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Forty vitreograph prints from the Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine, North Carolina will be on display. Harvey Littleton of Littleton Studios is truly the modern pioneer of vitreography. Vitreography, or the art of using glass to make prints, is a process that was experimented with in the 1840s but did not become popular because of the expense and danger associated with the process.

In the mid-1970s, artist Harvey Littleton, known as the father of the studio glass movement in America, began using new technologies and techniques to improve glass printmaking. Images are created by using engravers, acid, resists, sandblasting and a wide array of devices and methods.

Unlike metal or wood printmaking, glass plates are chemically inert and do not oxidize or change with the composition of printing inks. This allows vitreograph colors to remain true and have remarkable luminosity.

Exhibitors include: Walter Darby Bannard, Sydney Cross, Shane Fero, Ellen E. Fischer, Tom Hammond, Herb Jackson, Kenneth Kerslake, Harvey K. Littleton, Robert Mueller, Judith O'Rourke, Andrew Owen, Keith Rasmussen, Joe Sanders, Bradlee Shanks, and Mildred Thompson.

Opening reception: Thursday, September 22, 2005 from 5:30-7:30pm
Gallery Talk at 6:30 p.m. with curator/author Ann Weiss.

CHILDREN REPRESENT THE FUTURE. When one wants to destroy a group, it is not enough to destroy the people, the culture, the books, the ideas. One must destroy society's most vulnerable members, the children who point toward the future, and the elders in whose memories the past resides. By killing the youngest and oldest first, the Nazis ensured almost a complete destruction of the Jews. Over one million children were killed.

This is an exhibition of the heart. It invites the viewer to feel…and not forget. The photographs in the exhibition were carried into Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland by Jews deported there in August 1943. They record momentous events in the life cycle: weddings, birth of a child, first day of school, career accomplishments. One would expect to find these photos in a family album. Instead, they were found at the Nazi concentration camps decades after the war by Ann Weiss the daughter of two Holocaust survivors.

For the past 18 years, Ms. Weiss has dedicated herself to searching for names and stories, and most of all, people, who might belong to the photographs. The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau reminds viewers of what matters in life and what needs to be remembered.

Sponsors for this exhibit include Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina; The Chapin Foundation; The Chapin Memorial Library; Jewish Endowment Federation; Brenda and Dick Rosen; The South Financial Group Foundation; The Wachovia Foundation and The Jerry and Anita Zucker Family Foundation, Inc.

School groups coming in for The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau will be creating butterflies to memorialize individual children that perished in the Holocaust. We will then send the butterflies off to the Holocaust Museum Houston where they will be included in a breath-taking exhibition for all to remember.

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