Cyanotype Workshop: Using the Sunlight to Make Unique Prints for Your Home

168 Worthington Street,Springfield MA 01103

31 July, 2021

Description

Make artistic photographic prints using sunlight! Join us for some fun in the sun with a cyanotype workshop and take home beautiful prints and notecards for your home! Magical and simple cyanotypes are a camera-less technique that results in graphic blue and white prints. It is an alternative photographic process, first used in the 1800’s as a way of copying architectural plans (blueprints). Each participant will have the opportunity to create and take home two 6 x 9-inch cyanotypes and one greeting card. All supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring objects or pressed plants with interesting silhouettes to use in your compositions. Partially outdoor and definitely physically-distanced fun for all ages! *In order to provide this experience for as many people as possible, we ask that you register for one workshop only per person/family. *Tickets are non-refundable after July 27 for the July 31 workshop and after August 3 for the August 7 workshop. If you decide you can't attend after purchasing a ticket, please email [email protected] so we can open up the spot to others on the waiting list. ----- This workshop is supported in part by a grant from the Springfield Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. About the instructor: Madge Evers lives in Western Massachusetts where her art often begins in the garden. She began making mushroom spore print art in 2015 which led to her explorations with the magical cyanotype process. Her work has been shown throughout the Northeast, including at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Art in Springfield. In June of 2020, Madge began to work full-time as an artist after teaching for 25 years in Rhode Island and Massachusetts public schools and she now conducts cyanotype workshops for people of all ages. Make-It Springfield offers an accessible community space for local makers, artisans, crafters, entrepreneurs, programmers, doers and enthusiasts to share their skillsets with community members of all ages. Make-It hosts public workshops and events and is a collaboration between MassDevelopment’s Transformative Development Initiative [TDI], the UMASS Design Center in Springfield and community members. Come make with us!