The World’s Largest Cyanotype

On September 19, 2015, the first official World Cyanotype Day, shootapalooza artists, along with friends of the A Smith Gallery, stretched out a whopping big piece of blue cloth and jumped on top of it.  Ten minutes later, the Johnson City Texas Volunteer Fire Department turned on the hose of its big pumper and began the rinse.  The resulting cyanotype, thirty feet by ninety, ten yards by thirty, twenty-seven hundred square feet, takes the bacon, so to speak, and reigns as world’s largest.

First and foremost, our thanks go to Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully for hosting the event in their gallery and in the town of Johnson City, Texas.

Carol Surer compiled and composed a SmileBox collage from the event.

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a letter from shootapalooza

If you will click this link, you will find the following “letter from shootapalooza,” published in the September / October 2015 issue of South x Southeast Photomagazine.

Ebb and Flow by Lynda Martin for the show, “Water”.

Hello Nancy, and thank you for your continued interest in this movable creative feast called shootapalooza.

You missed a great party on the twenty-first of June. Johnson City is not a big place in Texas, but it is home to a big-hearted fine-art photography gallery. Five years ago, Amanda Smith came to town and purchased the gallery that now bears her name. She made the front half into a showcase for monthly exhibitions and the back half into a home and gallery for the works in her personal collection. She turned the bathroom into an aviary, except there were no birds – only bird cages.