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Niles North Jr. Vikings Baseball Tryouts

Tryout dates:

·       Saturday, August 11^th at 12 pm

·       Sunday, August 12^th at 12pm

·       Saturday, August 18^th at 12pm

·       Sunday, August 26^th at 12pm

Location: Niles North High School 9800 N. Lawler, Skokie

(Please bring protective gear: bat, glove, and water)

Tryout age groups will be:

10u, 11u, 12u, 13u and 14u

Contact information:

Israel Sanchez Cell phone: (312) 576-3514

Email: ischez820@aol.com

Dragons awake after 12 years sleep !

        Dragons awaken ! 

  After 12 years of hibernation an old set of New Year Dragon prints awaken to wreak havoc upon a northern suburb of Chicago. The prints were part of the original Baren Chinese New Year Dragon exchange of 2000 (Y2K). They were also part of a Baren exhibit at the Skokie Public Library and after that ran it's course the dragons were silenced until last month when they came out of hibernation to attend a New Year party at Walgreens headquarters. The dragon prints were so well received that they may have found a permanent resting place !

  Among the artists represented: Ruth Leaf, Gary Luedtke, April Vollmer, Maria Arango-Diener, Bea Gold, John Ryrie, Sarah Hauser, Jean Eger Womack, Lynita Shimizu, Julio Rodriguez, Andrea Rich, Barbara Mason, Wanda Robertson, Josephine Severn, Jan Telfer, Phillip Smith, Sylvia Taylor, Jack Reisland, Gayle Cline Wohlken, Horacio Soarez-Neto, Arafat AL-Naim, David Mohallatee, Le Green, Jean Norman Chase, Daryl DePry and others.

Linda Beeman and other Michigan Artists at Shiawassee Arts Center

Four Michigan artists will have their time and talents displayed at the Shiawassee Arts Center this season. Linda Beeman, Jane Cloutier, Janet Baugher and Cindy Evans will display their artwork Sept. 20 through Nov. 20. 

An opening reception will be held 6-8 p.m. Sept. 23, where guests will have the opportunity to meet the artists and see the artwork they are selling.

For more info visit: http://www.shiawasseearts.org/sept-nov-2011.html

 

Chinese Woodblock Print Exhibition at UMMA

 

Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints

July 16–October 23, 2011

 

 

Multiple Impressions is organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art with the cooperation and support of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. The 114 works on view by 41 of China's leading contemporary printmakers showcase the extraordinary innovations, both in technique and conception while providing an important framework for understanding both contemporary art from China and contemporary Chinese society.

For more info go to: http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/exhibitions/2011-mimpressions.php

A few years back I wrote on Baren about one of China's premier printmakers...Liao Shiou-ping.

Earlier this year, Taiwan’s Council for Cultural Affairs awarded graphic artist Liao Shiou-ping one of three National Cultural Awards. The 74-year-old artist, renowned for blending Western printmaking techniques with traditional Taiwanese and Chinese influences, was recognised for his outstanding contribution to Taiwan culture.

Click here to read an article celebrating the artis's accomplishments.  

To visit a retrospective website with many images and writings click on the image below. 

Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956)

Scrap.shsElizabeth Keith: Along with Helen Hyde, Bertha Lum and Paul Jacoulet, Elizabeth Keith ranks as a foremost Western artist associated with the famous Japanese Shin Hanga movement of the early twentieth century color woodcut. Elizabeth Keith was born in Scotland but spent most of her youth in London. She received no formal training in the arts and did not begin devoting her energies to painting and printmaking until an eventful 1915 trip to Japan to visit her sister and brother-in-law. She immediately fell in love with the country and sold her return ticket home. For the following nine years, Elizabeth Keith lived in Japan and traveled extensively in Korea, China and the Philippines.

Elizabeth Keith was born in Scotland and raised in London. We have no record of her having formal training in the arts. In 1915 she joined her sister in Japan and stayed for nine years. It was a fruitful period for Keith as she sketched in pencil and watercolors during her travels in Japan, China, Korea, and the Philippines.

In 1919 an exhibition in Tokyo of her watercolors on Korean subjects caught the attention of the central figure of the shin hanga movement, the publisher Watanabe, who soon had his studio craftsmen translate her 'East Gate, Seoul, by Moonlight' into a color woodblock print (see figure at right). It would become one of her most sought-after and admired images.

Watanabe continued to publish her prints until 1939. She returned to England in 1924, but continued to travel throughout her life, producing studies for prints that would number at least 113 designs (100 were color woodblock prints, the remainder color etchings). Her published prints are consistently professional and always well printed. At her best she combined anecdotal and documentary elements with a highly developed sense of color, compassion for her subjects, and a keen eye for detail.