- This event has passed.
“Le Bleu Perdu/ The Lost Blue Indigo” Symposium
March 9 - March 10
Free
**NOT an AMN Event, but counts for continuing education hours!**
Join Atelier de la Nature for a 2-day symposium on the “lost” art, science and culture of Indigo. Here we will “re-learn” lost knowledge of the art and science of indigo as we restore lost and endangered Cajun prairie habitat through talks, readings, and hands-on activities.
Activities to include:
Talks on the history of the Native American use of indigenous indigo species, plantation indigo production in Acadiana, native prairie and grassland habitats discussion and planting, indigo dying demo, histological tissue staining demo, literary readings and more.
Free and open to all ages but seating is limited, and registration required here:
Lunch will be provided.
Saturday March 9
9:30-10 Breakfast
10-10:15 Opening remarks Aurore and Brandon Ballengée
10:15-11:00 “Tangled up in Blue: The complex socio-cultural dimensions of indigo” presentation by Dr. Sarah Franzen
11-11:45 “Creating the Blue Hue in Colonial Louisiana”
presentation by Dr. C. Ray Brassieur
11:45-12:15 “The Road to Indigo” reading by Sandra Sarr, with accompanying music by Alex Cook
12:15-1 Lunch
1-1:30 The importance of blue to the Coco Tribe of Canneci Tinne with Chief Kugr Goodbear& LouAnne Moses
1:30-3:00 Indigo dying workshop with Ellie Barker
Sunday March 10
9:30-10 Breakfast
10-10:15 Opening remarks
10:15- 12 “The lost science of indigo in histological staining demo and presentation” with Dr. Brooke Dubansky and Dr. Ben Dubansky
12-12:30 Lunch
12:30-2 Bringing back lost prairies presentation and planting with Dr. Phyllis Griffard
2-3 Indigo seeding workshop, root demo and prairie burn discussion with Matthew Herron
Speakers and activity leaders will include:
Dr. C. Ray Brassieur, Department of Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dr. Brooke Hopkins Dubansky, Louisiana State University, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Benjamin Dubansky, Ph.D.; Louisiana State University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Office of Economic Development. Developmental, LLC
Dr. Sarah Franzen, Department of Geography and Anthropology and an Affiliated Faculty in