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2026 | Gender Expression Through Cyanotype: History of Cyanotype & Portrait Photography
June 26 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Sign up for the first workshop in the Gender Expression Through Cyanotype Series, located in the museum’s Collection Study Center.
Gender Expression Through Cyanotype Workshop: History of Cyanotype & Portrait Photography
Friday, June 26, 2026, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Meet at the Collection Study Center (room 5092), Department of Fine Arts WSU, Pullman, WA
In collaboration with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s Collection Study Center, this session offers participants a look at portrait photography from the museum’s collection with a focus on gender expression. Both historic and contemporary work will be on view, providing participants a chance to engage and find inspiration for their own work. Through discussion and sketching activities participants will start developing ideas for their own portraits, considering the ways gender may be expressed through imagery, objects, drawings, and print surfaces. Please bring a sketchbook and pencil to this workshop.
This is the first workshop in the Gender Expression Through Cyanotype series. Cyanotype is an alternative photographic medium that produces images with vibrant blue and white tones when exposed to sunlight and fixed in water. It allows printing on porous material with natural fibers such as watercolor paper and fabric. Photographic negatives, objects, drawings, and cutouts can then be used to expose onto whatever surface has been coated with cyanotype solution. The wide range of materials on which one may print offers participants many ways in which to express themselves visually with cyanotype.
See the museum’s event calendar for additional workshops. Participants may register for the first workshop without attending subsequent workshops in the series. Workshops 2 and 3, which cover and build on technical aspects of photographic and cyanotypes processes, must be taken together. Participants registered in workshops 2 and 3 are encouraged to register for workshop 4 on Monday, July 27, which covers matting, framing, curating and exhibiting artwork.”
Finished work from the Gender Expression Through Cyanotype Series will be on view at Greystone Grand Gallery during the month of August 2026 and a reception will take place August 21, 2026, 4:00-6:00pm.
About the Instructor | Nickolas Carl Hurlbut (he/they/any) is an interdisciplinary artist and MFA candidate at Washington State University mainly focusing on photography and ceramics. Hurlbut’s work explores queer identity and gender expression through film photography, alternative photographic processes, community-based installation art, pottery, and ceramic sculptures.
Funding | Provided by a Publicly Engaged Fellowship from the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities. Organized by Nickolas Hurlbut, MFA Candidate, Department of Art WSU and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.
Image Credit | Marsha Burns, Detail of “Yaz” (1986), Large Format Polaroid, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Permanent Collection, Gift of Timothy Bradbury
Location & Parking
The Collection Study Center, located in the Department of Fine Arts WSU, is off Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium on the WSU Pullman campus, directly east of the museum’s Crimson Cube. Hourly parking is available in the Smith Center Garage off Stadium Way and most Green lots on campus are free after 5pm and on weekends. For more parking information please see the museum’s Visit page.
