Join us for Blueprints of Nature, a cyanotype print workshop celebrating the intersection of art, agriculture, and seasonal giving at Jalama Canyon Ranch.
When: Saturday, March 22, 2025 from 9:00 AM 2:00 PM
Where: Jalama Canyon Ranch at 3635 Jalama Road, Lompoc, CA
Workshop Cost: $275 for a day of instruction, all art materials, and a delicious lunch.
Led by renowned artist and the 2023 White Buffalo Land Trust Artist in Residence, Holli Harmon, this immersive experience offers our community a unique opportunity to explore the beauty of the ranch and capture its intricate details through the photographic process of cyanotype printing.
Cyanotype uses light-sensitive iron salts to create beautiful deep blue and soft white photographic prints. With hands-on instruction, you’ll craft your own artistic silhouettes onto a flour sack towel set using a diversity of plants, rocks, and found items gathered from the land. We invite you to enjoy the beauty of the ranch while creating a gift for loved ones or yourself! While your cyanotypes dry, we’ll gather for a nourishing meal highlighting local seasonal food. Throughout the day, we’ll engage in discussions on the upcoming holiday season and how everything from the gifts we give to the food we share can support the regeneration of our local ecosystem, foster connection to place, and reinvigorate culture and community.
All materials will be provided, including exposure materials, flour sack towels, and other supplies.
No Experience Necessary: Whether you're an experienced artist or a beginner, this workshop is open to all skill levels. Embrace the opportunity to learn, create, and connect in a supportive and inspiring environment.
This workshop is offered as part of our Artist-in-Residence Program.
About Holli Harmon
Holli’s work revolves around human experiences that are connecting points between different cultures and generations set in iconic California imagery. Her paintings and printmaking re-imagine the story of these places, people, and culture.
Process, materials and surfaces are as important as the subjects found in her work. The imagery lives between representation and abstraction as one material leads to another, creating an object that has a life of its own. Some of theses materials include impasto paint, cold wax, collage and thread
As a native to California. Harmon shares this imagery honestly and in the present tense. Through a personal lens, she explores and re-tells themes that make up our collective human experience. These collective experiences are found on the edge of our personal borders of space, time and memory.