Cyanotype Workshop and Artist Talk
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All engaging in acts of care are invited to participate and are called to bring the evidence of their care with particular curiosity for the items that are byproducts of loving work. This community art-making event will take place in two parts: the first on Saturday May 3, 2025, a cyanotype workshop to print on fabric squares; the second on Wednesday, May 21, to gather and bind them into a quilt.
Cyanotype Workshop: Saturday, May 3 10am-1pm, Artist Talk 11am
Bring artifacts of caregiving. What does care look like to you? What objects do you associate with taking care of your loved ones, yourself?
This direct contact process means you’ll only see the outlines of opaque materials. Consider forms representing your labors of love.
Suggestions: accumulated crumbs; hair pulled from the brush; dryer lint; dog leash; empty medicine containers; the ridges of clean diapers; breast milk, formula or whole milk; bottle parts; pump parts; soap suds.
If you attend the Cyanotype Workshop, you’ll each be given two pieces of prepared (pre-coated) fabric squares for printing upon. One will be selected to bind in a quilt to celebrate the often invisible work of care taking, fabric made stronger in its gathering. You can return for our May 21st event to collect your second cyanotype, and bring home with you.
Hedreen Gallery events are always free for all. REGISTER (at the top of this page) to reserve your materials. We have limited capacity for the Cyanotype workshop. If your plans change after registering, please release your spot for others.
Adair Freeman Rutledge will be giving an Artist Talk at 11am, no registration required to attend.
Cyanotype and quilting materials provided, no experience necessary.
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Under the Same Moon - In becoming a mother, photographer Adair Freeman Rutledge was fascinated by the repetitive, almost Sisyphean tasks of care - the trimming of fingernails, the snipping of curls, the expressing of breast milk - that are often invisible. While in the postpartum period with her own children, Rutledge collected the byproducts of her days that would otherwise be discarded; using these artifacts to make cyanotypes, Prussian blue contact prints and one of the oldest photographic processes, she reimagines them as beautiful.
Adair Freeman Rutledge is a photographic artist based in Seattle, WA. Originally from Alabama, her photography work questions enduring traditions and underscores tensions between cultural practices and modern realities. Through a curious and feminist lens, she examines how American customs influence expectations for our youth, shape gender roles, and impact racial stereotypes. Adair’s photography has been commissioned by brands like Amazon, John Deere, Brooks Running, and Zillow. Her fine art work has been featured on NPR, Fraction Magazine, and Lenscratch, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Seattle Art Museum's Betty Bowen Award (finalist) and the 2024 Do Good Fund Fellowship. She has exhibited her work at institutions including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, and Blue Sky Gallery.
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