CANCELLED: Cyanotype Family Workshop with Daniela Oliver de Portillo
Saturday, June 1st / 12-4pm
$50 per person, supplies included
Learn to use a variety of materials and objects to create a Cyanotype using the power of sunlight. Work with San Antonio based artist Daniela Oliver de Portillo to experiment and create a one-of-a -kind cyanotype print. Cyanotype is an alternative photographic printing process that uses the sun’s UV rays to develop an image.
All materials are included in this 4-hour workshop, but participants are encouraged to bring plants, paper, lace, feathers or any thing or semi-transparent objects to the class. During the workshop you will learn how to safely mix chemicals to make cyanotypes at home and how to use ready-made treated cyanotype paper and fabric. This workshop is open to adults and families with children 9+ years old.
Daniela Oliver de Portillo is an artist living and working in San Antonio, Texas. Originally from Mexico City, Oliver and her family moved to the United States in 2002. Currently is devoting her studio practice to experimentation with Cyanotype and photographic printing process that uses sunlight to develop an image. In her work she reflects on the domestic, child rearing, and self-imposed standards of female perfection influenced by society, culture and other women.
From 2001 to 2002 Oliver worked as a studio apprentice with artist Mario Pacchioli in Florence Italy, she then studied studio art and communications at Trinity University and worked at the McNay Art Museum for a decade as the Head of Communications and Marketing. She has participated in exhibitions at Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City and the Festa della Primavera in Florence, Italy. In Texas she has exhibited her work at Joan Grona Gallery, Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, Contemporary at Blue Star, Dock Space gallery, Bihl Haus Arts and Contracommon, where she is currently on exhibit.
