Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11 | 1–3pm
ADMISSION: $30 Members; $50 general (includes project supplies). Some discounted tickets available to EBT cardholders.
Join artist Ocean Escalanti at The CJM to dye and embellish your own take-home decorative textile while immersing yourself in the natural beauty of plant life in our urban community. In this two-day workshop, you’ll learn the ins and outs of botanical printing, a process of steaming plant matter onto the surface of a fabric piece to create a unique composition using local flora and fauna. In the process, you will become familiar with the experimental process of natural dyeing coupled with Indigenous color symbolism. Participants will also take home a Zine on plant-dyeing.
Admission for this in-person event is $30 for Members and $50 for general audiences, and includes project supplies. Limited tickets are available, and advance registration is required. No walk-up tickets will be available on the day of the program.
Please note that this workshop will include an outdoor walk; comfortable walking shoes are recommended. Click below to reserve your space for the workshop, and please review our health and safety guidelines before you arrive.
The CJM is offering a limited number of $15 tickets for the workshop to EBT card holders. Please write to info@thecjm.org to apply for the discounted rate.
Ocean Escalanti (She/Her) is an Indigenous visual artist and writer residing in Oakland, California. She is a San Francisco Art Institute Alumni BFA now working at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, a progressive art studio serving artists with developmental disabilities. Escalanti’s work involves human/nature symbiosis, mysticism, and Bay Area living.
Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves, the twelfth iteration of The Dorothy Saxe Invitational at The CJM, presents works by thirty Bay Area–based contemporary artists reflecting on the Jewish concept of tikkun (Hebrew for “to repair”). In a moment of collective challenges and uncertainty, this exhibition re-examines the term tikkun as a phenomenon of care and interconnectedness that is grounded in personal action, environmental responsibility, and community, unfixed from its evolving meanings throughout history. Taken together, the works in this exhibition consider how the concept of tikkun can help us look critically both inward and outward, guide us through change, and build resilience for the ongoing work of repair.
Lead Sponsorship of The Dorothy Saxe Invitational is generously provided by an endowed gift from George Saxe, z”l, in honor of Dorothy R. Saxe. Generous support is also provided by Grants for the Arts.
Public Programs at The CJM are made possible thanks to generous support from Grants for the Arts and the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
Header image: Courtesy Ocean Escalanti
Exhibition image: Terri Friedman, You don’t get to know (detail), 2021. Friedman Benda Gallery, A New Realism, curated by Glenn Adamson, June 2021. Photo: Josef Jacques.