My textile piece “Cement marigold” will be in the Aether show this Friday! 6-10pm at doubting thomas gallery 🌫️🌚🫧🌫️ Photography of work thanks to @gracekmcconnell 📷
“the colors on your path” zine is available in my website shop now 🎨🌿 this zine is a companion guide of natural colors I encountered during my 2023 Deep Ecology Residency at the United Plant Savers botanical sanctuary. The pages contain
“Violet cosmos,” up-cycled cotton, natural dyes & minerals, 17x22 in, handmade stretcher! I’ve finally updated most artworks from 2022-2023 on my website🪻✨Photography thanks to @gracekmcconnell 📷✨
Smooth sumac is native to North America, ranging from southeastern Canada, across to Arizona, and down to northeastern Mexico. But sumac varieties grow on every continent except for South American and Antarctica. Sumac is not only a medicine, food a
Black walnut is native to North America and mainly grows in bottom-land flood plains. It can also be found in places like on hilltops where the seeds were most likely planted by squirrels. Black walnuts contain high concentrations of tannins, which
madder painted with my handmade madder root watercolors. this color was, in a sense, grown from seed & is now three years old in my garden ❣️ madder is so cool. skeletons of animals who eat the plant are red from its super strong dye properties.
I’m teaching Natural Dyes 101 at @valleyartcenter on Saturday, April 13th. If you are interested in learning natural dye basics on fabric this is for you!! We will be exploring the soy milk and alum mordant processes, creating dye baths, using
Dye garden of the past 🎞️ ✨cosmos, marigolds, indigo, and dyers chamomile! dye plant recommendations this year?