Natural Ink Making

with Elizabeth Schmuhl
July 18, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Tuition: $100
Materials Fee: $10

Create original paintings, bookmarks, and cards with freshly foraged, handmade inks—and gain some inspiration for future inky experiments! We’ll begin the day outside foraging for plants and other natural materials. You are also encouraged to bring plants or other materials from home; anything can be used to create ink! Next, we will learn the ink-making process using your found materials. Wrap up the day by experimenting with your fresh inks on different substrates.

Plan to bring: a notebook and anything natural from your home/garden that you’d like to try to make ink with. It is recommended that you dress for the weather and foraging, including wearing tall socks, long sleeves, and a hat. Ink-making materials will be provided. 

Location: Main Campus - 3435 Rupprecht Way, Saugatuck, MI 49453

Elizabeth Schmuhl (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who creates work that explores nature, movement, and memory. She deeply investigates the natural world, its cycles, and entropy, all of which inform her work. Schmuhl is the author of Premonitions. She has also published The Four Seasons, a book of paintings created with natural ink from her centennial fruit farm in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and Fishes of the Great Lakes, containing paintings with natural inks made entirely from the Great Lake watershed and materials that surround it. Schmuhl has shared her work globally and holds an MFA and a BA from the University of Michigan. She has taught at the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and elsewhere.

Courtesy of artist.