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.
Interlopings: Invasive Species / Endemic Breeds is a project by Lisa Jevbratt, Professor and Chair, Department of Art, University of California Santa Barbara
and Helén Svensson, Artist, Stockholm, Sweden
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)
2023 (opening date TBA) Interlopings – Experiencing the Warp and Weft of Ecological Entanglements at Chrisman California Islands Center, Carpinteria
12/2022 to 01/2023 Installation at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (Opening Reception December 10)
Past
04/2022-06/2022 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.