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 to extract and capture color from locally gathered plant materials. With expert guidance, attendees not only learned the delicate process of crafting enduring botanical impressions on fabric, but also explored two distinct fixative methods, ensuring the preservation of their artistic creations for years to come.
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.
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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
Jodi Green, 2024.
