Friends, are you Wide Awakes?

Join artist Jackie Neale in creating one of the largest cyanotypes on fabric

at the Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia Saturday, September 6, 2025

Be a part of history in the making by creating a community cyanotype portrait with artist Jackie Neale using the theme; Open Eye, The Wide Awakes.

Open Eye is a reference to The Wide Awakes. The Wide Awakes are a community of like-minded individuals across the country who wear the symbol of an open eye to signal their support of freedom of speech, human rights, women's rights and safety for those who need a safe haven during volatile times. The Wide Awakes have a solidarity symbol of the open eye.

The artist ask you to bring meaningful objects to make imprints and stencils, but mostly bring hand cut, decorative stencils/outlines of an open eye that would make cool imprints/silhouettes on the photo. (we reserve the right to exclude any objects).

Sign up begins at 12:00pm and will be on a first come, first sign-up basis. See below for requirements. Sorry, no children under the age of 17 (due to duration of stillness required). Read below for more info.

• Where: Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106 - At the end of the pier

• When: Saturday September 6, 2025 - 12:00–12:30 pm sign-up, 1pm sharp start time - The event itself will begin around 12:30pm and will be created at 1:00pm sharp! Weather permitting. We need sun. No sun? It will be postponed, stay tuned).

• Required: Laying in the sun without moving an inch for 10-20 minutes will be required

• Bring: Large stencils of an open eye (not plural) to create an imprint, different open eye stencils in multiple welcome. Make them big to be visible from afar.

• Leave behind: Bags, backpacks, sharp/heavy objects, bottles, kids (or bring someone to watch them for you. We cannot and will not.)

• Wear: As little as possible and make it tight if you're wearing it + sunscreen

How: How cyanotypes work - the large format fabric has a photographic light-sensitive emulsion on it. It is dried and stored in the dark.  This fabric is now light-sensitive to the sun and will make an imprint when exposed to the sun of anything that is on top of it during its time under the sun. When things are placed on top of this fabric anything that blocks the sun makes a white imprint and any part that is not blocked becomes a rich blue.  This artwork will not only be body outlines, but will have repetitive symbols the eyes cut-outs you bring! Please bring your own very large and decorative stencils of Open eyes. The Eyes have to be outlines, stencils or transparent.

*Disclaimer/Agreement: Participation and sign-up in the project acts as agreement and permission to include your likeness in photographs and videos of the event for publicity and future artwork and fabrication of any derivative of the artwork or photographs in the future. This includes promotional digital and print and any future expression of reproduction. By participating you relinquish all liability, claims, damages and hold harmless the 2020 Photo Festival and their assigns, the Cherry Street Pier and their assigns, and the artist, Jackie Neale and their assigns in perpetuity.