Remember the "very small object" guy and collecting we did as a community last summer? Our 2007 Children's Exhibit guest artist, Brian Collier, has reached a milestone.

"These are copies, right?"

"Um ... no. These are the real thing."

I imagine we'll be getting a lot of that when The Inspired Line opens this Friday. When exceptional and inexpensive image scanning meets loosely-used printmaking terminology, it's not unusual for people to confuse print reproductions with originals. Art marketing relies on you getting butterflies when the word "original" accompanies a work. To a collector it implies the piece they're buying is one-of-a-kind and therefore a more valuable investment. To a dealer, it means they can charge more. But original is a very broad term and can encompass everything from one (Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, ) to many (Gordon Parks' American Gothic photgraphs). So how do you tell the difference? What should you look for?