Katherine Levin-Lau, a member of the BluSeed board and a part-time California resident, curated this exhibit. She said the works from the West Coast represent some of the “top printmakers in the (San Francisco) Bay Area.”

Levin-Lau was born in Saranac Lake and moved West when she was 8. For years, she has split her time between California and Saranac Lake.

To bring the art to the Adirondacks, she packed the prints into her car and had the whole vehicle shipped across the country. It was cheaper than mailing them, she said.

BluSeed Executive Director Marissa Hernandez is also a former California resident, so she’s excited to show off art from her home state.

The work of Californian artist Robyn Smith can be seen at BluSeed Studios this week. These black and white and red prints show the devastation of the city of Mariupol, Ukraine during the Russian invasion. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

“I think it’s amazing to be able to host people from all over the United States,” Hernandez said.

Levin-Lau said the exhibit is meant to promote BluSeed’s on-site print department, where she regularly holds workshops. She said people tend to want to work at home, in addition to the shop, so she wanted to show how they can take what they make in the printmaking studio home and continue to develop their work.

“When we think of printmaking, usually we think of the tradition of making editions,” she wrote in an email. “Original drawings or photos are reproduced using a variety of techniques: lithography, etching, silkscreen and woodblock to name a few.”

For this exhibit, the artist mixed these traditional techniques with new ones — sewing, collage, stencils, quilting and neon.

Diane Olivier alters her images from life drawing sessions with fingers, rags and Q-tips to “reflect the energy and excitement of interacting with a live model.”

The work of Californian artist John Babcock can be seen at BluSeed Studios this week. These colorful and textured prints were created using pulp paper, custom plates of wood strips and plexiglass, and a mallet. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

Dana Harris uses silkscreen with motion sensors that trigger neon lights, incorporating collage, sewing and encaustic painting to create multi-layered visuals.

John Babcock runs his own papermaking studio in Santa Cruz. He uses a mallet to pound grooves into pulp paper, using custom plates of wood strips and plexiglass.

Nature also features heavily in the exhibit, from Jane Gregorius’ elevation of birds and twigs — common sights on her walks — to Theta Belcher’s reflection on a “life long, unabashed love for chickens.” Belcher grew up on a chicken farm and draws inspiration from the beautiful, strange and funny creatures.

Nora Partido blends natural elements with human rites of passage. Kevin Harris finds humor and inspiration in the crumpled tin foil tossed on the his studio floor. Paul Roeh brings a vibrant look at California’s own colorful landscape.

“Ocean and fields, muted by layers of fog, beams of sunshine split by branches of trees in the declining light of late afternoon, golden glow of midsummer’s rolling hills reflected into the sky and trees,” Levin-Lau wrote of her friend Roeh’s work.

Robyn Smith’s series in black and white and red show the devastation of the city of Mariupol, Ukraine during the Russian invasion. Using a process that uses Carand’ache and water allows her to capture the chaos of burned-out buildings.

Evelyn Klein uses her skills in writing and quilting as well as printmaking to address a different type of devastation — that of global warming.

“Her personal experiences with the devastation of the forest fires in her area and her discovery of a favorite ancient redwood that had survived renewed her sense of hope and healing,” Levin-Lau wrote.

Levin-Lau herself is focused on the climate through her work showing “diverse micro climates.”

“I want to show that human impact on environmental change is not isolated to one form of nature or area of the world but it is interconnected,” Levin-Lau wrote. “When one part falls it has a domino effect. By also focusing on the intense beauty of my subjects I hope to support a sense of awe and wonder in the world we live in.”

Octopus tentacles, vines and birds live side-by-side in her large prints.

For Fanny Retsik, who collaborated with Australian artist Sandra Starkey Simon, their focus was on climate change and bats. They hand-cut dozens and dozens of sleeping bats and strung together and assembled into the form of the sleeping bats, creating a sort of superorganism.

There will be a closing showing at 3 p.m. on Aug. 27, featuring a walk-through with Levin-Lau’s son Theo, who will talk visitors around the exhibit.

To register for the closing event, go to tinyurl.com/5n8pfhww.