Join Textile Center Master Gardener Deb Reierson in a monthly online community forum to learn how to start and sustain your own urban dye garden! Topics to be explored include designing and planning an urban dye garden, keeping the garden healthy and happy, environmental considerations, harvesting and using dye materials, and putting your garden to bed at the end of the season. This community forum is sponsored by Mississippi Market Co-op and offered for FREE to the public. All are welcome to join — from gardening novices to expert green thumbs who want to be part of the conversation. Don’t have space to create your own urban dye garden? Use ours! All participants in the online community forum are encouraged to get their hands dirty in Textile Center’s A Garden To Dye For as a Dye Garden Volunteer and practice some of the tips discussed in the forum. Click here to register to be a Dye Garden Volunteer.
5 Meetings: 10 – 11 am CT, Virtual, on Zoom
May 11
June 15
July 20
August 17
September 21
with Master Gardener Deb Reierson
About the Dye Garden: Textile Center’s A Garden To Dye For is a living educational and creative resource, which proudly cultivates, harvests, and generates understanding surrounding natural dye plants. Combining beauty and function, this perennial garden nurtures plants to be used as natural dyes for creating textiles and other fiber art!
Instructor Bio: Katherine Buenger (she/her) has a degree in studio art from Macalester College. She enjoys many fiber-related arts, including weaving, spinning, ply-split braiding, button making, and braiding with Sami tin thread. Whether it is spinning the yellow pages, computer tape, or adding telephone wire to weavings, she likes finding something different and fun to do with her art. She is not afraid to break the rules and try something new, and encourages others to do the same. Katherine has taught at The Weavers Guild of Minnesota, Midwest Weavers Conference, Minnesota Federation of Weavers and Spinners, White Bear Center for the Arts, Marine Mills Folk School, American Kumihimo Society, Upper Midwest Bead Society and other venues. After teaching thousands of students, she is still having fun sharing her crafts with others.
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