Twelve Tasks

A dozen things online printmaking education leaders must do
From a five-year old study on the subject of leadership in distance learning, the author (who would aspire to leadership in art in the age of digital reproduction) gleans twelve tasks that author described that needed doing. He reflects on a 1970s vision. 1452 Words. Full text by email request.

Press Kit

Listing the contents
The designer of an online printmaking course plans to put everything an art student needs into a box that he or she can use to learn printmaking, calling it an appropriate technology for education in the age of digital reproduction. He lists the contents. 735 Words. Email request for full text.

Restoration Theater

A “mid-artist’s” notion for an art sale
Stung by the suggestion that his own handiwork and collaborative role in the birth of an artwork by an artist more renown than himself, the artist—who enjoyed a generation as an art professor at the time of this art’s making—plans a dinner sale. 1330 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Emeralda Curricula

How a card plays
This artist is looking for a special kind of collectible artist’s playing card, one that actually “plays” in the sense of a performance. Ideas like this appear in his imagination as he envisions a game which he can use to be a virtual, virtuous professor. 543 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Intangible Assets in the Age of Digital Communications

Notes from a venturous group
Originally titled Valuation of Intangible Assets, these are the notes from a presentation by Steve Olson and Jim Elmer of Consilium, Inc., entered from the October 1988 issue of Northwest Venture Group Newsletter compiled by Doug Batey and Kevin Collette. 1679 Words. Copyright 1989 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Card Ready

Preparing for the Big One
Learning that one of his artworks will be offered in a commercial art auction, the author thinks about his own version of an auction—the Big One—the kind that happens when an artist dies. It’s part of his Artist’s Last Love Letter model he needs to write. 1057 Words. 4989 Characters. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Beginning and Ending Books

From Confucius to Stewart and many in between
The inventor of Emeralda: Games for the Gifts of Life recollects how his readings gave him the idea of a game for asset management and legacy transfer, starting with games and ending with games. Outside sources and his inside feelings created a huge lake. 903 Words. 4243 Characters. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.