Missing the Point

Join us as we show the work of two talented artists: Julie Lambert and David Lambert (a GC alum!). The exhibition includes photography, installation, drawing & painting, and even work on post-its (that's right, who knew the little office supplies could make such big and wonderful art!)

The exhibition opens Thursday, November 19th with an opening reception (this means food and fun!) from 5-7 and a short hello from the artists taking place at 6:00. The show runs through December 18th with normal gallery hours being noon-4:30.

You won't want to miss "Missing the Point"

hard case book making

This is a great lapse time video of traditional and modern print and book making processes.

It starts with printing etchings from copper plates (they are using a thin piece of mylar to block the extra ink in order to get a clean square without an embossment. Since it is a book the embossment would show through the other other side of the page) They next do some large monotype printing on copper plates (this is process of of inking up a etching plate and altering it before printing this is done in the video with Q tips and newsprint)
They then use polymer plate printing on a Vandercook to do the letterpress work. This must be done after the etchings to keep the embossment and the etchings are printed with wet paper while the letterpress is done dry.
Next the books are coptic sewn and head banded.
They make paper the right way with a vat of pulp and water and pulled through a mold and deckle then pressed and dried.
Finally the books are bounds and pressed to stay flat in drying.
Great example of process start to finish
Thanks to Darrell for showing it to me.

Large Papercut Installation

Transparent God, 2009

Some amazing papercut installations. Take a look at more HERE.

Mike Smith at RC May Lecture Series, Friday

Lecture: Friday, November 13, 2009, 4:00 pm
Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.

Exhibition: November 7 - December 13, 2009
Art Museum Gallery

Mike Smith's photographs of rural Tennessee embrace the lush beauty of the land, even as he reveals the suburban encroachment that threatens much of rural Appalachia. In his large-format color photographs, Smith unearths telling signs of human impact on the landscape, from aged, weather-beaten farm buildings that seem an organic part of the landscape to the jarring reality of bright, new multi-pump gas stations.

Image Credit:MIKE SMITH, Unicoi, TN, 1998, Chromogenic print, courtesy of the artist.

To find out more about the lecture, click HERE.

Visit Mike Smith's website HERE.

Photograms from ART 120, Photography

These are some of the prints produced in our photograms project in ART 120, Photography. It is perhaps the simplest of darkroom processes, but one of the most difficult to produce compelling imagery. You can see more HERE.

A Simple Pledge

Does someone in your studio use one of these typefaces? Does it make your typographically sensitive skin crawl? You can help. Order this poster and make your hack designing colleague take this pledge and sign it. Preferably in their own blood. Heck, you might be an offender and need to sign one yourself. Make a difference. Do it today. Click HERE.

As if this isnt a problem already

I saw this product and just had to share, it looks like something Erica Duffy-Voss would have done. It is called the privacy scarf.

For All You Type Lovers

A great audio piece from PRI's To the Best of Our Knowledge on fonts...

"The Internet is a free flow of ideas where everyone can say whatever they want. But for all its splashy graphics and Flash animation, there's one thing that makes the Internet looks the same. Its name is Verdana. And it's a font. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll talk with Matthew Carter, the designer of Verdana, the Internet font. Also, the creators of Obama's font, Gotham -- The font of Hope and Change."

Click HERE to listen.

Cal Lane

Hand cut lace out of steel shovels. She uses a plasma torch (which we have here at Georgetown, if you take sculpture you will learn how to use it)

A normal wheelbarrow cut into lace.

She also uses the cut steel pieces as stencils to make dirt lace works. Make sure to check out her work.

If you have not heard the name before make sure to check out her work. She can do some amazing things with simple tools. Check out her site HERE
you can even see older works that show her progression.