IMPACT 5

We're just a few days away from leaving for Tallinn, Estonia for Impact 5, the usually European show comparable to Southern Graphics or Mid-America Print Council's shows. This year's IMPACT coincides with the Tallinn Print Triennial and will be held at the Kumu Museum in the capital city.

As usual, Graphic will have a contingent at the show, and somewhat unusually, there will be a pretty solid cadre of other suppliers at the show. I'm not sure how many of them are exhibiting this time but I know of several who will be supporting their distributors. It all makes for an exciting trip and an opportunity to meet with artists from Eastern Europe and give them a tase of the quality printmaking materials available from the West. It gives us an opportunity to find both distributors for our materials, and potential suppliers as well.

After the show, the group from Graphic will journey on to Lithuania to visit relatives (Susan's) and renew our acquaintances with a number of Lithuanian artists. Altogether we'll be gone for almost three weeks.

We are also calling on European distributors in Denmark, Germany, Holland, and Belgium, so there's a lot going on in a relatively short period.

We will be supported in Tallinn by our good friends at Caligo, manufacturers of the Caligo Safe-Wash inks. For the uninformed, Caligo Safe-Wash Inks are available in both Intaglio and Relief styles, and are oil based inks that wash up with soap and water. We are happy to provide samples to anyone who'd like to experiment with them - just let us know.