SEAWEED COLOR STUDY- LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP

SUNDAY- AUGUST 4th, 2024

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

JOIN SASHA FOR AN IN-DEPTH SEAWEED COLOR STUDY

In this 2 hour session, we’ll deepen our connection to seaweed shades, and regenerative design for holistic hues and saltwater colors. Delving into textile history of seaweed and algae used as natural dyes, current exploration and innovation of seaweeds as a regenerative source for color, and a hands-on exploration demo of seaweed and algae as ingredients and inspiration for natural dyes- as well as seaweed’s overlaps in slow food, slow fashion, and slow textiles.

JOIN US HERE!

*Session will be both live and recorded- available for 3 months from workshop date - so you can learn and work at your own pace. Helpful resources + recipes will be shared upon completion of our workshop.

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

HOLISTIC HUES-ONLINE WORKSHOP- Creating Color using Seasonal Weeds, Food + Floral Waste

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3rd, 2024

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

Join Sasha in this 2 hour Online WORKSHOP WITH WEEDS, FOOD + FLORAL WASTE- We’ll create nuanced and unique natural palettes with foraged and gathered ingredients, from leftovers of a favorite summer meal, a seasonal bouquet, and even the weeds from your own backyard. We’ll engage the nuances and uniqueness of seasonal plant-based palettes, and learn the skills to “cook with color” creating seasonal natural dye recipes from scratch.

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 food and slow textiles. The depth and possibility of a discarded peel, pit, or pruning can also renew the awe of everyday, connecting us to the potential of holistic hues

JOIN US HERE!

*Our class will be live and recorded so that you can work at your own pace and join us from multiple time zones.

*A list of helpful materials will be included, as well as plant-dye recipes, and additional natural color resources sent to participants following our workshop.

Selected student and artisan need-based scholarships are available -please inquire here.

Sunday, April 28, 2024 from 10am-4pm

In-person at the Botanical Colors Studio, Seattle WA

Join us for a urban forage natural dye workshop exploring the local seasonal color palettes of spring in Seattle with renowned author and textile artist Sasha Duerr.

This one day session will be offered to savor slow textiles and natural palettes and delicious edible dyestuffs. Participants will learn how to dye fabrics with seasonal plants as well as experience a colorful and delicious tasting menu crafted from the same ingredients and other regional delicacies.

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

The workshop begins at 10AM and adjourns at 4PM on Sunday April 28 and includes an array of small plates and noshes featuring edible dyestuff ingredients and local foods for our mid-day meal.

We will celebrate Sasha’s visit with a book signing and pop-up from right after the workshop from 4-6 PM where you can get a copy of her beautiful book, Natural Palettes signed, and shop dyes, tools, fabrics, books and more.

Workshop Details

The workshop will be held at Botanical Colors, 503 S Michigan St, Ste B, Seattle, WA 98108.

The workshop starts at 10AM and will include all plant dyeing materials, as well as a beautiful textile to take home and a range of sample palette swatches we’ll create together.

We will break around 1PM for a delicious, casual array of small plates and tastes crafted from local farmers, foragers, beekeepers, dairies and other regional, colorful offerings. If you are swooning from hunger before then, please bring a light snack to keep you going.

Our workshop ends at 4PM, but immediately after we will have a pop-up for shopping from 4-6 PM and will feature Sasha’s latest book, Natural Palettes. Sasha will be on hand to sign books and regional Color Wheels.

Total cost per person including the workshop and mid-day tasting menu is $295.

Questions? Please email workshops@botanicalcolors.com

UPDATE THIS WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT

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COMPOST COLOURS

2 Hour Workshop Online

February 22nd, 2024

8am HST/ 10am PST/ 1pm EST/ 6pm GMT

Live with LAND ART COLLECTIVE

Inspired by recipes in Sasha’s books "Natural Color" + "Natural Palettes", you will learn to make a range of natural colors and holistic hues from by-products of your favorite meal, farmer’s market, or even ingredients found in your very own backyard or urban sidewalk. 

In this two hour workshop, we'll make and curate a truly unique and authentic color palette made entirely from waste. We’ll learn to create vibrant natural color recipes from scratch and make saturated samples of plant-based hues from everyday bi-products from food and floral waste- highlighting awe in the everyday.  Sasha will share helpful materials, methods, tools and techniques for all skill levels as we  "cook with color.”

An abundance of helpful resources and plant-based color recipes will be shared upon completion of our class. This workshops is suitable for new or accomplished dyers - lots of new ideas and methods offered.

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UPCYCLE YOUR CELEBRATIONS WITH SEASONAL COLOR PALETTES

ONLINE SUNDAY- DECEMBER 17th, 2023*

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

Join Sasha for this special winter workshop to create circular colors from seasonal drinks, food + decor - just in time for the holidays! In this two hour class, Sasha will walk you through 4 creative seasonal plant dyes + inspiration for projects that can be made from winter food + floral waste. This workshop will encourage and support the abundance and beauty possible through everyday sources, conceptual inspiration for curating natural color combinations, and practical routes to creating place-based and zero waste natural palettes.

Renewing with natural dyes, and creating meaningful zero waste color- the gift that keeps on giving!

*All sessions are live and will be recorded and available for three months from workshop date- so that participants can access the lessons from various schedules and time zones and learn at their own pace in the process.

*Natural dye recipes + resources will be sent to all participants following our live session!

JOIN US HERE!

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

EVENT DETAILS

Join us for a conversation with renowned natural dyer, artist, and educator Sasha Duerr as she shares insight from her latest book, Natural Palettes: Inspiration from Plant-Based Color (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020).

Monday, December 4, 2023

12 - 1 pm CT

Virtual on Zoom

REGISTER FOR TALK HERE!

From the natural color ingredients that can be found in weeds, prunings and cover crops, to the vast potential of food and floral waste, plant-based "color stories" can both poetically and practically engage us in immersive and holistic practices. Through examples of participation, Sasha will highlight the important role plant-based colors can hold in widening our "color senses" and supporting biodiversity, while also offering an abundance of opportunity for creativity and collaboration in the process.

As a complement to this online Art Speaks lecture in December, Sasha will lead an in-person Guest Teaching Artist workshop at Textile Center from January 19-21, 2024 focused on Conjuring a Winter Rainbow. More Info + Join us here!

Artist Bio

Sasha Duerr (she/her) 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, Selvedge, and the Huffington Post. Sasha is the author of The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes (Timber Press/Workman 2011), NATURAL COLOR (Watson-Guptill/Ten Speed Press 2016), and NATURAL PALETTES (Princeton Architectural Press 2020).

SEAWEED COLOR STUDY- ONLINE WORKSHOP

SUNDAY- NOVEMBER 12th, 2023

10am- 12pm HST/ 12pm- 2pm PST/ 3pm-5pm EST*

JOIN SASHA FOR AN IN-DEPTH SEAWEED COLOR STUDY

In this 2 hour session, we’ll deepen our connection to seaweed shades, and regenerative design for holistic hues and saltwater colors. Delving into textile history of seaweed and algae used as natural dyes, current exploration and innovation of seaweeds as a regenerative source for color, and a hands-on exploration demo of seaweed and algae as ingredients and inspiration for natural dyes- as well as seaweed’s overlaps in slow food, slow fashion, and slow textiles.

JOIN US HERE!

*Session will be both live and recorded- available for 3 months from workshop date - so you can learn and work at your own pace. Helpful resources + recipes will be shared upon completion of our workshop.

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

FALL COLOR STUDY -ONLINE WORKSHOP- Creating Holistic Hues with Seasonal Weeds, Food + Floral Waste

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2023

9am-12pm HST/ 12pm - 3pm PST/ 3pm- 6pm EST

Join Sasha in this 3 hour Online FALL COLOR STUDY WORKSHOP WITH WEEDS, FOOD + FLORAL WASTE. We’ll create nuanced and unique natural palettes with foraged and gathered autumnal ingredients, from leftovers of a favorite fall meal, a seasonal bouquet, and even the weeds from your own backyard. We’ll engage the nuances and uniqueness of seasonal plant-based palettes, and learn the skills to “cook with color” creating seasonal and local natural dye recipes from scratch.

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 food and slow textiles. The depth and possibility of a discarded peel, pit, or pruning can also renew the awe of everyday, connecting us to the potential of holistic hues

Our class will be live and recorded so that you can work at your own pace and join us from multiple time zones. A list of helpful materials will be included, as well as plant-dye recipes, and additional natural color resources sent to participants following our workshop.

JOIN US HERE!

ONLINE SUNDAY- AUGUST 6th , 2023*

9am- 11am HST/ 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 and learn at their own pace in the process. Helpful and inspiring resources and natural dye recipes will be sent to all participants following our live session.

Join us online as we create a beautiful natural dye palette with leftover ingredients from the compost of a favorite seasonal summer bouquet! Foraging hues and natural dye techniques from a single floral arrangement, this two hour workshop will encourage and support the abundance possible through everyday sources, conceptual inspiration for curating natural color combinations, and practical routes to creating place-based and zero waste natural palettes.

WORKSHOP CLOSED

SAVE THE DATE- April 17-21, 2023!

We’ll be opening this class for registration on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 10am HST/12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern time.

Well known worldwide for her plant-based palettes, natural dyes and place-based recipes, Sasha will take us on a color tour in her hometown on the Big Island in Hawai’i. Botanical Colors President Kathy Hattori and Communications Director Amy DuFault will be your partners over the course of a wondrous week of exploring natural dyes through by-products and biodiversity on the Big Island. Working from Sasha’s new workshop space and dye studio in Volcano Village, we’ll create holistic hues and natural palettes from local food and floral waste, and delve into the slowness of edible, floral and medicinal plants.

We’ll learn to “cook with color”, and coax unique plant-based hues to create natural dyes from scratch . We’ll also 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 Big Island weeds, food, and floral waste.

During the week, we will collaborate with talented local farmers, ecologists, and textile artisans helping to inspire us to see the importance of beauty, biodiversity, and botanical creativity through plant-based palettes. We will learn to work with regenerative, natural dye practices, surface design techniques, and ways of gathering through color and community arts.  At the end of our week-long workshop, we’ll share a day of floral crafting, and inspired plant-based cooking and dyeing together- fully engaging our color senses and the abundant offerings of botanical colors and biodiversity on the Big Island.

Highlights For the Big Island x Botanical Colors Workshop:

-Foraging and visiting local farmers markets or farms to make natural color from bi-products of tropical fruit, floral and vegetable waste.
-Creating holistic hues through cooking, floral arranging, and medicinal aspects as the inspiration and origin of our plant-based palettes.
-Hiking and foraging, identifying and learning about dye plants in context of weeds, waste and regenerative practices.
-Collecting saltwater and rainwater for explorations in natural color processes.
-Creating a unique and holistic plant-made palette from start to finish.
-Working with whole ecological systems; learning the different techniques of natural dyeing and working with a biodiversity of ingredients, fibers, and techniques.
-Delving into slow processes, working in collaboration with plants and people, communities and ecologies.
-Learning to document the process with beautiful images, sketches and color-based note taking.
-All the tools and materials needed to create our range of color palettes from weeds and waste, as well as larger samples to explore techniques in surface design and direct application of the dyes we make, as well as a larger finished textile created with Big Island botanicals.

MORE INFO AND JOIN US HERE!

Exploring Natural Dyeing with Sasha Duerr + San Francisco School of Needlework and Design

Work with 3 seasonally foraged plant-dye color recipes to explore the stunning color palettes that can be created from your surroundings!

Location: This class is taught online via Zoom. Login information will be emailed to you a week prior to class.

Class length: 3 hours

Skill level: all levels

Class Description: In this 3 hour online workshop, students will work with three seasonally foraged plant-dye color recipes and focus on ingredients from wild and urban sources, to explore the stunning color palettes that can be created from local weeds, plant waste, backyard gardens, or even urban sidewalks.

Students will learn from artist and educator Sasha Duerr, as she orientates them toward exploring a seasonal color palette with natural dyes, as well as ways to modify and shift hues. Students will also learn about overlapping medicinal, edible, and ecological aspects of these color palettes, creating further context and depth into the plant-based hues created. Working with a variety of natural fibers, and with inspiring slides, images, and resources to expand the experience, Sasha will illuminate the process of gathering and working with natural dye ingredients, as well as helpful tools, techniques and recipes to continue to create and curate one’s own uniquely beautiful local and seasonal color palettes throughout the year.

*Students are responsible for gathering their own materials and equipment. Instructions and material list will be sent via email prior to the online workshop.

*Registered participants will also have access to recorded class video.

REGISTER HERE

MORE ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF NEEDLEWORK AND DESIGN

Recrafting Creativity: Nature Palettes

'The sensitivities of the arts are now called upon to awaken & fortify our communication with the natural world, the seen and the unseen, the micro and the macro, to support our crafting of and emergence into a collaborative & creatively inspired future for our shared existence. Land Art Agency & Collective exists to support this transformation. This talks series intends to elaborate on these experiences and explore the work of artists who are amplifying the voices of the worlds around us and that beckon in evolved ways of seeing and remembering. A remembering of our own innate instincts, of creative imagination, gifted by the vast landscapes around and within us.’

Elizabeth Gleave, Land Art Co-found & talk host

1. Nature Palettes | Evolving with the Earth

February 22nd // 6pm GMT

Sasha Duerr & Rosanna Morris & Elin Manon

2. Active Earth | Micro to Macro ?

April 26th // 6pm GMT

Hannah Fletcher & Pamela Ea & Fatama Binta?

3. Land, Sea & Sky | Co-operative Creating

June 28th // 6pm GMT

Charlotte Smithson & Melanie King & Lynda Laird ?

4. Material Worlds | Sensory Recrafting?

August 9th // 6pm GMT

Yasuna Iman & Alice Fox & Marta Alexandra Abbott

Join us for the first in our 4 part series as we explore the work, methods and experiences of artists engaged in elevating our connections to and experiences of the living Earth. Alongside the discussion of practical methods, techniques and skills that each artist pioneers, we will be discovering how their practice explores the meaning of 'sustainable / green / eco' thinking and where they themselves see their relationship within landscapes and materials. We will discuss their means of engaging with the complex issues and simple truths of the world today. With curiosity we will adventure through ideas, crafts and inspired futures that beckon with a sprinkle of creative imagination.

This talks series is intended to inspire, inform and awake the imagination, inviting creative intuition and propositions for working in harmony with the worlds around us. They will offer you tools and insights for your own practice and methods of exploration. From the practical to the profound this series is an open invitation to anyone and everyone looking for a little creative magic!

With artists:

• Sasha Duerr

• Rosanna Morris

• Elin Manon

REGISTER HERE

All talks will be recorded and be made available to watch after the session date for a limited period.

Discounts are available upon request to hello@landartagency.com

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Join Sasha onsite at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes Station for a day of exploring fall color and the natural palettes of seasonal color in Northern California. We will gather a variety of onsite ingredients, then make and use natural dye baths with those ingredients and others. Together we will create a local fall dye palette from a curated selection of gathered ingredients, including weeds and food and flora waste. Explore the nuances and beauty of color terroir, and create an array of take-home, naturally dyed textiles, saturated in the seasonal tones of West Marin.

Students should bring their own lunch, snacks, and beverages (water bottle/travel mug). Lunch is not provided.

Optional things to bring:

• Jars to take home leftover dye

• Apron and/or gloves if you want to protect your hands/clothes

• Plastic bags to take home wet dye samples (we will also have some re-used bags available)

• Small pieces of clean fabric — wool or silk (we will provide fabric, so this is extra)

• Gardening gloves for the foraging portion of the class

CLASS IS NOW FULL - JOIN WAITLIST HERE!

Natural Palettes of Summer Color in West Marin with Sasha Duerr

June 5 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

$150

Join Sasha Duerr onsite at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes Station for a day of exploring summer color and the natural palettes of seasonal color in Northern California. We will gather a variety of onsite ingredients, then make and use natural dye baths with those ingredients and others. Together we will create a local summer dye palette from a curated selection of gathered ingredients, including weeds and food and flora waste. Explore the nuances and beauty of color terroir, and create an array of take-home, naturally dyed textiles, saturated in the seasonal tones of West Marin.

Students should bring their own lunch, snacks, and beverages (water bottle/travel mug). Lunch is not provided. There will also be time outdoors gathering plant materials, so be sure to wear appropriate footwear and clothing.

Materials provided. Optional: students may bring a few small items to dye (must already be scoured and of natural fibers).

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Join botanical dyer and artist, Sasha Duerr, for an online hands-on, natural dyeing workshop.

About this event

Working with natural color can be a way to forage for beautiful natural hues and connect with your local ecologies- even in your own backyard or urban neighborhood, considering what is abundant, in-season, accessible, and even invasive.

In this online workshop we'll work with gardenia fruit dye, focusing on ingredients and the stunning natural color palettes that can be created. We'll also learn about the overlapping aspects of medicinal and edible aspects of our natural dyes- creating further context and depth to the plant-based hues we create. 

Together we'll orientate ourselves toward the basics of using plant-made dyes and simple, yet stunning pattern design techniques, and get started with natural dye ingredients, tools and recipes to cook with plant-made, local and even seasonal color!

*Gardenia Fruit Dye + Project Kit can be purchased in advance

*Or students are responsible for gathering their own materials and equipment. Instructions and material list will be sent prior to the online workshop.

*Registered participants will also have access to recorded class video. 

SASHA DUERR is an artist and designer who works with plant-based palettes, natural dyes and place-based recipes. Having taught for over a decade at the California College of the Arts with a joint appointment in textiles and fine art, Sasha designs curriculum and teaches courses in the intersection of natural color, slow food, slow fashion and social practice. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums across the United States and abroad. In 2007, Sasha founded Permacouture Institute to encourage the exploration of regenerative design practices for fashion and textiles. Her extensive work with plant-based palettes has been featured in the New York Times, American Craft Magazine, Selvedge, and the Huffington Post. She is the author of The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes (Timber Press/Workman 2011) NATURAL COLOR (Watson-Guptill/Ten Speed Press 2016) and NATURAL PALETTES (Princeton Architectural Press 2020).

The class is hosted by University of Hawaii at Manoa's Lyon Arboretum and co-sponsored by the Friends of Lyon Arboretum. 

Lyon Arboretum is a research arm of the University of Hawaiʻi and a public botanical garden. Located in upper Mānoa Valley, Lyon Arboretum has over seven miles of hiking trails and boasts more than 6,000 taxa of tropical and sub-tropical plants on nearly 200 acres. 

The Friends of Lyon Arboretum (FLA) is a nonprofit organization that supports Lyon Arboretum’s stewardship of Hawaii’s biodiversity and its conservation, education, and research activities. FLA engages our community and visitors by providing opportunities to enjoy and learn about this irreplaceable resource and to preserve it for future generations.  He kuleana ko mākou e mālama i kēia wahi no nā hanauna hou. 

Become a member of FLA and help to support the arboretum and receive 20% off of co-sponsored classes such as this. Donations are also welcome.

REGISTER HERE

JOIN US FOR AN IN-PERSON NATURAL PALETTES TALK + BOOK SIGNING at the BERKELEY ART MUSEUM on OCTOBER 28th, 5 PM PST.

FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Join Sasha for a day of exploring the natural palettes of seasonal color at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes Station

Join Sasha onsite at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes Station for a day of exploring fall color and the natural palettes of seasonal color in Northern California. We will gather a variety of onsite ingredients, then make and use natural dye baths with those ingredients and others. Together we will create a local fall dye palette from a curated selection of gathered ingredients, including weeds and food and flora waste. Explore the nuances and beauty of color terroir, and create an array of take-home, naturally dyed textiles, saturated in the seasonal tones of West Marin.

More info and to join us HERE.

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