AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Mad Art Gallery presents the Big Ass Indie Art and Craft Show, your alternative to the alternative holiday craft shows. The STL Craft Mafia will be helping organize and plan this alternative art & craft extravaganza with Mad Art Gallery.

This show offers three days of shopping (December 5, 6, 7) in St. Louis' most spectacular and well-known venue for art exhibitions and unique events. Our show focuses on presenting original art and hand-made crafts of the highest quality. Expect the unexpected with the most unique and high-quality indie art this holiday season.

For details and online applications, please visit:

http://www.madart.com/eventsexhibitions/publicevents/bigassindieartcraftshow.htm"

Mad Art Gallery
2727 S. 12th Street,
St. Louis, MO 63118

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue.

Cyanotypes, also called sun prints, are one of the oldest photographic printing processes dating back to 1842. Sir John Herschel developed this first silver less photographic process using only 2 chemicals and the sun as a light source. These sun prints are decidedly low tech as the final image of a cyanotype appears only with the aid of sunlight as a light source and water for a developer. This inexpensive, simple and permanent process was used for the blue print process for copying architectural plans, hence the name

My current passion is an alternative photographic process called Polaroid transfers. Each polaroid transfer is hand-made by the photographer using specific materials and equipment to achieve a desired effect. A transparency is projected on to professional Polaroid print film and as development begins, the print and chemicals are prematurely separated. The image is transferred on to dampened watercolor paper for a unique image which has a dated artistic photo-painting appearance. Exposure, development, pressure, time, paper and other variables make each print an original mono-print. Since the negative is destroyed in the process, no two images will ever look alike.