Biopainting Interior Landscapes
with Laura Castro
$98
Based on the creation of her latest artwork PAISAJES, Laura has designed this workshop as an analogy of how the soul connects our external world with our emotions.
In this workshop, we will make extractions of natural colors and play with their different pHs to modify the paints. Using these color to both directly and indirectly express our emotions, we will invoke sensations that are abstracted to form our individual landscapes on a silk scarf.
Feel free to BYOB!
Our Policies:
Please try to arrive 5-10 minutes early for your workshop. Workshops start on time. If you are more that 15 minutes late for your class, you may forfeit your chance to take the class.
You may cancel for a refund up to 21 days before the workshop. After that, workshop fees are not refundable.
We reserve the right cancel or reschedule a workshop with fewer than 4 sign ups. If you cannot attend the rescheduled date, you will receive a refund.
Please note that we may take photos during the workshop to use on social media. If you do wish to be photographed, please let the teacher know when you arrive.
If you are sick, please stay home. Call or email to let us know that you are not coming. You will receive a credit for a future class.
Last minute cancellations are extremely challenging for our guest teachers. Often times, materials have been meticulously prepared ahead of time. Keep in mind that late cancellations are a financial burned on these very special artists.
Laura is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist, documentary filmmaker, workshop facilitator and researcher. She has focused on the processes of fibers and natural materials, dedicating much of her practice to the investigation of territories, community work and ancestral practices in trades that link the work of people with natural raw materials.
Founder and director of the project Puntos de Conexión, where she seeks to connect people with ancestral knowledge from the expansion of knowledge, the approach to culture and our roots. Through trips and residences, spaces are created to give value to the work and manual labor of artisan, indigenous and peasant communities around the world.
Laura has taught workshops and courses in Colombia, United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Germany, France, Spain and Greece. In addition to working with the general public, she has collaborated with communities of artisans with whom she has achieved knowledge exchanges.
She has collaborated with brands and designers in Colombia, United States, Canada and Mexico. She has taught the continuing education program at the Universidad de Los Andes: Natural Dyeing with the Territory. She has given lectures on sustainability and natural dyeing at universities such as Los Andes, Pontificia Javeriana and La CUN.
She is currently researching her documentary THREADING THE ROOTS while traveling the world sharing and learning about ancestral textile techniques.