Goines Posters on Display at Hillside Club

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Like the club, the bullwork of Goines invites you into domesticity, to campfire and at rest. The posters and the box generally stroke agnate a comforter. Subdued colors and soft curving images soothe the vision-intimate and central.

To preview the posters energy to www.goines.catch. At www.hillsideclub.org composition the arts & crafts clubhouse. Introduce yourself, family, guests and individuals advanced to Berkeley to a big league Berkeley craftsman and a historic place club.

Goines came to Berkeley access 1963 to study classics. Advocating costless speech, he was among 800 students arrested for occupying Sproul Entry. This landed Goines, consequently 19, influence jail. His personal invoice of these times is told agency his compelling book, The Comp Speech Movement; Coming of Age influence the 1960s.

The university reinstated Goines but he had at sea his appetite for break in. Apprenticing to a printer, he became a journeyman by printing fundamental literature. Agency 1970 Goines bought the calling and moved absolute to 1703 Grove Plan, subsequent renamed Martin Luther Baron Lesser Road. Goines still prints acknowledged as, "I own no inclination to force anywhere more. This pays enough to care for soul and body well-adjusted. And, I agnate experience real!"

Ascendancy 1968 Goines and a partner did a account aliment column agency the San Francisco Accurate. This collaboration led to a almanac, Thirty Recipes Suitable for Framing, compiled and edited by Alice Louise Waters, calligraphy and illustrations by David L. Goines. Every allotment his Champion Hieronymus Press makes a advanced placard for Waters' restaurant, Chez Panisse.

Goines designs posters. He prints them on his photo countervail press. He prints every bill himself. Each color gets printed separately; his posters hold 1 to 22 colors. Because his skills evolved his assignment became also sophisticated, added elegant.

Goines posters are influence the collections of Museum of Present Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art, the Musee de la Publicite of the Louvre in Paris and homes all over Berkeley.

David Goines has qualities common in Berkeley. He has opinions. He has passions. He is intelligent, thorough, inventive and his own person. He is proud of being on the board of the Northern California American Red Cross. A seventeen gallon blood donor, Goines warns, "Not enough people donate blood. You never know when you will need it."

Six days a week Goines walks the mile from his home to his press and back again.

Hillside Club member Bill Woodcock planned this show to celebrate 40 years of St. Hieronymus Press and the 110th anniversary of the Hillside Club. Woodcock says, "Goines is an internationally recognized craftsman for whom local recognition is long overdue. The authenticity of his work resonates well with the arts and crafts clubhouse."

Silicon Valley PR connector and club enthusiast Sylvia Paull says she believes that "The club has all the strains of Berkeley�community, enjoying cultural events together, being part of living history. For me it's a spiritual place.... and I'm an atheist!"

The club began in 1898: a group of Berkeley women met to preserve nature and to promote art. Activist Annie Maybeck, incensed that the town was about to cut down a tree for Le Roy Street, near Ridge Road, campaigned to save the tree. "Annie's Oak" was saved a century ago. Now, nearby, some people occupy a grove of oak trees, also trying to save them.

The 1906 clubhouse, designed by Annie's husband, Bernard Maybeck, burned in the Berkeley fire of 1923. By 1924 the clubhouse was rebuilt. The building, rarely noticed because it so thoroughly blends into the neighborhood, has long vertical windows for shafts of daylight, a massive stone fireplace and a copper lamp from the original clubhouse.

The Hillside Club hosts many community events: cybersalons, dances, potlucks and movies. Members form groups around their interests. The Etude Club, for club members who are musicians, has been meeting and playing music together since 1904.

Come to the Hillside Club for five minutes or an hour this weekend. Treat yourself to a relaxing, stimulating visit. You can meet members of Berkeley's oldest community club and the club's gracious managers, Erma Wheatley and John Feld. Consider buying a poster or joining the club. See 100 posters and meet their maker, David Lance Goines.

November 30, 2007