Guest Artist Workshops offer a bespoke way to explore a new skill or process.
Campfire’s curated workshops invite contemporary artists to share their practice through a casual, often interactive, artist talk, followed by a hands-on project relevant to their creative process.
Mirroring our broad interest in printmaking for its potential as an expressive medium, a visual language, a traditional craft, a mode of commercial production, and a tool for social engagement, topics range from the technical to the conceptual. Projects incorporate printmaking materials or processes, or topics of particular interest to those invested in printmaking and the multiple.
Saturday, June 6
10:30 AM-2:30 PMIn 1843 British Botanist Anna Atkins began documenting specimens of algae using the newly discovered medium of cyanotype printing. Through contact solar printing, Atkins was able to capture incredible, accurate detail that was previously only possible through scientific illustration. In her endeavor to capture, record and share her algae collection using cyanotype, Atkins became the first to publish a photo book (Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions), and is often cited as the first female photographer.
The work of Anna Atkins informs and inspires Veronica Siehl’s art practice. Using cyanotype, Veronica investigates shadow as subject, medium, and metaphor. Botanicals, textiles, hand painted films—at times in combination with poetry and monoprinting—are used to generate prints that explore the shadow’s ability to defy time by being simultaneously present and absent.
Atkins’s botanical prints will be used as a historical lens to examine and inspire in this hands-on workshop. Students will learn and explore the cyanotype process by engaging with Midwestern flora in our urban landscape, creating several unique photograms throughout the day. This workshop will span settings—we’ll make work inside using Campfire’s darkroom as well as outdoors using the sun.
Rain date: Sunday, June 7, 10:30am to 2:30pm
Private Workshops
We are always excited to build out a custom experience for private groups of any age. Please email hello@campfireprintingpress.com to co-design an experience to meet your vision, be it an intimate creative retreat for friends or colleagues, a workshop for teens, or an art-inspired cocktail party.