Natural Ink Making on the Meadow

with Elizabeth Schmuhl

Saturday, June 15, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Tuition: $120

This workshop includes lunch at 1 p.m.

Create original paintings, book marks, and cards with freshly foraged, handmade inks – and gain some inspiration for future inky experiments! We'll begin the day outside (so dress for the weather) foraging for plants and other natural materials. You are also encouraged to bring plants or other materials from home; anything can be used to create ink! Next, we will learn the ink-making process using your new found materials. Wrap up the day by experimenting with your fresh inks on different substrates. Materials will be provided.

Elizabeth Schmuhl is a multidisciplinary artist who creates work that explores nature, movement, and memory. Schmuhl deeply investigates the natural world, its cycles, and entropy, all of which inform her work. Schmuhl is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of Premonitions (Wayne State University Press). Her book of paintings created with natural ink from her centennial fruit farm in Benton Harbor, The Four Seasons, is out from Greying Ghost Press. Fishes of the Great Lakes, a book containing paintings with natural inks made entirely from the Great Lake watershed and materials that surround it, is her newest art book. She has shared her work globally and holds an MFA and a BA (University of Michigan). Schmuhl has taught at University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and elsewhere.

Images courtesy of the artist.