Start date: Thursday, May 27 2021.
Schedule:
On Thursday, May 27, 2021, from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Resource person: learn@vandusen.org
Location: Via Zoom
Description:
In this Speaker Series presentation, Catherine Shapiro will examine women’s ancient roles as food gatherers, domesticators of food plants and creators of the first gardens. As an avid reader, researcher, artist and gardener, Catherine has amassed a wealth of knowledge and comes at her subject from a wide range of perspectives and personal experience. Bio: In the 1980’s Catherine began to create multimedia artistic works that expressed her increasing knowledge of plants. Her varied and growing interests led her to embark upon on a lifelong research project on the role of women in the development of horticulture. Catherine has dedicated herself to cultivating and foraging plant materials to create environmental artworks. In the past few years, she has tended and processed indigo in her own garden and at the MOP (Means of Production) Garden in East Vancouver, where she learned to extract pigment to make paint and dye. Working with indigo has led her to experiment with other pigments and use them on a new series of cast paper sculptures.
Available: Available
Price: $10.00 Taxes not included
Notes: Pre-registration is required. This course will take place online, and recordings will be available for a limited time to participants. Online course log-in details will be sent 24 hours before course date.
More information: Speaker: Catherine Shapiro
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