Program Night: Degrowth Through Natural Dyes, Cara Marie Piazza
Thursday, September 12, 2024
7:00 to 9:00 pm CDT
Cara Marie Piazza (caramariepiazza.com) has been doing bespoke, natural dyeing for fashion, interiors, and art for the past decade. Using techniques ranging from solid dyeing, hand painting, shibori, batik and bundle dyeing, to the creation of ombre effects, her creations have seen multiple runways in collaboration with fashion designers.
Cara is the owner of Calyx Studios in New York city, a multidisciplinary creative agency that offers small scale natural dye applications and installations for fashion, interior design, and the arts along with licensing artworks for digital recreation with low impact dyes. For production orders, they collaborate with Botanical Colors, a leading natural dye house in the U.S. that offers custom color development packages for sampling as well as scalable production runs for garment dyeing.
In this presentation Cara will talk about her work with natural dyes, her design aesthetic, and how an approach to textile production that prioritizes well-being over growth at all costs can be both sustainable, both for the artist and the planet.
This program night will be in Zoom only, with no in-person gathering.
See GoogleGroup, members-only pages, or newsletter for Zoom link
Hands-on Night
Thursday, September 26, 2024
7:00-9:00 PM
In person! at Austin Recreation Center
1301 Shoal Creek Blvd, Austin, TX 78701
Study group meetings in September
For meeting details see our events pages.
See our members only pages, newsletter or Googlegroup for in-person locations or Zoom links.
Sunday, September 8 – Weaving Mentoring and Support Study Group
Saturday, September 14 – Spinning Study Group
Thursday, September 19 – Swatch Study Group
Saturday, September 21 – Tapestry Study Group
Saturday, September 28 – Spinning Group – General Spin-In