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Message 1
From: "Harry French"
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 17:04:14 +0100
Subject: [Baren 25931] Back in Studio
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Greetings Blockbusters,
After meandering around Holstein and Berlin (Germany) for the past month or so I'm back in the studio with a sketchbook ready for new prints and awaiting, of course, my first Baren exchanges.
Just a brief query about my soon to be collections. Apart from the very obvious conditions of copyright.. can I do what I like with the prints?.. for example leave the portfolio in our library for the general public to look at or even book out for a week to view at home ; loan them to our university ; take them to the schools with my baren, paper, inks, potatoes, wood, and lino ; seek funding to frame in dimensions of my own and find non - commercial venues etc.etc.
Just a few thoughts and I would keep you informed, hopefully, as to the whereabouts of the prints.
I think it is a bit selfish of me to take sole possession of what will be a truly international event.
I have seen what has been done in the past on the Baren website, so my ideas may be possible.
Regards
Harry
Lincoln
UK
www.harryfrenchartworks.co.uk



ps There was a seven hour queue in Berlin to see the whole of New York's Museum of Modern Art collections so we left disappointed until we turned the corner and saw that in the Kulturforum was a major exhibition of Ernst Kirchner's woodblock prints.. brilliant...even his printing press was on display and more surprising it was an intaglio (roller) press...I'm in good company!

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Message 2
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:30:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 25932] exhibiting and so on
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Harry,
You can do whatever you wish with them as they are yours. We do appreciate knowing if they are exhibitied as we add it to our resumes. We have been all over the world vicariously with the baren exchanges, having seen our work hung from Uganda to Japan to Australia. It has been a wonderful side bonus that I am sure none of us thought about at the beginning. We just wanted the work of other printmakers and to have a good time.
Having the exchange archives at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas under the protection of Steven Goddard is a plus. Some of us did prints after the 9-11 tragedy as a fundraiser and one of these portfolios ended up in the collection of the New York Public Library. We were all pleased and surprised.

So show them all you want, I have sure done so. I use them when I teach and have exhibitied them here in Oregon at the Citiy Hall and the gallery of Print Arts Northwest, www.printartsnw.org . Once in a while I just get them out and look through them. It is great to begin to know the artists by their style of work, I can recognize many of artists just by seeing their prints.

We hope to have another summit (real time meeting) one day, the one we had in Kansas City was a huge success and a real highlight for many of us. Meeting in real time was so much fun, it was like we already knew each other quite well, especially if we had been on the list a long time. I guess we should actually be thinking of this for next year or the year after.....I am voting for somewhere that has 75 degree temperature, but of course will go wherever we have the summit. Maybe Colorado, there is a great place there, I am told.
Best to all,
Barbara

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Message 3
From: Thomas Davis
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:59:21 -0400
Subject: [Baren 25933] print exchange
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I have done a couple of other print exchanges. I really enjoy the
sharing of the art in this way. When will there be another exchange
started that I might be able to participate in?

Thanks,
Thomas
--
Art...the new piece of mind.
http://www.sunsetbrew.com/

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Message 4
From: "Ewoud Bremer"
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:07:28 +0200
Subject: [Baren 25934] hey
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Hey, I'm new. I live in The Netherlands and am 17 years old.
I love linocuts.
Make about five everyday.
I hope people can help me improve my work.
I also hope I can help other people with my opinion.

Ewoud Bremer

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Message 5
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:39:37 -0700
Subject: [Baren 25935] Re: print exchange
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Hi Thomas,

And any of you that are somewhat new to Baren. The barenforum web-site
has a whole section devoted to the exchanges - new ones coming up &
images from all of the previous exchanges. Just go to
http://barenforum.org/ and take a look. We also have our own little
on-line store for Japanese style printmaking - papers, tools, pigments,
& more. We are becoming quite a conglomerate these days.

Wanda
barenforum moderator

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Message 6
From: "Ewoud Bremer"
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:47:42 +0200
Subject: [Baren 25936] Re: print exchange
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I do not get the exchange idea.
Can someone explain it to me ?

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Message 7
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:45:42 -0500
Subject: [Baren 25937] Re: print exchange
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Thomas Davis wrote:
>I have done a couple of other print exchanges. I really enjoy the sharing
>of the art in this way. When will there be another exchange started that
>I might be able to participate in?

Hey, Thomas -- thanks for reminding us! The next exchange, #23 will have a
theme and be oban size -- sign up will begin on Oct 1, 2004 and an edition
of 31 prints will be due Feb 1, 2005. Those who (like you) did not
participate in #22 go to the top of the list for the first week, so if you
sign up October 1 or soon after, then the chances are excellent that you
will be "in" the exchange...

But we do need to decide on a theme for this exchange... Suggestions since
the surimono theme have been:
* my Government; right or wrong!
* tribute to people who have been instrumental in the printmaking arts
(memory of Aiko Nakane)
So what do YOU think? What would YOU like the theme for #23 to be? Let's
get the ball rolling with a lot of ideas and we'll try to reach consensus
during the coming week or so... You can find out all about exchanges and
sign up (not 'til October 1) at http://www.barenforum.org/exchange/index.html

Thanks,

Mike


Mike Lyon
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com

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Message 8
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:54:12 -0700
Subject: [Baren 25938] Re: hey
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Welcome to Baren Ewoud!

Do you have any of your prints on line yet? We'd love to see them.
Five linocuts every day? You are really fast!

Wanda

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Message 9
From: "Ewoud Bremer"
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:55:47 +0200
Subject: [Baren 25939] Re: hey
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I don't have anything on yet, but that will change in 5 minutes.
Are linocuts also welcome on Baren ?
If yes, how can I share them ? By putting a link to my images-url on the
Baren page ?

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Message 10
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:02:42 -0700
Subject: [Baren 25940] Re: print exchange
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How about a tribute to whatever printmaker/artist that has been most
influential to your work? Or is most influencial at this time and
period of your development? As I know that mine has changed over the
years. It could be a portrait of that artist or a print reminiscant of
their work, or use of the same colors, etc....

Wanda

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Message 11
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:02:14 -0500
Subject: [Baren 25941] Re: print exchange
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Ewoud Bremer wrote:
>I do not get the exchange idea. Can someone explain it to me ?

Complete information about our quarterly print exchanges is here:
http://www.barenforum.org/exchange/index.html

Baren] runs an active program of print exchanges, in which the members (in
groups of up to thirty) make editions of thirty-one prints each and
exchange them with each other (and one suite is archived at the Spencer
Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas).

The Exchange program was initiated in late 1998, and has continued at the
rate of a new folio being produced every three months -- the next exchange
will be our 23rd.

Whenever it is time for a new exchange to start up, a sign-up sheet is
posted http://www.barenforum.org/exchange/exchange_sign-up.html which
contains a description of the exchange - theme if any, paper size, and
other relevant details. Members who wish to participate fill out that
sign-up sheet to register their intent to take part.

Sign-up is of course open to any [Baren] member, but with one
qualification: first crack at each exchange is given to members who did not
participate in the one immediately preceding it.

One of the participants is selected as coordinator, and this person 'rides
herd' on the group during the progress of the work, and also performs the
very important task of doing the physical collation and distribution of the
prints. Members send their finished edition to this person, and once all
the prints are received, the coordinator collates them into sets, and
returns them to the participants.

As soon as possible following the completion of each exchange, the complete
set of prints is displayed in a gallery
http://www.barenforum.org/exchange/exchanges.html

Participation in an exchange involves no fees, but of course return postage
must accompany the print package when it is sent to the coordinator.

Hope this helps?

Mike


Mike Lyon
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com

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Message 12
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:07:10 -0700
Subject: [Baren 25942] Re: hey
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The easiest way to show us right away is to put up a couple of images
on your server & send us the URL to see it. We also have a page for
members of baren - you can see instructions there
http://barenforum.org on how to send in your photo & 3 images of your
work. Looking forward to seeing your work.

Wanda

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Message 13
From: "Ewoud Bremer"
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:08:19 +0200
Subject: [Baren 25943] Re: print exchange
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Yes thank you so much !
But I don't think I can send it to a coordinator since I live in the
Netherlands. I'd cost me a fortune.

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Message 14
From: "Ewoud Bremer"
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:10:51 +0200
Subject: [Baren 25944] Re: hey
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You probably find me a true dumbass, but I cannot find the send in your photo
and 3 images-option. Baren is a complicated site.

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Message 15
From: Jeanne Norman Chase
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:14:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 25945] Re: print exchange
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Hi Wanda
I vote for a printmaker who has been most influential in your endeavors. Either a portrait of the artist or some kind of a statement in printmaking, or whatever.
great idea, who ever it was .

Jeanne N.

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