Category: Wyckoff House Museum Artist Residency
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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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Breukelen Country Fair, September 2018
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Teen Apprentices learn embroidery
In addition to natural dyeing with flowers found on the Farm — pokeberries and echinacea (also called Rudbeckia), Tenn Apprentices learned embroidery for the first time. Here are some of their experimental stitches. Pin It
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Embroidery and natural dyeing with Wyckoff House teen apprentices
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Nou la – We Reach! exhibit sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council
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Delft tiles at the Wyckoff House
The Wyckoff House is New York’s oldest structure. Pieter Claesen, an immigrant from Norden, an area now part of Germany who founded what we think of as Wyckoff House, entered America when it was Dutch-controlled, becoming an indentured servant on a farm near Albany. When his servitude ended after 6 years, he relocated to Nieuw…
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“Weaving the space” at Wyckoff House
As one of the third Saturdays at Wyckoff House Museum, free, walk-in art, farming and cultural events for families, I led a weaving workshop, transforming Wyckoff furniture, including a decommissioned spinning wheel, into a makeshift loom. I taught children the “under over” pattern. Together, we wove one communal fabric. Yarns were cut by hand from…
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Delft tiles at Wyckoff House Museum
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Pulling flax
After harvesting flax in late August, we bundled the branches, and hung them upside down to dry, catching falling seed pods in voile. Unwrapping the flax, we used our hands to pull and scrape off seeds, collecting in the bottom of the bucket. The small, brown, edible seeds are inside the round bulb or pods,…
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Lightly covering indigo seeds (soil pinching)
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Preparing the seed bed for Indigo at Wyckoff House Museum
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Preparing indigofera tinctoria (tropical indigo) seeds @Wyckoffhousemuseum
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Transplantation (plant migration)
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