WIP Lab Workshop: Cyanotypes
Join artist and PhD student Kean O’Brien to explore cyanotypes in this workshop! Create striking cyan-blue images by placing objects on a light-sensitive surface and exposing them to sunlight.
Event Details
Date
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Time
1-3 p.m.
Location
3260 Nancy Nicholas Hall
Description
Unlike other photographic techniques, cyanotype is simple and hands-on. Cyanotype is a historic photographic printing process, first discovered in 1842 by Sir John Herschel, an accomplished astronomer and scientist, and developed as a way to reproduce diagrams. There’s no need for a darkroom—just sunlight and a special iron salt solution. We’ll provide all the materials you need, or you can bring along small objects or natural items to use in your own unique cyanotype prints.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-8815 or email bo.owen@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.