Ẹ̀lú Indigo Dye Workshop with Kemi Oritsejafor 1/24/26 - 1:30PM

Saturday January 24, 2026

1:30PM - 4:30PM

Learn about indigo dyeing in the context of Yoruba culture through this three hour workshop led by Kemi Oritsejafor, founder of SOLA Market. Students will learn about Yoruba/Nigerian dye practices and have the opportunity to create their own dyed fabrics.

All materials are included in this workshop, including a ½ yard of cotton + raw silk for each participant to practice with. Participants are welcome to bring their own garments or fabrics* such as medium to light-colored cotton and silk items to overdye, a method in which you dye with a darker pigment to cover stains, add a new color or refresh. 

*Items that cannot go in the dye bath: polyester, leather, fur, spandex (lycra), nylon, sheer (gauzy) fabrics, lace, wool, undergarments, and some upholstery fabrics. 

This workshop is in collaboration with SOLA Market and part of the Honeysuckle Summer Series of events.

The workshop takes place at the Hudson Valley Seed Company, 11 Airport Rd, Accord, NY 12404. 

Kemi Oritsejafor is a Brooklyn-based, American Nigerian artist, activist, community leader, educator, and entrepreneur. Kemi's work has been at The New Museum, Global Shapers NYC, Black Girl Environmentalist, and Obodo Nigeria, a human rights center focused on LGBTQ+ rights in Nigeria and across the Black Diaspora. Kemi's creative skills developed from being taught initially by their mother, grandmothers, and aunts as survival skills on how to live well and communally. Kemi's foundations are rooted in being raised in a first-generation, immigrant West African community in the Black American South.