Events
Sunprints & Storycloths: A Cyanotype Workshop
Join Materials Prophecies artist Calethia DeConto for a hands-on cyanotype workshop exploring memory, ancestry, and material transformation. Participants will create sunprints on repurposed fabrics, using light-sensitive processes to reflect on themes of prophecy and personal history.
Developed in collaboration with the Armory’s Studio Department, this workshop invites collective making as a space for reflection and post-Eaton Fire healing.
Tuition is $30. This workshop is open to all ages. We please ask that each attendee is registered with a ticket, this includes children who will be in attendance for the workshop. All children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
All materials provided. No prior experience necessary. Scholarships available. Please email Director of Studio, Jocelyn Casas, at [email protected] to learn more about the application process.
About the Artist
Calethia DeConto (b. 1980, Enid, OK; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a southern California lens-based artist known for imagery that explores a conscious relationship with nature, personal rituals in healing, sensuality, and metaphysical intuition. Her photographs and short films have been exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States. Deeply shaped by the light, coastlines, and shifting atmospheres of Southern California, she uses her lens to study and honor the natural world, capturing found objects, feminine forms, and organic shapes that reflect rituals and create a unique cosmology. Working across collage, cyanotype, experimental film, and photography, DeConto bridges the tactile and the ephemeral, revealing a deep connection to place, memory, and transformation.
Growing up in a constantly changing landscape, she developed an early awareness of temporality and spirituality. These sensibilities thread through her work, where intuition, energy, and the unseen play a central role. By layering textures, silhouettes, and light, she creates images that feel both intimate and expansive, inviting viewers into a contemplative, dreamlike space. DeConto continues to explore the boundaries between photography and other mediums, shaping a visual language rooted in nature, mystery, and the subconscious.