Category: Residencies and community artworks
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Public arts workshops: embroidery, natural dyeing, weaving, plant histories
Plant-printing and dyeing, and food, dye and medicine garden tours, 2023 Plant Food, Dye, Medicine tour, Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, 9/17/2023. Co-led by herbalist Danielle Moore. Top, visiting native, naturalized and pollinator plants. Bottom: harvesting Amaranthus cruentus, red amaranth, for mono-printing and dyeing. Participants in Food, Dye, Medicine tour making plant mono-prints…
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Natural Dye workshops with indigo, pokeberry, rudbeckia, 2018-2019
Indigo dyeing workshops, NYC, 2019 In 2017, I began growing indigo from seed in my Brooklyn apartment after reading the legend of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, credited with having made indigo a North Carolina cash crop from 1745–75. Understanding the role enslaved laborers played in indigo’s success, including applying cultural knowledge of how to grow indigo…
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Embroidering with seniors at Midwood Active Adults
Through my (Im)migration Lines Artist Residency at Wyckoff House Museum, sponsored in part by a Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Fund grant, I led embroidery and textile arts workshops for local seniors at Midwood Active Adults from January – June 2018. Workshops took place monthly, and included a visit and tour of Wyckoff House. I…
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(Im)migration Lines culminating exhibit, Wyckoff House, Formal Parlor
Text reads: I pledge allegiance to the flag of these (in)violate(d) States of America, many nations under Allah, Jesus, Adonai, threaded together, (de)segregated, removed from ourselves. Divided we fall, united we dream a new American Dream: libertad y justicia para todos. Pin It
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Harvesting indigo, late September
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Indigo dyeing with resist stitching: Imagining Eliza (Lucas Pinckney)
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Breukelen Country Fair, September 2018
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Reinterpreting Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s shoes
Silk shoe inspired by Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s brocaded shoes. 2018. Embroidery on indigo-dyed silks sitting on a bed of Japanese indigo flowers going to seed. Note: the flowers are not dye-producing. It’s the leaves from which dye is made. Eliza is considered in common historical literature the “American mother of indigo.” She persisted in planting…
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Indigo-dyed fabrics so many ways…
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Indigo cold leaf dyeing with salt + carefully calibrated fermented, hot leaf bath
In exchange for space, soil, compost, beds, and overall farm support, kindness, generosity and good cheer, I led a free, public indigo-dyeing workshop on Governors Island on September 8th, 2018. Lots of friends, some of whom helped grow and transplant the indigo, former students and families with children participated. While I prepared a hot bath…
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Fall harvesting
Thanks to the talented Lily Maslanka for these photographs of the most recent fall harvest at the GrowNYC Teaching Garden. Lily has been experimenting successfully with extracting pigment from woad, while I’ve been wholly focused on using the Japanese indigo. Pin It
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Going straight from leaves to dye
One can go straight from leaves to dye without waiting for pigment to settle to the bottom of a fermented vat. Instructions on this website was helpful. I made my own adjustments. Pin It
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How does the blue dye come from the frothy vat?
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Indigo grew all summer. Dye experiments began.
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Indigo at GrowNYC, Summer 2018
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