three people taking naturally dyed silk out of a pot during a dye workshop at the northwest herbal fair

Art Workshops

I teach workshops focused on printmaking, fiber art, natural dye, and other process-based mediums. I love these techniques and believe in sharing these traditional artmaking practices to keep them alive for future generations of artists.

I love taking my show on the road! If you would like me to come to your space and teach, please let me know. Take a look at upcoming as well as past workshops to get an idea of what topics I teach.

2025 Workshop Calendar

I teach classes regularly at Alchemy Art Center here on San Juan Island. 2025 workshop topics have included woodblock printmaking, screenprinting, indigo dye, fresh leaf indigo dyeing, visible mending, sashiko, natural dye, and more. Take a look at the current class calendar at Alchemy here.

For c2025 lasses held in other locations, please see below:

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Screenprinting with Natural Dyes

September 20th and 21st
Mendocino Art Center
Mendocino, CA

Learn how to make screenprinting ink from scratch using natural dyes and use those inks to create prints. We will use plant dyes and thicken them with seaweed so they can be used for screenprinting. Students will create a screen printed edition on paper, working with a palette of color made possible by materials foraged and grown. The resulting work is entirely biodegradable, place-based, and beautiful!

Sign up here.

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Creating Color with Natural Dyes

Saturday, February 1st, 2025
Sou’wester Lodge
10AM - 2PM | Seaview, WA

Learn about the magic of creating color with plants in this introduction to Natural Dye workshop. This class will lay a solid foundation down to help you understand the fundamentals of how natural dyeing works, so you can continue a dye practice yourself. We will discuss the history of plant color, what fabrics to use, how to prepare fabric for dyeing, and of course, which plants to work with. Students will leave the class with a dye swatch book, a bundle dyed bandana, and anything students brought to class to dye.

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Creating Color with Natural Dyes

Saturday, February 8th, 2025
Shaw Island Library and Historical Society
11AM - 3PM | Shaw Island, WA

Learn about the magic of creating color with plants in this introduction to Natural Dye workshop. This class will lay a solid foundation down to help you understand the fundamentals of how natural dyeing works, so you can continue a dye practice yourself. We will discuss the history of plant color, what fabrics to use, how to prepare fabric for dyeing, and of course, which plants to work with. Students will leave the class with a dye swatch book, a bundle dyed bandana, and anything students brought to class to dye.

check back for 2026 workshops! I AM SCHEDULING CLASSES FOR 2026 NOW.

Past Workshops

2024

Block Printed Holiday Cards
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | December 2024

Multicolor Screenprinting
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | November 2024

Traditional Woodblock Printmaking
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | September 2024

Introduction to Screenprinting
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | June 2024
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | February 2024
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2024

Family Art Days: Natural Dye Monoprints
SJIMA | San Juan Island, WA | February 2024

Cultivating a Natural Dye Practice
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | March 2024
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | June 2024
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | September 2024

Seasonal Dyes of San Juan Island
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | May 2024
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | August 2024

Color Alchemy: Indigo Dye
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | April 2024
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | August 2024
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | September 2024

Paint From Plants: Lake Pigments
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | November 2024

Sashiko Mending
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | September 2024

Cyanotype Printing
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | May 2024

Visible Mending and Creative Upcycling
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | March 2022

2023

The Ancestral Art of Printmaking
Spirit Weavers Gathering | Cave Junction, OR | June 2023

Block Printed Holiday Cards
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | December 2023

Creating Beautiful Journals
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | December 2023

Cultivating a Natural Dye Practice
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | January 2023
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | June 2023
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | October 2023

Cyanotype Printing
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | June 2023
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | May 2023
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | August 2023

Introduction to the Printing Press
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | March 2023

Introduction to Screenprinting
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | February 2023

Making Art with Earth-Based Materials
Spirit Weavers Gathering | Cave Junction, OR | June 2023
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | September 2023

Making Art with Invasive Species
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2023

Relief Printing on Fabric
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | March 2023
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | December 2023

Screenprinting with Natural Dyes
Sou’Wester Arts | Seaview, WA | November 2023

Visible Mending and Creative Altering
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | November 2023

2022

Botanical Printing
Finnriver Cidery, for Northwind Art | Chimacum, WA | May 2022
Finnriver Cidery, for Northwind Art | Chimacum, WA | August 2022

Cultivating a Natural Dye Practice
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | September 2022
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2022

Intro to Printmaking Series
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | January - April 2022
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | August 2022
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2022

Natural Dyeing with Medicinal Herbs
Northwest Herbal Fair | Quilcene, WA | August 2022

Print Kids (Middle School Printmaking)
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2022

Relief Printing on Fabric
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | August 2022

Screenprinting Demystified
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | April 2022
Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network | Bainbridge Island, WA | May 2022

Teen Printmaking Camp
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | August 2022

Visible Mending and Creative Upcycling
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | October 2022

2021

Of Sun and Flower: Cyanotype and Botanical Dyeing
Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | August 2021

Youth Community Cyanotype Workshop
Linde Park with Alchemy Art Center | San Juan Island, WA | August 2021

2020

Seeing Blue: Cyanotype Printing for Beginners
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | July 2020

The Transferred Image: Introduction to Image Transfer Techniques
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | February 2020

2019

Art and Nature Youth Summer Camp
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | July 2019

Seeing Blue: Cyanotype Printing for Beginners
Northwind Art | Port Townsend, WA | April 2019
Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network | Bainbridge Island, WA | July 2019

 

Herbalism and folk ecology

I also host plant walks, herbal medicine making classes, and folk ecology workshops as part of my herbal medicine project, Salish Sea Apothecary. Follow the link for class posts and updates on this project.

Mushrooms, trackers of the passage of time. Mushrooms, reminders that time is not linear but cyclical. In gratitude.⁠ ⁠ You can learn about mushrooms and appreciate them without foraging them. Conversely, you can forage as a way to learn and apprecia
Mushroom medicine for burnout 🍄⁠ ⁠ Mushrooms are incredible beings. They have co-evolved with us, offering medicine that addresses innumerable health issues. There is a long history of relationship with humans and mushrooms across the world, but in
In awe and appreciation for the mushroom beings, now and forever. Here in the traditional lands of the Coast Salish People, and in many other mild, wet, temperate places, different mushrooms have their time to shine almost the whole year round, thou
Horsetail medicine / the medicine of resilience One of my friends who used to do landscaping work and he said people were always trying to eradicate horsetail (Equisetum spp) from the land they were trying to make look a certain way. Horsetail doesn
Nettle medicine / nurturance medicine⁠ ⁠ Nettle is my friend. I love them, respect them, tend to them, listen to them. Nettle teaches us about boundaries, about springing into action but only after a nice long rest, about life force. ⁠ ⁠ Nettle (urti
Cottonwood resin / the medicine of waiting Cottonwood (Populus spp) buds are laden with a sticky resin that smells sweet, a little spicy, honestly sorta impossible to describe. This resin is filled with medicinal compounds that support the body bot
I respect tea because it is probably the most accessible way to approach herbal medicine for most people. Safe for those who cannot use alcohol-based tinctures. Possibly already a part of your life, drinking warm drinks that taste good. Ingredients t
🌱 Saving Seed for medicine/food sovereignty, for accessibility, and for community resiliency: One way you can start growing your own herbs and your own food is through seed saving. Learn about the life cycles of the plants you are in relationshi
Root Medicine: Tea blends with roots, bark, or berries should be simmered for 20+ minutes rather than steeped in hot water like you would with a tea bag. The chemical constituents doin’ the work in these parts of the plants take more time and
🌿 An update: 🍇 I am working through the last couple months of medicine requests and they are almost all ready to be shipped. I will post again after that has happened. Thanks to those who have asked for medicine, your patience is so appreciated. L
Chickweed grows in disturbed places - I always find them in gardens, in the more feral corners. This ally is really rich in minerals and is considered cooling and moistening. I use chickweed when my body is asking for more nutrients, or when I or s
Saving seeds, a prayer for the future. 🌾 Pull the seed heads off the plants you see when you walk down the street. Plant them in your yard, in the green strip between your house and the sidewalk, in a pot on your windowsill. Cast the seeds of native