BLUE BEE CIDER
4811 Bethlehem Rd Ste A
Richmond, VA 23230
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Sat · 12–8pm
Sun · 12–6pm
Every spring and summer Katharine returns to the wild blooms and sunshine, where she unapologetically embraces the beauty of nature, and allows a tenderness to seep in.
Alongside Blue Bee Cider, we’re celebrating the end of the growing season with Katharine’s gorgeous botanical cyanotypes, the crisp effervescence of their apple ciders, and the transition from summer to fall here in Richmond.
WATCH KATHARINE MAKE APPLE, A CYANOTYPE INSPIRED BY BLUE BEE CIDER
WILD & SOFT COLLECTION
One of these is going to stop you. Not because you know cyanotype—because something under your ribs goes uh huh, that's mine. That's the part of you that got trained to stay quiet. It's the part that's right, for you.
Katharine makes these every summer in the sun, with wildflowers in reach, to soften a practice that usually asks a lot of her. She made the work. Which one is yours isn't her call, and it isn't mine.
You’re allowed to want what you want, so when you find the one piece by Katharine that lights you up, I'll get it to you. Through September 30 at Blue Bee Cider.
Browse the Collector's Catalog
for a more intimate look at each piece
Ways to purchase:
stop by Blue Bee Cider to see it in person
pay online, or reply to any email for an invoice
2- or 3-month payment plan on anything over $500
try it in your space first, or reply to hold it—no deposit, off the market while you decide
WILD & SOFT | COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Katharine's cyanotypes are out in the RVA wild! Placed with community partners—women-owned businesses across Richmond—to help spread the word about her first east coast solo exhibition.
Buy an original from one of these badass women and 10% goes straight back to their business.
Katharine T. Jacobs – Sculptor & Multidisciplinary Artist
Katharine T. Jacobs is a sculptor and multidisciplinary artist based in rural California. Her work examines the emotional and physical impacts of addiction, illness, and the complexities of care. Grounded in personal experience, her practice explores what it means to live in ongoing relationship with grief and chronic illness.
She received a BFA in photography before expanding into sculpture and fiber-based media during her MFA, developing a more tactile and process-oriented approach. Her work engages with themes of disability, femininity, and play, often through contemporary applications to traditional Fine Art and Craft practices.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As an interdisciplinary artist, my work blends historical techniques with contemporary craft, exploring themes of nature, labor, and identity. To me the history and the reputation of cyanotype is undeniably feminine. In my studies of alternative process photography I was never drawn to cyanotype due to its simplicity and the limitations of its color.
When my life drastically changed within a year following the birth of my daughter, my Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis and the realization and escape of my abusive marriage; I reevaluated every aspect of my life, including materials. The pulls of motherhood demanded my attention, and the darkroom was neglected. I looked for a craft that I could do with a baby on my hip.
My MS diagnosis suggested a correlation with a lack of vitamin D which led me to seek more time in the sun in my last days in Oregon, then to fully immerse myself outdoors after returning to my native state of California. While healing from heartbreak, I was desperate to keep my hands busy and found myself surrounded by wildflowers.
For all of these reasons I turned to cyanotype. Every spring and summer since I have returned to this part of my practice where I am able to unapologetically embrace the beauty of nature. In contrast to my conceptual work, this practice is not led by the complexity of trauma but by the simplicity of unapologetic beauty. Each summer I make a series of botanical cyanotypes that allow me to soften my practice, and allow a tenderness to seep in that I am able to carry into my other work and life.
BIG THANKS TO OUR VENUE PARTNER BLUE BEE CIDER!
BLUE BEE CIDER
4811 Bethlehem Rd Ste A
Richmond, VA 23230
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WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY
4–8pm
SATURDAY
12–8pm
SUNDAY
12–6pm
We are a family- and pet- friendly cidery that serves award winning cider in glasses, carafes, and flights.
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Feverfew, scattered wide across an indigo ground like she opened a window mid-arrangement and let the wind sort it. Feverfew's an old apothecary flower, used for centuries to settle headaches and fevers, and there's something fitting about it dissolving into cyanotype blue like a remedy diffusing into water.
2026
Cyanotype on watercolor paper
18 x 24 in
24 ½ x 28 ½ in (framed)
Framed by Fralin Art & Frame
Payment plans available. Email Sylvia to inquire about this piece.
Pieces sold during Wild & Soft ship after the show closes September 30, with delivery in 1–2 weeks.
Currently on display at BLUE BEE CIDER (4811 Bethlehem Rd Ste A, Richmond, VA 23230), our Venue Partner for Katharine’s solo show Wild & Soft, on view August 1–September 30, 2026.