nature’s glamour
enter a colour-full world celebrating our local natural dye plants and all they have to offer 🌿
multi-sensory art installation made by ash alberg in collaboration with choreographer/dancer yosuke mino and chef owen campbell, coming 2024.
“in a display case, a thing becomes only a facsimile of itself, like the drum hung on the gallery wall. a drum becomes authentic when human hand meets wood and hide. only then do they fulfill its intention.”
-gathering moss, robin wall kimmerer
how enchanting…
this latest large-scale art installation from artist and natural dyer ash alberg features an interactive and multi-sensory experience built with and around a natural northern colour palette. featuring home-grown and foraged natural dye plants, ash is building a unique world for the audience to walk through, using all their senses as they experience multiple ways of engaging with these plants. revel in the plants and see the work from its raw and earliest stages of research to the final production, all in one place. made in collaboration with choreographer/dancer yosuke mino and chef owen campbell.
coming to manitoba and the world in 2024. check the calendar for current and upcoming public events.
current press coverage
ctv news winnipeg - Upcoming art installation to showcase Manitoba’s natural dye colours (2024)
ctv news winnipeg - Celebrating Manitoba’s local colours (2024)
cbc manitoba’s the weekend morning show - Colourful quilt dyed with plants on display at Manitoba Fibre Festival (2023)
cbc’s radio noon manitoba - Meet the artist in residence at Riding Mountain National Park (2023)
ctv news winnipeg - The artist-in-residence at Riding Mountain Park (2023)
want to learn more?
find the media & sponsorship kit here.