Art Workshop - Tangled Up in Blue: Cyanotypes in Nature

Dates: Saturday-Sunday, July 31-August 1

In this course, the science and mystery of the cyanotype will be revealed through discussion and practice. Cyanotype is the 178-year-old process of photographic blueprinting. We will create our own cyanotypes on paper and fabric using found objects and drawing. The interaction of the sun, the water, and Ox-Bow’s environment will coalesce to make our photographic work.

Chicago-based artist collaborators MILLER & SHELLABARGER have had solo shows and performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, and DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis; INOVA, Milwaukee; the Time-Based Art Festival, Portland, Oregon; Sindikit, Baltimore; and Gallery Diet, Miami. They have performed and/or exhibited in group shows across North America. Their work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; Newark Public Library, New Jersey; Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington; and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Miller & Shellabarger are the recipient of a 2008 Artadia Chicago Award and a 2007 Louis Com-fort Tiffany Foundation award. Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger also maintain separate artistic practices. They are represented by Western Exhibitions, Chicago.