Plant Dye Workshop

Learn how to customize paper using eco-friendly dyes from Silent Fields’ artist Maggie Latham. You will get the chance to paint your own designs and dye the paper with colors made from plants that support local pollinator communities. Supplies and materials are included.

About your instructor
Maggie Latham is a fiber artist, natural-dyer, and art educator based in Cleveland, OH. She has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works in art education at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Using hands-on processes such as sewing and papermaking as well as colors derived from insect, plant and mineral sources, she highlights the importance of ecological awareness in our daily lives. Both in her teaching and art practice, Maggie asks participants to pay close attention to the physical world and explore ways we can take part in positive collaborations with the non-human environment.