Today's postings

  1. [Baren 33123] Re: New Baren Digest (Text)  V39 #3856 (Apr 5, 2007) (Cstreetstudios # aol.com)
  2. [Baren 33124] Re: Colleen's note and link (Charles Morgan)
  3. [Baren 33125] Re: KIWA, etc. (Annie Bissett)
  4. [Baren 33126] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V39 #3857 (Apr 6, 2007) (GWohlken)
  5. [Baren 33127] Re: Baren Exchange #33 is open for sign-up (Darrell Madis)
  6. [Baren 33128] Clifton Karhu has passed away ... (baren_member # barenforum.org)
  7. [Baren 33129] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V39 #3857 (Apr 6, 2007) (ArtfulCarol # aol.com)
  8. [Baren 33130] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 7
From: Cstreetstudios # aol.com
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:01:15 EDT
Subject: [Baren 33123] Re: New Baren Digest (Text)  V39 #3856 (Apr 5, 2007)
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I just received my Alphabet packet this week and I am so excited to have it.
Thanks again Sharri for all the hard work and it's a lovely presentation.
I'm am so tickled to be part of it and and to receive such lovely work.
thanks everyone!
Happy Easter
Jennifer

C Street Studios
Small Business Web & Print Design
Jennifer Ressmann
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Message 1
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:25:57 -0700
Subject: [Baren 33124] Re: Colleen's note and link
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Hello Colleen,

I see my name there as well, and I am most honored to be in the show.
But one small point ... I would appreciate it if my country
designation would be changed to "Canada", instead of "U.S."

Best of luck with the show ... wish I could be there.

Cheers ...... Charles
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Message 2
From: Annie Bissett
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:27:06 -0400
Subject: [Baren 33125] Re: KIWA, etc.
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Lynita, welcome back and congratulations on your well-deserved JAWK
prize! Thanks for the report. Your energy and enthusiasm from the
trip is palpable. I look forward to seeing photos whenever you get
the chance to post them.

Best,
Annie B
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Message 3
From: GWohlken
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:28:23 -0400
Subject: [Baren 33126] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V39 #3857 (Apr 6, 2007)
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Let me try with Colleen's link. This may not come out as a link but
if it shows, it could be copied and pasted into a search engine. See
if this works:

http://www.cittainvisibili.com/dedalo/listofparticipants.htm

Gayle
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Message 4
From: Darrell Madis
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 08:21:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 33127] Re: Baren Exchange #33 is open for sign-up
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Don't forget to order a case for the exchange. These beautiful cases protect your prints and keep them together. Order from the Baren Mall:
http://www.barenforum.org/mall/products/exchange_cases.html
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Message 5
From: baren_member # barenforum.org
Date: 7 Apr 2007 00:17:48 -0000
Subject: [Baren 33128] Clifton Karhu has passed away ...

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Clifton Karhu, a Duluth native and artist who lived and worked in Japan for more than 50 years, died of liver cancer on Saturday in Kanazawa, Japan. The internationally renowned wood-block printmaker, who lived in Kyoto, was 79.

His work captured Japanese architecture of a bygone era.

Karhu, who was of Finnish descent, was described by his twin brother, Raymond of Coon Rapids, "as more Japanese than the Japanese."He doesn't have any Western clothes," said Raymond Karhu. "He wears kimonos."

WCCO radio personality Charlie Boone became friends with Clifton Karhu in 1967 and has collected his work since.

"The thing that fascinated me most is the way he lived, and his art," Boone said. "He was immersed and surrounded by Japanese art. He was so sincere in his love of all things Japanese."He was considered one of the best wood-block artists in Japan by the Japanese," Boone added.

Karhu, a graduate of what is now called the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, first went to Japan as a U.S. Army soldier shortly after World War II. He returned with his wife, Lois, in the 1950s to sell Lutheran missionary literature.

His missionary and for-profit work did not work out, but he remained in Japan. He turned to fishing and teaching English for a living, and to painting.

His simple, bold brush strokes reminded Karhu's Japanese friends of Japanese wood-block printing, and they advised him to take it up in the early 1960s.

He and his brother donated at least 80 pieces of his art to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, said Matthew Welch, the curator of Japanese and Korean art there.

Karhu's work is also contained in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Harvard's Fogg Art Museum and the Cincinnati Art Museum.

An American TV network employed him to sketch scenes in its satellite coverage of the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

In addition to his wife and brother, he is survived by sons Philip of London, and Joel of the Kyoto area; daughter Beth of New York, and several grandchildren

A memorial service is planned for this summer in Worthington, Minn

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Story:
http://www.startribune.com/466/story/1083623.html

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Message 6
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:07:42 EDT
Subject: [Baren 33129] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V39 #3857 (Apr 6, 2007)
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Let's get them carved up and into my mailbox!


Big big congratulations to you Lynita!!! Enjoy the achievement.

Carol Lyons
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Message 7
From: Blog Manager
Date: 7 Apr 2007 03:55:15 -0000
Subject: [Baren 33130] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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This is an automatic update message being sent to [Baren] by the forum blog software.

The following new entries were found on the listed printmaker's websites during the past 24 hours. (32 sites checked, five minutes before midnight Eastern time)

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Site Name: pressing-issues

Author: Ellen Shipley
Item: Tree-Moon Fluid Distortion
http://pressing-issues.blogspot.com/2007/04/tree-moon-fluid-distortion.html

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Site Name: Jaunty Rakes

Author: Jaunty Rakes
Item: crackers (detail)
http://jauntyrakes.blogspot.com/2007/04/crackers-detail.html

Author: Jaunty Rakes
Item: Crackers
http://jauntyrakes.blogspot.com/2007/04/crackers.html

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[Baren] members: if you have a printmaking blog (or a website with a published ATOM feed), and wish it to be included in this daily checklist, please write to the Baren Blog Manager at:
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For reference, sites/blogs currently being checked are:
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http://woodblockdreams.blogspot.com
http://studiodiary.blogspot.com
http://larimerart.blogspot.com
http://artflights.blogspot.com
http://printmakersmaterials.blogspot.com
http://mlyon.com/blog
http://room535.blogspot.com
http://mleeprints.blogspot.com
http://snowgum.blogspot.com
http://onthisblock.blogspot.com
http://pressing-issues.blogspot.com
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
http://theitinerantartist.blogspot.com
http://PLawing-Printmaker.blogspot.com
http://readdevine.blogspot.com
http://mokuhankan.com/conversations
http://mokuhankan.com
http://belindadelpesco.blogspot.com
http://vizart.blogspot.com
http://phare-camp.blogspot.com
http://amymstoner.blogspot.com
http://williamleeholtfineart.blogspot.com
http://web.mac.com/g_wohlken/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html
http://curiousmatthew.blogspot.com
http://laine.lainegreenway.com/index.html
http://azuregrackle.com/blogs/index.php?blog=2
http://blog.olansa.co.uk/
http://bea-gold-retrospective.blogspot.com
http://www.jauntyrakes.blogspot.com
http://sheiko.blogspot.com