Neolithic in Technicolor

Join Iris at the beautiful Sitka Center on Cascade Head for this two day exploration of ancient dyes. Ancestors around the world carved designs into rock - documenting important ideas for the generations to come. We are their future. Using tools from the natural dyer’s tool kit we will paint and print images from rock art onto cloth - transforming them into polychromatic splendor in the dye pots. Using some of the same dyes worn by the carvers themselves drawing these designs opens us up to mystery, evoking questions around meaning and our place in the cosmos. Students will make samples and a large piece.

Students are encouraged to research rock art found in their ancestral landscapes to work with.