Welcome to the world of traditional natural dyeing!
This hands-on workshop will be taught by a traditional Musqueam Coast Salish artist as well as an ecologist as they cover the many facets of our natural world through fibre. They will cover how to identify, process and dye with a wide range of different mushrooms and lichens from our forests. Your dye colour pallet will grow exponentially as we explore and celebrate the rich networks under our feet.
Date: Saturday, January 21, 2023
Time: 10:30am to 3:30pm
Tickets: $230 General Admission, $215 MOV Members, $200 Indigenous peoples*
*Please call 604-736-4431 during MOV business hours to obtain a discount code if you are an MOV Member or Indigenous. A service fee and GST is also applied to ticket sales. Please note that refunds will only be honored until Friday, January 20th at 10:30am
Spaces are limited. Register early. Masks are recommended but not required.
Workshop ticket includes FREE admission to our feature exhibitions All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project, That Which Sustains Us, A Seat at the Table, and c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city. Consider arriving early with your event ticket to view exhibitions! Attendees are free to wander the galleries until the MOV’s closing time.
If you are having trouble using the embedded form above, please try to reserve your ticket directly on Eventbrite here.
For general inquiries regarding this workshop please contact Program Manager Alyssa Sy de Jesus here.
Art by Ovila Mailhot
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Voici quelques temps forts de l’atelier “Comment teindre avec des champignons et du lichen” avec Rita Kompst (@ritakompst) et Zoe Mcdonell (@historysciencefiber) le mois dernier. 🍄
Cet atelier pratique a abordé comment identifier, traiter et teindre avec une grande variété de champignons et de lichens provenant de nos forêts.
Cliquez sur le lien dans la bio pour en apprendre davantage sur nos prochains événements au MOV et ne manquez pas les futurs ateliers pratiques de ce type !
Rita Kompst - Local Artist, Musqeaum
Rita was born and raised in Musqueam. Her late father, Joseph Becker (Point), was a former Chief of Musqueam. He was also a self-taught artist who was well known for his wood carving and Salish designs. Her late mother, Evelyn Norris (Campbell) was also from Musqueam but lived on Vancouver Island. She is the eldest child and had 5 sisters and 5 brothers.
“I had never considered myself to have any artistic abilities at all but while delving back in my culture and heritage, I discovered a passion for cedar weaving and knitting. I currently work full-time as an executive assistant and now that my children are grown, spend my free time being creative! I met Zoe at a dye workshop in Musqueam and felt an instant connection to her and the work of dyeing mushrooms and other products. It is an honour to study and teach the art of dyeing with mushrooms and locally foraged products!”
Zoe McDonell - Wildlife Ecologist & Mushroom Dyer
Zoe is a Vancouver artist of settler-descent who specializes in dyeing using the plants, windfall lichens and mushrooms from our forests. She has been teaching workshops, lectures and demonstrations on historical natural dye techniques and other fiber arts for almost 20 years.
When not dyeing, Zoe is an ecologist and studies how forest communities can be more effectively managed for conservation. She lives with her husband and children on the Musqueam Reserve.
“I first met Rita at a mushroom dye workshop and knew we were destined to have some great collaborations together. I am very excited to partner with Rita to teach this workshop.”
