SeattlePrintmakersCenter

150129 Vacation is over  

  Since my last message there was the winter holiday season, the rollover to 2015, and business as usual. The slide show I put together was a result of several conversations with people who support the ideas behind the Seattle Printmakers Center.

For example, I showed my plan to two people who were part of starting the Schack Art Center in Everett. They moved to a place near where I live, and they gave me good pointers. One of the suggestions was that I be prepared to make a presentation—maybe a slide show to illustrate my vision of the Seattle Printmakers Center.

Sam Davidson gave me his time after I took a photobook to him that I titled, “Putting my Stamps on the Seattle Printmakers Center.” The theme was that I would bet my 50-years’ worth of assets (both tangible and intellectual properties) into fundraising for the Seattle Printmakers Center. He came back with the suggestion to simplify the so-called “properties” of the Center from 19 to 12. No doubt he is right.

Another offer of support came from C. T. Chew, and I gave him one of my photobooks, too—the second one I made on the artistamp theme. Carl, as many people know, is one of the region’s leaders in the artistamp world. It was Carl, for example, who discovered Stamp World—a planet where the highest form of intelligence is stamps. That’s partly because of the huge size of the planet, where the gravity is so powerful that everything is flattened.

Then I made the slides you may see on the website I am using to try out ideas, and when the next Shutterfly offer of a free photobook came, I put the slides into a 21-page photobook (above).

This all took time. In January I printed 50 rack cards to promote the Seattle Printmakers Center and gave them out at the Seattle Print Arts Annual Meeting. This generated some interest, I think—and an invitation to make a presentation to the board of directors of the SPA.

Finally, today, January 29, I got back to the Web page and restored the hot link to this blog.