Nature + Cyanotype with Marilee Salvator

Led by 2026 Regional Artist in Residence, Marilee Salvator, enjoy an artsy afternoon of creating beautiful botanical cyanotypes, or sun prints, using flowers, leaves and other natural objects found at Bernheim.

In 1843 pioneer photographer, Anna Atkins, produced the first photographic botany book using the magic of cyanotypes, or sun prints. Cyanotypes produce brilliant deep blue images from the chemical reaction of sun or UV light with an iron salt solution on paper. The process was later used to make architectural and other technical photocopies, or what we know as “blueprints.”

All Nature (+) classes include a short interpretive stroll around an area of Bernheim related to the subject matter, with a naturalist prior to sitting down to create.

Age: 18+

Meet the Artist

Marilee Salvator is a multidisciplinary artist from Bowling Green. Her work is rooted in an ongoing dialogue with the natural world and reflects ecological systems. She often integrates branches, seed pods, stones, and other natural materials into her paintings and prints to reference cycles of growth, accumulation, and decay.

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