What’s Included
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All materials provided for working with natural dyes and pigments, including fabric swatches with various local plant dyes to include as part of a dye journal, a silk scarf to take home with your own custom design, and your own handmade watercolor plus pigment to take home for further experimentation.
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Experiential learning in the following areas:
permaculture principles and growing instructions for your home garden
ethical wild harvesting
foundation of natural dyes— an in-depth study of the relationship between fiber, plant, and mordant
bundle dyeing lesson
pigment making
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Detailed written instructions to accompany the lessons
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An intimate view of an artist’s studio and garden to help inspire your own creative workflow
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Celebrate the end of the workshop with an outdoor wood-fired pizza party!
“Local Color is a unique and thoughtfully curated course for anyone who wants to dig into their relationship with place, plants, art, and community. It has changed the way I see the world around me and my approach to gardening and fiberarts. ”
About the Instructors
Mariah is a textile artist and designer with an endless fascination for natural dyes. She works with local and homegrown plants she grows or forages and especially loves working with invasive plants. In her latest endeavor, she co-founded Wilder Goods — a shop and art gallery in the Emerson Center for Arts and Culture. In that space, she began offering workshops, which sparked a move away from retail and into teaching and hosting workshops rooted in connecting with the land. She now teaches and creates under the name Local Earth in her home studio outside Bozeman. Over the past decade, she has pieced together the school of her dreams by attending workshops that centered around nature and art, including a Master Naturalist certification through the Montana Outdoor Science School, Resilient Homestead, a permaculture course with Broken Ground–as well as various dye courses, including; ‘The Poetics of Pigment’ with the Wild Pigment Project, Screen Printing with Natural Dyes in Brooklyn at the Textile Arts Center, Printing with Natural Dyes with the Maiwa School of Textiles and The Chemistry of Natural Dyes, also with the Maiwa School of Textiles. She lives and works outside Bozeman with her husband, 12-year-old daughter, and animals, both domestic and wild.
Kareen, owner of Broken Ground, is a garden design consultant, homesteader, and educator. For over a decade, she has helped thousands of people in cold climates grow their own food through consultations, design services, her signature Resilient Homestead Program, and her YouTube channel. In addition to being a Master Gardener and Master Composter, Kareen is certified in permaculture design, a whole-systems approach to land management and sustainable living. She is on the faculty of the Permaculture Women’s Guild, Green Path Herb School, and the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute. Kareen lives with her husband on a suburban homestead in Bozeman, Montana, with a greenhouse, pond, vegetable gardens, a food forest of fruit trees and berry bushes, a flock of chickens, and her blue heeler dog Beni.
Interested in learning more?
send an email to mariah@localearthstudio.com