The Art of Botanical Printing

Thursday, January 29; 10am – 4pm or Friday, January 30; 10am – 4pm

Instructor: Tracy Flanagan

You will create one-of-a-kind artful botanical prints. Using natural dyes, local foliage, heat, and water you will design and ecoprint a silk scarf and paper botanical collages.

You will learn to:

- Collect foliage that will print on cloth and paper

- Prepare paper and cloth for different artistic effects

- Bundle and steam for different effects

- Create artistic design layouts

- Set up your home (space, materials, and equipment)

As a textile artist, writer, and physician, Tracy believes that hand marked fabric and cloth is ‘everyday art’ that can wrap and heal the body and spirit. Throughout her life she has rebirthed cloth with thread, color, and design, as quilts, garments, and fabric collage. Using natural dye products extracted from the earth and plants, she breathes new life into these designed cloths, transforming them into beautiful articles to be touched, worn, and gazed upon by their owners.

Website: www.tftextileart.com

Fee: MarinMOCA Members $150; Non-Members $175

Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $25 will be paid to the instructor (includes silk scarf, dowel, fabrics, string, and various papers).

Where: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 1210 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael (at B Street)

Collage of four images: top left shows decayed leaves and moss on a surface; top right has dried maple leaves and flower petals on a surface; bottom left features a pink sheer fabric with dried leaves, flowers, and glitter; bottom right displays a coiled elastic cord and a rubber face shield.