Workshop: Seaweed Cyanotypes with Juanita Schläpfer-Miller 

An Tobar Art Room 
Sat 16 Sept, 2pm-5pm

Pay What You Decide
Booking is essential
(12 spaces max, suggested price £15) 

Join Swiss artist Juanita Schläpfer-Miller to experiment with a cyanotype technique, using light to make a variety of images with seaweed.  In this workshop, we will prepare our own cyanotype paper and learn how to prepare seaweed and other plant specimens for creating cyanotypes.

Juanita Schläpfer-Miller is an artist, exhibition curator and outreach manager at the Plant Science Center in Switzerland. She has many years of experience designing learning exhibitions in the natural sciences and has developed workshops and experiments to engage people of all ages with plant science. 

During her residency at KNOCKvologan on Mull she is working on her project Blueprint algae – Neophytes of the British Isles, an ‘appendix’ to Anna Atkin’s famous seaweed cyanotype book. There are approximately thirty new species of algae introduced by global trade and shipping since Atkins book appeared in the late 1800s, many of which are thriving due to global warming. Juanita will document all these neophytes using the same cyanotype technique and create a hand-bound art book with the original prints and a lithograph book of the images.