Celebrate the beauty of plants and photography! Join us to learn about cyanotypes, a special photographic process that uses sunlight, and make your own prints using botanical pictures, seeds, or plant matter. 

Registration is free but required to hold your place. No experience is required, and all materials will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring their own flowers or other materials to make the prints.

Please note this is scheduled as an outdoor workshop! We will meet in the Fenwick Library lobby before moving outside. In the event of rain or inclement weather, we will move indoors to Fenwick 2001.

This workshop is offered in conjunction with the opening of Fenwick Library’s Seed Library and the exhibition Cross-Pollination on view in Fenwick Gallery through April 25.

Location: Fenwick Library Atrium (rain location: Fenwick 2001)
Instructor: Liz Louise Johnson, MFA candidate & Fenwick Gallery GRA

Interested in growing your own food? Want to get into gardening? Join us for the opening day of the Seed Library at Fenwick Library!

The Seed Library is a Patriot Green Fund project meant to encourage gardening and growing your own food at home. Patrons take seeds from the library, grow them, then harvest, dry, and return the seeds.

Seed libraries have quickly grown in popularity around the country, being found in public libraries, community centers, community gardens, makerspaces, and university libraries. The concept of the seed library model is that the library is stocked with seeds, which patrons take, grow, and then return seeds to the library. The emphasis, however, is on the taking and growing of seeds and less on the drying and returning, given the experience of other seed libraries. They promote growing your own food, wellbeing, community, and learning in a hands-on way.