For our last FEEDBACK FRIDAY of 2022, we welcomed Brazil-based artist and educator Maibe Maroccolo of Matricaria who is mapping color with Brazil’s dye plants and Sasha Duerr, an artist and designer who also maps color with plant-based palettes, natural dyes and place-based recipes.
It was such an emotional and wonderful presentation highlighting both women’s connection to color through memory, place, love, experiences and through a deep appreciation for biodiversity.
Watch the recording below.
Sasha Duerr is an artist and designer who works mapping color with plant-based palettes, natural dyes and place-based recipes. She is a professor at the California College of the Arts with a joint appointment in textiles and fine arts. She designs curriculum and teaches courses at the intersection of natural color, slow food, slow fashion and social practice and shows her work in galleries and museums across the United States and abroad. In 2007, Sasha founded Permacouture Institute to encourage the exploration of regenerative design practices for fashion and textiles.
She is the author of The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes (Timber Press/Workman 2011). She is also the author of NATURAL COLOR (Watson-Guptill/Ten Speed Press August 23rd, 2016) and Natural Palettes (Princeton University Press, April 21, 2020). She lives with her husband and children in Hawaii.
She’s also pretty famous for her regional color wheels! Shop here.
All links to Sasha Duerr:
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About Maibe:
Maibe is an artist and educator. She holds a masters in sustainable development from the University of Arts London. After a period of studies and specializations in the UK, Maibe dove into her Brazilian roots and dedicated herself to researching and mapping dye plants with a focus on textile and artistic applications. Since 2013, her research has revolved around the potential of natural dyes from Brazilian flora and, thus, Mattricaria was born. The studio also records traditional methods geared to craft practices. The project has been in existence since 2014 and takes the scientific name of Chamomile (Matricaria Chamomilla), which refers to calm and lightness — the mode of action that guides the work in the studio.
All links to Maibe Maroccolo:
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY
If you are not familiar with FEEDBACK FRIDAY, every week, we speak with dyers, artists, scientists and scholars about our favorite topic, natural dyeing and color. Curated by Amy DuFault, Botanical Colors’ Sustainability Director and presented by Botanical Colors’ Founder Kathy Hattori.