ArtsPort 'Zines
Available on amazon.com in paperback or eBook
Five-hundred-seventy-six (576) titles and brief summaries of essays by Bill Ritchie he wrote and buried on an imaginary island, "ArtsPort." He added images from his art collection, scans of his journal pages, Artist Trading Cards, and Artist's Stamps. Musing under the domain name, ArtsPort, he would share his printmaking worldview in the age of cybernetics - the science of computers. This is volume onee of a ten-volume encyclopedia of his unpublished writings. He would incorporate these in a college-level, online printmaking learning experience. People can randomly pick the brain of this artist and professor in the color Kindle eBook version or the black-and-white paperback.
Random samples:
Perfect Storm of Printmaking -
Conditions for Seattle Printmaking Center - According to a radio story about the Stradivarius violin,
experts cannot figure out why these instruments have an extraordinary sound.
Here is speculation that it could have been 17th Century ecosystems so like the arts and intellect ecosystem of Seattle.
ap981215 My First Day at ArtsPort
The author, formerly with a university teaching art courses,
compares one manager
of a mutual fund in securities with college class
management. He wonders whether
the comparison of students to customers has
validity when he encounters his former students.