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Art and AgriCulture

Thursday, December 17
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, Manhattan
679 Riverside Dr, Greenhouse, New York, NY, 10031, United States · Map ↗
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This workshop session picks up flax’s farming story and turns to linen, as part of Art and AgriCulture. Facilitator Mallory is an artist and landworker who works with plants and people to explore care and repair.

Flax: Foodways, Fiber Art, & Ancestral Agricultural Histories in Cloth (Part 2)

Join us for a free two-part workshop on flax, a flower grown for food and fiber. You’re welcome to attend one session or both.

In the first, you’ll learn about the plant’s ecology and ethnobotanical history. You’ll taste a few simple recipes and hear how they tie to ancestral foodways and nutrition. Then you’ll turn its raw material into handmade sheets. You’ll lay the fresh pulls over armatures to build paper assemblages.

The second session follows directly after. It picks up the farming story and turns to linen.…

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