For immediate release, THE CORCORAN Gallery of Art-College of Art and Design in Washington DC, presents AGENTS OF CHANGE: AN EXHIBITION OF ARTISTS BOOKS AND PRINTS WITH A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE.  October 5-30, 2011

Nelleke Nix will be represented by her work Zones of Time Sand and Rain. About conservation efforts in Costa Rica.                                                                                                                        

The book contains besides text, six lino prints, 13 block prints of text that was first handwritten and transferred, and several experimental images in digital print.                                                                                  

Eight photographs by Phyllis Uitti Maslin were the basis for eight more photographic digitally translated images. Printing of the lino blocks, text block prints and of the title page on letterpress was done at Sidereal Press (now in Tukwila WA) by Sheila Coppola. The 30 pages of the book were printed on textured, heavy handmade plant fiber paper and on Fabriano Pescia.paper. —submitted by Nelleke