Author: plantsareteachers

60% of clothing sold today contains plastic. It’s a huge issue managing to fly under the radar. Here’s what you need to know. You can download here The Hidden Story of Plastics in Our Clothes, an amazing white paper from Fibreshed on how plastics were born, how plastic fibres are formed, used to make clothes and what happens as […]

After having worked for the past years with garden trims, the so called “invasive” plants, foraged fibres or green waste, this is the first year that I grow a Fibre and Dye garden from seed. It all started in March choosing seeds for dye plants and plants for fibre. I had a stash of flax […]

Date: Sunday, May 15, 10 am-12 p.m. Location: in Town – Moss Grey Studio (2356 Rosewall Crescent C, Courtenay, BC V9N 8R9) Fee: $50 For more information and registration visit: https://www.wildbeeflorals.com/floral-shop/p/harvesting-local-colour-from-plants-to-palette Learn how to extract colours from home grown flowers, food scraps and wild harvested plant materials like leaves, roots and barks. You will be […]

Sharing with you some of the work resulting from a remote artist residency I have been leading as part of the From Harm to Harmony: Healing the Land, Healing Ourselves. We are presenting a group exhibition at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre featuring more than 100 pieces by artists across New Brunswick (and some […]

I was invited to talk at the Art for Social Change Now gathering about the work I have been doing with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick as part of a remote artist residency I have been leading since 2020. It was an honour to be in the company of remarkable community-engaged artists, movers and […]

In 2016 I had the opportunity to interview one of my heroes, Nancy Turner. This was a job assignment when I was working as a Gallery Manager at ArtStarts in Schools in Vancouver and we had the chance to select 20 thought leaders to celebrate the organization’s 20th anniversary with a campaign called The Next […]

We had the honour to welcome botanist and master weaver Ralph Simpson who visited from New Brunswick last week to co-lead with me the Foraging Fibre and Basketmaking workshop at the Innisfree Farm. Ralph and I met through a remote artist residency I have been leading since last year through the Conservation Council of New […]

We had an incredible season this summer at the Innisfree Farm and Botanic Garden with the Art, Ecology and Community workshop series that invited participants to learn about different local plants to explore their creative possibilities, the different connections to the territory (or territories) that we call home, while supporting native ecological restoration. The location […]

This exhibition presents artwork culminating from a collaboration initiated through a remote-artist residency led by community-engaged environmental artist Juliana Bedoya in British Columbia and a diverse group of community participants from different geographic regions in New Brunswick. The project emerged from a partnership between the Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB) and the International Centre of Art for Social […]

Con muchísima emoción les presentamos Territorios Entretejidos, una serie de encuentros, diálogos y talleres de intercambio de conocimientos y oficios en un formato virtual que parten de establecer una perspectiva relacional con las plantas. El primer evento de nuestra serie es un conversatorio virtual, el próximo Sábado Diciembre 19, a las 5PM (Hora Colombia)Este diálogo […]