New Baren Digest Sunday, 16 of November, 2003 Volume: 25 Number: 2442 Today's postings: 1. [Baren 23361] attaching calendar prints ("Claudia G. Coonen" ) 2. [Baren 23362] Re: New Baren Digest (Text) for Saturday, 15 of November, 2003 (GWohlken ) 3. [Baren 23363] Re: NYC Print Fair (Janet Hollander ) 4. [Baren 23364] Volunteers wanted for dangerous mission! (David Bull ) ---------------------------------------- Message 1 From: "Claudia G. Coonen" Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 07:05:01 -1000 Subject: [Baren 23361] attaching calendar prints Aloha, we are doing our 1st calendar for sale form our print studio(at our art center), this ? is for you calendar assemblers... I'm not sure if you went about it in the same way but... we made calendar pages (1/4 sheet lennox) and everyone is attaching their print (or is it me?) to that page as everyone uses different paper(eg: lennox. arches, kozo, unryu) HOW? hinges?, corners (like photo album), acid free double stick tape? any easy (ha ha) suggestions to attach 180 prints? Next ? how do you put it together ( binding,?) we had thoughts of 2 holes and attaching it with cord and a piece of bamboo, ala japanese hanging style.. any input appreciated.. I want to join some exchanges after this insanity is finished, claudia ------------------------------------ Message 2 From: GWohlken Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:53:59 -0500 Subject: [Baren 23362] Re: New Baren Digest (Text) for Saturday, 15 of November, 2003 Thank you to Josephine and Jan for the post regarding the Print Australia Archive at the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery in NSW, Australia, and the opportunity for those who have been involved in PA exchanges to have our work there. This is great news! Also, very nice work on the PA website, and thanks for the update. Welcome Alain. You sound like an interesting person and artist and it is a pleasure having you among us. Hope we can learn from you and you from any of us who may have an answer for any of your woodblock print questions. I admire your skill in writing. Went to your links and enjoyed reading your weblogs. Dave, the new digests are so easy to edit, and to read. Thank you for taking the time to do this for all of us (and for yourself, I'm sure, as I know you too must have become frustrated with all the code we had to wade through in the digests, hoping to find the gems of wisdom mixed with xyz's and other undecipherable garble. ~Gayle Ohio > So yeah, 'lo folks, I'm Alain Cislaghi, I live in Montreal, a wide open > mental asylum somewhere in QC, Canada... > > The Print Australia Archive and the Australian Print Collection of the > Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery... > it was agreed that the current Print Australia archive would form a > permanent part of the Australian Print Collection where it would be > available for public viewing and exhibitions and where it can be stored > in archival conditions. > In addition > I'd like to note that the exchange exhibitions on the Print Australia > site have been overhauled and in many cases, completed. This process > will continue to be refined as I work with the gallery to complete the > documentation. The link to this new display is included below... > > Yours in printmaking > Josephine Severn > --------------------------------------- Message 3 From: Janet Hollander Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:17:00 -0500 Subject: [Baren 23363] Re: NYC Print Fair on 11/14/03 4:21 PM, ArtfulCarol#aol.com at ArtfulCarol#aol.com wrote: Hi, Last weekend I had a very busy and pleasurable time rushing around the NYC Print Fair. There were many more woodblock prints shown this year than I have seen in the past Fairs. So much to enjoy--so little time Hi Everyone in Barenland. Carol and I almost literally bumped into each other at the Park Avenue Armory. We were all agog: big-eyed and glittery from the Joy of Looking. At the end of two lengthy visits I purchased a set of two small etchings by William Kentridge. I will love them dearly and they also serve as a kind of place-holder for everything I loved. I decided there are three categories of loveable prints: one, those I might actually buy; two, prints to die for; and three, prints to live for. In the "to die for" category are images by James Ensor that open a window into a creepy compelling alternative (for me!) visual and emotional universe. To live for are the exquisite REmbrandts - small landscapes, and a perfect print from a little St. Jerome plate. But on to woodblock prints: Here's a list of what I adored. Really it does feel worshipful. 1. A Kandinsky color woodblock print and one by Milton Avery. Both are on my handscrawled list but I didn't note dates or titles. 2. Prints by artists new to me: Emil Oruk, Gustave Wolf, Nicholas Garland, Daniel Kelly. I'll google their names and welcome any info bareners have on these artists. 3. Yvonne Jaquette's large recent black and white city views from the top of the Word Trade Center. Must have been made from photographs? 4. Prints by artists whose names I've come to know in the last 5 years or so: Werner Drewes, Siemen Kijkstra (La Petite Briere), Henri Riviere - so beautiful, and Gustave Baumann. There were lots of the white-line Privincetown prints too; they are definitely In. 5. A charming small b/w print called King Lear by Edward Gordon Craig and a charming small color print called something like The Fisherman by Lucien Pisarro. I wanted them both. 6. And the ultimate, a color lino print by William Zorach dalled The Island. Through one of the odd things that can happen in large crowds, I knocked the thing off its pedestal at one point. The print is definitely "to live for" but thank goodness I did no damage because it's selling price is $45,000. Well one has to acknowledge that this is an all-but-totally male list. So I will mention in a special category the huge majestic and stunning images by Judy Pfaff that filled the walls of one corner of the room. I don't remember if any of her images were from wood; I think not. A number of galleries in the city will continue to feature prints through this month, and some into December. Cheers to all, Janet ---------------------------------- Message 4 From: David Bull Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 08:10:16 +0900 Subject: [Baren 23364] Volunteers wanted for dangerous mission! No no ... I don't mean flying to Chicago to help Julio assemble ten zillion [Baren] 2004 Calendars - he has told us 'I can do it!' ... and I guess he _is_! There is going to be an announcement from him in the near future letting you know where/when you can put your Calendar orders in. He's got an incredible job on his hands you know - just do the math. Those of you who have coordinated an exchange know how much work is involved, both in chasing down the prints from late-comers, collecting all the colophon information, then the job of actually collating all the prints sets, and then getting them all wrapped up for shipping, etc. Well, this Calendar project involves _FIVE_ different exchanges all happening at the same time ... and this guy is doing it all by himself. There are a bunch of people working behind the scenes at [Baren] doing things day-by-day ... moderating, archiving, malling, etc. etc., so of course nobody should be singled out for specific praise, but I did want to make sure you know just what a special thing is going on over in Skokie these current few weeks, and just why Julio has been real quiet on the list recently. The project is looking to be wonderfully successful and we're surely going to want to continue it, but Julio tells me that from next year, the jobs will _have_ to be shared among a group of members, and not concentrated in one person's hands. But I'm getting sidetracked ... that not the job I'm asking for volunteers for ... not yet! I have a more dangerous mission in mind ... As Digest subscribers have seen, we've managed to get to the point where we can bring you a (basically) clean and readable Digest each day, so of course, now we would like to push the envelope a bit further. Now that we've got _rid_ of the HTML from the Digest, we'd like to put it back - we're experimenting with a fully-HTML version of the daily Digest. This will be optional of course, but if you have an email reader that can 'swallow' it, this version will be even _more_ readable than our new text version. How can you help? I need volunteers to receive this new Digest each day, and then report back to me with any problems they have with it: unreadable in their email program, images not showing, etc. etc. Why is it dangerous? Just scroll through the current Digest to see why! :-) http://barenforum.org/digester/html_digest.html (That is the URL where - all day - the current day's postings to [Baren] get assembled one-by-one into each new Digest. If you access that URL at 10:01 in the evening Tokyo time, it will be 'empty', but bit by bit will fill up as the postings come in.) Yes, from now on, you will be able to _see_ the members as well as 'hear' them! If you want to have your mugshot appear next to your posts, prepare a 64 x 64 image, then head over to: http://barenforum.org/digester/get_image.php ... and send it in. Anyway, please let me know (at the address below) if you are willing to receive a test version of this HTML digest each day - we really want to improve your [Baren] experience! Thanks! And - all together now - GO JULIO, GO! Dave tester#barenforum.org ------------------------------ ********************************* End of [Baren] Digest V25 #2442 **********************************