FEEDBACK FRIDAY Videos

FEEDBACK FRIDAY was a bi-weekly show featuring Botanical Colors’ President Kathy Hattori and Sustainability + Communications Director Amy DuFault. Every week, Kathy and Amy spoke with dyers, artists, scientists, writers and scholars about their favorite topic, natural dyeing and color.

FEEDBACK FRIDAY surpassed 130 episodes and went live in May 2020, two months into the pandemic lockdown. Both Kathy and Amy realized there was a need to gather community in a creative space with artists worldwide scared, lonely, quarantined and unable to take a class or workshop for inspiration. The result was overwhelming with well over 12,000 people having attended a presentation live at least once but many have been to more than half.

FEEDBACK FRIDAY presentations are now viewed worldwide as part of college and university curriculum, natural dye and fiber organization conferences, education for global brands and independent designers and Amy and Kathy’s favorite group, the attendees in different time zones who would set their alarms to wake in the middle of the night to watch it live.

Thank you so much for all the support you gave us during our show! You can watch all of the video recordings below or head to YouTube where we continue to download episodes.

Video From FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Water, Sediment & Color With Minnesota Fiber Artist Moira Bateman

For our first FEEDBACK FRIDAY of 2023, we welcomed Minneapolis-based fiber and textile artist, Moira Bateman. Moira guided us through a beautiful presentation of her work and a deep look at water, sediment and color. Watch the recording below. Follow Moira here: Website Instagram Ecoartspace article Her exhibits that launch on January 5th and another on January 17th Artist’s Biography: Moira Bateman creates assemblages from waxed silk, dyed with tannins and waterway sediments. Her chosen fabrics are soaked for days, months, and even years in the waters, mud, and sediments of rivers, lakes, and bogs of Minnesota. Past collaborative projects … Read more

Video From FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Mapping Color With Sasha Duerr + Maibe Maroccolo

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 … Read more

VIDEO: FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Narayan Khandekar + Porfirio Gutíerrez

Last week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY, we had presenters Narayan Khandekar who oversees the Forbes Pigment Collection in conversation on color and restoration with Zapotec Textile Artist + Natural Dyer Porfirio Gutíerrez. The two had mini-presentations of their work and then engaged in a wonderful and intimate conversation about color coming from their own unique work.

Video From FEEDBACK FRIDAY With Rosalind Wyatt & Christi Johnson

This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with alumnae Rosalind Wyatt & Christi Johnson. The two discussed the importance of getting centered with hand stitching, the power of embellishment and why we stitch and dye. Though a different format for a typical FEEDBACK FRIDAY, this conversation between the two artists was inspiring. If you saw Rosalind Wyatt and Christi Johnson on their individual FEEDBACK FRIDAYS, you know this was a great match up!

Video From FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Holiday Kitchen Color

This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY, was pretty ridiculous (but fun!) with Botanical Colors President Kathy Hattori and Communications Director Amy DuFault to talk holiday kitchen color. We explored all the colors you can achieve just from holiday dinner from food like purple cabbage, onion skins, organic marigolds, cranberries and pomegranates, to holiday color from extracts like our U.S. grown madder root and chlorophyllin. When you watch the video, check out the chat on the side to see lots of links we provided for colors we didn’t cover but that are still possible. Watch the video recording below. FEEDBACK FRIDAY If … Read more

Video From FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Beam Paints

Last week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY, we had Anong Beam of Beam Paints. Anong says her business is the result of a multi-generational love of pigment, paint, color, and innovation. “I was raised by my artist parents, Carl Beam and Ann Beam, and was taught from a young age how to harvest hematite pigment in the LaCloche mountain range near our home in M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island.” Beam Paints draws on Anong’s early education in Indigenous pigment and expands it to encompass all paint traditions. She talked about the progression of her craft, her love of color, and more. … Read more

FEEDBACK FRIDAY Video: Textile Artist Tenzin Tsomo

On our last FEEDBACK FRIDAY we welcomed Tenzin Tsomo, a textile artist and designer based in Seattle, Washington. Her presentation looked at key moments in the history of Tibetan rug weaving in Nepal, from a coveted skill kept within families in Tibet to the dissemination of that indigenous craft knowledge to Tibetan refugees and local Nepali artisans of recent. While weaving has transformed the lives and economy of many communities, the technique itself has been diluted down in the last couple of decades to cater to the ruthless demands of capitalism. Watch the video recording below. About Tenzin Tsomo:Tenzin launched … Read more

FEEDBACK FRIDAY Video: Alice Fox Of Wild Textiles

Last week we had Wild Textiles author and artist Alice Fox. Alice talked about what is happening currently on her allotment in terms of fibers for harvesting and processing.

Video From FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Keith Recker’s Deep Color: The Shades That Shape Our Souls

Last week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY, we welcomed writer, editor and trend and color forecaster Keith Recker who talked about his new book Deep Color: The Shades That Shape Our Souls. Drawing from chapters in his soon to be released book Deep Color, Keith’s talk looked at the positive and negative layers of meaning maintained by black, red and blue. Through examples from history both remote and recent, the messages telegraphed by these colors become clearer and more interesting! These three colors are just a preview of Deep Color, which runs through nine color families, but in the q&a period, we … Read more

Video From Live FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Mushrooms + Textile Design With Ximena Curiel

Last week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY, we welcomed Ximena Curiel who told us a personal story about her path as an artist and all about her exciting work with mushrooms and textile design! Ximena Curiel is a Product designer with a MSc in Biomimicry currently performing field and laboratory research on fungal pigments. Ximena says since she was young, “she experienced the kindness of nature, while growing up in the jungles of southeast Mexico.” From first hand observations, she’s watched how ecosystems have degraded while her love for all living things lead her to nurture connections between biology and design. She … Read more