Dyer’s Circle: Natural Color Workshop Series, with Amanda Heidt

Name: Dyer’s Circle: Natural Color Workshop Series, with Amanda Heidt
Start: 2025-11-02T13:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-02T16:30:00-06:00
Location: 521 Main Ave, Moorhead, MN, United States, Minnesota 56560

Schedule

Sun Nov 02 2025 at 01:30 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

521 Main Ave, Moorhead, MN, United States, Minnesota 56560 | Moorhead, MN

First four Sundays in November
Duration: 3 hours per session (x4 sessions)
Course fee: $215*
Link to Register: https://www.therourke.org/natural-color-workshop-series.html
(Two full scholarships are available for students experiencing financial hardship. Awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact Cady at [email protected] to inquire.)
Join us for the first four Sundays in November as we embrace a new season by slowing down, creating together, and learning about natural dyes. Each three-hour session combines brief lectures with hands-on exploration, offering a chance to make, experiment, and connect within a community setting.
Each week highlights a new dye focus: indigo, warm hues like madder and marigold, cool and neutral tones like logwood and osage, and finally, experimental techniques such as eco-printing and pigment lakes. Participants will explore stitching, tying, and folding, as well as practice layering and overdyeing fabrics to create depth and richness.
Participants will leave with a collection of naturally dyed textiles, including three yards of cotton, two tea towels, a tote bag, and experimental swatches on silk and gauze. Eco-prints on paper and fabric will provide additional ways to incorporate color into the winter season.
Dyer’s Club is a fun, friendly space for makers of all skill levels. Whether you're new to fiber arts or experienced with dyes, participants will develop skills, gain knowledge, and join a community— all while celebrating the beauty of natural colors.
Supply/Proper Attire: All supplies will be provided by the instructor. Please wear old/project clothing or an apron.

* Cancel your registration up to 14 days prior to class day by emailing [email protected] for a partial refund.
About Your Instructor:
Amanda Heidt is an artist and educator based in Fargo, North Dakota. She serves as the Artist Researcher and Studio Coordinator at North Dakota State University’s PEARS (Printmaking Education and Research Studio), where she teaches courses in contemporary theory and practice, foundations, and printmaking.
Originally from Bismarck, Heidt earned her BFA in Printmaking from Minnesota State University Moorhead and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her process-driven practice combines natural dyeing, weaving, and printmaking, with an emphasis on ecology, materiality, and the rhythms of slow craft. She draws inspiration from the Midwestern landscape, working with plants, fibers, and pigments to explore cycles of growth, color, and community.
Her work has been influenced by residencies at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (NYC), Zea Mays Printmaking (MA), Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She has received support from the North Dakota Council on the Arts and The Arts Partnership, and was most recently awarded a Viking and Finnish Weaving Apprenticeship through the NDCA.