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Message 1
From: slinders # comcast.net
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:43:21 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43084] Storytellers EX48 Mythology-
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"...the storytellers' quest is to remind us to make time to
listen and remember, as well as to pass on our heritage - our
stories - with or without the head full of oil."*

We have a full compliment of storytellers working on their
prints for Ex48! We have four weeks to complete the prints and
to get them to Illinois, so hopefully your blocks are already
beginning to tell their stories! Please plan to have them in
the mail within the next three weeks!

Mailing them in the flat rate USPS cardboard envelope seems the
most economical way to send them in the US at $4.95. Recheck
the information page to be sure you've included everything
correctly.
http://www.barenforum.org/exchange/exchange_48/exchange_48.html

Sharen

*The quote at the top of this note is from a great article in
today's BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9443157.stm

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Message 2
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:30:12 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43085] Re: Still Tweaking the Tsunami Relief Print Project - List updated to 59
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Online list has been updated, showing 59 participants........Julio

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Message 3
From: Diane Cutter
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:16:45 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43086] Re: Still Tweaking the Tsunami Relief Print Project - List updated to 59
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Thanks so much, Julio, for getting me on the list for the Japan Disaster Relief
project. I apologize for all the repeated 'get me on that list' postings but
this is truly a worthy cause and I didn't want to miss out.


Diane

www.DianeCutter.com
www.theitinerantartist.blogspot.com
www.DCutter.etsy.com

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Message 4
From: "Terry Peart"
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:12:41 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43087] Re: Inspired by Japan - Tsunami Relief Project
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Well...I'll try again.
Can anyone hear me?
I've tried to contact Barbara about three times now to sign up for the Japanese Fundraiser to no avail.
Can someone ask Barbara to put my name on her list, please?

Thanks,
Terry Sargent Peart
Seattle, WA

www.terrypeart.blogspot.com

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Message 5
From: Ben Szoller
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:45:01 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43088] Re: Inspired by Japan - Tsunami Relief Project
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Hi Barbara,

Could you please add me to the list if there is still room. Also, I'd be happy to approach the Japan Foundation here in Toronto about the project, perhaps sometime later this week when my class wraps up.

Thanks,

Ben Szoller

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Message 6
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:44:29 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43089] Re: Inspired by Japan - Tsunami Relief Project
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Excellent..we will send you the portfolios to exhibit to raise funds...we are
thinking of putting the whole thing online...
Do you think the work should be sold individually or as a set? We need to
establish pricing by the end of next week
Barbara

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Message 7
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:59:07 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43090] Inspired by Japan - Tsunami Relief Project
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We are at 64 artists now on the relief prints and think we will start a waiting
list after 65...just in case people have to drop out.
We need to establish pricing and I will post again later today or tomorrow all
the different ideas folks have so we can decide how to proceed.
It looks like we already have 4 or 5 places in the works to show the prints, so
if you would like to show them in your city, let me kmow..we will work out a
schedule as well as pricing. We cannot presell them until we decide what we are
selling them for.
My best
Barbara


Here is the latest list... if your city state and country is not on here, I need
you to send it to me...I was lax in keeping this and don't want to hunt through
many many emails to try to find where you live. Julio will get everyone on the
web sign up later today or tomorrow...if you do not see your name, let me know.



Benefit for Japan Name
Andrew Stone
Erin K. Nolan DeKalb IL USA
Carol Chapel
Linda Beeman Coprvallis OR USA
mary caulfield
Sharri LaPierre Vacouver WA USA
Viza Arlington
Diana Moll
Mary Grassell Hurricane, West Virginia USA
Amanda Gordon Miller
Sarah Hauser New York NY USA
Melea Press
Carol Lyons
Jean Womack San Francisco CA USA
Carol L. Myers
Andrea Starkey
Maria Arango Diener Las Vegas NW USA
Bea Gold Los Angeles CA USA
Ellen Shipley
Jeanne Norman Chase
Oscar Bearinger
Guadalupe Victorica
Kolene Dietz
Renee Ugrin Boring OR USA
RAKESH BANI
Preston Lawing
Andy English
Tom Kristensen
Carlota Santamaria
Gayle Wohlken Burton OH USA
Lynita Shimizu
Sharen Linders Kildeer IL USA
Raymond Hudson Middlebury VT USA
Mike Lyon Kansas City KS USA
Richard Stockham
olek wozniak
Cyndy Wilsoyn
Angelo Rodrigues
Carole Dwinell
Michelle Morrell Juneau AK USA
Ayesha Vemuri
Le Green San Antonio TX USA
Julio Rodriguez Chicago IL USA
Jennifer Martindale
Gillyin Gatto
Kalle Pihlajasaari South Aftica
Louise Cass
Wouter ten Broek
Tina Browder
Maria Regina Pinto Pereira
lynne hubner McKinney TX USA
Aaron Gillette
Eileen Corder Hayfolk CA USA
Barbara Mason Aloha OR USA
Barbara Carr Salisbury NH
Mark Mason Clitheroe, Lankshire UK
Clive Lewis
Margot Rocklen
Diane Cutter Puerto Rico USA
Chris Doogan
Leigh Beatty
April Vollmer NY, NY USA
Ben Szoller Toronto, ON Canada
Sylvia Taylor

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Message 8
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:57:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43091] pricing for Tsunami relief prints
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There has been some discussion about pricing…it seems if 30 prints are in a
portfolio and a reasonable price is $50 a print, that is $1500 so pricing itself
right out of the market of most individuals…

If we put 10 prints in a portfolio at $300 that is more reasonable for most
people.

We can sell prints individually but I hate to see us selling anything for less
than $50 and hope for more…maybe we sell at a suggested price and ask for extra
donations? Do we price them by size?

We can keep several full portfolios of all 64 or whatever amount we end up with,
for exhibit. Say 10 full sets with one of them going to Kentucky for our
archive.


Julio suggested we give a discount to any participant that wants to buy the
whole set…any suggestions on what this cost would be for all 64 prints? Even at
a very modest fee it is a lot of money but of course for a very good cause.

Can we get corporations or museums or libraries to buy them? And if so at what
price for the full set? These type of collectors always ask for a discount so we
need to take that into consideration.


This was proposed by Kale of Idyllic Press in South Africa

If affordable I would love to buy a full set, I would use my set for local
exhibitions if I have one, the deep discounted participant price below reflects
my budget on such things.

We were thinking to print and try sell off 20 extra prints from our local print
at any exhibitions to raise more funds. (THIS IS A GREAT IDEA)

How about you suggest the following on the list and see how it goes. I don’t
have much fun mailing to the list and tables always break for me so mailing you
directly.
=====
Pre-sell any full portfolios, at a deep discount price to participants (like
me:-)
When the prints have arrived you put aside :-
1 set for public archive
1 set for USA exhibitions (to be sold later when exhibition tour is complete)
1 set for International exhibitions (to be sold later when exhibition tour is
complete)
1 set for private viewing by participants (to be sold later when viewings are
complete, next in chain must send funds to current holder for postage, every 2
weeks)

Sell them on Etsy, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook, Cultural centres, Japanese embassies
or wherever you can

Pricing that might work, perhaps not the optimum for maximising profits but
would limit the number of transactions in exchange for speedy funds collection.

Print quantity Price set $ Price each $ Total raised $
Full set pre-sold to participants 60 300 5 9000
Full set different prints 60 600 10 18000
Random different prints 30 375 12.5 22500
Random different prints 20 300 15 27000
Random different prints 10 175 17.5 31500
Random different prints 5 100 20 36000
Selected print from those available 1 50 50 90000

As you see by Kale's figures, even at the very modest price of $5 we are raising
a lot of money but I think our work is worth more...but maybe to the
participants we can cut a real deal
Lets hear your ideas
My best to all
Barbara

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Message 9
From: "Maria Regina Pinto Pereira"
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:22:07 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43092] RES: Inspired by Japan - Tsunami Relief Project
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Sao Paulo, BRASIL.

Kisses



MaRegina

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