Open Door Gallery at WAM: Camilla Jerome Artist Workshop

Join us for a FREE artist workshop led by Camilla Jerome, currently exhibiting her show Patient, Patient at the Open Door Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum!

In this workshop, participants will make experimental artworks using the cyanotype process.

Cyanotype photography is a camera-less process that involves laying objects or images on paper coated with a solution that when exposed to UV light turns into a stunning white and Prussian blue artwork.

Camilla uses this process in her art practice, creating stunning abstract artworks by having cyanotypes interact with ocean water, seaweed, salt, and other minerals. Many of these artworks are on display in her current exhibition .

Workshop space is limited to 15 participants.

Time:
The workshop will take place from 6:00 - 7:00 pm, following an opening reception and brief artist remarks starting at 4:30 pm.

Getting to the Space:
The Open Door Gallery @ WAM is located in the Higgins Education Wing of the Worcester Art Museum, at 55 Salisbury Street Worcester, MA 01609. The gallery can be accessed through the Lancaster Street entrance of WAM which is located at the end of the first floor of the Higgins Education Wing, next to the Library.

Access:
We are committed to creating an inclusive exhibition environment. For further access requests or feedback, or to request ASL interpreters for the Jan. 30 workshop please email [email protected] . Please request ASL by Jan. 16.

About Patient, Patient:

The fluidity of my chronically ill and disabled body, which often feels like it's in a constant state of change and adaptation, mirrors the transformative power of the photographic medium. Digital and analog photographs, a book, cyanotypes, gelatin silver, lumen, and chemigram prints create multiple access points for deciphering and discernment, slicing infinite time into fractions of a second.

Patient, Patient is a testament to my lived experience of being silenced and disregarded as a woman in pain. Through a combination of past and present projects, I focus on the different methods of making, meditate on the process and materiality of healing, and express my embodied knowledge. My artistic practice has grown alongside my pain, and my life is inseparable from these images on paper, bedsheets, shells, and bone. Like a silver print developing in the darkroom, I'm bringing clarity to the surface by reaching out from the corners of my psyche to reclaim lost time and missed connections.

Learn more here: https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/open-door-gallery/
Learn more about Camilla on her website: https://www.camillajerome.com/

Images: 1. Patient, Patient ( Comorbid) - The left side of the art is the portrait of Camilla made blue with the cyanotype process. The right image is a blue cyanotype but Camilla is a deep blue silhouette. It is just a shadow of her outline. 2. Bodies of Water No. 72 - A horizontal image made with a cyanotype that has a more muted grey/blue background. There is a bold deep blue impression of arcing seaweed through the middle of the composition. Coming off the arc of seaweed are tentacle-like seaweed leaves.

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