Gicleé Professor's Papers

The professor explains the living print, the history of printmaking, and keeps the academic community informed.

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CT Chew showed me his year's portfolio from his class and I see now what is meant by the art of teaching--how an artist makes even a school classroom and turning boys and girls into works of art.

Commercialization has segmented art as a way of giving it monetary worth based on debt leveraging, which in turn is based on fear. CT's work at the art gallery never sold well enough to be worth his time and effort and in its segmented, diced, sliced and pureed form can not compare to his art now. Funny, isn't it?

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They never told me I could find anyone interested in this before, until this gicleé thing popped up.

I was just being a smart ass, and I said, "Reminds me of serigraphy." They looked at me like, "What?" and then I told them silkscreen prints used to be hard to sell as art until they stuck a foreign word in place of silkscreen.

The really funny thing is no one uses silk anymore. I didn't go on about that. I've got a bad enough rep without that.

	Artist's Diary	The artist provides the vision and imagery of the living print, laboring after the compelling image.
	Curator's Log	The curator is seldom seen but is always seeing to it that the living prints' records are correct and rules followed.
	Printer's Notes	The printer performs many tasks to keep prints alive, crafting and designing solutions to problems the artist, curator and publisher propose.
	Publisher's Journal	The publisher produces the bases for living prints by supporting all the players and keeping communications clear and on course.

©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr. ritchie@seanet.com