From Blueprint to Brushstroke | PRESS & PULL | FALL 2025

From Blueprint to Brushstroke

Facilitator: Dionis Ortiz

Class Date: Saturday, November 1

Time: 1:00 - 3:00pm

Venue: The Children's Art Carnival

Max. Participants: 15

Ages 12+ (under 18 must be accompanied by an adult).

General: $12

Family (Parent + Children): $15

Donation: Pay What You Wish

Ages 12+ (under 18 must be accompanied by an adult).

General: $12

Family (Parent + Children): $15

Donation: Pay What You Wish

Explore the Art of Cyanotype Printing!

Cyanotype is a 150-year-old photographic process that creates stunning Prussian blue images. Join Harlem native and multimedia artist Dionis Ortiz for a hands-on workshop where beginners will make their first cyanotype prints, while experienced participants can experiment with painting directly using cyanotype solution. Walk away with a collection of original prints—perfect for decorating your home, gifting, or enjoying as a creative activity in NYC!

Dionis Ortiz is a multimedia artist, community art producer, and educator who works in printmaking, collage, and sculpture. Drawing from his experiences as a child born and raised in Harlem of Dominican descent, he creates geometric, process-based works from ill-regarded and found materials to celebrate the people of the African diaspora.

He was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, received a Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, and has been an Artist in Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. He has produced several solo exhibitions in New York and his work was recently included in Estamos bien: La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo Del Barrio (New York).

Community engagement is central to his practice and he has produced projects for Harlem River Park Fund, Museum of Art and Design, and ImageNation.

In 2021 he was Artist in Residence at Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling and his mural design was selected by PubliColor for an elementary school in East Harlem. His work has been featured in The New York Times several times and is included in Latinx Art: Artists, Market, and Politics by Arlene Dávila.

This community work extends to teaching and Ortiz teaches all ages from pre-K to teenagers and undergraduates at Hunter College and Cornell University.

He received his B.F.A from SUNY Purchase College and his M.F.A from CUNY Hunter College

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