Intro to Cyanotype Photography with Bridget Conn

Cyanotype is without doubt one of the oldest types of images, relationship again to 1842. In this workshop, we are going to find out how modern artists nonetheless use this light-sensitive chemistry to make lovely blue prints on blended media paper, and on different surfaces of the participant’s selecting. The approach shall be a easy course of utilizing discovered objects and drawings that are uncovered on the paper in daylight and developed in operating water.

All required supplies shall be included, although members may think about bringing 1) various kinds of paper for experimentation or small items of light-colored cloth; 2) flat objects that may be positioned beneath glass or drawings on paper or mylar. Participants ought to be no less than 18 years of age.

Specializing in light-printing processes, native artist Bridget Conn will information you thru the method of making your individual cyanotype images. Join us within the coronary heart of downtown Nashville for this approachable and hands-on workshop– the primary of it’s form right here at Second Story Studio!

Bridget Conn is an artist dwelling in Nashville, IN, and an artwork educator with over 20 years of instructing expertise. In addition to instructing at universities throughout the Southeast United States, she has led workshops at Penland School of Craft in Penland, NC, Aurora Photo Center in Indianapolis, and on the Experimental Photo Festival in Barcelona, Spain, amongst many different venues. Her work has been revealed in textbooks similar to Christina Z. Anderson’s “The Experimental Darkroom” (2022) and “Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes” (2020). www.bridgetconnartstudio.net