Photo Taken by Esther Choi
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Carola Jones, Teaching Artist
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Upcoming Art Show Participation
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Durham Art Walk Holiday Market
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Items Available To Purchase @ Durham Art Walk Holiday Market
Include One-Of-A-Kind Wearables, Cotton Fabric Yardage & Home Goods
Gullah Geechee Heritage Festival
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The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor was designated by Congress as part of the National Heritage Areas Act of 2006. The Corridor is managed by a Commission of members representing the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Armstrong, Florida is the southern end of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
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Online LIVE Indigo Soap Making Workshops
The holiday season is often stressful from hectic shopping, planning, and endless to-do lists. Taking an online indigo soap-making workshop can offer a much-needed escape from the hustle and bustle while allowing you to create meaningful, handmade gifts for loved ones. Learn the art and spiritual significance of Indigenous Gullah Geechee plant-based indigo dyeing practiced by my family on Johns Island in South Carolina, and on Contentnea Creek Homeland at Daniel Hill and East Wilson, North Carolina. Discover the "survivance" technique of infusing indigo into soap to create "plant medicine" that tells stories about who we are and how we survived.
Online workshops enable you to work in the comfort of your home from any where in the world. Workshops include live guided instruction via Zoom which are recorded so that you can play them back. Also, included are downloadable instructional PDFs and dye recipes. All workshops require registration. These workshops are meant to help participants reconnect with indigo as medicine while learning how to make soap, and how to create a soap recipe book to help us journal through the end-of-year challenges.
Online workshops enable you to work in the comfort of your home from any where in the world. Workshops include live guided instruction via Zoom which are recorded so that you can play them back. Also, included are downloadable instructional PDFs and dye recipes. All workshops require registration. These workshops are meant to help participants reconnect with indigo as medicine while learning how to make soap, and how to create a soap recipe book to help us journal through the end-of-year challenges.
>> Frequently Asked Questions About Indigenous Geechee Indigo Dyeing <<
Disya Who Webe!
In My Grandmother's Kitchen
Print Publicity Flyer << PDF Download
For South Eastern Woodlands Indigenous, Geechee and Gullah people, cultivation and dyeing with indigo were more than an economic activity; they were a means of maintaining cultural identity. Indigo, like other traditions practiced on the Gullah Geechee corridor, is a symbol of survival and resistance in the face of centuries of oppression. It represents the ability of our ancestors to adapt and thrive despite the violence of slavery, the hardships of Reconstruction, and ongoing marginalization. "In My Grandmother's Kitchen" is a cultural transfer of knowledge about the "medicine" of indigo that's been shared with me from my mother, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and a great-great-grandmother as a fifth-generation practitioner on Johns Island, South Carolina living on historical Contentnea Creek Homeland in North Carolina.
2024 Online LIVE Indigo
Soap-Making Workshops
>> Questions & Answers About Online Workshops <<
LIVE Guided Instruction
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Registration Opens October 25, 2024 Workshop Limited to 20 Participants |
100% Immersion into Indigo Soap Making | LIVE Guided Instruction
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Registration Opens October 25, 2024 Workshop Limited to 20 Participants |
3-Session of 100 Blessings Journaling & Indigo Dye LIVE Guided Instruction
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Registration Opens October 25, 2024 Workshop Limited to 20 Participants |
Multiple Sessions with Different Times for LIVE Guided Instruction
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Registration Opens October 25, 2024 Workshop Limited to 20 Participants |
