Join us for an artist’s workshop with Hannah Perrine Mode, an artist, educator, and researcher working at the intersections of art and environmental science. Working primarily between her native New England and her adopted homes in Alaska, Mode incorporates place-based making and cross-disciplinary exchange to deepen human connection to Earth systems and foster intersectional approaches to climate justice.

Mode will lead participants through a hands-on workshop to explore how scientific study and expression can foster care, curiosity, and community. Together, they will be guided by a central question: What can creative practices, close looking, and co-production teach us about caring for our environment, honoring the land and its histories (both human and ecologic), cultivating community care, and working towards social and environmental justice?

For the workshop, participants will create their own cyanotype prints using cuttings from the local landscape. After learning about Anna Atkins –  a 19th century cyanotype pioneer and botanist – the cyanotype process, and viewing Mode’s original cyanotype prints with plant cuttings and photo negatives, participants will collect materials from their surroundings and use them to create sun prints. They will print images of their cuttings to create abstract cyanotype prints to take home with them that act as records of their place, time, and human interaction with their environments. 

This workshop is open to the public. Registration is required as space is limited.

Organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Hannah Perrine Mode: Remote Sensing.” The artist will also be part of a panel discussion event on Oct. 16. 

This program is presented in collaboration between Gallery 360 and City & Community Engagement.