Fiber Arts as Book Arts: Kitchen Printing
Course Code: 25FTX103V
This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Thursday, October 30th, from 6PM to 8PM ET.
- Thursday, October 30th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
This workshop is part two in a four part series which also covers natural dyeing, embroidery, and fiber book forms.
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on October 16th, at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
About the Workshop:
This virtual workshop is taught by CBA instructor Iviva Olenick.
Students will learn how to use food scraps and local plants to make inks for printing on paper and fabric, and how to prepare fabric and paper for printing with natural inks, including tips to prevent excessive bleeding of inks. Skills will include learning how to extract pigment from plants; watching demos of and trying several printing methods, including a potato print, using other cut vegetables as stamps, and making stencils with heavyweight paper and other household materials. The instructor will demonstrate applying ink to both paper and fabric, and will share examples of artists’ books incorporating plant-printed surfaces.
Required Materials:
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cotton fabric
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heavyweight cotton rag or watercolor paper
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soy milk
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a tray or basin
- A dedicated dye pot, to be used only for dye and ink-making, not for cooking and eating, that is non-reactive metal (stainless steel or enamel-coated cast iron), or a plastic water heater, like this example
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paint brushes of different sizes
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food scraps – purple cabbage, hibiscus tea, coffee, turmeric, avocado skins and pits
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a cutting board and x-acto knife or other blade
- Powdered gum arabic or powdered guar gum
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baking soda (optional)
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indigo pigment (optional)
A more detailed materials list will be emailed upon registration.
About the Instructor
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.