Natural Dyes: Silk Scarves and Black-owned Cotton Tees/Socks

​In this natural dye workshop, you will dye fabric using Japanese persimmon, logwood, walnut, sumac, cochineal, cutch, and more! We will learn about the natural dye process, including mordants, modifiers, eco-printing, and resist dyeing. You will leave with an item you've dyed yourself! For accessibility, we've included a variety of price options.

​Note: You will leave with a wet piece of cloth, so please make dress in clothes you don't mind getting messy and make travel arrangements for transporting damp fabric!

​About Your Instructor:

​Zoe is a teaching artist and curator engaging with Caribbean folklore stories. Her video artwork often takes an interest in the transformation of objects over time; whether reflected in the decay of family VHS tapes or the erosion of slave ship wreckage.

​Butler’s research practice responds to the materiality of archival artifacts. Her work aspires to embrace the abstraction and abundance of counter-histories and to encourage people to see themselves beyond the representational.

​Zoe is a Diaspora Solidarity Lab Fellow, where she co-curated the current exhibition, Laas Absan Peldía: Caribbean Cinema Cultures at the MSU Broad Museum. She is a Fulbright U.S. Student Alumni affiliated with the University of the West Indies Department of Creative and Festival Arts.