Leaving an Impression: Cyanotype Workshop with Mireille Perron

Make your own cyanotype print using an old photographic technique, and learn how to use the local flora & fauna in your art!

This hands-on 2 1/2-hour workshop introduces one of the first photographic processes ever developed. The cyanotype process, also known as blueprint or sunprint, uses photosensitive iron salts and continues to be relevant today to produce fine art prints. This process can be done with paper and fabric. This workshop will focus on cyanotype paper. You will design, expose to the sun, and develop in water your own cyanotypes. A UV lamp will be available if the sun is not showing up that day.

About the Artist: Mireille Perron (Professor Emeritus 2018) was born in 1957 in Montréal, Québec. Since 1989 she has been living and working in Moh-kins-tsis/Calgary, Alberta. Perron founded the Laboratory of Feminist Pataphysics (2000 —), a social experiment that masquerades as collaborative works of art/craft and events. Her artwork has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and occasionally in Europe and the United States.