also, I will have two prints in an exhibition of the Board of Directors of the California Society of Printmakers at City College of San Francisco. The name of the exhibition is "A Show of Gratitude." The exhibition opens this Thursday, the 14th, at the City Arts Gallery, 50 Phelan Avenue, on the Phelan Avenue campus, in the Visual Arts Building Room V117. The show goes through September 5, 2003. The reception will be Wednesday August 27 from 6 to 8 pm. If you have time, please drop by. If you are coming over the Bay Bridge, take 280 toward Daly City and exit where it says City College. Go right on Ocean Avenue and right on Phelan and look for parking. There is parking next to Riordan High School in a very eerie empty hole in the ground which used to be a stadium. The Visual Arts Building is about a block into the campus (but you can't drive in there). You can find a map at http://www.ccsf.edu/Info/Map/phelan.shtml Or take BART to Balboa Park and walk about 3/4 mile. Gallery hours are M-F 10 AM to 3 PM, T-W, 6PM to 8:30PM. Sincerely, Jean Eger Womack http://www.jeaneger.com ------------------------------ From: ArtfulCarol#aol.com Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:41:31 EDT Subject: [Baren 22560] Re: A message from Jean Eger Womack Congratulations to you Jean on the 2 upcoming exhibits. I hope you enjoy the experience and do well! I remember the good times I had with you in California, going to the Palace of the Legion of Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco and also visiting with you and the small group of Bareners at your studio in Richmond. Carol L. Irvington, NY ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V24 #2341 *****************************