Cyanotype Workshop for Teens (In-Person)

In-Person: Teen | This program has been canceled

20 Academy Street Arlington, MA 02476 United States

Main Classroom

All skill levels

5/21/2022 (one day)

12:30 PM-2:30 PM on Sat

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43.00 USD

Member Discount Available

Explore the fascinating world of cyanotyping, also called sunprints! These beautiful blue prints are incredibly fun, easy and inexpensive to make, and there is no need for a darkroom. In this workshop, I will teach you all the basics. We will start off by learning about the history of cyanotypes and look at modern artists using sun prints as their mode of artistic expression, then delve right into how to make our own cyanotypes. We will coat our own paper (supplied by the instructor), then use a variety of found objects and supplied negatives to make photograms and develop them. You will take home 2-3 of your own photograms, a detailed instruction sheet and the know-how to make cyanotypes if you wish to continue exploring this versatile technique further. For ages 12 - 18.

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Timmermann, Stefanie

Stefanie Timmermann
E?xhibiting Artist at ACA's "Integrated Cycles"

Plastic Spring


Plastic Spring was born out of the realization that unless we change how much trash we generate in the next century, our landfills will spill into every pocket of the globe. Trash will be visible and damaging no matter where we look. Scientists often tell this story through dry facts and large numbers, but my experience is that these facts are genuinely hard to grasp for most of us. I am trying to make this story personal, understandable and concrete.

Throughout my series, these trash-scapes address concepts from science and science-fiction such as self-assembly, plastic-based proto-lifeforms and trash/nature symbioses. On an ideological level, I question our obsession with elevating unspoiled, pristine landscapes, thereby devaluing more accessible, but somewhat polluted landscapes that deserve our protection as well.

In my work, I use common household recycling generated in my own home and embed these items temporarily in the landscape. The resulting photos are purposefully ambiguous, beautiful and non-threatening on the surface, to