Opening Day

First day at ArtsPort 2009-2010 - He pretends like a little kid who is at his first day in camp. ArtsPort is the name of an island he made up, placing it in a great lake in an imaginary place called Emeralda Region—a mysterious place haunted by ghosts in his new “machines,” his computers. 1053 Words. ap091215. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Problem One

Thoughts of a dying diehard printmaker - Winding his way through a problem on his computer one morning he hits on an understanding of the first problem to set before online printmaking users—a kind of jigsaw puzzle of why to learn old-time printmaking in a time of digital reproduction of prints. 1287 Words. ap091021. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Coop Art

When artists share their world - This artist thinks the time is right for realizing a global artist’s co-operative that has been in existence for a hundred years, but—like people who live on a mountain so they cannot see the mountain—few artists have known about it. It is a shared world. 1475 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ap090603. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com