GUEST SPEAKER: Ximena Curiel
DATE: Thursday, April 21, 2022
TIME: 7 PM CST
LANGUAGE: English and Spanish/Español
COST: Free & Online
Join us for a class on the alchemy of color in nature, how they can be emulated in human design solutions and also to understand how some fungi creates pigments
General learning objective: Understand the main causes of color in nature and how to emulate them
Specific learning objective: Understand how color works: structures and pigments
Presented in both English/Spanish/Español. Join us on Zoom for Spanish/Español language interpretation.
About the Speaker
Ximena Curiel, since little she experienced the kindness of nature, while growing up in the jungles of southeast Mexico, from first hand she observed how ecosystems degraded, her love for all living things lead her to nurture and infinite romance between biology and design at an ecosystem level, thinking not only in bio-materials but also in designing companies that could work as a forest or a mangrove; she is today a Biopreneur who manufactures bio-based inks for fabric printing, and teaches Biomimicry, Ethnography, Biophilia, and Circular Economy to Fashion Design students; among many other curiosities that we might gossip about in some other time.
GUEST INSTRUCTOR: XIMENA CURIEL
DATE: SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2022
TIME: 10-11:30 AM CST
Location: Online via Zoom with YouTube Recording
Tickets: $10 for Members and $20 for non-member.
Shibori is sometimes called Japanese tie dye. Using the indigo plant, which produces a magnificent purplish blue dye, cloth is manipulated to create patterns that can be elegant and playful. In this demonstration we will use the Cinnabar Polypore mushroom or Pycnoporus sanguineus that grows in Central Texas and tropical parts of the world. In this online workshop, you will learn how to fold, clamp, and wrap fabric to make traditional patterns. You will also learn how to embed various objects inside the fabric to make non-traditional patterns.
Webinar ID: 980 8555 3898
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/adEOsUF8d5