Botanical Colour Adventures

Become enchanted by the rainbow of colours that nature has to offer. Learn about plant dyes, made with our everday surrondings and the colours among us. Participants can choose from the following activities, based on how much time we have: Explore equipment, make a bundle dye, pound plants onto fabric and make a dye bath with materials like avocado skins and stones, onion skins, tea. Creating our own colour with the materials around us is fun and reconnects us to who we are and the environment around us. Recipes and articles from other artists working in the domain of natural dyes around the world will be shared. Participants will produce a unique piece of art to bring home.

Curriculum Links

Explore ecologically and socially engaged art; develop a sense of influence on ecological issues, artistic skills, and creative confidence; appropriate for earth science, biology, geography, and history; work with colour, texture, drawing, perception, and measurement; create connections between art, creativity, and the world around us.

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