Tickets: $70 General Admission | $60 ACC Members

This hands-on 5 hour workshop is a follow-up to the beginners’ workshop. The beginners’ workshop focused on cyanotype paper while level 2 will focus on cyanotype on fabric. You will design, expose in the sun, and develop in water your own cyanotypes. The cyanotype process, also known as blueprint or sunprint utilizes photosensitive iron salts and continues to be relevant today to produce fine art prints on various materials. An UV lamp will be available if the sun is not showing up that day.

This is a contact printing method. Where the light reaches paper (or fabric), it turns blue. Where light is blocked, it remains white, or the color of the paper.

Participants are invited to bring objects/materials for their compositions. Select your objects thinking of the shadows they will leave. For example, transparent reflective glass objects i.e. such as marbles, small drinking glasses and other random transparent objects. Other options could be intricate flowers and leaves, or any small objects with n intricate contours such as lace, strings, gears, buttons etc. Experimentation can produce some really interesting results.

All materials will be provided , though you are encouraged to bring objects of your own to incorporate into your compositions.

Suitable for 14+

Mireille Perron was born in 1957 in Montréal, Québec. Since 1989 she has been living and working in Moh-kins-tsis/Calgary, Alberta. Perron is the founder of the Laboratory of Feminist Pataphysics (2000 —), a social experiment that masquerades as collaborative works of art/craft and events. Her art work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, and more occasionally in Europe and the United States. She taught at the Alberta University of the Arts until 2018 when she received the title of Professor Emerita.