Maker-Led Workshop | Press and Sip: Vintage Book Flower Press with Wildry

Join local maker Hailey Rohn (they/them) from Wildry for Press and Sip:Make Your Own Vintage Book Flower Press on Friday, August 23rd from 6-8pm in the Heurich House Museum’s conservatory! 

This workshop will include a hands-on look at the process of flower pressing while filling your new vintage book press with flowers to take home. Sip on local craft beverages from the museum’s biergarten, 1921 while you work on products!

Details: 

• $45 per person
• All supplies included
• Take home your own vintage book press filled with flowers
• 15% discount at the biergarten bar (Alcoholic & NA beverages available) 

Schedule: 

• 6pm: Doors Open, Purchase your Drinks (Biergarten opens at 4pm if you want to visit before the workshop!)
• 6:15pm: Workshop Begins
• 8pm: Workshop Finishes, Biergarten Closes 

About the Maker:

Growing up, Hailey (they/them) always had a strong passion for of nature, travel, crafting, art, and theatre that has shaped who they are today. As a career field, landscape architecture jumped out at them from the beginning due to the collaboration of art, nature, and the human experience. However, Hailey found that they much preferred working with their hands and not long after college, Hailey transitioned into urban agriculture where they were most recently Director of Operations for Little Wild Things City Farm.

In 2018, Hailey quit their job to travel the world full time with their partner and began selling floral illustrations online, mostly as tattoo designs and wedding invitation embellishments. When the pandemic sent them home in 2020, they resettled in DC and Hailey began making physical creations to sell, inspired by their time among the flowers during travel and working at the farm. Wildry's first art market was July 2021 and they haven't looked back since.

About Maker-Led Workshops:

Maker-Led Workshops are a new initiative of the Heurich Urban Manufacturing Incubator. The workshops provide makers with a free in-person platform in the museum’s conservatory to test and develop a new revenue stream to support the growth and stability of their businesses. 

Heurich Urban Manufacturing Incubator: 

The Urban Manufacturing Incubator is rooted in the museum’s belief that house museums should be dynamic and relevant to our modern communities. The mission of the Incubator is to provide economic opportunities to our local small-scale manufacturing communities through: appropriate interventions in business life cycles, collective action, and social enterprises. The local small-scale manufacturing community in DC is composed of two groups: Artisan Makers + Craft Beverage Producers. These groups are directly related to Heurich history - the historic mansion was built and decorated by local craftspeople from 1892-1894 and the Chr. Heurich Brewing Co. (1872-1956) produced DC’s hometown beer brand for over 80 years.