Here is the press release about the Glen Echo Photoworks events coming up for FotoWeek DC. I will be participating in the “Celebration of Alternative Processes Symposium” on Sunday, November 6 and running a demo of Platinum/Palladium printing on Wednesday, November 9. I know a lot of the other presenters and they’re really great people and great artists. This will be a terrific event and I’m really looking forward to it.

PHOTOWORKS FOTOWEEK 2011 ___________________________________________________________________________________ Celebrate The Alternatives! Alternative Process Photo Symposium & Workshops   Image by Barbara Maloney     1     Cyanotype Workshop with Barbara Maloney        Date:  Saturday, November 5, 2011         Time:  10 AM – 4 PM  Place:  Photoworks       Arcade Building              Glen Echo Park, MD 20812         Cost:  $125         Register: www.glenechopark.org or call 301-634-2226        Info:  www.glenechophotoworks.org        Whether you are new to non-silver processes or not,        this one-day workshop promises to be a lot of fun.        We will make cyanotype photographs, photograms and collages.        The class includes toning, hand-color and overprinting gum bichromate.       2     Celebration of Alternative Process Symposium        Date:  Sunday, November 6, 2011         Time:  11 AM – 4 PM   Place:  Photoworks       Arcade Building              Glen Echo Park, MD 20812         Cost:  FREE — Lunch Break — Drinks & Desserts Provided        RSVP:  Event is FREE.  Please RSVP at photoworks.gallery@gmail.com        Info:  www.glenechophotoworks.org        A group of artists whose work embraces the use of historic        photography processes and hand-applied emulsions        will show and discuss their work and processes every 30 minutes.        Guest Artists are listed below, in order of their presentations…              Barbara Maloney, “Temperaprint, Photo Etching, Cyanotype”        Scott Davis, “Platinum and Palladium”        Sheila Galagan, “Lith Printing”        Andrew Currie, “Tintype”        Grace Taylor, “VanDyke Brown”        George Smyth, “Bromoil”        Keith Williams, “Monobath, IR, UV”        Richard Pippin, “Lith Printing”       3     Platinum & Palladium Printing & Variations     Workshop with Scott Davis        Date:  Wednesday, November 9, 2011         Time:  7 PM – 9 PM   Place:  Photoworks Studio       Arcade Building              Glen Echo Park, MD 20812         Cost:  $40          Register: www.glenechopark.org        Info:  www.glenechophotoworks.org        Scott Davis will demonstrate the beautiful and noble platinum,        palladium and ziatype printing processes.  Discussion includes        tools, chemistry, paper choices, coating techniques, processing,        contrast control, and techniques for affecting image color.        Tips and tricks for great prints will be shared     4     Bromoil Workshop with George Smyth Date:  Sunday, November 13, 2011 Time:  10 AM – 4 PM Place:  Photoworks       Arcade Building              Glen Echo Park, MD 20812         Cost:  $120 plus $30 supply cost         Register: www.glenechopark.org        Info:  www.glenechophotoworks.org        Bromoil is an early photographic process popular with the Pictorialists        and is presently being revived by fine art photographers with endless        possibilities for expression.  Topics covered are:  digital negatives,        silver gelatin papers, mixing chemistry, and bleaching prints.        Students will have the opportunity to ink a few prints (provided).        Smyth will conclude with the “finishing” and presentation of prints. Photoworks Photography School will offer Alternative Process Workshops in Spring 2012 as part of the course curriculum. An Alternative Process Exhibit will be held in the Photoworks Gallery in April 2012.   _______________________________________             PHOTOWORKS      7300 MacArthur Blvd      Glen Echo, MD 20812    www.glenechophotoworks.org      301-634-2274