We are dyeing wool with dyestuff from invasive and non-native organisms living on Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands archipelago in California, investigating the complex and intertwined influence humans have on our ecosystems, and the aesthetic, emotional, magical, and medicinal interrelationships between humans, plants and color.
The project is supported by a Perl Chase Research Grant from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a grant from IASPIS (The Swedish Arts Grant Committee International Program for Visual and Applied Artists)
04/2024 - 10/2024 Interlopings – Experiencing the Warp and Weft of Ecological Entanglements at Chrisman California Islands Center, Carpinteria
12/10/2022 to 04/16/2023 Colors in the Warp and Weft of Ecological Entanglements at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (Opening Reception December 10)
3/18/2023 Invasive Dye Workshop at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
2022/2023/2024 Natural Dye Experiments Class in the Department of Art at UCSB
03/2021 The Color of a Weed, a presentation and workshop in Textiles from Home, a conference organized by the Center for Design and Material Culture at the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology.