ATHENS, Ohio -- Lindley Cultural Center cordially welcomes the Athens and Ohio University community to view Lindley Cultural Center Art Gallery's May exhibit, "Stones and Metal, Evidence of History," by Margaret F. Cohn.

A resident of Athens since 1959, Cohn has been active in numerous community organizations and worked in Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College from 1972 until retiring as Dean Emerita in 1995.

The photographs feature ruins, tombs and statues. These vary in age from 4000-5000 B.C. to the most recent, 1997. Cohn has found common threads among the photographs as she works with them, and enjoys sharing them and the stories that they call up in the imagination.

The pieces are emulsion transfers from slide transparencies. A Polaroid printer is used to make a print and the emulsion is then stripped from the print backing, stretched or manipulated as desired, and then mounted on watercolor paper. Each resulting piece is original and unique.

The exhibit will be open to the public, free of charge from May 2 until May 30, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Lindley Cultural Center Art Gallery.