THE SEASONAL COLOR BOUQUET

AT SHEGROWS FARM WITH SASHA DUERR + THE MAKERIE

September 7th and 8th, 2024

Arvada, Colorado

WORKSHOP DETAILS

During two beautifully colorful and creativity-filled days- in collaboration with The Makerie- we’ll create a gorgeous natural dye palette with leftover ingredients from a farm-grown seasonal bouquet. We’ll learn how to forage floral hues from the plentiful gardens and explore natural dye techniques from the flowers and even weeds onsite. This two-day retreat will encourage and support the abundance possible through everyday sources, conceptual inspiration for curating color combinations, and practical routes to creating place-based and zero-waste natural palettes.

These natural color techniques and recipes can be used in an abundance of ways, whether in your own art and design practice, or to imbue your everyday textiles and garments with vibrant, meaningful, and unique colors through natural plant-based palettes.

Exploring the practical and poetic aspects of plant-based colors, we’ll delve into the beauty of ‘slowness’ and seasonality, and quite literally the overlaps between slow florals and slow textiles. Our workshop sessions will instill the depth and possibility to renew the awe of the everyday, connecting us to the potential of holistic hues. Students will take home a beautiful palette of swatches we create together, larger sample textiles, a beautiful bouquet of ingredients to create dyes at home, as well as a set of linen napkins and a silk/wool wrap dyed in our unique seasonal floral palette we create together at SHEGROWS Farm.

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LIVING COLOR- Natural Palettes Online Summer Session- 5 Week Course

WEDNESDAYS- July 3rd through July 31st, 2024*

10am-12pm HST /1pm- 3pm PST/ 4pm- 6pm EST/ 8pm -10pm GMT

*All sessions are live and will be recorded so that participants can access the lessons from various schedules and time zones.

“Colors with particular landscapes, the restorative qualities of medicinal plants, common garden flora, lifestyle experiences, food and floral waste, and the ecological benefits of using organic materials to create colors. You may never view color—or your plants—the same way again.” NATURAL PALETTES (Princeton Architectural Press 2020)

In this 5 Week Online Summer Session, we’ll explore the concepts of the deeply participatory and inspiring ways that plant-based color can instill awe into the everyday. With Sasha’s book NATURAL PALETTES as our guide for hands-on demos and plant-based recipes, we’ll explore natural color theory, and the immersive properties that holistic hues can instill, as well as take a deeper dive into regenerative design, color ecology, dye gardening, seed saving, and savoring the seasonal color palettes of summer.

All sessions will include visual slide shows + lectures, themed plant-dye recipes and process demos, as well as q+a discussions, helpful resources, and further inspiration to nurture a lifetime of learning and awe.

Each live course session will also be recorded so you can learn and work at your own pace.

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Week 1 Living Color- Natural Palettes: an Introduction to Plant-based Color and Inspiration for Engaged Practices with Natural Dyes

Week 2 Compost Colors- Weeds, Waste and Wonder: Creating Natural Dyes from Food, Floral, and Foraged Ingredients

Week 3 Color Therapy- Holistic Hues for Summer and the Senses

Week 4 Landscape Alchemy- Color + Care for Our Ecologies through Regenerative Practices + Participation

Week 5 Cultivating Color- Harvesting Hues from the Summer Dye Garden, Seed Saving, Sharing, + Savoring the Seasonal Color Palettes of Summer

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5 Sessions - Course Fee $395.00 all sessions are live and will be recorded, a list of helpful materials will be included, as well as plant-dye recipes and additional natural color resources each week.

**Student and artisan need-based scholarships are available- please inquire here.

MORE INFO + JOIN US!

LIVING COLOR- NATURAL PALETTES ONLINE SPRING SESSION

WEDNESDAYS- March 20th- April 17th , 2024

10am-12pmHST / 1pm- 3pm PST/ 4pm- 6pm EST

*All sessions are live and will be recorded so that participants can access the lessons from various schedules and time zones. Recordings will be available for 3 months after course ends.

“Colors with particular landscapes, the restorative qualities of medicinal plants, common garden flora, lifestyle experiences, food and floral waste, and the ecological benefits of using organic materials to create colors. You may never view color—or your plants—the same way again.” NATURAL PALETTES (Princeton Architectural Press 2020)

In this 5 Week Online Session, we’ll delve into the concepts of the deeply participatory and inspiring ways that plant-based color can instill wonder and connectedness in our everyday. With Sasha’s book NATURAL PALETTES as our guide for hands-on demos and plant-based recipes, we’ll explore natural color theory, and the immersive properties that holistic hues can connect us to, as well as take a deeper dive into regenerative design, color ecology, dye gardening, seed saving, and savoring the seasonal color palettes of spring.

All sessions will include visual slide shows + lectures, themed plant-dye recipes and process demos, as well as q+a discussions, helpful resources, and further inspiration to nurture a lifetime of learning and awe.

Each live course session will also be recorded so you can learn and work at your own pace.

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Week 1 Living Color- Natural Palettes: an Introduction to Plant-based Color and Inspiration for Engaged Practices with Natural Dyes

Week 2 Compost Colors- Weeds, Waste and Wonder: Creating Natural Dyes from Food, Floral, and Foraged Ingredients

Week 3 Color Therapy- Holistic Hues for Spring and the Senses

Week 4 Landscape Alchemy- Color + Care for Our Ecologies through Regenerative Practices + Participation

Week 5 Cultivating Color- Harvesting Hues, Seed Saving, Sharing, + Savoring the Seasonal Color Palettes of Spring

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5 Sessions - Course Fee $395.00 all sessions are live and will be recorded, a list of helpful materials will be included, as well as plant-dye recipes and additional natural color resources each week.

**Student and artisan need-based scholarships are available- please inquire here.

MORE INFO + JOIN US!

CONJURING A WINTER RAINBOW

WITH SASHA DUERR + TEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA

3 Day Workshop In-Person Workshop

Friday, January 19 – Sunday, January 21, 2024

10 am – 4 pm

Join renowned natural dyer, artist, and educator Sasha Duerr for a 3-day Guest Teaching Artist workshop at TEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA to create local and seasonal color with evergreens and other January dye ingredients.

Explore the wonder and nature of compost-based colors by creating place-based zero-waste palettes with natural dyes. Experiment with upcycling an evergreen holiday tree and winter foliage alongside other natural materials to create a rainbow of hues. Consider alchemy for local and seasonal color, including melting ice and snow for dyeing (weather permitting!) and utilizing elemental surface design techniques that center on January findings. Sasha will share concepts from her recent book NATURAL PALETTES (PAPress, 2020) and offer regenerative tips for creating an artistic practice that centers on experimentation, fieldwork, plant-based research, circular reuse, and natural dyes as a tool for social and environmental connection. Workshop participants will create an abundance of beautiful post-holiday hues — both in the form of the color stories and natural palettes we conjure as samples — as well as a collection of larger textiles created along the way.

Deepen your engagement with working with plant-based hues and experience the awe that can be found with creating color from everyday ingredients.

JOIN US HERE - UPDATE SOLD OUT

Art Speaks Conversation with Sasha Duerr:

In conjunction with this workshop, Sasha will be joining Textile Center for a virtual, sliding-scale Art Speaks conversation on Monday, December 4, at 12 noon CDT. Learn more and register for Art Speaks: Natural Palettes with Sasha Duerr online here.

Info for Out-Of-Town Guests:

For our out of town guests, nearby accommodations are available with our partner hotels. For the special Textile Center rate and more info, visit our website here: www.textilecentermn.org/visit/

Want to become a member and receive the member price when you register? Click HERE to check out our membership levels, add a membership to the cart, and save 10% on all classes plus other benefits, including supporting a great organization!

For Scholarship Inquiries, Contact Cristin McKnight Sethi:

cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org

LIVING COLOR- NATURAL PALETTES ONLINE WINTER SESSION

5 SESSIONS- WEDNESDAYS- January 10th- February 7th, 2024*

10am-12pmHST / 12pm- 2pm PST/ 3pm- 5pm EST

*All sessions are live and will be recorded so that participants can access the lessons from various schedules and time zones. Recording will be available for 3 months after course ends.

“Colors with particular landscapes, the restorative qualities of medicinal plants, common garden flora, lifestyle experiences, food and floral waste, and the ecological benefits of using organic materials to create colors. You may never view color—or your plants—the same way again.” NATURAL PALETTES (Princeton Architectural Press 2020)

In this 5 Week Online Winter Session, we’ll delve into the concepts of the deeply participatory and inspiring ways that plant-based color can instill wonder and connectedness in our everyday. With Sasha’s book NATURAL PALETTES as our guide for hands-on demos and plant-based recipes, we’ll explore natural color theory, and the immersive properties that holistic hues can connect us to, as well as take a deeper dive into regenerative design, color ecology, dye gardening, seed saving, and savoring the seasonal color palettes of winter.

All sessions will include visual slide shows + lectures, themed plant-dye recipes and process demos, as well as q+a discussions, helpful resources, and further inspiration to nurture a lifetime of learning and awe.

Each live course session will also be recorded so you can learn and work at your own pace.

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Week 1 Living Color- Natural Palettes: an Introduction to Plant-based Color and Inspiration for Engaged Practices with Natural Dyes

Week 2 Compost Colors- Weeds, Waste and Wonder: Creating Natural Dyes from Food, Floral, and Foraged Ingredients

Week 3 Color Therapy- Holistic Hues for Winter and the Senses

Week 4 Landscape Alchemy- Color + Care for Our Ecologies through Regenerative Practices + Participation

Week 5 Cultivating Color- Harvesting Hues, Seed Saving, Sharing, + Savoring the Seasonal Color Palettes of Winter.

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Join us HERE!

*5 Sessions - Course Fee $395.00- all sessions are live and will be recorded, a list of helpful materials will be included, as well as plant-dye recipes and additional natural color resources each week. Recordings available for 3 months after completion date.

*Student and artisan need-based scholarships are available- please inquire here.

JOIN US FOR AN EXCITING WEEK LONG WORKSHOP at ANNA TASCA LANZA in Sicily, Italy!

October 2nd - October 7th, 2023

EXPLORING THE SEASONAL COLOR + TASTE PALETTES OF SICILY-

Slow Food Meets Slow Textiles with Sasha Duerr + Anna Tasca Lanza Center for Sicilian Food Culture

Plant-based palettes can naturally inspire us to see the awe in time and place. Join us for this workshop to explore the biodiversity of natural dyes and colors made from the seasonal ingredients of Sicily. In our in-depth workshop, we will create unique holistic hues and experiences from bi-products of edible, floral, and medicinal plants at Anna Tasca Lanza- with plant-based color stories to inspire and connect us. We will learn to “cook with color” and create natural dyes from scratch from the unique Sicilian early autumn dye palette. We’ll experiment with zero-waste and regenerative design processes- encouraging an inquiry of seeing and being with the depth of beauty found in the potential of local and seasonal weeds, food, and floral waste. Just like with slow food, these natural palettes follow the seasons and be an inspiring celebration of locality and time of year. At Anna Tasca Lanza, we will also collaborate with the talented chefs, gardeners and textile artisans who reside onsite and in the region, helping to inspire us to see the beauty and biodiversity in the very same ingredients. At the end of our course, we will create and share a delicious “Dinner to Dye For”- fully engaging our senses while celebrating our seasonal exploration of the color and taste palettes of Sicily.

MORE INFO + JOIN US HERE

* Find More Info on Our SUMMER 2024 Anna Tasca Lanza Workshop HERE!

LIVING COLOR- NATURAL PALETTES ONLINE FALL SESSION- 5 Week Course

WEDNESDAYS- August 30th through September 27th, 2023*

12pm- 2pm PST/ 3pm- 5pm EST/ 9am-11am HST

*All sessions are live and will be recorded so that participants can access the lessons from various schedules and time zones.

“Colors with particular landscapes, the restorative qualities of medicinal plants, common garden flora, lifestyle experiences, food and floral waste, and the ecological benefits of using organic materials to create colors. You may never view color—or your plants—the same way again.” NATURAL PALETTES (Princeton Architectural Press 2020)

In this 5 Week Online Fall Session, we’ll delve into the concepts of the deeply participatory and inspiring ways that plant-based color can instill wonder and connectedness in our everyday. With Sasha’s book NATURAL PALETTES as our guide for hands-on demos and plant-based recipes, we’ll explore natural color theory, and the immersive properties that holistic hues can connect us to, as well as take a deeper dive into regenerative design, color ecology, dye gardening, seed saving, and savoring the seasonal color palettes of fall.

All sessions will include visual slide shows + lectures, themed plant-dye recipes and process demos, as well as q+a discussions, helpful resources, and further inspiration to nurture a lifetime of learning and awe.

Each live course session will also be recorded so you can learn and work at your own pace.

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Week 1 Living Color- Natural Palettes: an Introduction to Plant-based Color and Inspiration for Engaged Practices with Natural Dyes

Week 2 Compost Colors- Weeds, Waste and Wonder: Creating Natural Dyes from Food, Floral, and Foraged Ingredients

Week 3 Color Therapy- Holistic Hues for Autumn and the Senses

Week 4 Landscape Alchemy- Color + Care for Our Ecologies through Regenerative Practices + Participation

Week 5 Cultivating Color- Harvesting Hues from the Summer Dye Garden, Seed Saving, Sharing, + Savoring the Seasonal Color Palettes of Fall

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5 Sessions - Course Fee $395.00 all sessions are live and will be recorded, a list of helpful materials will be included, as well as plant-dye recipes and additional natural color resources each week.

Register HERE

LIVING COLOR- NATURAL PALETTES ONLINE SUMMER SESSION

WEDNESDAYS- June 21st through July 19th, 2023*

12pm- 2pm PST/ 3pm- 5pm EST/ 9am-12pm HST

*All sessions are live and will be recorded so that participants can access the lessons from various schedules and time zones.

“Colors with particular landscapes, the restorative qualities of medicinal plants, common garden flora, lifestyle experiences, food and floral waste, and the ecological benefits of using organic materials to create colors. You may never view color—or your plants—the same way again.” NATURAL PALETTES (Princeton Architectural Press 2020)

In this 5 Week Online Summer Session, we’ll explore the concepts of the deeply participatory and inspiring ways that plant-based color can instill awe into the everyday. With Sasha’s book NATURAL PALETTES as our guide for hands-on demos and plant-based recipes, we’ll explore natural color theory, and the immersive properties that holistic hues can instill, as well as take a deeper dive into regenerative design, color ecology, dye gardening, seed saving, and savoring the seasonal color palettes of summer.

All sessions will include visual slide shows + lectures, themed plant-dye recipes and process demos, as well as q+a discussions, helpful resources, and further inspiration to nurture a lifetime of learning and awe.

Each live course session will also be recorded so you can learn and work at your own pace.

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Week 1 Living Color- Natural Palettes: an Introduction to Plant-based Color and Inspiration for Engaged Practices with Natural Dyes

Week 2 Compost Colors- Weeds, Waste and Wonder: Creating Natural Dyes from Food, Floral, and Foraged Ingredients

Week 3 Color Therapy- Holistic Hues for Summer and the Senses

Week 4 Landscape Alchemy- Color + Care for Our Ecologies through Regenerative Practices + Participation

Week 5 Cultivating Color- Harvesting Hues from the Summer Dye Garden, Seed Saving, Sharing, + Savoring the Seasonal Color Palettes of Summer

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5 Sessions - Course Fee $395.00 all sessions are live and will be recorded, a list of helpful materials will be included, as well as plant-dye recipes each week.

Register HERE

COLOR SENSES I CREATING HOLISTIC HUES WITH PLANT-BASED DYES

3 WORKSHOPS I 3 COLORS. Create a range of natural dyes from by-products of your favorite meal, farmer’s market, or even ingredients found in your very own backyard or urban sidewalk.

BOOK HERE

Land Art Collective aims to restore the earth through the arts. Land Art Collective is a platform to showcase artists whose work is rooted in conservation and engage the wider community to take part in the climate conversation through residencies, events and workshops. Our aims are for this platform to continually evolve in order to allow us to make the conversation and practices around environmentalism accessible to all.

Cape Cod Farm Forage Workshop with Sasha Duerr, June 27 or June 28, 2022

Join Sasha Duerr, and Botanical Colors - Kathy Hattori, and Amy DuFault at Coonamessett Farm for a Cape Cod Farm Forage. These will be full-day natural dye workshops exploring the local seasonal color palettes of summer.

Two very special in-person, one day sessions will be offered to savor slow textiles and natural palettes on June 27th and 28th.  The workshop begins at 10AM and adjourns at 4PM.

Explore the art and design possibilities of making and applying hues from waste by-products of summer produce, as well as foraged flora and foliage. We’ll learn to create natural colors from scratch with seasonal ingredients together on site with locally grown ingredients, as well as weeds, windfall and waste from the Farm.

These day-long  workshops will cover the basics of cooking with color, foraging for seasonal and local dyes, and working onsite highlighting regenerative practices to create stunning plant-made palettes that will inspire all year long. 

Workshop Details: 

Workshop will include all plant dyeing materials, as well as a beautiful take home textile and a range of palettes we’ll create together. 

REGISTER + MORE INFO!

NATURAL COLOR & CREATIVITY

Co-taught by Sasha Duerr and Suzanne L’Heureux, this course combines experimentations with natural color and plant based palettes with guided personal reflection and creative inquiry to encourage new ways of seeing and engaging with the world.

Activities throughout the course are designed to support students in exploring their vision and voice through natural color instruction and experimentation; writing and reflection exercises on weekly themes; and meaningful interaction with the teachers and class cohort. Students will receive recipes, inspirational resources, and related coursework to enrich personal and creative growth.

Natural dyeing is a holistic endeavor that invites us to slow down, connect with the living world, be present and stay open. In this course, we’ll explore how to bring these lessons creatively and conceptually into our lives and personal practices, embracing impermanence, inviting discovery and opening ourselves to possibility. 

The class will meet over 4 weekly sessions on Zoom. Each week will include natural color experimentation and instruction with Sasha with a Creative Coaching lens provided by Suzanne.

When:
Thursdays, from 10am-1pm PST
January 27th through February 17th

Price for this four-session workshop:
Sliding scale $450-$700

Please write to us if you’d like to be considered for a scholarship.
While we hope for full in person participation, sessions will be recorded.

MORE INFO + REGISTER HERE

SASHA DUERR is an artist, designer and educator who works with plant-based color and natural palettes. Sasha centers her practice and research on the collaborative color potential of weeds, food and floral waste, and local and seasonal ingredients. Teaching for over a decade at California College of Arts with a joint appointment in Textiles and Fine Arts,  Sasha lectures, consults and widely designs curriculum and courses in the intersection of natural color, slow food, slow fashion and social practice. In 2007, Sasha founded Permacouture Institute to encourage the exploration of regenerative design practices for fashion and textiles.  From "Dinners to Dye For" to "Weeding Your Wardrobe" and "Seasonal Color Wheels" her extensive work with plant-based color palettes has been featured in the New York Times, American Craft Magazine, Domino, Elle Decor Uk, and the Huffington Post. Sasha is the author of THE HANDBOOK OF NATURAL PLANT DYES (Timber Press 2011) NATURAL COLOR (Watson-Guptill/Ten Speed Press 2016) and NATURAL PALETTES (Princeton Architectural Press 2020).

SUZANNE L’HEUREUX is a Life and Art Coach who works with clients on personal growth, health and wellness, and professional development goals. She has a niche working with artists on visioning and creative development. Suzanne took her coaching coursework through the Mindfulness Coaching School and has spent many years engaging in deep psycho-spiritual work rooted in Buddhism, somatic awareness, and personal inquiry. She has an MA in Art History and for nine years ran Interface Gallery, a non profit contemporary art space where she supported artists in expanding their practices and manifesting their vision for their work (2011-2020). She is based in Oakland, CA.

PLANT TONES FALL HARVEST ONLINE WORKSHOP WITH BOTANICAL COLORS

Sasha Duerr returns to offer a Plant Tones Fall Harvest Workshop featuring fall colors and foraging.

PLANT TONES Fall Harvest Workshop with Sasha Duerr is a two-day online workshop. It will delve into the wonder and nature of living color “stories.” Sasha will guide students in a variety of ways to connect us both practically and poetically to plant-based color palettes. And she will use her latest book NATURAL PALETTESas inspiration.

This workshop will focus on conceptual aspects of working with plant-based hues. In addition, it will explore the basic steps of getting started with plants as ingredients for unique, personalized and vibrant color. Sasha will also highlight ways in which NATURAL PALETTES can widen our “color senses.” She shares examples of experimentation, fieldwork, plant-based research and identification, documentation, as well as regenerative tips for reuse, zero waste, and experiential meaningful practices in the process.

Besides teaching accessible step-by-step and practical ways to begin, Sasha will also share conceptual inspiration through slides and visuals. She has helpful tools, techniques and resources for creating  your own -or collective – deepened relationship with plant-based color and the awe-inspiring nuanced palettes they can create.

The workshop will culminate in sharing a wide array of  natural “color stories.” You can share your own uniquely foraged, gathered or grown plant-based palette. This palette will be created as a result of experimentation and exploration in our class with Sasha Duerr.

DETAILS

• Class price is for one participant and one kit will be sent with registration.

• The class will be held as a Zoom meeting with a dedicated TA to manage the chat, questions and any follow up.

• Pre-work requirement: we will be sending you wool fabric, mordant, and auxiliaries and two natural dyes for your experiments. Sasha will instruct you to pre-mordant your fabrics to be ready for class. You will receive enough fabric to create approximately 48-60 samples. Our class will dye 16 of these samples together, freeing you to experiment on your own time. You will also forage for seasonal and local plants, bark, cones or other materials to create palettes of your own. A full materials list will be sent to you shortly after registration.

• This class uses wool fabrics to create our palettes. Sasha says that you can supply your own other natural fabrics such as silk, cotton, hemp, linen and will provide information on how to prepare the fibers for the class.

• Class dates: October 2 and 3, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday). Class times are 11-2:30 Pacific (2-5:30 Eastern) and 9-11:30 Hawaii

• Installment payments are available. Please contact sienna.botanicalcolors@gmail.com for information.

• International students are welcome and we request you register by September 15 so we may ship your materials to you in time for class.

More Info and to Register HERE

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