Botanical Printing & Dyeing
Lisa Binkley
Date: Sept. 11 - Sept 15, 2022
Name of Event:
“Botanical Printing & Dyeing"
Medium:
Plant materials/fabric/fiber
Level: All
Location: Studio
Status: Open
Website: www.lisabinkley.com
Email: lsbinkley@gmail.com
Reserve your Spot with Lisa Binkley
Rates & Enrollment
Deposit is $450, balance due 30 days before arrival
Day Student Tuition: $895 + Materials fee
5-Day Package*: $1,950 - 2,250* + 11%Tax
* Your 5-Day Workshop Package includes:
Workshop Tuition, 4 nights of dinner, lodging, breakfast, daily snack breaks, unlimited coffee, tea & seltzer plus welcoming reception with light appetizers
You can choose a room to yourself (single occupancy) or double your fun, bring a friend and split a room (double occupancy).
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ABOUT THIS RETREAT
Description
Dyeing with plant pigments and other natural materials (insects, lichen, etc.) has been practiced and refined for thousands of years—for as long as humans have made cloth and wished to beautify it. Printing with plants has been practiced for generations through such traditions as Easter egg decoration and, in the past few decades, as a way to create pattern and imagery on fabric.
During this workshop students learn about the history of dyeing and printing with plants; how to prepare fabric/fiber for dyeing and printing; ways to secure and alter dye color on cloth; and many ways to get patterns and images on fabric with a variety of plant materials. We begin by gathering as many of our printing and dyeing plants as possible from the area surrounding the workshop (depending on location and time of year). Then we explore dyeing solid and mottled colors with botanical pigments both individually and in combination; printing plant material onto fabrics; eco-printing and dyeing together; and using some simple shibori techniques in conjunction with eco-printing and dyeing.
Artist Bio
Lisa holds a B.S. in Textiles & Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Formerly a public policy analyst, she has maintained an active fiber art studio since 2000 and has been teaching fiber art workshops since 2007. Her award-winning artwork has been selected for national and international exhibitions including those of the American Quilters' Society, the International Quilt Association, CraftForms, Crafts National, QSDS, Wisconsin Artists Biennia, and many others. Lisa and her artwork have been featured on local and national television and in internationally distributed books and magazines. Her art is represented in public, private, and corporate collections. Lisa enjoys sharing her passion for fiber art through her artwork, workshops, and lectures, and she teaches throughout the U.S. and internationally. She and her husband, artist Ed Binkley, have two young-adult children. Lisa and Ed live in the woods of Madison, Wisconsin with their big fluffy dog.
Materials Fee: $25
The $25 materials fee is payable directly to Lisa on your first day of class
Sample Agenda **
SAMPLE AGENDA **
for Artists Rising Creativity Retreat:
5 Days and 4 Nights
Sunday
Arrival day, check in at 3pm
5pm: meet your fellow students reception with light dinner
Monday
Optional yoga, walking, biking in the morning
Workshop from 9-4 (breakfast & lunch included)
Art Studio available 24/7
Tuesday
Optional yoga, walking, biking in the morning
Workshop from 9-4 (breakfast & lunch included)
Art Studio available 24/7
Wednesday
Optional yoga, walking, biking in the morning
Workshop from 9 - noon (breakfast included)
Optional: Excursion to one of the 169 small towns in Connecticut for touring and lunch and a visit to one of the gardens designed by historic landscape designer, Beatrix Farrand, among the first women to practice landscape architecture in the United States. “A garden, large or small, must be treated in the Impressionist manner,” she once wrote. “Plants are to the gardener what her palette is to the painter.”
Farewell Dinner together in Glastonbury
Art Studio available 24/7
Thursday
Optional yoga, walking, biking in the morning
Studio work in the morning, sketching and watercolor on location (breakfast & light lunch included)
Checkout by 1PM
Everyday:
Lots of food, fun, comradery, relaxation, re-winding, Art Studio available 24/7
You can also add an extra day before or after the retreat dates (upon availability)
Other: A complete schedule will be posted as your retreat date nears!
This will be posted in the private Facebook Group which you will be invited to join once you register.
Weather Permitting throughout the week... biking, kayaking or paddle boarding or river excursion, leaf peeping in the Autumn
WILL I RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION IN THE MAIL?
You will receive an email confirmation and, as time gets closer, more email full of info and goodies.
Here is the payment schedule:
$450 deposit is due at the time of registration.
Remaining balance is due 30 days before your retreat start date
Pay in Full at time of registration and save $100
Please read our full cancellation policy HERE
** Please note that the Sample Agenda is a sample, meaning exact dates, times or activities can be changed based on weather, scheduling or desires of the group and size of the group.