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My workshops aim to meet hands-on learning experiences with deep collective thinking. I think it makes a huge difference to learn through tactile exploration, to chat and play as we make, cross-pollinating our ideas.
These are the skills we build together, to fertilize new ways of thinking and re-member ritualistic making practices, for communion with an always changing, growing, dying, living world.
Hope to see you at a workshop soon!
More info on past workshops here.
Sliding scale tickets are available here.
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contact: rosiebrandstudio@gmail.com
UPCOMING
Making Oddkin: Plant-Pollinator Symbiosis
A ceramics workshop exploring earthling ecology!with artist-naturalist Rosie Brand and plant ecologist Yara Nictè Herrarte.
5-7pm, at Debs Park, Highland Park
Three Sessions Available!
August 11th
August 18th
August 25th
In these three evening sessions, our focus will be plant-pollinator symbiosis. We’ll study monarch butterflies and native milkweeds, chaparral yucca and their exclusive moth lovers and discover the expansive world of native bees and their plant communities. Each of these reciprocal relationships tell an intricately specific interspecies love story. Co-evolved symbionts can teach us what it means to belong to one another, in an ever-increasingly troubled world.
As we think and make together we’ll practice fundamental ceramic hand-building techniques, looking to insect morphology for sculptural inspiration. Hand-building is so conducive to conversation; sitting gathered around a table, with hands muddling away, as we discuss these tangly topics.
In each session of Making Oddkin, participants will sculpt an insect-inspired ceramic pendant to charm their garden or doorway. If participants are able to take multiple workshops, they will string their charms together to make a garden garland, though individual charms work beautifully as single pendants.
In addition to workshop instruction, participants will receive supplementary reading materials; excerpts of insect-inspired fiction/media and a zine of drawings, diagrams and ecological gardening tips!
Come along for a tendrilly conversation, ask questions, share garden-bug tales and stretch your feelers out in clay!
Beginner friendly & sliding scale available!
More on the Making Oddkin Series:
40% of all insects are declining globally, with a third of them endangered (Biological Conservation 2019). We must not dismiss the plight of the creepy-crawlies! The insect apocalypse would have catastrophic effects on our ability to grow food. Our pollinators are essential to life on earth.
Eco-feminist scholar Donna Haraway coined the phrase ‘making oddkin’, proposing the necessity for kinship with the more-than-human beings we share our home with.
This workshop provides an opportunity for playful making and collective thinking in the face of climate catastrophe. It opens a tactile entryway to the ecological conversation, a place to share resources and promote awareness of the small-but-mighty actions we can take to foster habitats in our neighborhoods.
This workshop is open to folks of all levels of ceramics experience, and all levels of entomological expertise!
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About the facillitators:
Yara Nictè Herrarte is a wholehearted naturalist and plant ecology graduate with love deeply rooted in California native flora, pollination ecology, and land stewardship.
She has worked with the Xerces Society, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the US Forest Service, the Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden, as well as the Huntington Garden. She has spent the last 6 months in Costa Rica researching tropical butterfly species, their longevity, along with their associated parasitoids and predators.
Rosie Brand is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator, living on Tongva land: Los Angeles, CA.
She is a certified California Naturalist and holds workshops at various arts institutions and community centers such as Heavy Manners Library, Feminist Center for Creative Work and The Infinite School. She is the founder and co-facilitator of the collaborative project worm school, who hold community reading-discussions with material exercises for thinking hands.
The class is aimed at adults and young people hoping to engage in an active conversation as we make, however, we can accommodate children over 6 years.
Kids must be accompanied by an adult, tickets to be purchased separately.
The ticket price includes the cost of materials and firing.*
Please note; ceramics will need to be dried and fired after the workshop, they will be available for pick up a few weeks after our session. You will receive a reminder email when your ceramics are ready.
40% of all insects are declining globally, with a third of them endangered (Biological Conservation 2019). We must not dismiss the plight of the creepy-crawlies! The insect apocalypse would have catastrophic effects on our ability to grow food. Our pollinators are essential to life on earth.
Eco-feminist scholar Donna Haraway coined the phrase ‘making oddkin’, proposing the necessity for kinship with the more-than-human beings we share our home with.
This workshop provides an opportunity for playful making and collective thinking in the face of climate catastrophe. It opens a tactile entryway to the ecological conversation, a place to share resources and promote awareness of the small-but-mighty actions we can take to foster habitats in our neighborhoods.
This workshop is open to folks of all levels of ceramics experience, and all levels of entomological expertise!
About the facillitators:
Yara Nictè Herrarte is a wholehearted naturalist and plant ecology graduate with love deeply rooted in California native flora, pollination ecology, and land stewardship.
She has worked with the Xerces Society, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the US Forest Service, the Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden, as well as the Huntington Garden. She has spent the last 6 months in Costa Rica researching tropical butterfly species, their longevity, along with their associated parasitoids and predators.
Rosie Brand is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator, living on Tongva land: Los Angeles, CA.
She is a certified California Naturalist and holds workshops at various arts institutions and community centers such as Heavy Manners Library, Feminist Center for Creative Work and The Infinite School. She is the founder and co-facilitator of the collaborative project worm school, who hold community reading-discussions with material exercises for thinking hands.
The class is aimed at adults and young people hoping to engage in an active conversation as we make, however, we can accommodate children over 6 years.
Kids must be accompanied by an adult, tickets to be purchased separately.
The ticket price includes the cost of materials and firing.*
Please note; ceramics will need to be dried and fired after the workshop, they will be available for pick up a few weeks after our session. You will receive a reminder email when your ceramics are ready.
August 11
August 18
August 25
Full Course Ticket - all three sessions!
*If the ticket price presents a significant barrier and you are experiencing underemployment, are low-income or in a precarious living situation, there are sliding scale tickets available here.