Cyanotypes: Camera-less Photography
Students will have to opportunity to learn how to create cyanotypes using varying found objects, drawing on transparencies, photography, and the sun! This process is engaging and involves working with exposure to light. It is an accessible and fun way to learn how to draw with light exposure.
Class Details
What to Expect
Students can expect to be playing with cyanotype processes from laying their objects on top of the pre-treated cloth to drawing on transparencies, culminating in final images uncovered by light exposure. The results will be small experiments from which students can achieve many finished works. Students do not need any prior knowledge for this course.
Materials
All materials are included in class pricing and will be provided to students at the beginning of class.
Pricing
All materials are included in the price of the class.
- Museum Friends: $95
- Member: $100
- Student: $100
- Non-Member: $120
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About the Educator
Samara Johnson is a Laramie-based interdisciplinary artist and educator at University of Wyoming and various locations across the Front Range in Colorado. She was born and raised in Moose Pass, Alaska, and received her Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting at University of Colorado at Boulder and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting at Sonoma State University. She currently creates dimensional wall works, which often include materials and imagery that speak to the interconnectedness of humans as emotional animals. This interconnectedness is portrayed as visceral revealing of the body, attesting to the importance of the body's vulnerable nervous system and how it becomes a translator for the body's environment to the inside of a person. Johnson's work has been exhibited across the nation at University of New Mexico - Valencia, Union Hall in Denver, Colorado, University of Colorado Art Museum, and Healdsburg Center for the Arts in Healdsburg, California.
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