Kinscherff Guitar to be in the Smithsonian Museum roadshow
Jim Whelan
Music and Art have contacted Jamie Kinscherff about exhibiting one of
his fine guitars in their traveling exhibit.
This exhibit is called ''Heart and Hands: Musical Instrument Makers of
America''. It will be at the New Braunfels Museum of Music and Art
beginning on August 23rd, and runs through October 19th. For any of
you in Texas within easy driving distance, you shouldn't miss this
exhibit. It is a part of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC's
Musical Instrument Exhibit on a travelling roadshow. It will travel
coast to coast for the next two years.
This exhibit will also include 86 Iris prints of various musical
instrument builders performing a variety of tasks on all kinds of
instruments, not just guitars.
To repeat, it's at the New Braunfels Museum of Music and Art. New
Braunfels is within about 30 minutes of Austin, Texas. Probably about
a 4 hour drive from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. For further
information, you can call 1-830-625-5636.
I think it's a great honor for Jamie to be asked to represent one of
his guitars. I know he'll cherish this opportunity.
Cheers,
Jim Whelan
Bill Chandler
brewed up the following, and served it to the group:
That's great news! Thanks for posting this, Jim. And congratulations
to Jamie! A much deserved honor indeed!
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that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes
right to the soul."
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John Sorell
news:7088b2a.03070...@posting.google.com:
Jim,
What is an Iris print? Congrats to Jamie!!
John
Jim Whelan
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John,
I had no freakin' idea what an Iris print was either. I did a search,
and here's everything you DIDN'T want to know about them :o)
Actually, it's interesting, but long. Here goes:
Jim
What is Iris Print?
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Iris? Giclee? Are they the same thing?
Iris prints are also known as Giclee prints. In fact, Iris printing is
a specific form of Giclee printing. Giclee is a term to describe fine
art inkjet printing. So there are other types of Giclee (fine art
inkjet) prints out there made by other printers but when you say Iris
prints, it specifically means prints that are made with an Iris
printer.
The Iris printer is considered the highest quality printer for this
form of fine art inkjet printing. Giclee is a French term, loosely
translated to "to spray" which is an appropriate description of the
Iris printing method. The term "Giclee" was created to differentiate a
commercial standard from the work of a fine art print and we use "Iris
print" to differentiate other Giclee prints from prints specifically
made with an Iris printer. The fine art prints made on an Iris printer
are made with high quality inks printed on fine watercolor papers or
canvas.
How does Iris printer work?
The method for coaxing a fine art print from the Iris printer is a
delicate work far removed from the Iris's original purpose of printing
color proofs for offset lithographers. The Iris is a large drum based
inkjet printer made up of a complex array of mechanics. The Iris
squirts a million red blood cell sized droplets of ink from each of
its four nozzles (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) every second at a
speed of 85 miles per hour towards a drum rotating at a speed of 150
inches per second. These droplets are given an electric charge on
their way to the drum either positive or neutral, this allows the
printer to determine which should actually hit the drum and which
should be deflected away to the waste system. This process produces a
continuous tone image on the paper with an apparent resolution of 1800
dots per inch.
How are Iris prints made?
The procedure to print fine art prints starts with the artist
selecting an image for the printer to produce. This image is captured
on film and sent to the printer for scanning or an original is
digitally captured. The scanned or digitally captured image is brought
into the computer for sizing, cropping and color balancing. The most
important step is then taken of converting the image from the
computers RGB color space to that of the printers CMYK color space. A
proof is made and sent back to the artist for critique, and
corrections are applied as needed until the artist approves the proof
image. It is this stage, where the artist and printer collaborate to
bring the print to life, that differentiates a fine print from a
commercial one. At this point the image is then ready for its final
printing.