May 19
Penn Theatre Plymouth, MI
TicketsKit Parks
Artist; Owner, Spool & Dye Works
Loving Vincent— Art from the Earth: Growing and Processing Natural Pigments
Program Description
Guest speaker Kit Parks will present about their textile art, natural dye gardens, and learning to love color. Attendees will leave with a free packet of indigo seeds to begin their own color garden (quantities are limited).
Film Synopsis
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
The world's first fully painted animated feature explores the final days of Vincent van Gogh. A year after his suicide, Armand Roulin—son of postman Joseph Roulin—reluctantly attempts to deliver Vincent’s last letter to his brother, Theo, only to discover the complex and suspicious circumstances surrounding Van Gogh's death in Auvers-sur-Oise.
The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings is his passionate and ill-fated life and mysterious death.
Photo credit: Madman Films
About the Speaker
Kit Parks is a Detroit-based artist and the owner of Spool & Dye Works, a handweaving studio and education center. Integrating textiles with sculptural elements, Parks' artwork explores privacy, intimacy, and the natural world with a surreal softness. They have exhibited regionally and internationally and are a 2025 recipient of the Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort Award. Their work was featured in Grand Circus Magazine, Detroit Cultural, The Architect's Newspaper, Clearline Magazine, and the essay collection Object-Oriented Feminism. Parks holds a BFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.