Natural Pigment Making with Michelle Peraza

Learn about pigment making with artist Michelle Peraza. Michelle will show participants how to make pigments with soil as a way to make sustainable paints, connect with land, and reflect on experiences of work, migration, and rest.

Participants will learn about the pigment making process and have the opportunity to paint with soil-based pigments on fabric patches.

Registration required. Registration will open nearer to the event.

This program activates Anahí González’ solo exhibition Para Ayer/Due Yesterday.

About the Artist

Michelle Peraza (b. 1991, Windsor) is a cross disciplinary artist of Cuban and Costa Rican descent. She holds a BA from Western University, a BFA from OCAD University and an MFA from York University. Her practice is cross disciplinary, working across painting, drawing, textile, gilding, natural dyeing, pigment making, site-specific installation and self limpias (cleansings), taking inspiration from Mesoamerican metaphysics and her education in Classical Studies to create new mythos that invokes interconnectedness with the cosmos, devotion and reverence to existence, self-healing and transformation.

She has exhibited in public and artist-run galleries including Maison de la Culture Claude-Léveillée, Niagara Artists Centre, Cambridge Art Galleries, Sur Gallery, TAP Centre for Creativity, Guelph Civic Museum and upcoming at Tom Thomson Gallery and Neutral Ground. She teaches in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University and works/lives in Toronto/Tkaronto.

For more information, please contact Ada Bierling, Interim Programming and Exhibitions Specialist, at (905) 522-3003 ex. 29 or ada@wahc-museum.ca.

Image credits:

1: Pigment making process detail. Image courtesy of Michelle Peraza.

2: Michelle leads a participant through the pigment making process. Image courtesy of Michelle Peraza.

WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, the Canada Council for the Arts, CUPE National, Canada’s Building Trades Unions, OPSEU/SEFPO, the Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario, and Teamsters Local Union 879 for their support of our exhibitions and ancillary programs.