Indigo Tales & Trails
Get into the blue that keeps the haunts away this summer at CAM!
Students will spend time viewing the Rooted in Memory: The Gullah Geechee Vision of Jonathan Green exhibition at CAM. Then we will join Catherine as she shares images, stories and art inspired by her ten years of traveling up and down the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, a federal designation that stretches 12,000 square miles.
Guests will will learn indigo dyeing processes including cultivation, vat preparation, and surface design techniques bringing the past to the present, as well as how to create Batik resist techniques, lake pigments, ink and paints with indigo.
Date/Time:
August 22nd & 23rd, 10am-4pm
Skill Level:
Adult: All Levels
Admissions:
CAM Member: $172 / Not-yet-member: $215
Instructor:
Catherine Cross-Tsintzos
Supplies:
$40.00 supply fee payable to the instructor for expendable supplies. Students are invited to bring up to five yards of their own prewashed 100% cotton, silk, linen, hemp fabrics to due. Cotton duck prewashed painters drop cloths, bed linens, table cloths, napkins are also welcome. Cellulose fibers only. Testing and prototype materials, tools and ingredient supplies will be provided by the instructor.
