Event Info
This in-person, five-week workshop takes place at CBA on Mondays, June 3–July 1, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm ET.
Complete Schedule:
- Monday, June 3, 2024: 6:00pm–9:00pm ET
- Monday, June 10, 2024: 6:00pm–9:00pm ET
- Monday, June 17, 2024: 6:00pm–9:00pm ET
- Monday, June 24, 2024: 6:00pm–9:00pm ET
- Monday, July 1, 2024: 6:00pm–9:00pm ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on May 27, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
Cyanotype is a photographic process that uses iron compounds, sunlight, and water to create uniquely blue images. This course will focus on both traditional and experimental methods of cyanotype printing, covering a variety of approaches to explore the possibilities of this historic process through a contemporary lens. Through lectures, hands-on instruction/experimentation, and group discussions, students will create a wide range of test prints and several book structures that explore the possibilities of bound images, creating sequential narrative objects that extend beyond a single image.
We’ll discuss a variety of skills, including photogram printing, creating digital negatives, toning with various materials, simple forms of bookbinding and printing onto alternative materials. Class time will be divided between creating cyanotype prints and learning how to incorporate these prints creatively into bookforms, such as one page zines, accordions, pamphlets and flag books. Through examples from the CBA collections we will also explore how artists have used cyanotypes in artists books. This class is intended for anyone interested in learning more about the possibilities of this analogue process, with a particular focus on experimental book forms- ie. artists books, photo books, portfolios, or chapbooks, conceptually rooted in this historic process.
About the Instructors
Elizabeth Castaldo is an artist, printmaker, and bookbinder living and working in Peekskill, NY and New York City. Castaldo works with printmaking, drawing, and collage to make works on paper and artists books that explore nature and the body. She received her MFA from SCAD Atlanta where she was a Dean’s Fellow in Printmaking and her BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Castaldo has completed residencies at Center for Book Arts and Printmaker’s Open Forum.
Claudia Cortinez is a visual artist and educator, born in the US to parents from Argentina and Chile and currently living in NYC. Her work focuses on recording objects and patterns from urban and domestic spaces, exploring how relationships between architecture, time, and memory become physical records. Her works combine paper casting, printmaking, and analogue photographic techniques as a way to approach image-making as a sculptural process. She received her BFA from RISD and her MFA from Yale University.
All images courtesy of the instructor.
Class size is limited to ensure an optimal participant to instructor ratio. Register now before spots fill up! Registration for this workshop closes on May 27 at 11:59pm. The price of this class is $525 plus a $30 materials fee.
