Led by Ann Shostrom, Associate Professor, School of Visual Arts; Kim Gates Flick, Instructor, School of Visual Arts

Learn about locally grown and gathered dyes and explore the magic of slow textiles in living color. Sustainable Studio is a special topics course offered by the School of Visual Arts in collaboration with the Sustainability Institute, taught by Associate Professor Ann Shostrom and Instructor, Kim Gates Flick, facilitated by Leslie Pillen Associate Director, Farm and Food Systems.

 

Join this community of makers, involved in every aspect of the dyeing process from planting and harvesting to making and exhibiting creative and usable objects. Students and faculty from the Sustainable Studio will share their experience with the first indigo crop, and other dye plants grown at the student farm. Try an experiment with us as we test to reveal the living color found in native plants growing all around us. Participants can create their own “test” page in our “boiled-paper” project, a magical form of eco-printing resulting in a one of a kind eco-print from provided plant material.

Registration is required: https://sustainable-studio.eventbrite.com