Botanical Cyanotype Print Workshop with Francisco Cortes.
Tue, Mar 14
|Contemporary at Blue Star
Join Contemporary at Blue Star for a FREE youth workshop with San Antonio photographer, Francisco Cortes. Ages 7 and up. Registration required.
Time & Location
Mar 14, 2023, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Contemporary at Blue Star, 116 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204, USA
About the event
Young artists will jump into printmaking through cyanotype printing, an alternative and exciting photographic process first developed in 1842. Cyanotype printing is a photographic process that produces unique Prussian blue prints. To celebrate the upcoming spring season, participants will use prepared flowers and source nearby plants for subject matter.
Sometimes results are predictable, sometimes they are not. Artists will work with the Sun as their UV light source and the weather will determine the intensity and outcome of the cyanotype prints they produce.
Artists will create botanical cyanotype prints on traditional materials, as well as on a Contemporary at Blue Star tote bags that the young artists will get to take home.
About Francisco Cortes
Originally from Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Francisco Cortés is a San Antonio-based artist, known for his photojournalistic storytelling, which ranges from pensive moments, to civil unrest, to the experiences of immigrants in their alternating contexts. Cortes’ formal training…