FOCUS: Indigenous Ways of Knowing / Colour / Chemistry / Plants / Art 

What plants make what colour? Do different mixtures or additives change the colour? This workshop can be done as a stand-alone topic without Indigenous content. Indigenous content considers traditional pigments and dyes of several First Peoples.

Grades/unit: All ages and grades. Chemistry content is adjusted for age/grade.

School supplies needed: water, paper towels

Provided materials: tipi paper, pigments, solvents, additives, brushes, toothpicks, palettes, recycled or disposable water cups.

Outcome: an artwork on 11”x17” tipi paper. A tipi canvas form can be drawn from template on the paper prior to painting.

DURATION: 1 to 1.5 hour / class

COST: $200.00 presenter + presenter travel outside of Calgary

            $150.00 / class for multiple sessions in one location on one day

            $15 / kit / youth