River Cleanup and Cyanotype Workshop

Join educator, gardener, and visual artist Madge Evers for a river cleanup and workshop in which participants will use the items they collect to create camera-less photographic images known as cyanotypes. This magical and simple technique, developed in 1842, requires only three materials: an object, light-sensitive paper, and the ultraviolet rays of the sun. The result? Striking blue-and-white prints.

Madge Evers’s work celebrates decomposition and regeneration. In 2015, she began making mushroom spore print art. Her practice involves foraging for mushrooms and plants, and sometimes includes the cyanotype process and paint. Her images often reference important mechanisms of fungi survival, including photosynthesis and symbiosis. In 2021, Evers was a Mass Cultural Council fellowship finalist in photography. Evers has also had artist residencies at Mount Auburn Cemetery, the Kinney Renaissance Center at UMass, and elsewhere. After teaching for 25 years at public schools in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Evers now works full-time as an artist.

This event is presented in connection with Aurora Robson: Human Nature Walk.

ADMISSION: $45, $35 BMAC Members. All materials are provided.
Space is limited. Registration required.
To register, click here or call 802-257-0124 x 101