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.

Mabel Hewit (1903 - 1984)

Cleveland artist Mabel Hewit, whose work is the subject of a delightful summer/fall exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Born in Conneaut in 1903 and raised in Youngstown, Hewit, who died in 1984, spent the last 50 years of her life in Cleveland and Parma, where she produced dozens of colorful prints redolent of small-town and city life during the Great Depression and the decades that followed.

Hewit learned from West Virginia native Blanche Lazzell, a leading practitioner of white-line woodcut technique, who gave instruction in her studio in Provincetown, Mass., during the 1930s. The exhibition's catalog, which presents original research by Jane Glaubinger, the show's organizer and curator of prints, states that Hewit must have studied with Lazzell in 1929, when she visited Cape Cod to attend a class in outdoor painting sponsored by Teachers College, or in the summer of 1933. Judging from a 1934 color woodcut, in which Hewit closely emulated a similar work by Lazzell, the latter's influence was profound and lasting.

For the complete article see: http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/07/hewit.html

More images below......

"Mowing", color woodcut, (11" X 9.5") 

"Along the River" , color woodcut, 1959 (8" X 8.5")

"Welcome Home", color woodcut, 1959 (77.8" X 5.6")

Letterpress Printing - FILMS

Let's go back in time and see what commercial printing was like 60 years ago ! These are vocational films going back to 1947 !!!

 

NILES NORTH JR. VIKINGS BASEBALL
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Philosophy and Principles of Baseball
We believe that participation in interscholastic sports is a privilege, not a right. Therefore, certain responsibilities and expectations will be placed on those wishing to participate in baseball. Those wishing to participate are making a commitment to the team and will be expected to follow the rules and policies as set forth by the program. Baseball is not the #1 priority. It should take its place behind family, religion, and school.

Athletics play an important part in the educational process. There are a number of lessons and principles to be learned from athletic participation. Among these are:

Learning to compete within a given set of rules.
Learning the importance of constructive release of energies.
Learning to accept direction and correction.
Learning how to understand other people's feelings and attitudes.
Learning how to manage time.
Learning how to be a member of a group or team.
Learning to deal with success and failure.
Learning the importance or self-discipline.
Learning how to persevere toward a goal.
Learning to think under pressure.
Learning how to be loyal to a situation, cause, and team.

Practices and Games
· All practices and games are mandatory! If you are going to be absent, you must call your coach and leave a message stating that you will be absent that day and the reason for your absence. Try and contact your coach as soon as you know that you must be absent.

· The only absences which will be considered excused are those which are due to sickness, family emergencies, school trips or religious holidays. If you are absent from practice with an excused absence, but fail to notify your coach that you will not be there, that day will be considered unexcused.


Absence Rules:
1 Unexcused Absence: Will not be allowed to start in next game
2 Unexcused Absences: Will not be allowed to play in next game
3 Unexcused Absences: Dropped from team

TARDIES
· FOR PRACTICES: All players must be in the gym/field and dressed at least 10 minutes prior to start.

· FOR GAMES: All players must be in the field and dressed at least one hour before game start.

DRESS and APPEARANCE
· Wearing jewelry of any type will not be permitted during games. Do not wear it to practice, and DO NOT ASK THE COACHES TO HOLD JEWELRY.
· Players should always have a clean uniform and shoes.
· On away games players should meet at the field one hour prior to the start of the game unless otherwise stated by coach.
· On home games players should meet at the field one and a half hours prior to the start of the game unless otherwise stated by coach.
· Keep your hands off other people's property. This goes for in school and away from school.

CONDUCT
· You will be expected to conduct yourself in a first class manner at all times. You are representing the Jr. Vikings baseball program.
· Swearing will not be tolerated.
· Treat all officials with respect. Letting a bad feeling show towards them will only cause harm to the team.
· Do not talk to people behind the bench or in the stands after warm-ups begin.


These policies are set to help you and our teams become the best that we can be. Remember that there is only one place where success comes ahead of work, in the dictionary!