A Sense of Place: Site-Specific Cyanotypes with Eric William Carroll

Written By Susan Patrice
 

A Sense of Place: Site-Specific Cyanotypes with Eric William Carroll

June 8th - 9th, 2023

The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, North Carolina

Cost: $225 (need-based scholarships are available).

Class size: 10 students

Over the course of three days, participants will learn the cyanotype process & use it to creatively respond to our surrounding environment. Using the methods of William Bartram and the beauty of the Bartram Trail as our foundation, we will explore both cameraless and digital negative approaches and examine how research, history, and site-specificity can inform our work and even function as an unspoken collaborator. This workshop is geared for students with little-to-no experience with cyanotypes, but even a seasoned practitioner should find value in this unique approach to the medium.

This workshop is open to photographers and makers of all levels. Participants will be offered the opportunity to have their photographs juried into the Listening to the Land: Reimagining the Bartram Trail community exhibition in Fall 2023.

Eric William Carroll’s work on photography, science, and nature explores the differences in how we experience, organize, and represent the world. Carroll’s work has been shown widely and has been included in exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Aperture Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Pier 24 Photography, among others. Carroll has participated in residencies with the MacDowell Colony, Rayko Photo Center and the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and was the winner of the 2012 Baum Award for Emerging Photographers. Born and raised in the Midwest, Carroll is currently based in Asheville, North Carolina where he helped co-found the Kinship Photography Collective.

Eric William Carroll

Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

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