October 2009 Newsletter

Kites in all Forms and Colors Fly in the Gota de Plata
Pachuca, Mexico

To help celebrate the annual festival of San Francisco in the city of Pachuca Mexico (two hours north of Mexico City), the inauguration of this phenomenal exhibition of 319 art kites was opened by Scott Skinner of Drachen and the mayor of Pachuca.  
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Kites Over Washington

 Seth Abramson has been flying kites as performance art for the past 12 years. Kites Over Washington was his biggest in-house production yet . . .
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Kiyomi Okawa

She came to us as a contractor, freelancing as a graphic designer and answered our need to help us with our newly conceived kite journal.  The editor and author was Ben Ruhe, and under his strict but journalistic eye, needed a graphic designer who could take direction, graphically manipulate text and images, all under a deadline.
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Moku Hanga:  2009 The Richard Steiner West Coast Tour

In the heat of summer, Moku Hanga teacher Richard Steiner took the west coast by storm.  A master of Japanese woodblock printing, he began his tour (and the 5th year of teaching in Portland) with McClain’s class of 15 students.  Teaching this traditional art, he commented, “This was possibly the best class that I have ever had….”
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Gloria Stuart's
Flight of the Butterfly

Ninety-Nine year old Gloria Stuart, star of James Cameron’s blockbuster, Titanic, has been a long time fancier of kites. In her autobiography she is pictured in 1939 in the Singapore train station with a Thai Chula kite, having just visited Bangkok.
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