Carola Jones, STEM Textiles Teaching Artist
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Carola Jones, Artist, Indigenous Knowledge Keeper,
Fabric Designer, STEM Virtual Teacher & Modern Quilter

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SITE:ation: Living Water Is Life Indigo Dyeing From Indigenous Artist Intensive at The University of British Columbia at Okanagan, June 2022

Art Residency Consisted of the Following:
  • 13 Moons NC Skaru:re Resist Design Medicine Cloth
  • 13 Moons Solid Blues Value Scale
  • Indigo Medicine Cloth for Regalia
  • Little Canoe Water Is Life Medicine Cloth |*Make & Take Hands-On Indigo Dyed Connections
  • Water Is Life Indigo Dyed Wedding Blanket
  • Water Is Life Eastern Woodlands Dance Blanket
  • Scour Off Pain
  • Binding & Stitching Up Your Blues Ritual
  • Unbinding Freedom
  • Living Water Is Life Fructose & Henna Indigo Vats
SITE/ation Web Tutorials

STEM Hands-On Fabrics & Fashion Workshops @ Wilson YMCA Middle School After School Program

Fabrics & Fashion WebQuest
Fabrics & Fashion Web Portal
TPACK Scope & Sequence
Welcome Video

Session #1 Design 101: Creating Your Brand
Wednesday Afternoons | Sept. 21 to Nov. 16, 2022

1st Session Class Schedule
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Do you like STEM activities, well let's add an "A" for art to explore the exciting world of STEAM. Join a local artist, Carola Jones, to engage in hands-on STEAM activities that include exploring the science of natural dyes from plants, flowers, and nuts, incorporating the technology of CANVA and Google platforms, engineering the design and construction of fashion wearables, the geometry of squares and triangles, all from a fashion designers point of view.  There will be three 10-week workshops, and each is limited to six participants.  For more information or to register contact Edwina Lucas at elucas@wilsonymca.org.
**NOTE: WebQuest is Under Construction
Create Natural Color On Yardage In Patterns To Dye For
On-Demand Indigo & Natural Dye Classes For Cellulose Yardage

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Indigo Dyed 100% Unbleached Cotton
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Indigo Dyed Over Madder on Cotton Percale
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Indigo Dyed Over Screen Printed Yardage

How Do I Create What I Make?
Beginning October 2022 Share My Creative Hands Experiences
​In Online Classes & Live Workshops

Whole Cloth Quilting with Hand-Dyed Fabrics
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Stitching Life Lessons: Techniques and strategies for creating whole cloth quilts on hand-dyed cloth  embellished with machine and hand stitching.

Gullah/Geechee
​​Indigo Dyeing

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Creating Indigo Cloth 2 Dye 4: Multi-generational techniques of indigo dyeing from Gullah and indigenous land-based practices for healing personal and generational traumas.

Modern Quilting
Using Surface
Designed Cloth

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Stitching Life Lessons: Surface design techniques for creating your own unique fabrics for quilting.

Embroidery, Beads, Shells & Crochet Embellishments

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Showing Up & Showing Off!: Customizing wearables with bling using embroidery, sea shells, beads and crochet.

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