Workshops & Events
Get creative in Indigo in Green nature-based art workshops, playshops, and learning experiences. From weaving with botanically dyed yarn in the garden to creating sun prints from plants, our in-person workshops offer a hands-on approach to creative exploration. Often paired with nature walks and explorations of green spaces, these workshops are an invitation to uncover the wonder of the botanical world.
Botanical Ink Workshop
Saturday, October 5
Mount Airy Learning Tree
Wyck Historic House and Garden
6026 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia
$59 ($49 + $10 materials fee)
Make your own ink for drawing and fine writing from natural materials using flowers and plants growing in our green spaces and simple ingredients found in your kitchen! Bottle experiences of connection with natural places and experiment with your own plant-based ink in this workshop.
You will leave this workshop with a bottle of your own handmade botanical ink; a reference zine on ink making; a collection of your own drawings and ink samples; and knowledge to create your own collection of natural inks from homegrown and foraged botanicals.
Autumn Ink @ Morris Arboretum
Saturday, October 19 10am – 12:30 pm
Morris Arboretum and Garden
100 E Northwestern Avenue
Morris Arboretum Members:
$55 | Non-members: $60
Explore the Morris and identify sources of color that can be used to make botanical inks from petals, leaves, drupes, and roots of the autumn season! After a plant walk, we will get to work making our own ink for drawing and fine writing, made from natural materials foraged in fall. Bottle sensory experiences and connection with nature together, then experiment with shifting the color of our own handcrafted ink to create a plant-based color palette for drawing, printmaking, and fine writing with dip pens and brushes.
You will leave with a small bottle of black walnut ink as well as a bottle of your own ink, your drawings or ink samples created in class, and a reference zine. Meet at the Welcome Center before heading out to explore the Wetland.
Register on the Morris Arboretum website under
"Creative Expressions" for Color from Nature: Botanical Ink Workshop
Saturday, November 9, 2024
1-3:30 pm
Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers 3705 Main Street, Philadelphia PA 19127
Members $65, Non Members $95
Natural Dye, Ink, & Paint on Paper
An afternoon of creative play and exploration with small-batch, natural, handcrafted supplies from the Indigo in Green Studio Apothecary. Experiment with natural dyes for paper, botanical inks, earth pigment crayons, and handmade watercolors. Each material holds stories of connection with place, plants, and communities of Philly. Everyone will create a collection of works on paper using materials that are rooted in nature and made by hand.
Plant Imprints
In collaboration with People’s Kitchen Philly and Termite TV Collective, share plant stories and create two kinds of botanical prints: sunprints using turmeric and rubbings using handcrafted color blocks made from turmeric, beeswax, and finely ground yellow rock.
Saturday, August 31
People's Kitchen | Reinhard Street Community Farm
FREE