Nov
8
to Nov 15

NATURAL PALETTES: Workshops, Community Events + Artist and Author Talk - Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO

NATURAL PALETTES: WORKSHOPS, COMMUNITY EVENTS + ARTIST AND AUTHOR TALK

BOULDER PUBLIC LIBRARY- BOULDER, COLORADO

This November we’re thrilled to welcome acclaimed natural dye artist, educator, and author Sasha Duerr as our featured Maker-in-Residence in STUDIO 24 Makerspace. From Saturday, November 8 through Saturday, November 15, Sasha will lead a vibrant week of immersive workshops, drop-in sessions, and community conversations exploring the art and science of plant-based color.

This new Maker-In-Residence program is made possible with funding from the Boulder Library Foundation. The Foundation organizes local philanthropic support for innovation, capital improvements, creativity, and expanded outreach and literacy for Boulder's Libraries.

Maker In Residence

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 the 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).

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Oct
26
10:00 AM10:00

SEAWEED COLOR STUDY- ONLINE FALL WORKSHOP

SEAWEED COLOR STUDY- LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP

SUNDAY- October 26th, 2025

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.

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*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.

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Oct
23
5:00 PM17:00

HILO HUES- Seasonal Color Tasting + Natural Dye Workshop-Seaweed Snack + Shop, Hilo, Hawai'i

Join us for our second seasonal natural dye workshop in collaboration with Seaweed Snack Shop!

In this series we’ll be exploring the tropical notes and beautiful compost colors of the Big Island, emphasizing the abundant connections between slow food and slow textiles. October’s workshop will focus on natural dye techniques using locally grown Rambutan. Each attendee will dye their own farmer’s market bag and experiment with a range of samples, all while holistically enjoying our Hilo Hues with rambutan-themed sips and snacks “to dye for!”

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Sep
27
10:00 AM10:00

PACIFIC NORTHWEST FALL COLOR AND SEASONAL DYE WORKSHOP WITH SASHA DUERR + BOTANICAL COLORS

PACIFIC NORTHWEST FALL COLOR 

SEASONAL DYE WORKSHOP 

WITH SASHA DUERR 

Saturday September 27, 2025  from 10-2

In-person at the Botanical Colors Studio

503 S Michigan St Ste B, Seattle WA 98108

Join us for a fall color natural dye workshop exploring the seasonal colors of Seattle with author and textile artist Sasha Duerr.

This one day, hands-on session will be offered to savor slow and holistic hues. We’ll learn to “cook with color” with a variety of seasonal plants of the Pacific Northwest, gleaned from locally grown materials, as well as weeds, windfall and waste. Participants will be working with regional raw materials.

The workshop begins at 10AM till 2PM on Saturday September 27th.  Participants will dye silk/wool textile in one of the foraged colors and receive a sample page of additional regional shades.

We will celebrate Sasha’s visit with a book signing and pop-up right after the workshop- From 2-3 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 seasonal palette swatches.

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Sep
20
10:00 AM10:00

LANDSCAPE ALCHEMY: NATURAL PALETTES WITH CALIFORNIA PLANTS- at the Ahart Herbarium at Chico State University, Chico, CA

Sponsored by The Friends of the Ahart Herbarium

at the Ahart Herbarium at Chico State University

Landscape Alchemy: Natural Palettes with California Plants

20 September 2025, 10 AM – 4 PM

Create a seasonal and local color palette from Northern California plant-based dyes. We’ll explore alchemy and biodiversity with a spectrum of holistic hues made from indigenous California plants and discuss the extensive range of natural palettes in weeds and chaparral plants. Together we’ll learn to “cook with color” and make a unique and biodiverse palette of botanically-dyed samples, finished take-home textiles exploring a range of surface design techniques in the process . . . and connect to a vibrant array of California fall colors.

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Aug
27
to Sep 17

LIVING COLOR- NATURAL PALETTES ONLINE SESSION- 4 Week Course

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LIVING COLOR- NATURAL PALETTES ONLINE SESSION

WEDNESDAYS- August 27th to September 17th , 2025*

10am-12pm HST/ 1pm-3pm PST/ 4-6pm 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. 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 4 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- Introduction to Natural Palettes and Engaged Practices with Natural Dyes/ Compost Colors- Creating Natural Dyes from Weeds, Waste and Everyday Wonder

Week 2 Color Therapy- Holistic Hues for Autumn and the Senses

Week 3 Landscape Alchemy- Color + Care for our Ecologies through Regenerative Practices + Participation

Week 4 Cultivating Color- Harvesting Color from the Dye Garden, Seed Saving + Savoring the Colors of Fall

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*4 Sessions -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.

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Jul
26
3:00 PM15:00

HILO HUES: Seasonal Color Tasting + Natural Dye Workshop-Seaweed Snack + Shop, Hilo, Hawai'i

Hilo Hues: Seasonal Color Tasting + Natural Dye Workshop

Join us for our first seasonal natural dye workshop in collaboration with Seaweed Snack + Shop. In this series we’ll be exploring the tropical notes and beautiful compost colors of the Big Island, emphasizing the abundant connections between slow food and slow textiles. July’s workshop will focus on natural dye techniques using locally grown mango. Each attendee will dye their own farmer’s market bag and experiment with a range of samples, all while holistically enjoying our Hilo Hues with mango-themed sips and snacks “to dye for!”

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Jun
16
to Jun 21

EXPLORING THE SEASONAL COLOR + TASTE PALETTE OF SICILY- SUMMER 2025 - Slow Food Meets Slow Textiles with Sasha Duerr + Anna Tasca Lanza Center for Sicilian Food Knowledge + Culture

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JOIN US FOR AN EXCITING WEEK LONG WORKSHOP at ANNA TASCA LANZA in SICILY, ITALY!

JUNE 16th - JUNE 21st 2025

EXPLORING THE SEASONAL COLOR + TASTE PALETTES OF SICILY-

Slow Food Meets Slow Textiles with Sasha Duerr + Anna Tasca Lanza Center for Sicilian Food Knowledge + 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 mid-summer 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.

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Jun
8
10:00 AM10:00

Natural Palettes: Late-Spring to Summer Dyes with Fibershed Learning Center + Sasha Duerr - Point Reyes, California

Natural Palettes: Late-Spring to Summer Dyes with Fibershed Learning Center

Join renowned natural dyer, Sasha Duerr, for an exceptional, visiting workshop opportunity on natural dyes! We will meet at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes Station for a day of exploring the natural palettes of Northern California seasonal color, as late-spring offerings transition to early summer provisions.

We will gather a variety of plants and other ingredients on-site, then use them to make natural dyebaths.

Together we will create a hyper-local dye palette from a curated selection of gathered ingredients on-site, including weeds, food, and flora waste, and wield them into natural dyebaths for our natural colored conjurings.

Explore the nuances and beauty of color terroir, and create an array of take-home, naturally dyed textiles, saturated in the local seasonal tones of West Marin.

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Mar
12
to Apr 9

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

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

5 SESSIONS- WEDNESDAYS- March 12th- April 9th , 2025

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

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Jan
11
10:00 AM10:00

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

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

Saturday, January 11th, 2025

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

Join Sasha in this 2 hour Online WINTER COLOR WORKSHOP WITH WEEDS, FOOD + FLORAL WASTE. We’ll create nuanced and unique natural palettes with foraged and gathered 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 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.

*Course Fee $140- Session will be live and recorded, a list of helpful materials will be included, as well as plant-dye recipes and additional natural color resources.

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

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Jan
8
to Feb 5

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

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

5 SESSIONS- WEDNESDAYS- January 8th- February 5th , 2025

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. 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 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 Medicine- 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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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.

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Oct
16
to Nov 13

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

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

WEDNESDAYS- October 16th through November 13th, 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. 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 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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-Selected student and artisan need-based scholarships are available -please inquire here.

-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.

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Sep
7
to Sep 8

THE SEASONAL COLOR BOUQUET AT SHEGROWS FARM WITH SASHA DUERR + THE MAKERIE

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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Aug
3
10:00 AM10:00

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

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.

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Jul
3
to Jul 31

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

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.

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Apr
28
10:00 AM10:00

SEATTLE URBAN FORAGE + FARMERS MARKET FLAVORS WORKSHOP with Sasha Duerr + Botanical Colors

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

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Mar
20
to Apr 17

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

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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.

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Feb
22
8:00 AM08:00

COMPOST COLOURS - ONLINE WORKSHOP LIVE WITH LAND ART COLLECTIVE

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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Jan
19
to Jan 21

CONJURING A WINTER RAINBOW - 3 Day In-Person Workshop with SASHA DUERR + TEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA- Minneapolis, MN

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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

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Jan
10
to Feb 7

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

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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.



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Dec
17
10:00 AM10:00

HOLIDAY HUES- ONLINE WORKSHOP

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.



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Dec
4
12:00 PM12:00

ART SPEAKS- Online Artist Talk with Sasha Duerr + Textile Center of Minnesota

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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).

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Nov
12
10:00 AM10:00

SEAWEED COLOR STUDY- ONLINE WORKSHOP

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!

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Oct
2
to Oct 7

EXPLORING THE SEASONAL COLOR + TASTE PALETTES OF SICILY - FALL 2023- Slow Food meets Slow Textiles with Sasha Duerr + Anna Tasca Lanza Center for Sicilian Food Culture

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!












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Sep
24
9:00 AM09:00

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

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!

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Aug
30
to Sep 27

LIVING COLOR- NATURAL PALETTES ONLINE FALL SESSION

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

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Aug
6
9:00 AM09:00

SUMMER COLOR BOUQUET- ONLINE WORKSHOP

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

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Jun
21
to Jul 19

LIVING COLOR- NATURAL PALETTES ONLINE SUMMER SESSION

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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

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Apr
17
9:00 AM09:00

BOTANICAL BEAUTY, BIODIVERSITY AND BY-PRODUCTS OF THE BIG ISLAND- A week-long workshop with BOTANICAL COLORS

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!

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Mar
4
11:00 AM11:00

ONLINE- EXPLORING NATURAL DYEING

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.

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