[New Online Workshop] Make A Photo From Plants And Sunshine
A hands-on workshop that will CHANGE YOUR CREATIVE LIFE. Or at least, teach you how to use natural materials to make an anthotype, an old-school type of photograph. With plants. And sunshine. And a bit of paper. 🌿☀️📜
This Friday July 11th, collaborating artists Lindsey Beal and May Babcock are giving a super-fun online workshop 💪 where you’ll get walked through, step-by-step, on how to make your very first anthotype (a plant-based photographic process). 🙀
The supplies are simple (you probably have most of the stuff already), and the process is PERFECT for a summertime creative session to try something fresh and new.
You’ll be able to see every step in detail, and make your own anthotype over the course of 1 week. By the end of this get-it-done, fast and fun workshop, you’ll have made your very own anthotype—and pick up the skills to make even more if you wish. 💥
Details
Date: This Friday, July 11, 2025 through August 1st, 2025.
Schedule: Watch the workshop anytime, on your schedule, starting Friday, July 11th. You’ll have 3 months of access to the workshop from the date of purchase.
Format: You’ll login to an online classroom to watch the pre-recorded video lessons.
Comments: The comment sections under each video open July 11th, and will close August 1st, 2025.
Topics:
What supplies you’ll need to gather (don’t worry, everything is pretty simple and easy to find)
Deciding on where to best setup for the process
Making spinach emulsion step-by-step, and how to properly coat your paper
Understanding how to select images for anthotype printing that work
Setting up your contact print, and how long to expose your anthotype for
Getting the confidence to try other fun anthotype emulsions and colors for further experimentation
Bonus! Working out how to use digital positives with anthotypes
By the end of this workshop, you’ll have your very own plant-based photograph ⚡️.
THE INSTRUCTORS
May Babcock and Lindsey Beal have had their anthotypes collected and exhibited by the Boston Athenaeum, and featured in press and publications. (You may have seen the exhibition on view now at the Boston Athenaeum featuring May and Lindsey’s collaborative anthotypes, so here’s your chance to make anthotypes with the artists together and have a little art party. 🎉)
May Babcock is an ecocentric artist who transforms sediment, seaweed, and excess plants into handmade paper, revealing the complexities of various waterways. Rooted in hand papermaking and place, her interdisciplinary practice reconnects people to the voice of the land and waters. Babcock exhibits nationally and internationally, installs public art at universities, airports, and historic sites, and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She founded Paperslurry.com, a hand papermaking blog.
Lindsey Beal is a photo-based artist in Providence, Rhode Island where she teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work examines historical American views on technology, parenting, and sexual & reproductive health, and how they reflect today’s political and social landscape. Committed to process, she connects her work to early photographic history and techniques, often incorporating sculptural photographs, hand paper making, or artist books into her work.
How it works:
Enroll now, and upon purchase you’ll receive login information from Teachable (the online class platform used). Then you’ll get a reminder and link via email on Friday, July 11th. Once the workshop goes live, the comment section will be open until August 1st, 2025.
Don’t worry, if you don’t have time to do the workshop this month, you’ll have 3 months of access to the online classroom from the date of purchase. Yay!
Fee: $125 USD
The comment sections are open under each video lesson for questions and chat for these 3 weeks.
So come hang out with May and Lindsey, and learn a whole new nature-based creative process for summer 2025!
It’s gonna be so much fun!
Hope to see you in there!