Saturday

July 26*

11 AM - 3 PM

Class Size Max: 12

*Please note that the rain date for this workshop is Sunday, July 27

Learn how to make cyanotype photograms with foraged botanicals on Governors Island!

This immersive half-day workshop invites participants to explore cyanotype printmaking through hands-on activities at the Earth Matter Urban Farm on Governors Island. The day begins with a brief introduction to the site, followed by an overview of cyanotype materials and techniques. A farm leader will provide guidance on foraging protocols and farm guidelines, grounding participants in the ecological context of the space. The group will then learn how to coat watercolor paper using cyanotype chemistry, expose prints outdoors, and forage botanicals directly from the farm. Each participant will have the opportunity to make and process unique cyanotype prints using their foraged materials to take home, using both pre-coated paper and the paper they coated during class. This class combines elements of printmaking, photography, painting, and creative botany, offering a unique opportunity to connect with nature, community, and alternative photographic processes. 

Tuition includes a $35 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.

Brian Buckley’s experimental photography practice is an effort to reinterpret photography’s earliest techniques, particularly the cyanotype and the camera-less methods of the photogram. Often sourcing from his own experiences with love and loss, his photograms reflect on universal ideas of love and beauty and our longing for them. Believing that in order for any photographic technique to work, it should be personalized and transfigured into a greater metaphor. As an artist, he wished to prompt viewers of his work to think about their own similar experiences and to identify how it might serve as a tool for productive change.

Images © Brian Buckley

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