Saturday

July 27

10 AM - 6 PM

Class Size Max: 6

Cyanotype is a photographic process that uses iron compounds, sunlight, and water to create uniquely blue images. This one-day workshop will give an introduction to this historic and experimental printing process, as well as introducing the accordion fold—a versatile, simple and sculptural book-making structure. Students will spend the first part of class learning the printing method and, using a combination of photographic negatives, found objects, and toning materials, will create a small distinct series of images onto paper. The second part of class will be spent transforming these prints into a simple folded book structure. Students will gain an introduction to both of these methods and leave the class with a small book of images created during the workshop. 

Tuition includes a $80 materials fee.

If your desired tuition option is unavailable, please email info@penumbrafoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the entire class is sold out, we can add you to the waitlist.

Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine/Chilean/American visual artist and educator currently based in NYC. She received her BFA from RISD and MFA from Yale. Her work often begins with a camera as a drawing tool, exploring cities and landscapes to find surfaces, patterns, and other particularities that she transforms back in the studio. Central to her practice is experimenting with materials like paper pulp and light-sensitive chemistry to create photograms, rubbings, and architectural casts that evoke past or imagined landscapes. These processes merge photography, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, often incorporating text from an archive of her father's poetry and collaborations with her niece, also a poet. She also creates large-scale installations that replicate the original scale of a site, weaving personal, familial, and location-specific narratives. Through these projects, she explores how objects and textures communicate deeper stories about home, identity, and memory. Recent awards and residencies include: Yale Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, Silver Art Projects Residency, Rema Hort Mann Grant, Center for Book Arts Residency, LES Printshop Residency, LMCC Community Engagement Grant, Manhattan Graphic Center Residency, among others. Claudia is co-founder of LAZO, an art collective that brings together Latinx artists to create participatory projects.

Images © Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez

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