PressGhost Investor Guide Art Crowd Sorcerer's Guide to Investing in a New School of Printmaking |
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| Author:
| Ritchie, Bill |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4909-5014-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $6.00 |
Book Description:
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Bill Ritchie, with 50 years' experience in fine art printmaking and teaching, wants to start a truly new school of printmaking in Seattle, Washington, which is new because it is a "factory school" or a teaching company. He calls it, Emeralda, and this book explains his unusual method for getting the money to do it. His secret weapon is a prize-winning design for a line of personal-sized etching presses. Not only are they small enough to fit on a desktop, they are beautiful to look at...
More DescriptionBill Ritchie, with 50 years' experience in fine art printmaking and teaching, wants to start a truly new school of printmaking in Seattle, Washington, which is new because it is a "factory school" or a teaching company. He calls it, Emeralda, and this book explains his unusual method for getting the money to do it. His secret weapon is a prize-winning design for a line of personal-sized etching presses. Not only are they small enough to fit on a desktop, they are beautiful to look at and these presses can print professional fine art prints as well as presses that are used in conventional schools and workshops. Bill is putting his life's work on the line. He has invented a preferred stock of his own, with the hundreds of artworks in his family collection as "certificates." The subscribers to his school idea have an array of options they can choose from, such as they can take the print or leave it in a study collection bank, or take it home, for example. There's much more to this idea than meets the eye, as Bill uses this book to go deep into his philosophy of teaching and why he thinks today's rage for gaming is directly attributable to the history of printmaking itself. His most radical idea - and the reason he left college teaching - is that printmaking is close to performing arts. The ideas Bill developed over his fifty-year career form the basis for his new school of printmaking. Funding for the school begins with the sale of preferred shares and sustains by the sale of etching presses, classes and services for people in the printmaking world. This book challenges most peoples' ideas about art schools and Emeralda will be a historic first in art education history.