Friday, February 12, 2027, 10 am – 4 pm
Madelaine Kraushaar
Discover how water chemistry can transform botanical color through plants, iron, and cloth. Participants will eco print three prepared cotton bandanas using herbs and other plant materials, revealing the colors, tannins, shapes, and impressions held within the plants. Once the prints are revealed, instructor Madelaine Kraushaar will teach students how introduce iron to help the colors dramatically deepen, darken, and shift. Students will also learn about water as a carrier of minerals, metals, and other substances through both cloth and the landscapes around us.
Drawing from Indigenous ecological perspectives that understand water as a living relationship rather than simply a resource, the workshop asks participants to consider what water carries, who and what it affects downstream, and our responsibilities to the waterways we depend upon.
Participants may keep their bandanas whole as wearable pieces, cut them into smaller experimental studies, or use a combination of both approaches. They will leave with three individually developed textiles and the skills to continue mindfully experimenting with botanical printing and iron modification at home.
A materials fee of $40 is due to the instructor at the beginning of class and includes three prepared cotton bandanas, botanical materials, iron modifiers, shared application supplies, 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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