Botanical Sunprints

BOTANICAL SUNPRINTS: A COLLABORATIVE VISUAL MAPPING OF LONDON’S NATIVE FLORA

August 16 – 25, 2018| Satellite Project Space (121 Dundas St, London)

Local artists, Molly Miksa and Gabriella Solti, invite you to both an aesthetic and scientific exploration of the city’s parks and forests, to discover the diversity of the native flora by employing one of the earliest photographic processes, the cyanotype process (also called sunprints or blueprints).

All events and workshops are FREE and suitable for all ages and abilities. Below is a schedule of our program.

Project website: botanicalsunprints.weebly.com

The artists are grateful for the support of the City of London, London Arts Council, Museum London and Western University.

BOTANICAL SUNPRINTS PROGRAM SCHEDULE 

Thursday, August 16 5:30-8:30PM	Opening Reception
Thursday, August 16 6PM	PLANT IDENTIFICATION, presentation by Dr. Sheila Macfie, plant scientist and Dr. Gordon Neish, agricultural consultant and aspiring field botanist.
Friday, August 17  12-5PM	Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes
Friday, August 17  7PM	NATURE WALK IN THE COVES led by Becky Ellis, Ph.D. student in the Geography department at Western University. Meet us at the parking lot of the German Canadian Club, 1 Cove Rd, London
Saturday, August 18 12-5PM	Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes
Sunday, August 19 2:30PM	FIELD TRIP TO MEADOWLILY NATURE PRESERVE led by Dr. Daria Koscinski, Conservation Property Manager at Thames Talbot Land Trust and Dr. Gordon Neish. Meet us at the Meadowlily Trailhead, 1139 Hamilton Rd, London
Wednesday, August 22 12-5PM	Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes
Thursday, August 23 1-5PM	Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes
Thursday, August 23 6PM	TWO-EYED SEEING, a presentation on the practice of blended Indigenous and European approaches to ways of knowing by Dr. Andrew Judge, Irish-Anishinaabe scholar
Friday, August 24 1-5PM	Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes
Saturday, August 25 1-5PM	Drop-in workshop: pressing collected plants and identifying them; making cyanotypes