August 16 - 26
Satellite Project Space (121 Dundas St., London)
FREE, suitable for all ages
Project website: botanicalsunprints.weebly.com
Local artists, Molly Miksa and Gabriella Solti, invite you to both an aesthetic and scientific exploration of the city’s parks and forests. Participants of the free workshops will use one of the earliest photographic processes, the cyanotype process (also called sunprints or blueprints), to discover and create cyanotypes of London's diverse and native flora. Below is a schedule of the program.
The artists are grateful for the support of the City of London, London Arts Council, Museum London and Western University.
Thursday, August 16 from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Opening Reception
Thursday, August 16 at 6:00 pm
PLANT IDENTIFICATION, presentation by Dr. Sheila Macfie, plant scientist and Dr. Gordon Neish, agricultural consultant and aspiring field botanist.
Friday, August 17 from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes.
Friday, August 17 at 7:00 pm
NATURE WALK IN THE COVES led by Becky Ellis, Ph.D. student in the Geography department at Western University. Meet us in the parking lot of the German Canadian Club at 1 Cove Rd, London, ON.
Saturday, August 18 from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes.
Sunday, August 19 at 2:30 pm
FIELD TRIP TO MEADOWLILY NATURE PRESERVE led by Dr. Daria Koscinski, Conservation Property Manager at Thames Talbot Land Trust and Dr. Gordon Neish. Meet us at the Meadowlily Trailhead, 1139 Hamilton Rd, London, ON.
Wednesday, August 22 from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes.
Thursday, August 23 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes.
Thursday, August 23 at 6:00 pm
TWO-EYED SEEING, a presentation on the practice of blended Indigenous and European approaches to ways of knowing by Dr. Andrew Judge, Irish-Anishinaabe scholar.
Friday, August 24 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes.
Saturday, August 25 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes.