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Cyanotype Toning - Beyond the Blue - Sunday, May 2
Sunday, May 2 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Mohammed Shamma
Materials Fee: A Materials Fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor
Sunday, May 2 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Mohammed Shamma
Materials Fee: A Materials Fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor
Learn to tone cyanotype prints using botanical and chemical agents to achieve a range of colors beyond the classic Prussian blue. Beginning with a brief overview of the cyanotype process and the science behind toning, you will proceed to coat and expose watercolor paper to create base cyanotypes. Experimenting with botanical toning baths including green tea, coffee, and madder root, you will explore both single-bath and multi-bath toning. You will also learn bleaching with washing soda (sodium carbonate) as a corrective tool. Partial bleaching can restore highlight details and rebalance overexposed or flat prints before toning. You will leave with 3-5 finished prints and the knowledge to continue toning at home.
No prior cyanotype experience is required, though familiarity with the basic process is helpful.
Over the past decade, Mohammed has returned to analog photography as a way of reconnecting with craft and materiality. His work often employs unconventional surfaces, including papyrus, to explore the intersection of his Egyptian heritage with contemporary travel, landscape, and street photography. He invites viewers to reflect on how we perceive artifacts, museums, and archaeological sites through our globally connected lenses. Mohammed works across multiple image-transfer and printing techniques—including inkjet, dye sublimation, thermal transfer, cyanotype, and Polaroid emulsion lifts—and is currently focused on the intricacies of carbon transfer printing.
Instagram: @popiris_studios.
Fee: MarinMOCA Members: $115; Non-members $140
Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor
Where: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; 1210 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael (at B Street)
Six Fridays, November 6, 13, 20 and December 4, 11, 18 I 10:00am - 11:00am
Instructor: Susy Olson
Two Fridays, November 6 & 13 | 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Instructor: Katya McCulloch
Materials Fee: A materials fee of $10 will be paid directly to the instructor
Saturday, November 7 | 1:30pm-4:30pm
Instructor: Nate Mahoney
Materials Fee: None
Saturday, November 14 | 9:30am - 12:30pm
Instructor: MJ Connors Davison
Materials Fee:
Saturday, November 14; 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Instructor: Mirka Knaster
Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor
Sunday, November 15; 11am to 3pm
Instructor: Catherine Cruz
Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $20 will be paid to the instructor
Saturday, November 21 | 10:00am - 11:30am
Instructor: Barbara Pollak-Lewis
Materials Fee: An additional fee of $25 will be paid directly to Barbara if you reserve a portfolio review
Saturday, November 21 | 1:30pm-4:30pm
Instructor: Edie Trautwein
Materials Fee: A materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor
Saturday and Sunday I December 5 & 6 I 10:30am - 4:00pm
Instructor: Diane Williams and Chuck Potter
Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $30 will be paid directly to the instructors. This fee includes cold wax medium, Arches oil paper, wax paper, tissue paper, Gamsol odorless mineral spirits and two prepared wooden panels.
Saturday, January 9 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Ilah Jarvis
Materials Fee: A materials fee of $10 will be paid to the instructor
Sunday, January 17 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Mohammed Shamma
Materials Fee: A materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor
Saturday and Sunday, January 23 & 24 | 10:00am - 4:30pm
Instructor: Diane Williams and Chuck Potter
Materials Fee: A materials fee of $20 will be paid to the instructor
Saturday, January 30 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Suzy Kopf
Materials Fee: A materials fee of $20 will be paid to the instructor
Saturday, February 6 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Rena Tom
Materials Fee: A materials fee of $16 will be paid directly to the instructor
Saturday, February 13 | 11:00am - 3:00pm
Instructor: Suzy Kopf
Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $50 will be paid to the instructor
Saturday, February 20 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Gretchen Cion
Materials Fee: None, just bring your preferred method for writing
Three Sundays, 2/21, 2/28, 3/7 | 9:30am - 12:30pm
Instructor: Duncan Figurski
Materials Fee: There is no additional materials fee but students will need to bring a laptop
Sunday, February 28 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Lara Starr
Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $10 will be paid to the instructor.
Saturday, March 6 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Mohammed Shamma
Materials Fee: A materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor
Sunday, March 7 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Ilah Jarvis
Materials Fee: A materials fee of $20 will be paid to the instructor
Saturday, April 3 | 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Instructor: Ilah Jarvis
Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $20 will be paid to the instructor
Sunday, May 2 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Mohammed Shamma
Materials Fee: A Materials Fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor
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Fees are due at the time of registration. You may cancel up to one week prior to the start of the class and the registration fee, less $25 for processing, will be refunded to you. Should you cancel less than one week before a class/workshop begins you will not receive a refund of any portion of the registration fee.
If MarinMOCA cancels a class/workshop, you will receive a full refund.
Saturday, October 31; 11am to 3pm
Instructor: Catherine Cruz
Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor