MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Middletown Art Center invites the public to participate in an alternative photographic processes workshop from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2.

This week participants will print images using cyanotype and Van Dyke brown. Both are contact printing processes that need ultraviolet light to make an exposure onto coated paper, fabric and or other surfaces.

Explore these intriguing alternative techniques as part of Photographing Resilience at Middletown Art Center.

The cost is just $5 and class is open to adults and teens 12 and up, whether new to art making or professionals.

“Participants can make ‘digital negatives’ using transparencies from photographic images or drawings, or they can use mementos and natural objects to create compositions,” explained Instructor Shane Powers. “This is a very versatile process with endless creative possibilities not only for photographers, but for artists and makers of all kinds! So come to class and bring a friend!”

Please reserve your spot at www.middletownartcenter.org/resilience, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 707-809-8118. Space is limited.

To increase creative options, bring a camera, phone or thumb drive with a few choice digital images and/or bring mementos and objects from home.

Join the folks at MAC this weekend or any first through fourth weekend of the month until May 2018 for Resilience Project classes in photography, creative writing, painting and printmaking.

Please note that there are some changes to the regular schedule during December due to holidays, so please check the Web site.

MAC is located at 21456 State Highway 175 at the junction Highway 29 in Middletown.

Visit www.middletownartcenter.org to learn more about MAC and the Resilience Project.