Intro to Bogolan textile art with Stève Viès - Friday August 7 from 9:30am to 12:30pm

French Friday morning
$150.00
Pssst! Workshops include a 3-day festival admission. One admission per participant.
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August 7, 2026, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Workshops Hallway

Language: French

Difficulty: Beginner

Category: Textile printing, Ecoprint, and Natural Dyes

In this workshop, you will discover Bogolan textile art, an ancient fabric painting technique using clay and plant-based dyes. You will create a textile artwork to take home with you. You will also explore the documentary N’domo, les cinq doigts de la main, along with textile artworks and artifacts related to Malian textile craftsmanship, as well as musical excerpts from Manding culture. Don’t miss this extraordinary experience!

NB this workshop will be in French only. Please leave us a comment in your order if you need translation assistance.

What you leave with: An explanatory leaflet on Bogolan techniques and some natural dyes used in Mali and Quebec, as well as the creation of our two Bogolan artworks on handwoven cotton fabric.

Prerequisites

None

What is provided (for the duration of the workshop)

The dyes, clay, overlocked fabric squares pre-dyed with N’galama, demonstration textiles and artifacts, the music playlist, containers, cloths, brushes, various pencils, tables of Dogon and Bambara symbols, fabric glue, and cowrie shells.

What to bring

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TEACHER

Stève Viès

Stève Viès is a Québec based artist and educator whose work celebrates the rich cultural heritage and diverse artisan traditions of West Africa.. It was in 2008, in Mali, with his meeting of two great masters of textile art, Boubacar Doumbia and Mamoudou Nango , that his vision to preserve and share this great cultural tradition became clearer. The Spirit of Mali exhibition is representative of 20 years of passion and exchange for the art and culture of Mandé.

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