A Colourful Curriculum
How you can take natural colour into the classroom
With Ione Maria Rojas
A live online talk and demonstration on Tuesday 8th July 4-6pm
Join live or watch the recording. The recording will be available until the 9th October.
Sign up before the 8th July to gain access.
In this workshop for educators, facilitators and those working with children, Ione will introduce three simple natural colour activities:
Ink making (pre-workshop follow along video)
Eco-printing (in-workshop demo)
Paper dying (in-workshop demo)
Each activity will use accessible materials, appropriate for handling by young children, and be adapted to suit classroom/community settings and budgets. Ione will share her recommendations on delivering these activities to large groups, allowing for varying needs within a group, and incorporating these techniques into other projects and subjects to support students’ wider learning.
For the past 4 years Ione has been delivering ecological art workshops in primary and secondary schools across Devon and Cornwall. She has seen how these kinds of activities excite and inspire children, creating the perfect excuse to get out of the classroom and explore the outdoors. This is not a technical-oriented workshop, but rather a space to encourage creativity and freedom in you and your young learners when working with natural colour.
There’ll be time during the workshop for sharing ideas and questions on how to incorporate these methods into your own specific setting, as well as a PDF resource and an optional follow-up Discord group for sharing photos and feedback.
About Ione Maria Rojas:
I am interested in how working with our hands invites us into different forms of connection - with ourselves, with others, with our immediate environment. My practice is multidisciplinary and includes: digging clay, making inks and pigments with found and foraged materials, walking, drawing, writing, facilitating, sowing seeds and listening to birds.
Some questions central to my practice are:
How can small acts of imagination, creativity and making disrupt and dismantle dominant thought systems?
How can working with our hands (in the soil, with clay, through gathering and making) catalyse new conversations or new ways into existing conversations?
How might making materials with elements found, foraged and gathered from our immediate environment teach us about our relationships with and responsibilities for the other-than-humans we share that environment with?
What are the possibilities and challenges of developing a place-based practice as someone with mixed heritage, when home is not a fixed entity?
I am currently based in Devon and have spent the past few years moving between the UK and Mexico, spending time with the friends, family and land I am connected to in each place. https://www.ionemariarojas.com/