NEW CLASS DATE: APRIL 26TH, 2025
10am-4pm A beginner’s one-day dye workshop, exploring plant printing. We will use natural materials such as leaves, flowers and fronds to leave imprints on fabric. We can color our background or leave it natural. Learning about which plants print well and how to mordant and prepare the fabric (cellulose fibers) to get an indelible mark from our plants. We will treat the plants and place them on our fabric. Then we will steam and set our fabrics. This produces very finely detailed and realistic prints of plants and has a 3D effect with background color – absolutely beautiful. Each student will have two pieces of fabric (each about 20”x20”). These can be made into cushion covers or other items, or used as wall hangings. Price: $120 per person - (includes $70 registration fee and $50 materials fee). All materials and equipment will be provided. Please bring a lunch with you. We will take a short break halfway through class. Your Instructor: Wendy Smith-Wood Retired mountaineer and musher, Smith-Wood sensei is a fiber artist living with her husband on an Alaskan homestead at Sheep Mountain close to the Matanuska glacier. She spent fifteen years as a mountain guide on the old silk routes in the Pamirs and Karakorum mountains, and climbing in the Himalayas, Atlas, Alps and Pyrenees. Each winter she traveled to Alaska to mush dogs in her favorite wilderness. For the past 10 years she has worked as a textile artist specializing in Arashi Shibori. She produces exquisite ‘haute couture’ scarves and shawls. She also paints on silk for a short time each summer and is experimenting with sculptural Shibori wall-art . Her work has been sold to Hollywood, state Senators, the Kennedys and many, many Alaskans who have supported her over the years. She winters in Central Florida near Arching Oaks Art and Culture Center. PBS video on Wendy: https://video.milwaukeepbs.org/video/i-am-an-off-the-grid-artist-indie-alaska-gbcwvk |