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Cyanotype is an alternative photographic printing process that uses a light-sensitive solution and sunlight to create deep blue prints. Using objects, botanical materials, transparencies, or photographic negatives, participants learn how to compose and expose images by hand through a process that combines experimentation with material exploration.
Our cyanotype workshops explore the medium across both image-making and object-making practices. Depending on the format of the workshop, participants may create cyanotype artist books using Coptic stitch bookbinding techniques, experimental prints on paper and fabric, or functional objects such as handmade cyanotype lamps. Taught by practicing, professional printmakers, the workshops offer expert, hands-on guidance throughout the process, introducing participants to coating, exposing, washing, toning, composition-building, and material experimentation within the cyanotype process. Participants can also choose to work with photographic image negatives, which can be prepared and printed specifically for exposure during the workshop.
Alongside technical skills, participants are encouraged to work intuitively with texture, layering, light, and collected materials.
Beyond the process itself, cyanotype offers a slower and highly tactile way of making, bridging photography, printmaking, and craft through direct engagement with sunlight, paper, and material.
By the end of the workshop, participants leave with finished handmade pieces along with the foundational knowledge required to continue exploring cyanotype independently.
