Saturday, February 13, 2027, 10 am – 4 pm
Madelaine Kraushaar
Discover how water shapes every stage of botanical printing, from carrying color through cloth to revealing the intricate impressions of leaves, flowers, and bark. Participants will learn the foundations of botanical printing on silk using steam, natural fibers, locally gathered plants, and natural modifiers while exploring how waterways influence the landscapes and plant communities around us.
Drawing from Indigenous ecological perspectives that understand water as a living relationship rather than simply a resource, this workshop encourages careful observation, ethical harvesting, and experimentation. Participants will leave with a finished botanical silk scarf, several sample studies, and the skills to continue botanical printing using seasonal plants from their own region.
A materials fee of $40 is due to the instructor at the beginning of class and includes a prepared silk scarf, cotton and silk samples, seasonal botanicals, natural modifiers, wrapping materials, and educational handouts.
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This class is a part of our Fiber Art for All: Tributary festivities – celebrating Minnesota waterways and the ways that water inspires and supports fiber art techniques. Learn more about our Fiber Art for All Open House celebration on Feb 19 + 20, 2027 here!
Instructor Bio:
Working across fiber, interdisciplinary sculpture, and land-based practices, Kraushaar engages materials such as salt, bone, seed, lace, and seaweed to follow processes of desiccation, crystallization, and slow transformation. Forms breathe, harden, bloom, and dissolve—existing in states of in-between, where fragility and endurance, softness and survival, meet.
Rooted in the rhythms of water, the pull of the moon, and the quiet intelligence of the body, her work carries both personal and ancestral memory. Informed by her Taíno-Boricua and Appalachian lineages, alongside her witch craft, she approaches making as an act of reclamation—drawing from an instinctual, embodied knowing that resists containment. Her work traces tensions between exposure and protection, between being seen and being consumed, holding space for a return to self through material and form.
Through installation, ecological practice, and community-based teaching, she creates spaces for gathering, ritual, and embodied learning. Moving betweencscience and something less explainable, her work is guided by materials that stain, harden, soften, and return. Each piece becomes a meditation on protection, release, and transformation—held in ongoing reciprocity with the earth.
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