Slow Light Workshop: Sun Prints & Found Object Stories

About the event

Participants will explore the cyanotype process—a historic, camera-free method of creating rich blue-hued prints using paper coated with light-sensitive chemistry. Using found and natural objects with interesting shapes and varying transparency, participants will compose and expose images under sunlight, revealing how simple materials and time may shape compelling visual narratives. This workshop centers on experimentation, tactile making, and connections between memory and material.

This is the first workshop in the Slow Light Series, which engages alternative photography processes such as cyanotype and pinhole cameras, as well as place-based storytelling and imagery. See the museum’s event calendar for additional workshops. Participants may register for any Slow Light Workshop: You are welcome to take just one, or all of them! Each workshop is free and open to the public, though registration is required. See link above.

About the Teacher | Keegan Baatz is a photographic artist and MFA candidate at Washington State University. His work explores themes of infrastructure, fragmentation, and place through experimental photographic processes including CMYK separation, physical intervention, and analog techniques. Baatz’s practice bridges documentary and material experimentation to reframe how we see rural and infrastructural landscapes, often engaging with systems theory, archival impulse, and ecological observation.

Funding for this workshop is provided by a Publicly Engaged Fellowship from the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities. Organized by Keegan Baatz, MFA Candidate, Department of Art WSU and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.