Ithaca College

Exhibiting artist Sarah Gotowka will host a public workshop with natural dyes in the Handwerker Gallery on Wednesday, December 9, from 11am-1 pm. Drop-ins welcome! Gotowka collaborated with the IC Gardens and Dana Summer Fellow Vin Manta '17 to plant several natural pigment plants over the summer of 2015, the plants of which were harvested with the help of classes from the ICSM program. Dyes include colors derived from Marigold, Indigo, Cosmos, Correopsis, and Hopi Sunflower. All materials supplied the gallery. Participants are welcome to bring in small clean natural-fiber (cotton, wool, linen, flax) objects of clothing/apparel to dye, but should remember to bring plastic bags as well! 

I WOULD DYE FOR YOU: natural dye workshop with Sarah Gotowka

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

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Sarah Gotowka is a visual artist currently living in Trumansburg. She is adopted Korean-Polish-Italian-American, and grew up in the suburbs of Rochester where she obsessively made mix tapes from 90’s radio airplay and built makeshift forts in the woods. (These factors alone have influenced her art practice immensely.) She received her BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art majoring in Fiber and Material Studies in 2007, and graduated with an MFA from Concordia University’s Fiber and Material Practices in 2013.
 
Sarah helped found The Color Collective, an initiative to grow sustainable dyes in Montréal without the interference of machines or chemical fertilizers. This collaboration led to the instruction of many workshops at the Concordia University Greenhouse and Montréal Center for Contemporary Textiles, as well as exhibitions at the Textile Museum of Canada, the International Symposium & Exhibition on Natural Dyes in LaRochelle, France, and at the 13th Biennial Symposium of The Textile Society of America in Washington DC.
 
After receiving her MFA she moved back to upstate New York and has collaborated with Cornell’s Cooperative Extension, the Community Arts Partnership of Ithaca, the Craftstitute, New Roots Charter School and Ithaca Children’s Garden, giving various workshops on natural dye plants and textile practices.

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All Handwerker Gallery events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.; Thursday, 10.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.; and weekends, noon to 5.00 p.m.. The gallery is closed to the public on Tuesdays unless otherwise specified for an event but can accommodate group or class visits by appointment.

For further information or individuals with disabilities requiring parking accommodations, please contact Mara Baldwin at mbaldwin@ithaca.edu or 607.274.3548. Please make requests for accommodations as far in advance as possible.