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Join us for Theresa’s Fur Tanning Course or for Caro’s Pastel-Making Course
Meet the inimitable Theresa Emmerich Kamper, an expert in leather and tanning ancestral skills (as well as a beloved former contestant on ‘Alone’) and Caroline Ross, also known by her art moniker ‘Found and Ground’, a pigment and drawing materials expert. The two visiting faculty from In Situ Polyculture’s ‘Making the Materials’ series will give a short talk, answer questions, and enjoy conversation with attendees.
Light refreshments, Q&A, fabulous materials. Please join us!
Friday, May 3rd at 6:30pm at the Putney Public Library
55 Main St.
Putney, VT 05346
(802) 387-4407
This even is free to all! And we are very grateful to partner with The Putney Public Library to host the event.
The Putney Library is a wonderful, accessible space on Main Street in Putney, Vt.
About Caroline Ross
Caroline Ross
I live and work in Bournemouth, Dorset, UK, making drawings and paintings from wild and ancient materials, from small illustrations to large murals. I have taught life drawing as well as painting and I currently teach people how to make the materials I use from my studio, online and as a guest at centres across Europe and UK [and more recently the USA on Turtle Island]. I teach at Dartington both on my own unique course ‘Found and Ground art materials’, and with the Dark Mountain Project, online and in person at Schumacher College. Having spent decades indoors in art and recording studios, I now spend my life outdoors as much as possible, sourcing my materials, making my work, immersing myself in nature.
I write about Tao, the embodied life and art where earth matters every Monday morning at my Substack, Uncivil Savant.
About Theresa Emmerich Kamper
Theresa is an avid practitioner of traditional living skills and primitive technology of all kinds.
An interest which came in part from growing up in the Rocky Mountains in the USA, where
backpacking, hunting and fishing were part of the culture. She has followed this interest into
the academic field of Experimental Archaeology in which she holds a PhD from the
University of Exeter in the UK. Theresa has been tanning skins using traditional technologies
for over 30 years. Learning to tan was a natural offshoot of the attempt to use as much of the
animal as possible and had the added bonus of producing a beautiful end product. She
includes in her instruction a diverse range of information, from skin morphology to helpful
hints in dealing with the numerous and frustrating problems which are often encountered
when first learning to tan.