Friday, February 24 – 7-10PM
Textile Arts Center, Manhattan
26 W 8 Street, at MacDougal
Cocktails + Hors D’oeuvres
Silent Auction featuring work by:
Titania Inglis, Auralis Herrero, Audrey Louise Reynolds, BAGGU, Caitlin Mociun, Jordana Martin, Ilana Kohn,
Tara St. James, Erin Considine, Ambika Conroy, Shabd Simon Alexander, Sasha Duerr, Hannah Schultz
RSVP
A huge thank you to our artists and designers;
Brooklyn Plantology for their nursery sponsorship; Natalie Stopka, and Sarah Bacon.
If you are unable to attend the Silent Auction, please consider donating to our
Kickstarter campaign
What is Sewing Seeds?
The Sewing Seeds project started in 2010 at the Textile Arts Center with the mission to provide accessible, accurate, and inspiring information on natural dyes for our community. So far, this project has included classes and workshops on natural dyes for adults and kids, a Living Library of Natural Dyes in the Carroll Street community garden as a reference + teaching tool, and a database on natural dyes and recipes which will soon be freely available online.
Why Natural Dyes?
Before the invention of synthetic dyes in the 19th century, the world wasn’t black and white. It was full of bright colors extracted from the bounty around us; from leaves, flowers, fruits, roots, and bark. Today most of these plants can be grown in a sustainable way and used to dye fabric and yarn with minor impact in the environment, to the dyer, and to the user. Not to mention that a lot of sources for natural dyes are actually wasted by modern cultures, including onion skins, carrot tops and, rhubarb leaves.
What is the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)?
Textile Arts Center is proud to present the new adventure of Sewing Seeds – a CSA fully dedicated to natural dyes. Starting this summer in Brooklyn, an abandoned lot on the corner of Bergen and 4th Street will be transformed as part of the 596 Acres project. The Sewing Seeds CSA garden will run for a 6 month season between June and November 2012, providing members with plant to be used as natural dyes, as wel; as recipes and workshops utilizing them.
The Sewing Seeds CSA will create a new green space in the Gowanus community, as well as strongly interact with Textile Arts Center education programs. Sewing Seeds will provide information on the plants, dye extraction, and dye technique, serving as a backdrop for free workshops and lectures for the community.
While the Sewing Seeds CSA shareholders’ fees will cover all the expenses throughout the season, the Bergen Street plot has been abandoned and unloved for years. The funds raised through Kickstarter and this silent auction will cover the initial work and materials to convert this land into the new Sewing Seeds garden. Soil, raised beds, irrigation and compost systems will make this unused land an enjoyable and educational space for all of us in the community.
About the Textile Arts Center
The main goal of the Textile Arts Center is to provide support to fiber artists, and everyday people interested in working with fiber, by acting as a resource facility and creative meeting place.
Since its founding in mid-2009, the Textile Arts Center offers multiple ways in which the public can participate in the textile arts. Though the textile arts are made up of many ancient art forms, crafts, and techniques. Through classes, workshops, gallery shows, and special events, the Texilte Arts Center aims to preserve such handcrafts, while enabling paritcipants to fit them into contemporary life.
Written by NYCFTC
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