A garden adventure in sustainable art using food scraps, plants and up-cycled fabric
Join us for a one of a kind experience creating sustainable art prints on fabric and paper using plants from the garden and waste from the kitchen! You will be guided through a harvest of your own colors with a walk through the garden to create our own "snap-shots" of nature onto wearables and art. You will also learn about how you can recycle kitchen waste, spent flowers, and unused clothing through the process of "eco-printing".
Each participant will receive a bandana to create your own botanical print. In addition you will receive watercolor papers to create botanical prints on, which you can keep as a beautiful wall piece or give to a friend.
No experience necessary. All curious humans are welcome! Materials will be provided but feel free to bring any florals, leaves and other plant material you'd like to experiment with. Some examples of things from the kitchen you can bring: Onion skins, Avocado skins, Pomegranate skins, spent tea leaves, old coffee grounds.
PLEASE READ: Adults only (21 and over). Fully vaccinated guests only (record checked on entry).
Your ticket includes:
One bandana and one art paper
Color activators, and steaming/pressing equipment
You are the harvester of your garden art materials! The garden is at your service!
Two glasses of wine, unlimited sparkling water & spa water made with garden botanicals
Charcuterie and cheese board with dried fruit and nuts, crackers, vegan dips and crudité platter
Guided harvest and eco print lesson
About the Artist
Nadine Allan is a visual artist who focuses on themes of ethnobotany, migration and semiotics. Growing up with a multi-cultural background, she is inspired by the universal power of plants to be our aids in daily life. She experienced the healing powers of herbs through family members who practiced Chinese medicine and learned about self-reliance from her American family who tended edible gardens. At age ten, her grandfather, a botanist, gave her a flower press that he had built. This sparked her very first plant-based entrepreneurship, creating and selling artwork created out of pressed flowers. She has a degree in Fine Arts from UCLA and continues to combine her passions for art and nature. Visit her shop at Feral Botanics.