Botanical Tie Dye with Devan Horton

Create your own guilt free tie dye tea towel using CCAC's "New Woman" artist Devan Horton's favorite botanical colors. Students will learn basic tie dye techniques and the basics of making your own botanical dyes. Experiment with some of Devan's go to local colors by dipping your very own tea towel design and creating a beautiful piece of fiber art using ethically sourced materials without the use of toxins.

All ages. (artists under 16 must be accompanied by a grown-up)

Devan Horton

Devan Horton is a Northern Kentucky artist who creates paintings with botanical dyes and handmade paints that promote awareness of our impact on our environments. Since receiving her BFA in Painting from Northern Kentucky University, Devan has crafted and promoted her artistic career by exhibiting in local and national galleries, most recently curating and showing in All Else Pales 2, an exhibition intersecting art, science, and community at Studio Kroner. She completed a residency program at United Plant Savers in Rutland, Ohio in October, 2024 and a residency through Friends of Black Rock, a conservation organization in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. For the past two years, Devan has served as art curator for the Green Umbrella Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit, and in 2023 she was a recipient of the Kentucky Foundation for Women's Art as Activism grant. These funds were used to create non-toxic and plantable art media using materials like goldenrod and walnut for paint and handmade paper filled with pollinator seeds, which she then asked her community to create pieces of art that were then planted in a vacant lot in Bellevue, Kentucky. This lot is now a blooming pollinator haven. Collectiveness, activism, and a love of the natural world have remained steadfast themes of Devan's work.

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