Exhibition Dates: March 1 – April 26, 2013
Reception on Friday, March 8, 6 – 8 PM. Join us at 7 PM for An Artists’ Talk: Alternative Photographic Processes with Clay Harmon, Bridget Conn, and Lynette Miller

AFTER YOU lauds the creative synergy of marbler Stephen Pittelkow and photographer Alyssa C. Salomon. Together the artists marry marbling—a method of creating unique prints by transferring paint from the surface of water or other viscous matter onto paper or fabric—and photography through their interwoven creative processes. Their work will be on display at BookWorks from March 1 – April 26, 2013.

Their ongoing collaboration began out of generous curiosity.  Teaching in adjoining studios at Penland School of Crafts, Pittelkow offered Salomon, “If you give me one of your cyanotypes, I’ll marble it.” The resulting marbled photograph was dazzling and fresh.  The pair continues to send prints back and forth, working like jazz musicians, improvisationally, leaving space for the ideas and skills of the other, producing electric, surreal dreamscapes on paper.  This exhibition features work from several series from the ongoing collaboration, as well as tools used in marbling and the handmade photographic processes and information about how the work is created.  A May weekend workshop with Steve and Alyssa at Bookworks, “Marbling Meets Cyanotype,” gives community members an opportunity to experiment with and learn both.

Jan 22, Feb 19, Mar 19, Apr 16, May 14, and Jun 18th
Tuesday 6:30 – 9:00 pm

Instructor: Heather Allen Hietala
Cost: $232  (no materials fee for the class)
(suggested that one has taken Keeping Creative Visual Journals)

Description: Drawing on the idea of a daily journal practice you will explore and expand your own personal artistic style. Often it is less daunting or intimidating to explore the development of new ideas and images in the smaller format and repetitive nature of a journal. This class works uses specific parameters and the student’s established journal practice in a non-verbal, purely visual practice. By developing and maintaining a non-linear journal over 6 months we will explore how journals can lead to exciting artistic discoveries and insight. Having taken Keeping Creative Visual Journal can be helpful but not necessary.

Supply list:

• bring 3-5 actual pieces of your work, to introduce yourself to the first class
• current journal
• any blank journals/ sketchbooks lying around = potential journals
• favorite journal writing implement
• glue stick
• scissors
• anything that you naturally use to doodle, sketch or design such as
• favorite pens/pencils/colored pencils
• watercolors and brush
• markers/pastels
• stamp and stamp pads
• collage materials
• thread and needles
• hole punches