Natural Dye & Earth Pigment Workshop

Natural Dye & Earth Pigment Workshop with Maven Kennedy & SK Reed. RSVP: space is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Join artists SK Reed and Maven Kennedy, currently featured in the Home Grown exhibition at UIMA, for an immersive, hands-on collaborative workshop. This unique session teaches participants how to forage, process, and create art using locally sourced natural materials. Kennedy will demonstrate processing regional plants (marigolds), food waste (onion skins), and plant charcoal (ash), along with found objects (bricks/nails) to create distinct variations in local pigments. Reed will showcase how to process raw earth pigments and transform them into working watercolor paints.

The workshop will end in an activity! Guests are invited to use these pigments to create watercolor reflections on their relationships with their own local ecosystems. The artists hope participants will consider the collectivity of their environments – when sourcing their own pigments from their local ecosystems, both Kennedy and Reed feel a greater connection and grounding to place.

If you register in advance and later find that you will be unable to attend, please cancel your registration through Humanitix to open up a spot for another participant.