Rooftop Garden Series: Tatakizome with Fernanda Mascarenhas

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Drop in every 30 minutes:

1:00 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:00 pm, 3:30 pm

Learn to imprint fabrics with leaves, flowers and seeds. Tatakizome translates to 'dyeing with hammers', basically pounding natural materials into the fabric to create an imprint. Be prepared for a noisy workshop! Guest artist Mascarenhas will host drop-in sessions that being every half hour from 1:00 - 3:30 pm.

All materials and equipment provided.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Seating is limited to 12 participants at one time, working for approximately 20-30 minutes.

*In case of inclement weather, these activities will move into the Richmond Art Gallery Program Room.

Fernanda Mascarenhas is a textile artist, natural dyer, dance performer, and longtime Zen-Buddhist practitioner from Brazil. When she was developing a costume for her performance work, she discovered the textile world and fell irrevocably in love with natural dyeing. This costume won a prize, which enabled her to travel to Japan to learn more about this technique. Engaging with the slow process of natural dyeing in urban areas and with locally grown plants, she has respected the cycles of nature while intending to reclaim the ancestral power of plants, such as their medicinal use. Besides teaching, Fernanda has run a studio to create one-of-a-kind textile pieces. She also writes the Plants and Colours blog to share her passions and experiences.

  

About the Rooftop Garden:

Richmond’s Rooftop Garden is located on the 2nd floor of the Richmond Library/Cultural Centre, open from April – October. It features a variety of floral and food plants maintained by the Richmond Garden Club, with a long picnic table to host small group workshops or events, and a big chess game for players of all ages. To access the garden, climb the stairs in the Cultural Centre Rotunda and it is the door on your right. If taking the elevator, walk past the Textile Studio to find the door on your left.

About the RAG Rooftop Garden Series:

In the months leading up to our FOODWAYS exhibition this fall, Richmond Art Gallery is hosting a variety of outdoor workshops and events at the Cultural Centre Rooftop Garden during the summer/early fall growing and harvest season. These sessions at Culture Days are the final workshops of the program. Rooftop Garden Series program supported by the 2024 City of Richmond Arts and Culture Grant.

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Richmond Art Gallery

Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) is a non-profit municipal art gallery established in 1980. The gallery produces an array of exhibitions and programs that connect, empower, and provoke conversation with our diverse Richmond, BC communities. RAG actively contributes to Richmond’s cultural communities through our commitment to supporting artists via exhibitions, educational programs, publications, and a permanent collection.

Richmond Art Gallery is dedicated to promoting dialogue among diverse communities on challenging ideas and issues of today as expressed through local, national and international contemporary art. Through its exhibitions, publications, educational programming, collections and significant partnerships, the Richmond Art Gallery provides opportunities for the enhancement of life in Richmond while serving the contemporary arts community in Canada.