This series of books published by Lark Books highlights various art and craft disciplines. Each features 500 full-color examples of gallery-quality work juried from slides or transparencies.

For 500 Wooden Bowls, the sixth book in the series, we're seeking original works in wood that range from traditional, functional bowls to conceptual interpretations of the form. No entry fee is required. Accepted artists receive full credit, a complimentary copy of the book, and a discount on purchased books.

Send high-quality color slides or transparencies of your work for possible inclusion in this exciting full-color book showcasing the best work in the field. Artists may submit up to five slides with details.

This book will be published by Lark Books (Asheville, NC) owned by Sterling Publishing and Barnes and Noble Publishing (New York) in 2004.

Domestic postmark deadline: JULY 1O, 2003; international deadline: June 26, 2003

For guidelines:

Send SASE to:
500 Wooden Bowls, Lark Books, 67 Broadway,
Asheville, NC 28801
Access forms on our website:  http://www.larkbooks.com/submissions/ArtistsEntryForms.asp
E-mail: 500bowls@larkbooks.com

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There will NOT be another issue of The Canadian Woodturner unless members volunteer to serve on the executive and as Editor. As mentioned in recent issues, as well as in the latest issue, the members of the executive of the CWA have terminated their duties. So far no one has volunteered to produce the magazine or to hold any of the positions on the executive. Therefore, without an editor, there will be no upcoming issue of The Canadian Woodturner.

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Wood Turning in North America     Since 1930

This exhibition and Symposium will be at the Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven, Connecticut September 10th thru December 1, 2002
The Symposium II, September 20-21, 2002 
Family Day, October 19, 2002
John Jordan Lecture/Demonstration-October 5, 2002
Mark Sfirri Lecture/Demonstration-November 2, 2002
Jon Sauer Lecture/Demonstration-November 23, 2002

     This session has been organized by the Wood Turning Center and Yale University Art Gallery
Yale University Art Gallery  PO Box 208271, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8271   203-432-0600
www.yale.edu/artgallery

Wood Turning Center
501 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106   215-923-8000
www.woodturningcenter.org

     Wood turning is the cutting of wood as it spins on a lathe.  Seventy years ago, the craft of wood turning was rarely practiced in the country (the USA) outside of high school shop classes, factories, and the workshops of hobbyists.  Today, turning is a sophisticated art form that has attracted the attention of museums and collectors.  This exhibition www.woodturningcenter.org traces this transformation and explains the emergence of the studio turner.  It includes many of the crucial objects that have led turners to breakthrough to new technical and aesthetic directions.  It also presents an historical analysis of the field based on chronology and varying approaches.  This history shows that some wood turners have seen the use of the lathe not as a limitation, but as a challenge that elicits reactivity, experiment, and aesthetic accomplishment.
     The publication accompanying the exhibition features two essays that provide an historical and critical analysis of the wood turning movement, as well as a description of the attributes of wood as an artistic medium.
     The 192 page book also includes 157 color illustrations with analytic captions of all 134 works in the exhibition, glossary, index, and finally, the biographies of the 67 artists in the exhibition, an index of important exhibitions of wood turning and an extensive bibliography.  The publication is available in both softcover ($35US) and hardbound ($65US) editions at the venues or through the Wood Turning Center Museum Store 215-923-8000
turnon@woodturningcenter.org  and Yale University Art Gallery Museum Shop 203-432-7421  art.museumshop@yale.edu
     This same show was at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts last year at this time and, earlier this year was in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C.

·  Great website - The Collectors of Wood Art
. Upcoming Woodturning & Woodworking Courses:
     Black Forest Wood Co site - AB  http://www.blackforestwood.com/

·  Pen turners on line- a new internet mailing list for those interested in making or marketing pens.  To subscribe to the list, send a blank e-mail to: penturners-subscribe@eGroups.com

Messages will then start arriving in your mailbox.  To post a message, send it to penturners@eGroups.com
Comments or questions should be directed to bob@terbocom.com