Alt-Photo-Process-L Feb 2003: Re: Chicago

From: Leonard Peterson (windpoint@hotmail.com)
Date: 02/06/03-07:10:38 AM Z

The lower part of the Chicago Art Institiute usually has a photographic exhibit and alot of study resources available to look at. They also have many other fine pieces to view.

>From: Andrew Epstein

>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca

>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca

>Subject: Chicago

>Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:21:01 -0600

>Hi:

>Writing from beautiful (and cold cold) downtown Iowa City, Iowa with a

>question: Can anyone recommend galleries or exhibits in the Chicago area

>featuring alt-photos? I'll be there this weekend and the first part of next

>week.

>And if anyone is in the eastern Iowa area, there is a show of cyanotypes made

>by alternative high school students at the

>Mandala Community Art Gallery in Oxford, Iowa

>(it only seemed natural for them for them delve into alternative processes).

>The gallery is run by students from the local high school. Perhaps Oxford's

>most illustrious citizen (which isn't hard for a town of a few hundred) is

>Peter Feldstein whom I think some of you know. He teaches at the University of

>Iowa and is very accomplished with the cliche verre process. He was

>instrumental in helping start the gallery as well as my own journey into the

>alt-photo domain.

>By way of introduction, I am a public school district administrator who likes

>to teach a class in photography and poetry every now and then to stay fresh.

>I've been printing cyanotyoes (Mike Ware's formula mainly) and VDB for about a

>year now. The information and discussions on this list have been indispensable

>to my learning process. My sincere thanks to you all for sharing.

>Cheers,

>Andrew