Event Info
This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on June 22, from 11:00am to 1:00pm Eastern Time.
- Saturday, June 22, 11:00am – 1:00pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on June 1, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
A great follow up to Fiber Arts as Book Arts: Natural Dyeing, learn how to use food scraps and other natural pigments to make inks for printing on paper and fabric. In addition to learning how to make natural printing inks, instructor Iviva Olenick will demonstrate several printing methods, including potato printing, how to translate a digital design into a stencil for printing, and how to use Photoshop to create a motif that will repeat seamlessly.
Required Materials:
- Fabric
- Organic materials (like food scraps and flowers)
- Scissors
- Potato
About Iviva Olenick
Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn-based artist developing textiles from seed to fiber and dye and using textiles as texts. Her work has been exhibited all over the United States, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Design Atlanta; the Hunterdon Museum, NJ; Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, NYC; the Center for Book Arts, NYC; the Old Stone House, Brooklyn; Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn. Olenick is a faculty member of SVA’s MFA Art Practice program where she teaches Fibers. In addition, she gives artist talks and designs intensive textile-based workshops for museums and universities.
All images courtesy of the instructor.
In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. The amount you choose to pay goes directly toward our instructors and toward creating scholarship opportunities for the future. This is part four in a series of four workshops focusing on incorporating fiber techniques into the book form. You may register for one, two, three, or all four sessions. You can sign up for Session 1: Natural Dying here, Session 2: Embroidery here, and Session 3: Book Forms here. This class will be recorded and the recording will be viewable for up to 30 days after the class.
