Community textile creation with Blue Light Junction and Oko Farms

Join the artists of Blue Light Junction (Baltimore, MD) and Oko Farms (Brooklyn, NY) to create a communal textile art piece on site at Oko Farms’ waterfront Williamsburg location. We will gather in celebration of stories, lineages, reconnections, journeys and fellowship. Surrounding ourselves in the natural environment, we will come together to learn, craft, and commune as our ancestors before have done. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about traditional ways of dyeing and creating fabric with plants while working together to collectively create something improvisational and new. 

The event will start with a discussion-based panel from our textile artists. Kenya Miles of Blue Light Junction, Yemi Amu of Oko Farms, and Kenn Pan of Oko Farms (with other guests) who will share their experience, cultural practice, and new knowledge around the revitalizing field of traditional natural dye and textile production. Event participants will then receive a short instructional lecture on the traditional plants, materials, and techniques we will be using. Using the precious natural dyes and fibers grown on both of our farms, all participants will join together to make a communal textile art piece. Participants will also have the opportunity to take a small item home.