Craft | Talcon Quinn | All Levels | All Day | Week 1 (July 7-12, 2024)
Learn how to make traditional mountain berry buckets out of Tulip Poplar Bark; then use that same container to fill with knowledge of the natural world in the Appalachian Mountains not far from campus. Learn how to identify and use plants that are common to North Americas for day to day life uses by making tea, eating them, or applying them to a bug bite. The fun traditional facts & lore Talcon will share, will help you remember the plant, fungi & animal friends you meet in the natural world for years to come. The class will cover ethical & sustainable harvesting practices, how to make teas from roots & leaves, as well as how to make tinctures and salves.
There will be a $65 materials fee added to your total when you register for this class.
About the Instructor
Talcon Quinn is the 8th generation of her father’s family to be raised in Athens County. Talcon has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad, developing her skills as an artist, educator, and folk medicine maker. She started beading as a small child and then later as a teenager apprenticed with a local silver smith, Lucinda Moran.
She strayed from “art” for a few years in her early twenties, as she passionately devoted her fullself to ending old growth logging on public lands in Oregon (with success). Her work of protecting the environment lead her to closely examine what the impact of our consumer choices have on the natural world and others. This reflection steered her artistic expression away from silversmithing and beading and toward learning traditional earth based skills such as basket weaving, stone tool making , hide tanning and animal processing. At this time she also dove in deeper to her work with medicinal and edible plants as well as plants for dyes and fibers. After saving the forest, Talcon completed multiple programs in herbalism, wildcrafting, wilderness survival skills, as well as full spectrum doula work. She also dedicated multiple years to community outreach work teaching violence prevention in Southeastern Ohio.
Talcon’s current artistic work links together social and environmental interests as it aims to inspire the development of vibrant, conscious communities through grassroots education, organization, and action. Her jewelry, baskets, hides and herbal remedies are exclusively created from materials she ethically collects and processes herself in her solar powered studio. Her classes and workshops span a variety of health topics and traditional craft making techniques that promote health, well-being, and respect for all living things. This respect is deeply reflected in her own work. Through her teaching and creative practices, Talcon hopes to inspire others to cultivate a deeper sense of compassion, connection, and responsibility to themselves, others and the world around them.
