Studio Arts Program, Bard Farm, and American and Indigenous Studies Program Present

Reconnecting Our Tyes to Dyes: Indigenous Reclamation

Join us in working with the plants grown parallel at both Ancient Roots Homestead and the Bard Farm in the creation of community dye baths using plants freshly harvested from the Farm and Community Garden’s dye plants. Lucy Grignon of Ancient Roots Homestead will share observations and insights of living as an artist, maker, and farmer at the intersection of institution and museum and archive. Grignon will engage her research at the Field Museum Chicago, along with lived and ancestral experiences on her homestead, to share research insights and dye techniques. We will join together in a collective color-ing! 

Lucille Grignon is a homesteader at Ancient Roots Homestead, which is located on the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation. She has transitioned from teaching in a modern colonial classroom into working as an educator of Ancient Indigenous skills, ideas, and traditions guided by the ways of her ancestors.

Workshop hosted by Beka Goedde, Studio Arts, and Rebecca Yoshino, Bard Farm, with support from Rethinking Place.

Free, all supplies will be provided. Prior to the workshop, 100% cotton bandanas will be prepared (scoured and mordanted) for botanical dyeing. Participants are welcome to take home a dyed bandana from the workshop.

Participants are invited to the Bard Farm potluck prior to the event, beginning at 12:30 pm at the Bard Farm. Please bring a dish to share.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Bard Farm

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