11/21/2025
Join us to celebrate makers and learn some things you may not know as Mama Lucinda leads an Indigo Dye demonstration and chat, beginning at 1 pm.
This Makers’ Market will give participants an opportunity to learn about indigo- its ancient history in indigenous cultures and its connection to our ancestors in 18th century Louisiana.
Lucinda Gaddis is a self-taught dye artisan, working exclusively with indigo for the past 11 years. Part of indigo’s allure for her is that it was a crop grown and harvested in Louisiana, and that it has strong connections to many indigenous cultures. Indigo color’s vibrations emit a warmth that is tangible and has healing attributes. Lucinda produces indigo-dyed clothing and home décor, gleaning from the art and resist processes of masters in adirefrom the Yoruba in Nigeria and shiborifrom Japan. Combining her long-time participation in traditional West African dance and her love of sewing, many of her items are created wholly by her, and include a commission to create costumes for a dance company. Also, she is thrilled to play a role in activist-artist Brandan Odums’ annual delegation to the Whitney Plantation Museum by creating designs on hoodies that are dyed in her indigo vat. Because of her strong belief in and support of environmental sustainability,other creations begin as gently used items that are upcycled with various resist methods and given a new, beautiful life.
Lucinda was born and raised in New Orleans. She taught world languages for 44 years and is now retired from that career. She is the very proud mother of five, and grandmother of seven sweet grandchildren.
