Local artist Joe Hocker and frequent re visitor used an impressive assortment of objects he picked up at the store to make photograms and cyanotypes with high school students in a UArts’ Summer Institute photography class. A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive (including hand sensitized) material.  Many of the objects the students used to create the shadow images came from our bulk bargain section of the store and included pom poms, shoe polishers, toys, vials, and other odds and ends.  Photograms and cyanotype are great introductions to the photographic process and provide a unique opportunity to see the art-making potential of quotidian objects and materials.  Our March reCreate Featured Artist, Catherine T. Nelson, exhibited her found-object cyanotypes in our gallery and taught a cyanotype workshop.  Joe also bought some $1/lb fabric to make blindfolds and had the students make photographs blind!

photo credit: Joe Hocker