Month: August 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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For Which It Stands
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Why do we resist cultural preservation?
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Guest Artist for Arts First, pre-orientation program for Bucknell University First-year students and Second-year mentors
In August 2018, I visited Bucknell University as a Guest Artist for Artist First, an intensive, 5-day pre-orientation program. First- and Second-year students learned to embroider and using the medium as a narrative tool; visited Bucknell’s burgeoning farm and waterfront to forage for plants for dyeing and print-making; and collaborated to create stop motion animations,…
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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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GrowNYC’s Teaching Garden 9-8-18 workshop
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