Field Guide: Making Inks from Plants

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Saturday, August 14  •  11AM – 1PM  •  Pre-Registration Required  •  All Ages Welcome  •  Free!

We made inks using organic pigments found in the garden that we had planted in the spring. Facilitated by Socrates Director of Education Douglas Paulson & Educator Jeannette Rodriguez-Pineda. Christopher Calderhead dropped in to show us how to make a calligraphy tool using materials found in the park.

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About the Educators

Douglas Paulson 

Socrates’ Director of Education Douglas  Paulson is a Queens-based artist who loves the sounds of spring. Doug’s practice is expansive, weaving together sprawling social projects in public space; to intimate drawings, books, and sound experiments. www.douglaspaulson.com

Jeannette Rodriguez-Pineda

Jeannette Rodríguez Píneda is a Dominican-American mixed media artist and educator using antiquarian emulsion-based processes as a means of remembering soils called home. They have an intergenerational teaching practice rooted in love ethic as liberation that spans across the five boroughs of New York City.

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