Wandering around and through the relationship between plants & color & ourselves, we will invite connection. While we may be used to viewing plants as “resources for our use” through this fellowship we will practice recognizing that plants have life processes and connections, outside + beyond what humans make of them. 

“What Can Plants Teach?” is a growing-season long learning fellowship meant for expanding our understanding and framing of plants, with the lens of plant based dyes as a starting point. We will challenge and explore our relationships with plants through activities, readings, discussions and independent research.

We will encounter sometimes awkward or new opportunities to confront our long held views on the separation between the human and more than human world. These acts will require some unlearning, and opening to new possibilities, however, with patience and care, we hope to grow these new ways of seeing, noticing, and being.