WORKSHOP: Cyanotype Intensive with Sean McFarland

Cyanotype Intensive with Sean McFarland
Faculty: Sean McFarland
May 3 – 4, 2025 | Saturday & Sunday 12:30-5:30pm
$320

Join artist Sean McFarland for this two-day workshop exploring the historical, conceptual, and practical applications of the cyanotype process in contemporary photographic practice. Participants will learn how to prepare and print digital negatives, mix chemistry and coat paper, exposure techniques, print processing and print finishing.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Sean McFarland’s photographs, sculptures, drawings, videos, and books examine records of time, landscape, and spirituality. Working from a self-generated archive comprising tens of thousands of items, McFarland’s practice is a continuous revisiting of site, image, object, and experience. Materials such as silver gelatin prints, cyanotypes, drawings, rocks, desert sage dust, and glass are combined to make photographs, collages, and sculptures. The resulting works are at once a meditation on place, phenomena, how we are present, and how we remember.

Sean earned an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BS from Humboldt State University. His solo exhibitions include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Visual Studies Workshop; San Francisco Camerawork; and White Columns. Group exhibitions include the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; George Eastman Museum; Aperture; Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and Milwaukee Museum of Art. His work is in the permanent collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; National Gallery of Art; George Eastman Museum; City and County of San Francisco; and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

His awards include the SECA Award – SFMOMA, the Eureka Fellowship, the Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer, and the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship.

Sean lives in San Francisco and is an Associate Professor of Art at San Francisco State University.

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Images © Sean McFarland