Capturing Seaweed and More with Sunprints

Inspired by the Cultures of Seaweed exhibition, participants will use modern sunprints to witness how seaweed was first captured photographically, in a process that uses photography's simplest materials: light, shadow, and sensitized paper.

Participants are also invited to bring objects of their own to create original designs. They may incorporate dried seaweed shapes (provided), leaves, paper, or other two-dimensional objects to block out light to produce collage-like compositions. This program welcomes playful experimentation and discovery, and will send participants home with original works of art inspired by seaweed's early artist-botanists.

This workshop, led by Marina Wells, Photography Collection Curatorial Fellow at the Whaling Museum, is part of the Under the Sea: Seaweed & Sea Creatures weekend activities. Appropriate for ages 8+

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/program/under-the-sea-seaweed-and-sea-creatures/

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