Sunday Visit: Michigan-Based June & December Connect To Nature

Every Sunday, Botanical Colors sits down for an interview with a luminary in the natural dye and textile world. Grab a cup of tea and settle in to learning about someone you never knew! Catch up on all our Sunday Visits here. For this week’s Sunday Visit, we catch up with Katie Forte, the lead designer/artist and creative director of Michigan-based June & December. June & December is an independent design studio and maker of sustainable gifts that tell the wild stories of nature.  Their hope is that they can aspire to have their products cultivate a deeper connection with nature. … Read more

Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Climate Crisis & Color

Last week we had such a powerful FEEDBACK FRIDAY on color and climate crisis with Madelaine Corbin. Madelaine is a multidisciplinary artist living in Detroit, Michigan. Her research-based practice moves fluidly between drawing, writing, sculpture, textiles and natural dyeing. Watch the recording here. “Through the lens of blue, this talk will consider the many origins of color to propose a few destinations. I will offer pieces of the research and experiments that inspired my artworks concerning the imminent loss of the color blue from our surrounding ecologies. This constellation of ideas will traverse the language of color, view artistic experiments … Read more