Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs at New England Botanic Garden

When:
Sunday, Apr 06, 2025 9:30a -
12:00p

Where:
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
11 French Drive
Boylston, Massachusetts 01505

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Admission:
$50-60

Hosted by:
newenglandbg Liz Nye

Categories:
Art, Nature, Seasonal

Event website:
https://purchase.nebg.org/PatronEducation.aspx?pid=14663&cal=https%3a%2f%2fpurchase.nebg.org%3a443%2fcalendar.aspx

Come and learn how to use natural and edible materials to create colorful eggs with floral patterns. This class will teach you how to prepare edible natural materials for dyeing, prepare your eggs, and dye them. Students will go home with a half dozen dyed hard-boiled eggs.

This is a messy class and students should come dressed appropriately.

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Meet Your Instructor: Liz Ives


Liz serves as the Registrar at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, where she is passionate about making art and arts education available to everyone. As a textile arts teacher with 25 years of experience in all types of education, from college lectures to private mentorship, Liz believes firmly that anyone can do art if they have a desire to try. Liz has a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in textile arts and an MA in history from Villanova University with a focus on material culture. She believes that learning about material culture, the things created and used in daily life, can teach us about the past and inform the present. In her personal life she enjoys sewing, weaving, spinning yarn, fashion history, quilting, natural dyeing, embroidery, and many other types of textile 

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