Wild Blue Worlds: Exploring Cyanotype with Iris Sullivan Daire
Youth Workshop | Ages 8–11
June 24 | 10:00am-2:00pm
Tuition $10
Hoffman Center for the Arts & the Wonder Garden | 594 Laneda Avenue | Manzanita
Calling young artists and alchemists! Join us as we create worlds in blue. We will harness the sun, using cyanotype, a non toxic
photographic process which uses sunlight & water to develop prints. Students will compose imaginary landscape and still-life images on
both cloth and paper using natural materials, found objects, and silhouettes. Playing with cyanotype provides both an outlet for creative expression, and the opportunity to explore the science of light, the botany of the plants we print, and a little dash of chemistry. (Iris will bring a box of fairy shadows & bird silhouettes to help populate our worlds.)
Tools and materials will be provided—students should bring a packed lunch (no peanuts please), art clothes or apron that can get messy, and small objects that could be used to create shadow images.
About Iris Sullivan Daire
Iris Sullivan Daire is an artist and naturalist dyer who uses site specific pigments and dyes to add new layers of meaning to the narrative of her work. She gives workshops for humans of all ages. Iris holds a BFA in fiber arts from University of Oregon, and has been teaching for over 20 years. She relishes using science, metaphor and story to bring the materials to life while teaching. She is a co-founder of Indigo Fest, an annual gathering celebrating home grown blues. She lives with her family next to the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon.
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June 24-Youth Workshop:Wild Blue Worlds: Exploring Cyanotype
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Situated on the main street in Manzanita just a few blocks west of Highway 101, the Hoffman Center is located across the street from the North Tillamook Library.
