Sunday, Nov 23, 12–3PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Info on our space here
Max capacity: 15
Free
Part of Silvi Naçi’s skin to sky residency, this workshop explores natural dyeing through the traditional celebratory Palestinian dish msakhan, reimagined on fabric, using onion skins, sumac, and pinecones — the same ingredients that flavor the dish. Participants will engage in eco-dyeing techniques that connect culinary and textile practices.
The intuitive process invites reflection on food culture, politics, collective resistance, and the transformative use of natural waste materials. The workshop will culminate in a shared ceremonial meal, where dyed fabrics and msakhan rolls march together on an aromatic dinner table, reclaiming collective acts of harvest and care.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dina Nazmi Khorchid is a visual artist working primarily with printed and woven textiles that incorporate mark-making, photography, drawing, and material studies. Her hands-on process intertwines design principles with analog and digital techniques, grounded in craftsmanship and artistic expression. Dina’s work explores themes of identity politics, ecological grief, displacement, and memory access, reflecting her experience as a third-generation Palestinian refugee and the daughter of a missing person from the second Gulf War.
Alongside her art practice, Dina serves as design consultant for arts and culture institutions. She previously held roles including Head of Design and Communications at Bokja–a social impact surface design studio in Lebanon, Principal Designer for the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and 421 Arts Campus, and Textiles Digital Printing Lab Manager at the Rhode Island School of Design. Passionate about mentorship, she fosters creative growth through academia, workshops and other art platforms.
Dina earned an MFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design (2023), where she was a recipient of the Society of Presidential Fellowship, and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah (2009). She has participated in artist residencies at Creekside Arts Residency (USA, 2025), Texere (Mexico, 2024), Vermont Studio Center (USA, 2023), and Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program (Lebanon, 2018–2019). She is also an alumna of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship ‘SEAF’ (UAE, 2016-2017). Her artworks are housed in private collections and have been exhibited internationally; in Canada, China, UK, Tunisia, UAE, and USA, including a commissioned body of work for Abu Dhabi Art 2024 with curation by Galleria Continua, Art Dubai, Field Projects, Institute for Palestine Studies, Rizq Art Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Sotheby’s Maison and Unbound Visual Arts. She has a forthcoming traveling exhibition with The Lost Paintings project in Ireland and the UK in 2026.
Portrait by Jo Sittenfeld
Silvi Naçi is a queer Albanian educator, artist, researcher, and writer working between Albania and Tongva and Chumash territory, colonized as Los Angeles. Their praxis engages the image and its politics across photography, performance, moving-image, text, weaving, drawing, and installation. Their work examines how the marginalized body is affected by an oppressive state, the subtle and violent ways that migration results from colonialism, and how processes of decolonization affect and reshape a people, the body, language, and possibilities of gender identity.
Naçi holds a dual BFA in Fine Arts & Graphic Design from Suffolk University and an MFA in Photography & Media from California Institute of the Arts. They have exhibited works at Manifesta 14 Prishtina, XK; National Gallery of Art, Tirana, AL; The National Gallery of Kosovo, XK; Grand Hotel, Kosovo, XK; Other Places Art Fair, LA; Greater LA MFA Exhibition, LA; and is a recipient of the Tim Disney Excellence in Storytelling Prize and the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Travel Grant. Their writing on art criticism has been published in Artsy, East of Borneo, Contemporary Art Review LA, X-TRA, Big Red & Shiny, NKA Journal for Contemporary African Art, and Hunter Fashion Magazine. Naçi has participated in residency at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA); Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (Berlin, Germany); Elsewhere Museum and Residency (Greensboro, NC); Évora NAU (Évora, Portugal); Vermont Studio Center (VT); perfocraZe International Artist Residency (Kumasi, Ghana), and the Feminist Center for Creative Work residency (Los Angeles, CA). Naçi is a doctoral student in the Global Studies department at UCI. Find more info on their work at silverprojects.co or follow them on Instagram @silvi.naci.