Courses & Workshops:
- Natural Dye Workshop: A Comprehensive Introduction
- Flower Pounding (Tatakizome)
Varsha Gill (she/her) is a textile artist, filmmaker, community arts facilitator, and social worker who believes in the transformative power of art for social and environmental justice. Born, raised, and based on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories, with family roots in India, her practice is guided by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s invitation to “reimagine a world where people and land are good medicine for one another.”
Varsha recently completed her Master of Social Work (MSW) and an artist residency with the Indian Summer Festival, where she explored how land- and arts-based practices can support trauma-informed, decolonial, and antiracist approaches to healing. She is deeply passionate about creating spaces where art helps people connect to the land, themselves, and one another.
This has led her to over five years of experience facilitating ecological art, personal development, and filmmaking workshops with participants across a wide range of ages, abilities, cultural backgrounds, and experiences of gender and sexuality.
Varsha nurtures her personal art practice through a project called Dyed Smiling, where she makes naturally dyed textiles in collaboration with food scraps, found objects, and garden-grown plants.
