Trisha Oralie Martin’s Uptown Artist Residency is in full swing, and counting down the last two open studio days. Her studio on the fourth floor of the Preston Bradley Center (941 West Lawrence Avenue) welcomes colleagues and community members to join in the final stages of the Transparent Depictions project. Working through a diverse set of four workshops using recycled and found materials, Uptown community members, artists, and art enthusiasts have been contributing parts and pieces to the culminating sculptural book Transparent Depictions, which is scheduled to be exhibited in early May 2013.

The last two days of open workshops at the Uptown Arts Center will be Friday, April 12, from 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., and Saturday, April 13, from 9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon. Saturday Workshop #4 will focus on the topic “Temporary Book.” Some of the questions being considered at this final workshop will include: What is a book? What defines a book? Where are books found? Says Martin, “This final workshop will explore ways we read books, approach books and engage with books. Using found objects, the participants on Saturday will place temporary books in unconventional spaces inside and outside of the Preston Bradley Center.” Her hope is that the surprising encounters of books and space will shake-up ideas of the book, and explore ways in which Transparent Depictions can, and perhaps should, be read once it is installed in the exhibition space.

For access to the studio for the last workshops, contact Trisha Martin at trishaomartin@gmail.com.

To find out more about the project, click here, or email the Uptown Arts Center Director.