What foraging taught me about life | Michelle Charest | TEDxRISD
Michelle’s TED Talk is about family traditions, foraging for so-called weeds, making believe, making messes, being stubborn, and finding hidden color in the everyday. Michelle is a Senior Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design in the Theory & History of Art & Design. An anthropologist/archaeologist (PhD Brown University), textile artist/designer, and naturalist specializing in global traditional, Indigenous, and historic ways of making. Michelle’s work in textiles involves every stage of the production chain using small-scale traditional and Indigenous approaches, from sourcing and preparing pigments and fibers to spinning, dyeing, felting, weaving, knitting, and finishing. Michelle’s textile studio/workshop is called Hedge Witch Labs. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
