September 2009
4 posts
Please mister postman look and see, if there's a...
The return prints are now winging there way back to all the IPE 2009 participants and should arrive before the month end - so keep checking your post / mail. It would help us greatly if you could email confirmation of the safe arrival of your prints to ipe@greendoor-printmaking.co.uk so that we can properly sign you off.
This will complete Stage One of the IPE 2009.
The next stage is to find the...
The vivid world of print...
What many of you will not have realised is that for the past twelve months or more I have been struggling with fast-onset cataracts in both eyes as a side effect of a continuous high dosage of steroids - but that’s another story…
Well, I had the operation on my left eye yesterday and - wow! - the world is not only in focus once more but is a wonderful vivid palette of colour. Now at...
Watchinkidot:
We’ve been playing with the idea of trying to do a time-lapse of sorting out the IPEs this friday… so today I tested to see if it would work. The above video is the studiocam set to 5min intervals - a whole day’s worth! Also today I printed all the IPE enclosures - envelopes and fronts of little flyer things (which you can see in the video - just look for all the green).
So, now that...
Submission for IPE 2009 now closed
We have now closed submissions for the IPE 2009 with the safe receipt today of our last outstanding edition.
Our apologies if you had intended to submit prints but were unable to meet the deadline. The good news is that we are now committed to making this an annual event! Watch this (or a similar) space for advance notice of IPE 2010.
Everyone who registered interest in the IPE 2009 (whether or...
August 2009
1 post
+++ LATEST NEWS +++
In his last email to this year’s Print Zero exchange participants, Brian Lane gave a plug to the Green Door IPE 2009. This has resulted in a sudden flurry of enquiries from new potential entrants. This is great news and we are grateful to Brian for his generous support of the newbies in this our first attempt at an International Print Exchange.
While we do not expect to announce a general...
July 2009
2 posts
*** ATTENTION ***
Despite our best research efforts into payment methods for the IPE 2009 we now find that our bank raises a £10 GBP fee for each International Postal Money Order transaction. As the maximum value of an IPE 2009 submission is £8.94 GBP the IPMO is a loss maker!
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As of NOW the International Postal Money Order
is NOT a payment option
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Ongoing PayPal Issues
We are puzzled…
There still seem to be some problems with ‘Rest Of The World’ IPE 2009 payments through PayPal but they don’t make any sense - yet - so please bear with us. Some payments come through OK others fail: usually at Step 5 in the earlier post. If you are having problems please let us kow as we must resolve this. A screen grab is really useful at the point of...
June 2009
7 posts
Guide to payment by PayPal
Although we have already had successful payments from the US via the online PayPal route I know from your emails that you have hit some problems. We will try to sort these out with you individually but in the meantime the following guide to what should happen may be of help.
1. Select the ‘Join in!’ tab at the top of the IPE 2009 mini-site page, or click here.
2. Scroll down to the bottom...
Call For Work : Background Introduction
Today’s blog entries cover much the same ground as the IPE 2009 Call For Work FAQs but have allowed me to give more detail of the debates within the IPE Team that led to the decisions we have made about the IPE 2009 Guidelines. These decisions were based equally on the feedback via email & the questionnaire responses and our own experiences as printmakers taking part in the other major...
Call For Work : Background Part 1
Why did Green Door decide to host a print exchange? As a small start-up (some may say upstart!) studio striving to establish a reputation in the wider world of printmaking we have been envious of the obvious sense of community between individual practitioners and studios in other countries: in particular the USA, Australia and New Zealand. This is in marked contrast with our perception of the...
Call For Work : Background Part 2
Now to look at the decisions we made to arrive at the point where we could issue a Call For Work for the IPE 2009. The Questionnaire Responses First, many thanks to all of you who took the time and effort to respond and especially those of you who also took the trouble to email us with your views. What follows is a final summary of the results and an indication of how they fed into the decision...
Call For Work : Background Part 3
Which is most important when deciding to enter a print exchange? Edition size does not seem to be an issue in determining entry… Which of the following would most deter you from entering a print exchange? The issue of administration charges for this type of exchange is a vexed question. Clearly from your responses you do not want to be ripped off by excessive charges beyond the necessary...
Call For Work : Background Part 4
Would you be in favour of the organisers of an open exchange rejecting some entries as a means of raising the overall print quality of the exchange?
I think the clear answer here is a probable yes, maybe. No, seriously, if you can meet all the guidelines we have set then your print is in the exchange and will stand on its artistic merit. Be assured that we will apply the guidelines rigourously....
Call For Work : Background Part 5
To round off this collection of posts let me expand on a few of the guidelines and answers given in the FAQs. Why do we exclude purely digital prints? There has been much recent controversy over digital (particularly Giclée) prints masquerading as prints or even paintings produced by purely non-digital means. So, although the main part of the answer is simply that digital prints is not what we are...
April 2009
4 posts
Feedback
I’m very grateful to one of the Canadian participants for spending the time to give the following feedback which highlights some of options still open to us:
Dave
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Hi Dave, I read your Blog and I had a couple of thoughts. I just received my package of prints from the Oregon Ink Spot 3rd Annual International Print Exchange 2009. They were absolutely wonderful!
They were able to keep...
Questionnaire Statistics
The graphs below have been updated.
Dave
IPE 2009 Call For Work - Current Thoughts
The responses from you all have been the cause of some serious head scratching amongst the IPE Team so I thought it a good time to give you an idea of our current thoughts.
The first is that we should bring forward the Call For Work from our provisional target date of early June in order not to lose momentum while at the same time giving you all more time to complete your editions: especially...
La Criss Crosse 2010
Propective IPE 2099 contributor Sarah Piper (AKA Sarah The Viper) has asked me to give a shout to a print exchange she is organising in support of the Pump House Regional Arts Center (www.thepumphouse.org) called La Criss Crosse 2010. The Pump House is pretty much the primary art gallery in La Crosse, WI. and helps promote the arts there via poetry readings, exhibitions, small concerts, and art...
March 2009
32 posts
IPE Weblinks
A reminder that we are collecting an impressive selection of printmaker website links from the artists that have expressed interest in the IPE 2009 - click on the Weblinks tab and select from the artist name list.
Dave
Stats Update
See below for the latest update of the charts I compiled at the beginning of the month.
Dave
Your turn to ponder
OK - a questionnaire based on the musings of the last post is now up on the mini-site. Feel free to let us have your thoughts on the subject of print exchanges. All contributions are anonymous.
Dave
There is much to ponder...
Now that I seem to have got on top of the email deluge and have a sort of system for turning round replies on the same day I have had chance to reread some of your comments. These seem to fall into four categories: Can I extend this invitation to other printmakers? - What is the print size? - Can we keep the cost down? - Can we keep the quality up?
The first of these is easy…
’ We...
Day 6 Phew!
I have just sent off the last of 177 acknowledgement emails for those who have registered interest. I’m going to take a break now but the next task is to reread the your emails and start picking out specific points for discussion: yours ideas are many and varied!
Keep in touch and check back soon.
Cheers
Dave
Early thanks
A few words of thanks for your generous comments about the IPE 2009 and Green Door.
‘Let there be printmaking - Go Green Door!’
It seems to that many of you are surprised that you have not been invited to a UK-based exchange before. Well, so far no-one has contradicted our claim that this is probably the first UK exchange but I am still checking the mail! You also seem excited that...
Some little clarifications
I’m still wading through the initial responses to the IPE call for ‘Expressions of Interest’ - apologies to al you guys that have been waiting a few days now for some sort of response from us: an aknowledgement is on its way (honest).
Given that so little of the detail of this print exchange has yet been worked out I thought I could at least address a couple of the smaller...
Undelivered Mail
It seems that a fair few of the emails that I have sent out to addresses with .edu suffixes are being returned undelivered. I guess these were addresses of students who have since graduated. I hope the printmaking network will pick them up as many I know submitted great work to last year’s exchanges and it would be a pity not to have them on board for IPE 2009.
Dave
In praise of Bento
Well, my proto-database is already up and running thanks to the amazing flexibility of Filemaker’s Bento application for the Mac. It is so easy to use and configure. Even the setup was a breeze - simply drag and drop my spreadsheet list of contacts onto Bento and I had an instant database. Adding Torben’s list was just as straightforward once I had lined up appropriate field names....
I feel a database coming on...
The response from the printmaking community has been overwhelming and the only way to cope is a database!
Already we have over 150 positive responses which need cataloguing and acknowledging. It’s like some viral infection that we have unleashed,
Meanwhile Anna has been updating her INKTERACTION! network page to advertise the IPE 2009 so I am bracing myself for yet another full inbox.
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Update & Thanks
Just had a wonderful email of support and advice from Torben Soeborg in Denmark. Many thanks Torben. Feel free to spread the word. As mentioned in the first post to this blog our initial posting was to known contacts through Green Door’s own involvement in past exchanges and was predominantly US printmakers. Our next task is to spread the net wider to include UK and European and Far East...
Later...
Still a steady flow of replies throughout the day - many from printmakers that were not on my original email shot. Thanks Bill for spreading the word through SGC Listserve.
Already many of you are posing questions about paper size and subject matter that we really haven’t addressed yet. We will get that information out as quickly as possible.
Dave
Day 2
Woke this morning to find a further 30+ emails registering interest plus sundry artists signing up for info through the main Green Door site: don’t worry guys all the messages get to the same place eventually and your interest is noted.
Dave
Later that same evening...
OMG!
I returned to my email after dinner to find 50+ responses - all postive. I guess that means we are go for IPE2009
Dave
Day 1
The mad idea to commit to a print exchange was decided at our last committee meeting when we roughed out the 2009 calendar of events for Green Door.
In order to complete an outstanding action point before our March meeting we sent out an exploratory email to a handful of known participants in last year’s Oregon Ink Spot and Print Zero exchanges. These were mainly US-based printmakers that...