Rachel Grunig is a natural dyer whose work is deeply rooted in environment and season. Starting with color found in local flora, Rachel’s process forges a connection between what the earth provides and what we’ve built upon it. Rachel manipulates plant-dyed textiles primarily through weaving, crochet, and draping. As an emerging, self-taught artist, Rachel directs energy towards projects that focus on themes of nature, community-building, and healing. She holds a deep love for creating in collaboration with others to evolve work that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Project Statement 

Grief is many-faceted and long-lived, and while it may mellow in time, it remains. I offer color pulled from our landscape, transmuted to fiber and intertwined into a soft, soothing cladding. These woven paths echo our own lives - where we started, where we are going, and manner in which we traverse time and space. 

Visitors to the Dye Garden will be met with the opportunity to participate in a collective recognition of grief by adding their own weaving into an arbor. I offer up lengths of ribbon, imbued with color, for visitors to select and add to our structure. These lengths will compound as our visitors grow, creating a testament to a shared, yet unique, human experience.

For more information on purchasing and other commissions, please contact Rachel at rachel.grunig@gmail.com

To view more of Rachel’s work visit her website.