Sun x Seaweed: Cyanotype Workshop
Join Oriana Poindexter and the Catalina Island Conservancy for an interactive cyanotype workshop. Learn this early alternative photographic process and use organic materials to create your own cyanotype prints using photo chemistry techniques first developed in the 1840s.
The resulting prints are records of the state of the ocean and your creative process on that particular day, recorded in the blue and white palette of the sea itself. Cyanotype is an alternative photographic process used to create photographic prints in the distinctive shade of Prussian blue and white without the use of a camera, exposed with the sun and developed in water.
This workshop will teach you the fundamentals of the cyanotype process, its history, and will culminate with each participant creating three original cyanotype prints - usually something frame worthy.
The first portion of the workshop will involve an introduction, demonstration and selection of materials. The second portion will be a printing session. If you have materials you’d like to bring to use for printing (sentimental objects, dried botanicals, etc), please feel free to bring them.
Registration fee includes all materials and instruction, as well as light refreshments and seaweed snacks. Once registration is complete your spot is reserved and you’ll begin receiving event reminders.
A percentage of proceeds from this workshop will benefit the Catalina Island Conservancy.
All ages are welcome. Children below the age of 16 must be accompanied by a ticketed parent or guardian.
Please note: This workshop is held on Catalina Island, and your registration here does not include travel to the island. If coming from the mainland, book your ferry to Avalon through the Catalina Flyer (Newport Beach) or the Catalina Express (Dana Point, Long Beach, San Pedro). A shuttle will be provided from Avalon to the Botanic Garden for registered participants, details forthcoming after registration.
