The Royall House & Slave Quarters invites teens and adults to a Black Walnut Tie-Dye Workshop with textile artist Stephen Hamilton, who will lead the instruction using abundant black walnuts growing on the museum grounds to explore African tie-dye techniques. As a Black American trained in traditional West African artforms, Hamilton treats the acts of weaving and dyeing as ritualized acts of reclamation. He uses traditional techniques and materials native to West Africa to reclaim ancestral knowledge dissociated from Africans in the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, he has exhibited his work throughout Greater Boston and and was part of MFA Boston’s recent “Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas” exhibition. Workshop attendance is free but registration is required through Eventbrite.