three people taking naturally dyed silk out of a pot during a dye workshop at the northwest herbal fair

Art Workshops

I teach workshops focused on printmaking, fiber art, natural dye, and other process-based mediums. I love these techniques and believe in sharing these traditional artmaking practices to keep them alive for future generations of artists.

I love taking my show on the road! If you would like me to come to your space and teach, please let me know. Take a look at upcoming as well as past workshops to get an idea of what topics I teach.

Winter/Spring 2024 Workshop Calendar

Workshops for 2024 will be added as they are scheduled - check back soon for summer.

Featured
Family Art Days: Natural Dye Monoprints
Family Art Days: Natural Dye Monoprints

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
San Juan Island Museum of Art
12-2pm | San Juan Island, WA

Learn how to make printmaking ink from scratch using natural dyes and use those inks to create one-of-a-kind prints. Students will use stencils and stamps to create a natural dye monoprint on paper, working with a palette of color made possible by materials foraged and grown. The resulting work is entirely biodegradable, place-based, and beautiful!

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Introduction to Screenprinting

February 7th and 14th, 2024
Alchemy Art Center
6PM - 9PM | San Juan Island, WA

This two-part workshop will introduce students to the fundamentals of screenprinting. This class is taught in a way that makes it practical to replicate in a variety of settings. You’ll learn the history of the process, the materials needed, how to expose screens, and practice different techniques that can be used to create art to burn onto your screens, and, of course, print!

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Making Art with Earth-Based Materials

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
Alchemy Art Center
12 - 3pm | San Juan Island, WA

Using earth-based materials to create artwork can be a powerful way to connect with your bioregion, thread together artmaking with earth revereance, and orient to artmaking in a process-based way. It was only recently that the creation of the materials used to make art was separated from the artmaking process. This class is designed to re-incorporate materials making into an artmaking practice. It is a buffet of different ways art materials can be made from materials sourced from nature as well as reclaimed from waste. It is part discussion on how to shift thinking towards DIY materials, part creating DIY materials on the spot. We will create nature-made drawing and painting supplies together, and then create small works on handmade paper.

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Mending and Creative Altering
Mending and Creative Altering

Wednesdays in March, (6th, 13th, 20th, 27th) 2024
Alchemy Art Center
6PM - 9PM | San Juan Island, WA

There are a million different ways you can customize your clothing to make it more artful, more fun, last longer, repair it, and otherwise reimagine it. In this series, we will be exploring what it means to creatively alter and mend our clothes, and learning about some easy, accessible techniques you can use in a clothes upcycling practice. We will focus on visible mending, surface design techniques (including printmaking on fabric), destruction, and dyeing. We will also talk about what to look for when you do end up needing to source new clothing to make sure it lasts as long as possible and is as mendable/upcycle-able as possible.

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Cultivating a Natural Dye Practice

Sunday, March 24th, 2024
Alchemy Art Center
12PM - 4PM | San Juan Island, WA

Learn about the magic of creating color with plants in this introduction to Natural Dye workshop. This class will lay a solid foundation down to help you understand the fundamentals of how natural dyeing works, so you can continue a dye practice yourself. We will discuss the history of plant color, what fabrics to use, how to prepare fabric for dyeing, and of course, which plants to work with. Students will leave the class with a dye swatch book, a bundle dyed bandana, and anything students brought to class to dye.

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Cyanotype Printing

Sunday, May 5th, 2024
Alchemy Art Center
12PM - 4PM | San Juan Island, WA

This workshop is an introduction to the cyanotype printing process, a non-silver alternative photography/printing technique originally developed to create blueprints. Cyanotype printing is a simple but relatively obscure process that allows for lots of experimentation, and can be layered with other types of printmaking and photography processes to create intricate, dynamic images. This workshop provides a history of the process, from its origins as a way to print technical material, to its use to document the natural world, and its transition into an art technique. We work with different substrates that can be printed on, and create prints. In this class students learn about the different ways to make images with negatives, as well as contact printing with objects.

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check back for more 2023 workshops. 2024 workshops coming soon!

Past Workshops

2023

Screenprinting with Natural Dyes
Sou’Wester Arts | Seaview, WA | November 2023

Visible Mending and Creative Altering
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | November 2023

Making Art with Invasive Species
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2023

The Ancestral Art of Printmaking
Spirit Weavers Gathering | Cave Junction, OR | June 2023

Making Art with Earth-Based Materials
Spirit Weavers Gathering | Cave Junction, OR | June 2023
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | September 2023

Cyanotype Printing
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | June 2023
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | May 2023
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | August 2023

Introduction to the Printing Press
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | March 2023

Relief Printing on Fabric
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | March 2023
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | December 2023

Introduction to Screenprinting
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | February 2023

Cultivating a Natural Dye Practice
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | January 2023
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | June 2023
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | October 2023

2022

Visible Mending and Creative Upcycling
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2022

Cultivating a Natural Dye Practice
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | September 2022
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2022

Natural Dyeing with Medicinal Herbs
Northwest Herbal Fair | Quilcene, WA | August 2022

Botanical Printing
Finnriver Cidery, for Northwind Art | Chimacum, WA | May 2022
Finnriver Cidery, for Northwind Art | Chimacum, WA | August 2022

Relief Printing on Fabric
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | August 2022

Teen Printmaking Camp
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | August 2022

Screenprinting Demystified
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | April 2022
Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network | Bainbridge Island, WA | May 2022

Intro to Printmaking Series
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | January - April 2022
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | August 2022
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2022

Print Kids (Middle School Printmaking)
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2022

2021

Of Sun and Flower: Cyanotype and Botanical Dyeing
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | August 2021

Youth Community Cyanotype Workshop
Linde Park with Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | August 2021

2020

Seeing Blue: Cyanotype Printing for Beginners
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | July 2020

The Transferred Image: Introduction to Image Transfer Techniques
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | February 2020

2019

Seeing Blue: Cyanotype Printing for Beginners
Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network | Bainbridge Island, WA | July 2019

Art and Nature Youth Summer Camp
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | July 2019

Seeing Blue: Cyanotype Printing for Beginners
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | April 2019

 

Herbalism and folk ecology

I also host plant walks, herbal medicine making classes, and folk ecology workshops as part of my herbal medicine project, Salish Sea Apothecary. Follow the link for class posts and updates on this project.

Mushrooms, trackers of the passage of time. Mushrooms, reminders that time is not linear but cyclical. In gratitude.⁠ ⁠ You can learn about mushrooms and appreciate them without foraging them. Conversely, you can forage as a way to learn and apprecia
Mushroom medicine for burnout 🍄⁠ ⁠ Mushrooms are incredible beings. They have co-evolved with us, offering medicine that addresses innumerable health issues. There is a long history of relationship with humans and mushrooms across the world, but in
In awe and appreciation for the mushroom beings, now and forever. Here in the traditional lands of the Coast Salish People, and in many other mild, wet, temperate places, different mushrooms have their time to shine almost the whole year round, thou
Horsetail medicine / the medicine of resilience One of my friends who used to do landscaping work and he said people were always trying to eradicate horsetail (Equisetum spp) from the land they were trying to make look a certain way. Horsetail doesn
Nettle medicine / nurturance medicine⁠ ⁠ Nettle is my friend. I love them, respect them, tend to them, listen to them. Nettle teaches us about boundaries, about springing into action but only after a nice long rest, about life force. ⁠ ⁠ Nettle (urti
Cottonwood resin / the medicine of waiting Cottonwood (Populus spp) buds are laden with a sticky resin that smells sweet, a little spicy, honestly sorta impossible to describe. This resin is filled with medicinal compounds that support the body bot
I respect tea because it is probably the most accessible way to approach herbal medicine for most people. Safe for those who cannot use alcohol-based tinctures. Possibly already a part of your life, drinking warm drinks that taste good. Ingredients t
🌱 Saving Seed for medicine/food sovereignty, for accessibility, and for community resiliency: One way you can start growing your own herbs and your own food is through seed saving. Learn about the life cycles of the plants you are in relationshi
Root Medicine: Tea blends with roots, bark, or berries should be simmered for 20+ minutes rather than steeped in hot water like you would with a tea bag. The chemical constituents doin’ the work in these parts of the plants take more time and
🌿 An update: 🍇 I am working through the last couple months of medicine requests and they are almost all ready to be shipped. I will post again after that has happened. Thanks to those who have asked for medicine, your patience is so appreciated. L
Chickweed grows in disturbed places - I always find them in gardens, in the more feral corners. This ally is really rich in minerals and is considered cooling and moistening. I use chickweed when my body is asking for more nutrients, or when I or s
Saving seeds, a prayer for the future. 🌾 Pull the seed heads off the plants you see when you walk down the street. Plant them in your yard, in the green strip between your house and the sidewalk, in a pot on your windowsill. Cast the seeds of native