Handy House Artist-in-residence: Discover the lost art of cyanotypes!
Posted on May 24, 2024 by Jenny ONeill
Make your own cyanotype!
Pre-register to attend a workshop at the Handy House, 202 Hix Bridge Road, Westport MA:
10 AM – 12 PM Wednesday July 10 Cyanotype workshop
10 AM -12 PM Wednesday August 14 Cyanotype workshop
Pre-register HERE for August 14
Westport Historical Society’s Handy House will be home to an artist-in-residence this summer! Tina Tryforos is a photographer and educator. She has a deep interest in the historic photographic process of cyanotype, the Prussian blue image invented in 1842 by Sir John Herschel. During her residency, Tryforos will create artwork inspired by her research of historical photographs of women from Westport along with domestic objects those women may have encountered or used in their lives.
She is especially excited to research, rediscover and re-present images of known and anonymous women from Westport’s history. “Anonymous portraits from historical archives are portals into a life, and a moment in time, containing rich material for imagining, speculating and interpreting the past.”
This residency will offer hands-on workshops to allow community members to make their own cyanotypes, using this easy non-toxic photo technique which can be exposed in sunlight and developed in water. Images can be toned to different colors after development using tea, coffee, and other natural materials.
Tina Tryforos has an MFA in Visual Studies, and has had a photography studio in Pawtucket Rhode Island since 1999. She teaches analog and digital photography to children and teen-agers, college students, and adults in alternative art educational settings. Much of her work is based on archives of material, often self-generated and always involving photography.
Meet Tina Tryforos at the Handy House this summer!
Pre-register to attend a workshop at the Handy House, 202 Hix Bridge Road, Westport MA:
10 AM – 12 PM Wednesday July 10 Cyanotype workshop
10 AM -12 PM Wednesday August 14 Cyanotype workshop
Pre-register HERE for August 14
This program is supported by a grant from the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust
administered by the Bank of America and the Westport Community Gift Fund.