Blueprint & Brush: Mixed Media Cyanotypes – CAC PRESS & PULL
Blueprint & Brush: Mixed Media Cyanotypes – CAC PRESS & PULL
| Date: Saturday, April 4th
Time: 1:00 – 3:00pm Venue: The Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 10031 For: Adults and Children Ages 12 and Up Max Participants: 8 Cyanotype printing is a 150-year-old photographic process that produces rich Prussian blue prints from photographs, drawings, and found imagery. In this hands-on workshop, participants will create cyanotype prints on paper and then develop them further with watercolor layering. Led by multimedia artist and Harlem native Dionis Ortiz, the class welcomes artists of all levels and offers a guided introduction to this mixed-media process. Participants will leave with their own artworks on paper and new skills to continue exploring on their own. |
About the facilitator: Dionis Ortiz
Dionis Ortiz is a multimedia artist, community art producer, and educator who works in printmaking, collage, and sculpture. Drawing from his experiences as a child born and raised in Harlem of Dominican descent, he creates geometric, process-based works from ill-regarded and found materials to celebrate the people of the African diaspora.
He was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, received a Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, and has been an Artist in Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. He has produced several solo exhibitions in New York and his work was recently included in Estamos bien: La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo Del Barrio (New York).
Community engagement is central to his practice and he has produced projects for Harlem River Park Fund, Museum of Art and Design, and ImageNation.
In 2021 he was Artist in Residence at Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling and his mural design was selected by PubliColor for an elementary school in East Harlem. His work has been featured in The New York Times several times and is included in Latinx Art: Artists, Market, and Politics by Arlene Dávila.
This community work extends to teaching and Ortiz teaches all ages from pre-K to teenagers and undergraduates at Hunter College and Cornell University.
He received his B.F.A from SUNY Purchase College and his M.F.A from CUNY Hunter College.
Registration is required to participate: Reserve your spot now!
CAC PRESS & PULL is a community-based printshop at The Children’s Art Carnival (CAC) in West Harlem, grounded in equity, access, and experimentation. Inspired by the legacy of Robert Blackburn and Betty Blayton-Taylor, the program emphasizes non-traditional and accessible printmaking techniques that prioritize process, collaboration, and creative independence.
