Month: November 2019
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Immigration/Preservation
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Borders are meant to be crossed
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Incantation (Make America Safe)
Incantation Throw, produced by The Nation inspired by my embroidered and beaded artwork, 2016. Limited edition available online. Pin It
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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…