From: "Random Acts Puppet Theater" <puppets-AT-texas.net>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Re: Acrylics on Leather AND SAFETY
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:01:40 -0500


My dear wife, who'd like to be married to me a long time, gave me THE ARTIST'S
COMPLETE HEALTH AND SAFETY GUIDE by Monona Rossol.  I recommend it - though you
may have to modify your old ways of doing things after you read what some of
this stuff actually does to people.

Another little item I've installed recently is an exhaust fan for my workshop.
It's one of those roof venilator fans but I mounted it in the wall and will suck
your hair off.  Seriously, it does a good job of pulling fumes and dust away
from my side of the workbench and dumping them outside.  It also helps keep
things cool in a Texas summer, by keeping the breeze up.

Thanks for the warning San D.

Bill Woodburn
Random Acts Puppet Theater
Austin, Texas
http://puppets.home.texas.net


-----Original Message-----
From: KPRS <KPRS-AT-cybernex.net>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu <puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 6:27 AM
Subject: PUPT: Re: Acrylics on Leather..............


>Just as an aside...I wonder out loud how many of us are really using our art
>supplies in the proper way..what I mean is...in a healthy way, with proper
>ventillation, disposal of solvents, not getting it on our skins etc.  While
>not paranoid, I am cautious.  I teach in a high school and have made it my
>job to try to keep my students aware of the dangers of art supplies.  I am
>of the generation on the cusp of the Jackson Pollock era, you know they
>type, "smoke em if you got em, I eat art supplies for lunch," generation.
>Our professors laughed at us if we chose not to be up to our elbows in
>paint, varnish, solvents, eyes up to the peepholes in the kilns etc.  I am
>also a 13 year cancer survivor who has been put in a study by her  state Art
>Teachers' organization.
>
>As a last word, I would like to recommend this for summer reading....
>
> Artist Beware
>by Michael, Ph.D, C.I.H. McCann
>
>
>San D
>
>
>
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