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This past weekend, I participated in another Professional Development Teacher workshop with my advisor and chair, Andrea Burrows. This workshop focused on The Artful Craft of Science, "TACos." This one-day workshop taught us teachers and pre-service teachers about photograms (from Bailey Russel, a photography professor at University of Wyoming). Bailey explained what the photogram process is and specifically introduced us to Cyanotypes. They are the original blue prints! An iron-based light-sensitive surface (composed of two chemicals, mixed together) that is painted on paper or fabric. When this is placed under UV light or natural, direct sunlight, object shapes that are placed over the paper are captured and a negative is created. So we were able to watch Bailey demo the process, he showed us some examples, and then we were able to try it out on our own. We also created some lessons that could encompass this activity in our science classrooms.
It was super cool, fun, hands-on, and just another idea for the STEM integration with Art concept. I love this!
Enjoy the photos!
TheChristyBel
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| Drying the Cyanotype Paper We Were Going to Use. |
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| Bailey Showing Some Examples of Cyanotypes |
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| My Attempt At a Cyanotype |
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| Drying! |
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Finished Product!
What Do You Think? |
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| Our Scientific & Artistic Cyanotypes! |
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