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Multi-Session Workshop: Capturing with Cyanotype

Date/Time: Saturday 9/13, 10am-4pm

Ages: 16+

Cost: $130

Registration deadline: Saturday 8/30

Maximum enrollment: 10

Instructor: Gabi Estrada

Skill Level: This class is beginner friendly, with no prior printmaking experience required. Participants can anticipate drawing onto transparencies and using xacto knives to cut into paper to develop stencils. Regardless of skill level in these techniques, this process can expand to accommodate a range of abilities in creating compositions.

Weekend Workshop: Capturing with Cyanotype Weekend Workshop: Capturing with Cyanotype

In this weekend workshop, students will learn how they can capture moments, objects, movement, and imagery using cyanotype. This class will introduce students to the basics of how cyanotype works and will encourage their individual or collaborative explorations of the marks that can be made with the technique. Students will learn how to develop impressions with the support of images drawn onto transparencies, cut into paper stencils, or found objects. Due to the fluidity of this medium, we will lean into improvising and embracing the beauty that can come from irregularities in cyanotype.

About the instructor: Gabi Estrada (they/them) is a Mexican-American printmaker and arts educator based in Minneapolis. Their practice is rooted in identity and storytelling, honoring their ancestors and elders. They believe in the power that art has to facilitate healing and community building, which they prioritize in their art and pedagogy.

REGISTRATION DETAILS
Registration and payment may be completed through this website. You will receive an email a week prior to your class with information about the class. 

Refunds are no longer available after the registration deadline. 

Please call 612-278-4162 or email jo@highpointprintmaking.org if you wish to pay with cash or check, or have any questions.

DISCOUNTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
A 10% discount is available for Highpoint Members.

Full Color Print Scholarship: A limited number of full tuition scholarships are available through the Full Color Print Scholarship, which provides free classes to individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Request a scholarship for this class by clicking the button below, or call, email or visit Highpoint. See our Discounts and Scholarships page for more details.

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