Overview
Join this exciting workshop and transform milkweed plants (the host plant for the monarch butterfly) into handmade paper sheets. Participants will also create uniquely cast handmade paper butterflies with locally gathered flora. Workshop participants will have the option to take part in a range of activities, including getting their hands wet by learning how to pull a sheet of handmade paper, and writing down a migration story onto a sheet of handmade milkweed paper, which will later be folded into an origami butterfly. Younger participants will be invited to help pound fresh milkweed stalks into pulp for processing into paper. Participants are also invited to join for a cup of mugwort tea while discussing the relationship of native and non-native plants in a world greatly affected by our changing climate.
Spots are limited to 16 participants. Register today for this exciting program!
Michele Brody is a mixed-media, environmental artist whose work thrives on the interaction between communities and environments, weaving connections that deepen one’s awareness of nature and understanding of the surrounding ecology. Her works invite viewers to cross over a threshold, into an environment constructed from materials imbued with environmental connections and social concerns. Using paper regenerated from local plants and recycled industrial products to evoke a visceral encounter, Brody’s works comment on the tenuous relationship between nature, time and humanity within the built environment.