Join us on Saturday, July 18 from 11 am – 1 pm for a natural pigments ink & watercolor workshop with Charlottesville-based artists Allyson Mellberg Taylor & Jeremy Taylor. Participants in this hands-on workshop will have the opportunity to learn how to make watercolor from yellow ochre and ink made with black walnuts, all foraged in Virginia. Allyson and Jeremy will go through the process of making these materials and participants will go home with their own jar of ink and watercolor pan to experiment with. Paper and materials will be provided. This workshop is free to attend, geared toward adults, and appropriate for all skill levels. Space is limited and registration is required.

About the artists:

Jeremy Seth Taylor is a Charlottesville based painter, printmaker, designer, bio-intensive gardener, and Assistant Professor of Art at PVCC. His work is built from a strong reverence for animals and nature. Jeremy uses traditional forms that are reminiscent of Japanese block printing, children’s book illustrations, comic books, and Flemish engravings. His work finds the space where these illustrative formats converge to slur ideas of innocence and experience; where fantasy merges with ominous realism. Jeremy received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has exhibited his works at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), The Rose Museum in Boston, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Museum, La Maison Rouge in Paris, Booklyn in NYC, The Bemis Center, Cinders Gallery, and at LUMP Gallery in NC.

Allyson Mellberg Taylor is a drawer, painter, printmaker, sculptor, organic vegetable and pigment gardener, zine/artist book maker, science-fiction lover, and Art Professor at James Madison University based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Allyson’s work is rooted in dystopic sci-fi and the lovely/uncomfortable space we humans attempt to occupy in nature. She has exhibited her work extensively at the regional, national, and international levels in exhibitions at the Drawing Now Exhibition in Paris at the Carousel Du Louvre, The Outsider Art Fair with Galerie LJ in NYC/Paris, The Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico, the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Bemis Center in Omaha, NE, The Fralin Art Museum at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, SECCA in Winston Salem, NC, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, GA, and Third Drawer Down in Victoria, Australia.  Allyson’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, Venus, Frankie, and Bust Magazines. Allyson has worked with the collective groups Booklyn (NYC), Cinders Gallery, and Team Lump (Raleigh).

Instagram: @allysonmellbergtaylor @jeremymellbergtaylor