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Message 1
From: "Elizabeth B. Atwood"
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:01:48 -0400
Subject: [Baren 29025] Rooster prints
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I have a beautiful collection of rooster prints.........and enjoy looking
at them daily because they are posted in the arch between rooms. I am
looking for a way to preserve them. Are there any bright ideas out there?
Mounting or notebooking. What does everyone do with their
collections???.........ElizA

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Message 2
From: Dave Bull
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:24:25 +0900
Subject: [Baren 29026] Re: Rooster prints
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> I have a beautiful collection of rooster prints.........and enjoy
> looking
> at them daily because they are posted in the arch between rooms. I am
> looking for a way to preserve them. Are there any bright ideas out
> there?
> Mounting or notebooking. What does everyone do with their
> collections???

How about postcard albums?
http://woodblock.com/temporary/postcard_album.jpg

Dave

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Message 3
From: "marilynn smih"
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:20:36 -0700
Subject: [Baren 29027] RE: Baren Digest (old) V33 #3231
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This is not woodblock, but art related. I am working with Mary our port captain for the small port of Nahcotta. We are designing a logo. She came up with a drawing she printed out on her computer. I put it into an oval design, made some changes, enlarged it to fit on a little larger than a half sheet of watercolor paper. Hope to work today on this, but here is the question: do we both sign this piece, because it is a collaborative effort? And if so, how do the copy right laws work? This logo will be used for stationary, business cards and possibly clothing??? I would like to keep my watercolor and the right to use the desgn possibly for copy prints or a woodblock. They could have the right to use it for their stationary, etc. Anyone have experience with this?
Marilynn

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Message 4
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:49:00 -0700
Subject: [Baren 29028] Re: Rooster prints
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The roosters were especially good this year, weren't they? I keep my
"year of" prints in separate clear plastic folder/envelopes. With their
envelopes.
They are lots of fun to take out & look at whenever I feel like it!
And the
stamped envelopes are also interesting.

By the way, if anyone has sent me a rooster, & I haven't sent you one,
please let me know. I still have some, but I'm not sure if I have
missed
sending one to someone!

Wanda

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Message 5
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:16:51 -0500
Subject: [Baren 29029] Re: Rooster prints
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The Rooster Exchange (Chinese New Year) will get updated with all the
latest prints received sometime later this month. Shortlly thereafter in
early November we will taking signups for the next New Year exchange via
the online signup page.........please try to get your Rooster prints done
& mailed ASAP...this will be our seventh year doing these informal
exchanges.......next year's animal is the Dog.

http://barenforum.org/new_year/index.html


thanks....Julio Rodriguez (Part-time Zoo Keeper)

Links to New Year Exchanges:

http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/blacksheep/
http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/blacksheep/snames.html

http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/horses/

http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/snakes/

http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/dragons.html

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Message 6
From: "Maria Arango"
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:13:16 -0700
Subject: [Baren 29030] Re: Rooster prints
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And on that note...
My mailing address has changed to:
Maria Arango
7629 W Devonshire Ave
Phoenix AZ 85033

Email/web remains the same, thank goodness or I would have been totally
lost.
Thought of the day: moving a studio is NOT FUN, however it can result in a
much streamlined and efficient studio :-)
Will be back in full exchange mode by next year, I'm sure.

Maria, rushing on to the next festival...which is now conveniently across
town! better cancel my hotel reservations


Maria Arango
www.1000woodcuts.com
Phoenix Arizona USA

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Message 7
From: "Mindy Wilson"
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:28:53 -0600
Subject: [Baren 29031] Re: Rooster prints
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The dog theme sounds awesome...Can those who use western printing techniques eligible?
Do past New Year exchanges have similar rules as the upcoming one? I'll go read about the past exchanges...I am so excited, I'd love to do this!
Mindy Wilson

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Message 8
From: "Mindy Wilson"
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:19:03 -0600
Subject: [Baren 29032] Re: Rooster prints
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"Can those who use western printing techniques eligible?"

Ugg, can those who attempt to read this mssg. still understand what I was saying? I am use the western style printing can I sign up?

Ha, ha..Mindy

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Message 9
From: Blog Manager
Date: 19 Oct 2005 03:55:03 -0000
Subject: [Baren 29033] 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. (8 sites checked, just before midnight Eastern time)

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Site Name: Flights of Art

Author: Carol
Item: Back from the north woods
http://artflights.blogspot.com/2005/10/back-from-north-woods.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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Message 10
From: baren_member # barenforum.org
Date: 19 Oct 2005 10:55:35 -0000
Subject: [Baren 29034] Woodblock prints on display in Springfield, MO ...

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... an elegant exhibit of prints, currently on display at the Pool Art Center, Drury University, Springfield.

According to a statement by Gallery Director Rebecca Miller, posted in the gallery, a local anonymous collector gave Miller free access to his or her collection. Miller set out, she said, to choose a group of prints that would "represent a historical and cultural diversity of artists who worked with a variety of conceptual approaches to the medium."

The result is a beautiful exhibit of work that, while mostly dating from the 20th century, relies on methods and styles that go back hundreds of years.

A good place to begin looking at the exhibit is with a small group of 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints. There are two by the master Hokusai, including one from his "36 Views of Mt. Fuji" series, dating from 1833. There is also a wonderful triptych of Kabuki actors dating from around 1860 by Kunichika, and a beautiful pair of deer, set among simple fall foliage, by Ohara Kosan, created in 1910.

Elsewhere in the exhibit, religion and mythology play large roles. There's a color lithograph of the "Birth of Apollo," by Frederico Castellon, dating from 1970, as well as a wry woodblock print titled "Artist and the Seven Deadly Seven Sins," done about the same time by Fritz Eichenberg.

In Eichenberg's print, the artist sits at a table in the foreground with an interesting crowd of characters looking over his shoulder. The group includes everyone from a shapely nude female to a fat-faced man to a Ku Klux Klan member.

Among the biblically based works, none is more powerful than "Anno Domini," a 1941 etching by Isac Friedlander. A crucified Christ, missing his left arm, hangs in the foreground of the picture with the ruins of a Gothic cathedral behind him. Friedlander's powerful composition and deep blacks contrasted against light whites make this piece visually arresting.

Printmaking, especially woodblock printing and lithography, can be a dark medium, both literally and figuratively, lending itself to monochromatic interpretations of serious subjects.

For example, Fritz Rumpf's 1956 woodblock print "The Kings were Hanged" pictures five black-draped figures hanging from trees in a graveyard. Next to it, William Gropper's 1965 etching "Catastrophe" features two men flying out of a wrecked wagon while the pair of horses pulling it fall forward, their eyes open with terror.

When I saw this work, I thought of Picasso's "Guernica" and the burning horse pictured there. There is also a Picasso drypoint etching in this exhibit, which is owned by Drury, titled "Sculpteur, Modele et Sculpture Assiste," dating from 1933.

Other printmaking masters, such as Salvatore Dali and Leonard Baskin are also represented in this exhibit. I was a little disappointed that Rodney Frew, Springfield's great printmaker, was not included in this exhibit, because I think his work would have fit beautifully. That aside, however, this is still a fine show and a pleasure to see.

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051019/LIFE/510190302/1093

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Message 11
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:56:25 -0500
Subject: [Baren 29035] Re: Woodblock prints on display in Springfield, MO ...
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Dave wrote:
>Message posted from: Google News Update
>... an elegant exhibit of prints, currently on display at the Pool Art
>Center, Drury University, Springfield.
>According to a statement by Gallery Director Rebecca Miller, posted in the
>gallery, a local anonymous collector gave Miller free access to his or her
>collection. Miller set out, she said, to choose a group of prints that
>would "represent a historical and cultural diversity of artists who worked
>with a variety of conceptual approaches to the medium."
>
>http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051019/LIFE/510190302/1093

Hey, Dave! Here's another 'coincidence' to add to our growing list (maybe
it really isn't five degrees of separation after all, but only one or two
and maybe Vonnegut had it right about the karass thing with the same group
of people keep (karass) running into one another over and over)!

Anyway, your post above about the Springfield show organized by Becky
Miller was a big surprise -- Becky became one of my karate students while
attending the Kansas City Art Institute in the early 1990s (I led a group
there for over ten years before turning leadership over to another of my
karate students, my model Sarah, who's become one of the most senior women
in SKA, our national karate association)... Anyway, Becky practiced with
me for several years until she graduated and moved to Florida to complete
her MFA. Haven't seen her since, but we've kept up occasional
correspondence through the years... What a hoot to learn that she's become
an assistant professor and the gallery director at Drury! I suppose I'll
have to make some time to drive down to see her and the show!

Thanks so much for the heads-up!

-- Mike


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

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