A lovely, restorative Big Weekend with our biggest cohort yet! Nine participants, three days of sun, and countless conversations on process, practice, community, and art-making in all its forms. Grateful for the way this space keeps making itself and becoming something greater than we could ever plan.
On July 1st we’ll open applications for our late September retreat. Until then we’ll have new events all across NYC. Link in bio to join the mailing list and stay updated on new deadlines, events, and more! 🌙 🏠
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Hope to see you at @levicoltonpaints and my open studio on Saturday! 5-7pm Hope Artist Village in Pawtucket (Dudley St entrance). Will be showing a bunch of new things, including lots of these new pastels drawings for sale! Come through any time after 5, we’ll be having a lil after party 🪩🍻🎨
Mark your calendar! @levicoltonpaints and I are hosting an open studio on Saturday, April 27 from 5-7pm. There will be art, snacks, drinks, pals, etc. Hope Artist Village in Pawtucket- dm for exact location. ⚡️I will be selling these new pastel drawings in person!⚡️ Come hang, bring friends!
Ps. There will be a studio afterparty so stick around…! 🕺🏻
A little late but so stoked about my working #glacialhauntologies weekend with @tyler_rai10 , testing materials, sound, and process. We are making progress! 🧊⏳🥣
24 hours of #glacialhauntologies work with @tyler_rai10 this weekend, featuring giant sail patterns, ice dyeing experiments, glass texture reflections, pastel studies, used book and fabric hunting, cute cats, and lots and lots of caffeine.
Couldn’t have asked for a better Big Weekend! We’re so grateful for all our participants who joined us for three days of making, sharing, and staying cozy around the fire. It’s such a joy to grow this community, and see all the connections made between our different practices.
On March 1st we’ll open applications for our Memorial Day retreat, as well as announce a few new events around the city. Looking forward to more & more 🌙🏠
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Last summer, teaching faculty Hannah Perrine Mode and Elizabeth Case created workshops that used science and art in tandem to increase student understanding of the Juneau Icefield. In addition to their collaborative work, Hannah and Elizabeth researched, created, and taught individually at JIRP.
Hannah taught science illustration, field sketching, watercolor painting. She made a series of fabric and long-exposure cyanotype prints, which will become part of long term ongoing projects documenting climate change on the Juneau Icefield. Hannah also taught a collaborative snow/firn core sampling and cyanotype printmaking workshop with Brad Markle, JIRP’s Director of Academics. Students learned how to take core samples of the Taku Glacier, and then used part of the sample to create cyanotype prints of the snow at various depths. These prints were used to document grain size and create visual records of the core samples. Students arranged them in depth order and displayed them back at Camp 10 – all students who participated in the coring workshop received a print to take home.
Elizabeth taught about firn densification—how snow turns into ice—and led a reading group on the geomorphological and glaicological features of the Icefield with teaching faculty KC Arnell. Students learned to identify various visible features on the Icefield that indicate past and present changes in glaciation: cirques, moraines, and trimlines, as well as glaciological features like ogives, icefalls, crevasses, and supraglacial and marginal lakes. Elizabeth also taught an introduction to QGIS, using satellite imagery for creating basic maps of fieldwork and sites. They also began an independent project thinking about memory, absence, and physicality, incorporating both physical wire mesh used in sculpture and digital meshes created through photogrammetry.
We are so grateful to Hannah and Elizabeth for creating such interesting educational content for students, and for volunteering to teach at JIRP. Catch them on the Icefield in 2024… we are excited to see what they teach next!
(3/3) We are continuing our series on the photogrammetry and cyanotype workshops piloted by Hannah Perrine Mode and Elizabeth Case this summer at Camp 10. In the third workshop, Hannah, Elizabeth, and students skied to the supraglacial lake system to map it, and combined this work with a more extensive study of stream dynamics. Students laid out ground control points along the stream and surveyed them with a handheld GPS, and then flew the drone over the system. In addition, students took channel depth and water velocity measurements through various methods, including using tin foil boats and food coloring.
At the stream, students continued to improve their cyanotype printing skills and practice rope systems with Hannah and safety manager Ibai Rico. They dug snow anchors and used prusiks and belays to safely dip cyanotype bandanas into the glacial stream water to create abstract prints.
In the fourth workshop, Hannah, Elizabeth, and students brought printmaking and photogrammetry together. Students learned how to use Metashape Pro to create a digital elevation model using images taken in the previous workshops of Camp 10, the drained marginal lake, and the supraglacial stream. Hannah and Elizabeth chose twelve overlapping images from the stream, which were printed onto transparency paper using a portable, battery-powered inkjet printer. The students then used these transparencies to print the images onto cyanotype-treated fabric.
Once dry, the students puzzled the cyanotype images together, finding the points of overlapping features (tie points) and stitching them together using embroidery stitches like box stitches, small flowers, and Xes. This made one part of photogrammetry - finding tie points and stitching images together into an orthomosaic - more tangible, and ultimately produced a five-foot long tapestry, which was proudly displayed in the cookshack.
We’ve got one more post from this series on Hannah and Elizabeth’s art/science collaboration. If you want to keep up with their work, be sure to follow their social media and check out their websites, hannahpmode.com and elizabethcase.space.
(2/3) Last week we started sharing pictures from the photogrammetry + cyanotype workshops that teaching faculty Hannah Perrine Mode and Elizabeth Case concocted. Today we will expand on the first two workshops in that series: learning to fly drones, and making cyanotypes!
In the first workshop, students created, set, and surveyed ground control points - markers placed on the ground and surveyed with a GPS that are easily seen by an aerial vehicle (aka drone). First, students created the ground control points. Hannah introduced complementary and triadic color combinations, which provide contrast for increased visibility, and discussed the use of geometry to create points of intersection. Students worked in groups of 2-3 to design and paint these points, and then practiced placing these ground control points around camp and surveyed them using a handheld GPS.
In the second workshop, students were introduced to drone mapping and flying, and learned how to make cyanotypes. Camp 10 provided an accessible, controlled location to safely learn how to pilot a remotely-piloted aerial vehicle (RPAV). Students learned how to remotely control the drone, the tradeoff between flying height, speed, battery life, and resolution, and flew over Camp 10 to a nearby drained marginal lake. Students also practiced making their first cyanotype prints on fabric sheets using melted snow, plants, and rocks.
Stay tuned for info on the third and fourth workshops, where students tied the science and art together!
(1/3) This summer, teaching faculty Hannah Perrine Mode and Elizabeth Case led multi-day workshops where they used photogrammetry and cyanotypes to teach drone survey techniques, photographic printmaking, and collaborative creative processes–all at the same time!
First of all, what are photogrammetry and cyanotypes?
Photogrammetry is a scientific technique that uses images to gain accurate measurements (such as size, scale, or color) of a particular environment. After a series of pictures are taken, the images are overlapped by identifying “reference points,” often the same geographic features, in adjacent photographs. The points can be stitched together to create a detailed 2D image called an orthomosaic, which in turn can be used to create tools like a digital elevation model (DEM) of the environment.
Cyanotype printmaking is a photographic process that uses a UV-sensitive chemical applied to fabric or paper. When exposed to the sun, the chemical causes the paper or fabric to turn a vibrant (dare we say glacial) blue. The technique was first used by Anna Atkins, a nineteenth-century botanist, to make blue-printed records of the plants and algae she studied. On a glacier, cyanotypes can be used to study the texture of ice crystals, the curves of an erratic boulder, and more.
So how did Hannah and Elizabeth use these techniques to teach art and science simultaneously? An emergent supraglacial stream on the surface of the Taku Glacier became the perfect subject of study. In their workshops, Hannah & Elizabeth taught students to drive a remotely-piloted aerial vehicle (RPAVs), process the imagery to create digital elevation models and orthomosaics, print cyanotypes, and sew basic embroidery stitches. The resulting creations included cyanotype prints that record geologic materials, a 3D model of Camp 10, a fabric tapestry depicting part of the supraglacial stream system, and a digital elevation model of the system, which could be used to study its dynamics over the course of the two weeks spent at Camp 10.
We are excited to share more about this process in the following two posts. Feel free to comment if you have questions for Hannah or Elizabeth!
