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A Message From the Editors
Fellow Marblers, Supporters and Friends,
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the
Society of Marbling Annual for 2006. We are very proud of this
issue for many reasons. First of all, it features a new
format, and you will find an increase in the number of images
that are featured. This includes the front cover design
featuring an Arabic calligraphy panel by Güliz Pamukoğlu, that
relates to a pair of exhibition reviews featuring her work as
well as her teacher Feridun Özgören.
Other articles include a trio devoted to a historic pattern
known as schrotel in German. A special trio of articles
reviews the collections of Don Guyot in Seattle, Washington,
the Norma Rubovits collection in Chicago, Illinois and the
Frederick Douglas collection in Denver, Colorado. Another pair
of articles features the work of marblers Ky Lee of Seoul,
Korea, and Renato Crepaldi of Sao Paulo, Brazil, while yet
another pair reviews two workshops offered by Montse Buxó from
Barcelona, Spain that was held last year in Montreal, Canada.
Finally an article by Ingrid Weimann provides an overview of
the production and publication her late husband Christopher
Weimann entitled Marbling in Miniature. We are very pleased to
present these articles to you and would like to thank all of
the contributors for taking the time to write them.
This year, many changes have affected our lives, making this
an incredibly difficult issue to produce. Due to numerous time
constraints, we have decided that this will be the last issue
of the Annual that we will publish, and focus instead on
developing our web site as a free public resource. In
addition, this issue is exclusively available in a
downloadable PDF format. As in the past, this is offered
through this web site, and can be easily paid for via Pay-Pal.
It is produced in color and the featured hyperlinks only work
in an online format. if you would like to read a printed
version, you can easily print it out the downloaded PDF file
yourself. If you are unable to do so, then save the file to a
disk and take it to your local copy shop to have it printed
for you. We hope that you understand that we are under a
number of constraints and heartily apologize for any
inconvenience that this may cause.
Looking on the bright side, technology and communication have
increased in a manner that makes a publication like this in
some ways quite redundant. While some are uncomfortable with
the way technology has become a part of our lives, we are
amazed at how many have readily adapted to these new modes of
discourse. Some of the planned developments for the Society
website, are outlined in the Society News. In the coming year,
we look forward to re-launching this web site with a new look
and feel, and expanding the range of resources offered.
With Warmest Regards,
Marie Palowoda and Jake Benson
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