Creating Art with Nature Workshop
Accompong Town, Jamaica
Forthcoming
Come join us to use the earth’s bounty to make art that can be marketed as distinctive Maroon products. We will harvest and use Indigenous Plants of the Cockpit Country to create artistic, marketable designs in clothing, jewelry, stationary, household products and sculpture, and your creative ideas!
Objectives
· Identify and use local plants available in the natural environment to make practical items of beauty that can be marketed and sold
· Apply techniques for dyeing and designing clothing, jewelry, and works of art
· Plan approaches to integrate these objectives within the participants’ lives and work, for example, as entrepreneurs, teachers, environmentalists, and artists
Workshop Leaders
Nan Travers, US fiber artist and educator, will join Accompong Maroon artists in leading a 3-day workshop where local and international participants will apply techniques for using plants creatively, including dyeing, imprinting leaf forms, matting, carving nuts, stringing seeds—limited only by our imaginations.
Schedule
Day 1 Check-in during afternoon & evening
Day 2 Identify and harvest plants with local guides & Demonstrations
Day 3 Apply techniques in designing creative items
Day 4 Produce and Display Art
Day 5 Check-out & Good-byes
Each evening there will be local entertainment—drumming, dancing, reggae.
Contact for questions and more information:
Gretchen Wilbur
rcekindah@gmail.com
1-876-359-7093 (WhatsApp & Signal)