Botanical Infused Concrete Coaster Workshop

Join us at the Brooklyn Apothecary on Tuesday July 8th at 7pm for a hands on 90 minute class. Make and take home your own unique coaster to keep or give as a gift; blending modern innovation and inspiration from the natural world.  

Ready to roll up your sleeves? Join us with architect and artist, Robyn Squires [RYSQ] for a hands-on workshop that explores the sensory language of texture and color through the creation of bespoke Botanical Infused Concrete Artifacts. 

Inspired by sense experience of the Anima Mundi elixir bar, you’ll learn to blend, dye, cast, and finish your own concrete coaster piece with herbal products mixed in. Tactile, low-commitment, fun, while also meditative, the process moves from liquid to solid within minutes, offering an intimate front-row seat to a heat-activated transformation.

Option to test and experiment with various curated essential oils to add a scentscape to the artifact?

Included:

• All art supplies needed for each guests to make one (or 2) artifact(s)
• Gloves and all necessary materials 
• Guided instructions
• Herbal ice-tea
• 15% off Anima Mundi products in store

Things to consider:

• Dress comfortably in clothes you don’t mind getting splashed with residual concrete, water, or the occasional indigo dye—things might get a little messy 
  
• BYO Apron.

Space is very limited please purchase tickets in advance. Refunds accepted up to 24 hours prior to event. 

Robyn at the core is an abstract photographer & synthesizer. Scaling ideas from the abstract to real, from art to architecture, is a form of expression that she consistently hovers between. In the shadows and reflections of her professional career in architecture and construction management in NYC, she founded RYSQ Design Collective in 2005, as a collaborative umbrella for building ideas with friends. Helping others bring their visions to life, and having them symbiotically push hers to the next level. In 2024 she took this one step further and formed Sqrypt Atelier, in an effort to develop a progressively refined yet raw art co-op and wellbeing venture concept.

Her proof of concept for this Art Co-op is currently in Upstate New York at Inn Way. She firmly believes through the lens of art and architecture, it is possible to cultivate longer, healthier sustainable lives. We need to start by understanding how to work with one of the most common building materials in use globally today. By infusing concrete with indigo and botanicals, we can experiment with material and textures at a functional level with these cast artifacts. Eventually the concept will scale to design and cultivate sustainable spaces to support healing, connection, and longevity.