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Up next: Purple Sage Lane Mosaic Workshop
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August
Saturday, August 14th, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (PDT)
Purple Sage Lane Mosaic Workshop
Hands-On Workshop hosted by Poly/AnaJoin Artist Leigh Adams and Poly/Ana to learn how to transform broken discards in to beautiful designs while building community. This in-person workshop will cover techniques for working with glass, tile, and found materials. You’ll participate in creating a mosaic mural through the “indirect method” of working on mesh. Your work will contribute to the development of a garden wall mosaic in a beautiful garden as you learn to cut, hammer, and break things! Refreshments, coffee and water will be served. Please bring comfortable clothing, sensible, protective shoes/boots, gloves, coffee cup and water bottle. Our goal is to create zero-waste to net positive events with your help. There will be shade and comfortable areas to work.
All proceeds will go to our budding not-for-profit organization, Poly/Ana, where our mission is to educate communities as agents of change and to honor and protect natural, living systems.
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September
Saturday, September 11th, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (PDT)
Purple Sage Lane Mosaic Workshop
Hands-On Workshop hosted by Poly/AnaJoin Artist Leigh Adams and Poly/Ana to learn how to transform broken discards in to beautiful designs while building community. This in-person workshop will cover techniques for working with glass, tile, and found materials. You’ll participate in creating a mosaic mural through the “indirect method” of working on mesh. Your work will contribute to the development of a garden wall mosaic in a beautiful garden as you learn to cut, hammer, and break things! Refreshments, coffee and water will be served. Please bring comfortable clothing, sensible, protective shoes/boots, gloves, coffee cup and water bottle. Our goal is to create zero-waste to net positive events with your help. There will be shade and comfortable areas to work.
All proceeds will go to our budding not-for-profit organization, Poly/Ana, where our mission is to educate communities as agents of change and to honor and protect natural, living systems.
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October
Saturday, October 16th, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (PDT)
Purple Sage Lane Weaving Workshop
Hands-On Workshop hosted by Poly/AnaJoin Artist Leigh Adams and Poly/Ana to learn how to transform garden green waste in to beautiful, useful designs while building community. This is an in-person beginners basketry class. We will learn about materials from the garden but we’ll be using reed from a basketry supply to learn the moves and manipulation that create structure. Our technique will be “twining” and it can be used to create lovely little baskets and is also our favorite way of creating garden structures, lightweight fencing and recyclable tomato cages, cloches and shade structures. Twining can be used to shelter plants from “nibblers” or too much sun. In addition, we’ll be playing with cordage we make from natural materials. Cordage is an ancient technique that is very useful in the garden.
All proceeds will go to our budding not-for-profit organization, Poly/Ana, where our mission is to educate communities as agents of change and to honor and protect natural, living systems.
Presentation Testimonials
Meet Your Distinguished Speakers
Shawn Maestretti
Landscape Architect | California #6203, Nevada #1016Designer, plantsman, licensed landscape architect and contractor, certified arborist, certified permaculture designer, educator, and environmental steward. Shawn has been creating exceptionally designed and artfully developed gardens in both California and Nevada since 2006. Highly collaborative with a strong attention to detail and a knack for problem solving, he helps his clients realize outdoor living spaces that they will connect with for years to come. Shawn combines extensive horticultural experience, strong composition skills, and a deep knowledge of regenerative practices with a wide palette of visually and texturally interesting climate-appropriate plants, breathing new life and a sense of place into every garden.
As a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corp, a Kiss the Ground Soil Advocate, and activist in the movement to care for the environment, Shawn has been presenting on regenerative landscapes and their impact on climate change in his new presentation series Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis. His personal mission is to connect with the natural world, tread lightly on the land, nurture biodiversity, protect water, and bring people together.
Leigh Adams
Consultant/Co-presenterLeigh is an educator, eco-sensitive designer and horticultural interpreter at the LA County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens. She has trained many county agencies in regenerative practices as well as conducting hands-on workshops with local schools and professional groups. Her love of collaboration and education infuse all aspects of her work, leaving participants with a profound sense of empowered accomplishments. Currently she holds multiple artist’s residencies at the LA County Arboretum, Metabolic Studios, and New Horizon School. She has received a Global Citizen Award from the United Nations, an Angel Award from the City of Los Angeles, and an Outstanding Citizen Award from the County of Los Angeles.
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