FRUMA MARKOWITZ
artist / photographer
Workshops
Cyanotype Intensive
Cyanotype Color Magic 3-day Hands-on Workshop
August 25-27, 2025
You will learn basic cyanotype printing skills as well as explore experimental ways of adding color to your prints with fresh botanicals we will gather ourselves from nature, and with other non-toxic ingredients straight from your kitchen.
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Suitable for both beginners and advanced students
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Small group of 6 participants maximum
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Individualized step-by-step instruction in English
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Take-home kit provides you with all you need to continue creating cyanotypes on your own at home
USD $600 includes all materials
You will add these new skills to your artist toolbox:
Toning from
Nature
DAY 1: Getting Started
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Intro: What is Cyanotype?
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History and contemporary artists working in Cyanotype
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Materials: chemicals used, types of paper, water pH, fabric, botanicals and other image-making elements
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Process: mixing chemicals, coating paper, the contact print, image exposure, washing and drying prints
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How is working with fabric different from paper?
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Day 1 Roundup and Q & A
DAY 2: Achieving Color Using Botanicals
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Intro: How do we make color using botanicals?
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Materials: foraging for botanicals near home; how to press & store botanicals; working with powders and roots to achieve colors on various substrates
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Process: Natural bleaching and toning; on full images, on selective areas of an image
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Field Trip: we will go outside to search for botanicals to use in our work today
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Time to experiment with toning solutions to change colors
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Time to coat additional papers and textiles
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Day 2 Roundup and Q & A
DAY 3: Working Wet at the Beach
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Intro: How do we make color using everyday kitchen ingredients?
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Materials: salt, turmeric powder, soap, plastic wrap, pigments
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Process: using the shoreline environment to add color and texture to our prints
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Field Trip: we will go to a nearby beach to make environmentally friendly cyanotype prints using sand, sea, sun, and our kitchen ingredients
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Time to make wet cyanotype prints
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Day 3 Roundup and Q & A
About Fruma
Fruma Markowitz
Fruma Markowitz’s photography practice focuses on historical, experimental, and hand-made processes, with an emphasis on cyanotype and lumen photography, textile-based mixed-media collage, and most recently one-of-a-kind photobooks. Family life, womanhood, cultural histories with shared legacies, and environmental concerns are where she mostly draws inspiration for making images.
A resident of CT since 2003, she belongs to local artist organizations where she frequently shows her work. Fruma’s work has been shown nationally at the SoHo Photo Gallery, the Griffin Museum of Photography, The Halide Project, RICPA, and the CAMP Gallery, among others. A full portfolio spread of her work was featured in DekUnu Arts (2023), FLOAT Magazine (2024), and Lenscratch (Oct. 2024). She has received three materials grants (2020, 2022, 2024) through the Drew Friedman Fund.She completed an Artist Residency at the Weir Farm Nature Preserve in September 2022.
Fruma has taught photography to women in crisis
and cancer survivors, at local art organizations, and more recently at her private home studio. This July Fruma will lead workshops at the Experimental FotoFest in Barcelona, Spain, and in August at the NorthWest Art Center at Whidbey Island, WA, the NorthWind Art Center in Port Townsend, WA, and, together with Annette, this Intensive Cyanotype workshop at her studio in Black Rock, CT.
About Annette
Annette Golaz
Swiss photographer Annette Golaz experiments with a variety of 19th century photographic processes like gum, platinum/palladium and cyanotype printing. Annette painted for years but today photography is her preferred medium. She regards Alt Processes are as the perfect blend of the two art forms. In her current personal art practice, she pushes photographic boundaries by using more recently outdated cameras – for example, a 20-year old Apple digital device with 0.3 megapixels.
Annette researched the toning of cyanotypes with botanicals in depth and developed a ground-breaking tricolor cyanotype process which are both expertly detailed in her book “Cyanotype Toning: Using Botanicals to Tone Blueprints Naturally.” The book was published in 2022 as a best-selling new addition to the Routledge series Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography. She also contributed to Christina Z. Anderson’s book “Cyanotype” in the same series.
A teacher and journalist by training, Annette is head of photography of a Swiss publishing house for cookery books and is the editor of a food magazine. She has exhibited her photography work widely in Switzerland, the USA, and China. She also teaches tricolor cyanotype workshops at her home studio in Zurich, at the Experimental FotoFestival in Barcelona, and this summer will bring her expertise in cyanotype processes to workshops she is leading here with me in Connecticut, and in North Carolina.
What our students say about learning with us....
W0W! This was such a fun workshop. Easy to get immediate, beautiful results. So gratifying to take home beautiful, personal art!
- Ryan
Fruma knows her stuff! Today was a thorough and fun introduction to cyanotype printing. Her studio was well-equipped and welcoming. Lots of time to play with art!
- Condie
As an amateur I found this very exciting despite having no expectations. Everything was a fantastic learning experience. Great teacher! Made us excited!
- Erin
This is such a great workshop to dive into the art of alternative processes. It got the wheels turning and cannot wait for future classes.
- Jessica
