CLASSES + PLANT WALKS
Gather, learn, and create with plants and plant people.
Berbo Studio is a creative expression of love and care for the Earth and its inhabitants.
PLANT-DYED GOODS
Made to remind us of our interconnectedness – with each other and the natural world.
Creating color with plants, fungi, and minerals, we are invited to rekindle an ancient relationship between people and place, people and plants, people and wild nature.
ABOUT
Berbo Studio is the creative project of Erin Berkowitz, an artist, educator, writer, and certified California Naturalist. Her work primarily focuses on utilizing local plants as natural textile dyes, and inhabits the intersection of ecology and creativity, exploring forms of inspiration, connection, and care that can develop when the ancient/timeless relationships between humans and the natural world are rekindled.
As a teacher and guide, Erin leads plant walks, hands-on dye workshops, and other in situ outdoor creative events intended to encourage and deepen our relationships with local ecology, emphasizing stewardship, especially of native plants and the web of beings – including humans – whom they support.
JOURNAL
Notes from a naturalist and natural dyer:
The canyon’s whole environment shapes it, becomes the force fostering infinite new configurations as it disassembles and reassembles endlessly, as in creating a work of art. Sometimes, to become something new or different – to evolve – we must first find ourselves changed; unrecognizable. Just as the canyon morphs, disintegrating its current self in every moment, I feel myself being disassembled and put back together again differently as I explore canyons, hike alongside desert streams, build a fire, and sleep alone under an expansively starry sky for the first time.
Working with plant dyes and fibers, we delight in what we’ve always known, but may have forgotten:
Everything we need is already here, already with us, all around us.
