FEMeeting Workshop: Extracting and Capturing Hyperlocal Colour - A Botanical Contact Printing Workshop
June 27th 2024
Make Lab, School of Creative Arts Armouries
On June 27th, artists Jodi Green and Lisa Sylvestre hosted a botanical printing workshop in the Make Lab at the University of Windsor's Alan Wildeman Centre for Creative Arts. In this hands-on workshop, participants learned how to extract and capture colour from locally gathered plant materials. With expert guidance, attendees not only mastered the delicate process of creating lasting botanical impressions on fabric but also explored two distinct fixative methods to ensure the preservation of their creations. The final works turned out to be stunning botanical masterpieces.
Instructors
Jodi Green and Lisa Sylvestre
Location
University of Windsor School of Creative Arts Make Lab
Curator
Domenica Mediati
Host Partners:
Dr. Jennifer Willet, INCUBATOR Art Lab, SoCA, UWindsor
Mireille Bourgeois, IOTA Institute, Halifax, NS
Marta de Menezes, Ectopia Experimental Art Laboratory, and Cultivamos Cultura Portugal
Dr. Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece
Meet the Instructors
Lisa Sylvestre
Lisa Sylvestre is a Windsor/Detroit based artist. An academic background in the social sciences, community-learned quilting, and formal training in tailoring and photography all contribute to her work as a multi-media artist, with a primary focus on textiles. Lisa, operating under asil, runs a textile + a dye studio which holds classes and hosts a bi-monthly community sewing circle, curates the asil Gallery and Shop which brings together the work of talented local artists.
Image Credit
Biopic, Lisa Sylvestre, 2024.
Jodi Green
Jodi Green is a printmaker, bookbinder, textile artist, and art educator living and working in Windsor. She holds an MFA in printmaking from the University of Georgia, where she developed a practice of making and wearing clothing printed from woodblocks and other traditional printmaking methods. From 2015 to 2020 she operated Levigator Press, a public access printmaking studio focusing on education in print and book arts. She now teaches workshops in print, bookbinding, natural dyes, and fibre arts through the asil studio.
Image Credit
Biopic, Jodi Green, 2024.
Workshop Image Credit
Cri Kosti, 2024.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Jodi Green and Lisa Sylvestre for hosting the FEMeeting: Women in Arts, Science, and Technology workshop, and to Lucy Howe for supporting the workshop at the University of Windsor School of Creative Arts Make Lab.
