Thunderbird Editions

 

In January, 1998, Dorothy Simpson Krause and Bonny Lhotka worked with Steve Carlisle at his Thunderbird Editions Studio in Clearwater, Florida on a project related to Florida's homeless population. The three artists shared resources. With the cooperation of Everybody's Tabernacle, a local center for assistance, Steve took photographs of homeless people, Lhotka provided fabrics and other substrates to scan and print on and Krause provided quotations and pages from a journal.

Krause, Lhotka and Carlisle combined the shared materials with Dicomed digital photographs taken in the studio to create a related series of work. They composed images for two days before they began to print and in the following three days, Philip Langford, Thunderbird's printer kept two IRIS printers running non-stop. In an intense working period of one week they produced more than fifty prints. The work was printed in sizes up to 30Óx47Ó using the IRIS 3047 and IRIS 3047G. A variety of surfaces including hand-made substrates, house-painters old drop-cloths and fine art papers were used. A number of the pieces had overlays of transparent or translucent materials, collaged elements or the addition of traditional art materials. On Friday evening Krause, Lhotka and Carlisle hung a selection of their work and invited area artists to see what had been accomplished.
A selection of the work produced at Thunderbird is available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds returned to local charities. A portfolio of nine of the images, three from each artist, have been donated for a benefit auction.