AGENT FOR CHANGE WORKSHOP: Make Way — Queer Identity, Community, and You

Make Way: Queer Identity, Community, and You
led by Steven Miller
July 19, 2025 | Saturday 1-3pm & July 26, 2026 | Saturday 1-4pm
In Person
Free
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This in-person workshop explores queer identity through photographic history, personal storytelling, and hands-on cyanotype printmaking. In the first session, Steven will present and engage with student through an in-depth lecture on queer photographers from the 1860s to the 1990s. The presentation addresses the historical erasure of LGBTQIA+ artists and emphasizes photography as a tool for resistance and visibility. Drawing from his own experience as a queer photographer, Miller leads a discussion on how personal narratives can be translated into photographic work, specifically using cyanotypes as a means of expression and preservation.

In the second session, students share a brief portfolio before learning the fundamentals of cyanotype printing, from coating and exposing paper to developing two of their own archival prints from digital negatives. The group will reflect on the meaning behind their images and their connection to queer identity. The workshop concludes with a take-home resource list, empowering participants to continue exploring cyanotype printing as both a creative and political act. Participants will need to provide two digital image files to the teaching artist in advance of the second session to create digital negatives for use in creating their cyanotype prints.

Image Credit: Steven Miller