Bioregional Plant Dye with Sara Riegler
Two Days in June
June 17 & 18
Saturday 10am - 3pm
Sunday 12pm – 3pm
At Spark in Greensboro
Ages 16+
$145 Per Person
Tuition: $85 for two classes ($43 per class)
Materials Fee: $60 for materials
In this class, we’ll learn about and work with the abundance of botanical colors available in our northern Vermont landscape. Working with 2-3 late spring plants, we’ll explore many aspects of natural dye, including methods for extracting color, ethical foraging principles, mordanting, and afterbaths, and celebrate dyeing as a practice of connecting with our surroundings and each other. Each student will leave with a set of botanically-dyed organic cotton napkins to adorn the summer table.
Sara Riegler is an artist and plant lover dedicated to individual and collective healing, currently based in Abenaki homelands in northern Vermont. Sarah explores textiles, botanical dyeing, illustration, printmaking, and gardening as modes of creative expression in connection with place. She believes in the power of plants for providing healing connection with self, other, and the earth and is passionate about cultivating opportunities for this connection for all people. As we strive toward a world without prisons and borders, may we look to the more-than-human world to guide the way and teach us in the ways of liberation. Sara is inspired by the work of the many herbalists, artists, farmers, poets, and activists who have come before me — and by each of you.
