Kiranada Benjamin
5 days • August 5 – 9, 2025
9 am – 4 pm, daily
Pricing
Early-bird (special rate through June 2, 2025): $775
Nonmembers: $885
Members: $796.50
Payment plans and scholarships available. For questions, reach out to Cristin McKnight Sethi: cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
Explore painting… but on silk with wax and dyes! Sekidashi (barrier resist) is one of the most exciting methods of wax application in Japanese rozome. This refined and accomplished design technique is used in Japan to make paintings 18’ wide as well as kimono. Learn the techniques necessary to design and complete painted textiles utilizing layered textual techniques and the shaded dyeing process of bokashi, which gives luminous effects. Build skills in designing and planning paintings as well as precise manipulation of the rofude (wax brush) and dye brush. Work on silk with soy and bees wax, using the acid dyes of the kimono industry. This is a techniques-based workshop designed to build skills for current or future fiber art projects. Two or three small projects may be accomplished by most students. Recommended for adult students with Intermediate skill level and some experience in batik, rozome, or fiber dyeing.
$60 materials fee (or $23 for students with Japanese brushes), payable to the instructor at the start of the workshop.
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Instructor Bio:
Kiranada Sterling Benjamin (she/her) is an award-winning international artist, researcher and author specializing in Japanese textiles. Her training, research and love of resist patterned cloth culminated in The World of Rozome: Wax Resist Textiles of Japan (1996, 2002), the first book in English on the topic and an “acknowledged classic on contemporary fine art of wax resist.” Her exhibitions included solo shows in Asia, Europe, Central America and the U.S. She has lectured on Japanese costume and wax-resist textiles at the Smithsonian Institution, Oxford University, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Japan Foundation, Kyoto. She is the coordinator of the “World Batik Conference-Boston 2005” at Massachusetts College of Art, and curator of “The Rozome Masters of Japan Exhibition” that toured the USA in 2005 – 2006. For over eighteen years, she lived in Kyoto, Japan, where she taught at Doshisha and Kyoto Sangyo Universities, participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and wrote on textiles for the Mainichi Daily News and other publications. Recipient of grants from the Japan Foundation, the Sasakawa Foundation, the Daiwa-Anglo Japanese Foundation, New Zealand Center for Japanese Studies; she now teaches at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
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Withdrawal Policy
If your notice of withdrawal is received by the early bird deadline for this workshop, you will receive a 50% refund of your workshop fee. Due to the scheduling nature of these classes and arrangements for instructors, no refunds are available after that. We will be happy to provide you with a receipt for your donation to Textile Center for any forfeited tuition. Please make this request in writing to cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
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