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Oriana Poindexter Cyanotype Workshop
July 13 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Oriana Poindexter Cyanotype Workshop
Description:
Join Oriana Poindexter at The Ocean Institute for an interactive cyanotype workshop. Learn this early alternative photographic process and use organic materials to create your own cyanotype prints using photo chemistry techniques first developed in the 1840s.
The resulting prints are records of the state of the ocean and your creative process on that particular day, recorded in the blue and white palette of the sea itself. Cyanotype is an alternative photographic process used to create photographic prints in the distinctive shade of Prussian blue and white without the use of a camera, exposed with the sun and developed in water.
This workshop will teach you the fundamentals of the cyanotype process, its history, and will culminate with each participant creating three original cyanotype prints – usually something frame worthy.
The first portion of the workshop will involve an introduction, demonstration and selection of materials. The second portion will be a printing session. If you have materials you’d like to bring to use for printing (sentimental objects, dried botanicals, etc), please feel free to bring them.
Registration fee includes all materials and instruction, as well as light refreshments and seaweed snacks. A portion of proceeds from each ticket sale will be donated to The Ocean Institute.
Saturday, July 13
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
$150 a person
About Oriana Poindexter:
Oriana earned her degrees at Princeton University and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. She went on to work for nearly a decade with academic institutions, government agencies, and environmental organizations as an expert in the sustainable seafood and fisheries management arenas.
Her work has been featured by the Getty Museum and The Wall Street Journal, and she has created interpretive visual exhibits for the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Birch Aquarium. She founded Pelagic Projects in 2020 to focus on interdisciplinary projects that engage the senses, inspire awe, and impact positive change for the oceans.
Oriana is based in San Diego, CA, where she is working on her first book, The Iridescent Ones, to visualize the natural and cultural history of abalone species on the Pacific West Coast.
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Website: https://www.orianapoindexter.com/
