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.

March 20, 27 & April 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2013
Wednesday evenings, 6-9 pm  (6 weeks)

Instructor: Annie Cicale
Cost: $277

Description: Book artists are usually concerned with the relationship of word and image in their work. Learning the basics of typography and page design are essential to elevating the book from a dashed off  to a piece where the design supports the concept. We will work with your handwriting to develop expressive textures, hand lettering with a slowed down print script, and if desired, some formal calligraphy. The basics of typography will be reviewed, and some of these can be used to make polymer plates for editions of a book. Page design will be introduced as well, with analyses of various grid systems in their historical context as well as in contemporary design. We’ll put all this together with broadsides or books, one-offs or editions, and discuss how the design of the textural parts of your work can be used to support your ideas.