ALYSHA COLANGELI

Alysha Colangeli is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the concepts of individual and collective identities, while cultivating connections to place, memory, and the beauty found in everyday life. Based in the high desert of Northern New Mexico, Alysha's artistic practice encompasses weaving, natural dyeing, and pigment making, though she was trained as a fine artist in drawing, painting, and printmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

1 Ghost flower

2 Earthly delight

3 Coreopsis in black & white

4 Joyful flowers print

5 Coreopsis print on handwoven linen

6 Gathering together

7 Pushing upward

ANNIE MILLICAN

Annie Millican is a textile artist and designer who lives between Sedona, AZ and Providence, RI. Her work touches on themes of play, whimsy, and peace. She experiments with natural dyes and natural and synthetic yarns to explore the happy accidents that occur when materials interact on the woven grid.

FEATURED WORKS

1 Peace Panel 1

2 Peace Panel 2

DANIELLE HUTCHENS

Danielle Hutchens is a Topanga-based painter and ceramicist, using sustainable practices to bring an earthy essence to her pieces. Danielle’s art explores themes of play, the balance of feminine and masculine energy, and curiosity sparked by nature. Her process is patient and hands-on, working with natural materials, sourcing pigments from hikes, and mixing them with nontoxic binders like walnut oil. She also experiments with recycled clay as color on unprimed canvas – fusing her practices and media together naturally.

1 Elements of Home

2 Persimmons

3 Enchanted

ELENA BROWER

Mother, painter, and bestselling author, Elena designed textiles and apparel for almost a decade before shifting her focus to teaching yoga asana, then raising her son and making art. After painting, water is introduced to the surface of each panel; respectfully allowing the flow with minimal interference is integral to the process of creation. Blending acrylic, oil crayon and pastel with water, each piece in this collection is an expression of the practice of meditation.

1 1970

2 1978

3 1986

JIM OLARTE

Olarte’s work ranges from large to small installations created out of marine objects that he’s found or salvaged. Each piece, whether a delicate seashell or a piece of wave-tumbled driftwood, is treated with respect, as coequal elements of an infinity of integrated life cycles. These bits from the sea and shore are often knotted into his macrame art. He doesn’t drill holes into any natural element of the earth, shells or rocks, but only uses their natural or eroded holes and openings.

1 Small wrapped rock (6 available)

2 Wrapped driftwood 1

3 Wrapped driftwood 2

4 Large wrapped rock

KAYLA POWERS

Kayla Powers is a place-based artist and naturalist who makes ecologically focused textile art with and about the living world. She employs the traditional practices of foraging, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to explore the common threads of our shared humanity with the intention of creating connections—to the earth, to craft, and to each other.

1 Chromatic Ecology | Hollyhock

2 Chromatic Ecology | Violeta

3 Chromatic Ecology | Madder Root

4 Chromatic Ecology | Spruce

5 Chromatic Ecology | Coreopsis

6 Chromatic Ecology | Cholla

7 Chromatic Ecology | Rose

8 Chromatic Ecology | Coreopsis 2

9 Chromatic Ecology | Chamisa

LAUREN DOUGLAS

Lauren Douglas is a lens based artist utilizing analog and digital photography to make abstract works that reflect on concepts of emotional and psychological landscape, memory and  temporality. Her images focus on light and space as they attempt to collaborate with their surroundings via a process of deep or sustained looking, breaking down sight through peripheral vision and consideration of the phenomena of light.

1 Untitled 01

2 Untitled 02

MATTHEW ALLEN

Matthew Allen is a multi-disciplinary artist from Southern California. Matthew's artwork is inspired by his time spent in nature, and his boundless curiosity, which leads him to consistently explore new mediums and means of expression.

1 Count Your Blessings

2 Sun Mountain

3 Sun Lake

4 Morning

5 Evening

RACHEL DIXON

Specializing in dried floral design, Rachel Dixon transforms the fleeting beauty of each growing season into lasting, evocative arrangements. She is a Santa Fe based organic farmer and the pieces she creates are based entirely of materials from her land. She grows, harvests and dries everything by hand, ensuring a process that is not only deeply personal but entirely sustainable. Aside from small amounts of wire to stabilize, her work is free from plastics, foam or other synthetic materials.

1 Large wreath

2 Small wreath 1

3 Small wreath 2

4 Small wreath 3

5 Small wreath 4

SAN CANESSA

San Canessa is a Salvadoran visual artist and movement researcher based in Oga Po’ge, NM. Working with Water as both medium and collaborator, San creates site-specific abstractions that explore the relationship between movement and emotion.

1 IN

2 DI

3 IN (2)

4 INI

SEAN W. SPELLMAN

Sean W. Spellman is a New England native who spent nearly a decade of his formative years living and working in various American cities: Portland, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and now in the sleepy coastal town of Westerly, RI. He has crossed the country more than two dozen times, many of them solo, documenting his journeys in paintings, drawings, photographs, and song. These "interpretations" serve as self-proclaimed personal inspiration to "keep moving" and as conceptual documents of the many places a person might dream of calling home.

1 December Plant #6

SEDONA RIGSBY

Sedona Rigsby is a weaver, second-generation designer, and craftswoman who alchemizes plants into cloth. She weaves in her Santa Fe studio and travels to find special yarns made from sacred fibers.

1 Last Light Sky 1

2 Last Light Sky 2

3 Last Light Sky 3

4 Last Light Sky 4

5 Last Light Sky 5

6 Luminous Sky 1