About this Event
Join us in the TPF gardens for this special workshop with artist Carly Lake. Learn about how native and invasive plants are used to make dyes, connect the dyes to the plants in the garden, and spend time dipping and dyeing cotton bandanas and silk scarves!
Attendees will:
- Learn what a natural dye is and how they’ve been used historically around the world
- Learn how fiber is prepared to absorb natural dyes (mordanting)
- Make their own resist (shibori) design on bandana
- Dye 2 items: a 21" x 21"cotton bandana and an 8" x 54" silk scarf with 2 local seasonal native dyes
All materials provided. This class is suitable for people ages 7+. With a take away of a coloring page featuring a CA native dye plant, this is a great experience class for the family!
Image: workshop materials courtesy of Carly Lake
Carly Lake’s first love is drawing. She creates vibrant watercolor and digital illustrations for books and print that are whimsical, surreal, and nature-centric. Her debut picture book, Waa’aka The Bird Who Fell in Love With the Sun (Heyday Books), follows the origin story of how the sun got up into the sky, by Tongva author and artist, Cindi Alvitre. Carly enjoys working in spaces where her passion for storytelling is nurtured, including storyboarding, editorial illustration, public art, and art education.
Her practice with natural dyes began in 2016 and has since been at the core of her fiber artwork. The colors in her woven and quilted textiles are the expression of dyes from her local landscape of the Los Angeles basin. She also explores traditional dyes from across the globe, seeing both unique beauty and universality in these ethnobotanical histories. Through her natural dye classes, Carly aims to share the ecological relationships that shape our environment and contemplate these connections with others.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and minor in Native American Cultures from California State University at Long Beach. Carly currently lives near the San Gabriel Mountains of California.
Find her at https://carlylake.com/
SELECTED CLIENTS
Heyday Books, The California Native Plant Society,
The National Tropical Botanic Garden, Flora Magazine,
Beach Magazine, Gold Front, Grand Scheme Productions,
and LA County Department of Arts & Culture
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford Street, Los Angeles, United States
USD 85.00 to USD 95.00
