ABOUT SAMUEL SPURRIER

Samuel Spurrier is a fiber artist, pattern maker, and botanical dyer living in Bainbridge Island, Washington. He studied pattern making at Apparel Arts in Oakland, California and apprenticed under botanical dyer Monica Medeiros. His love of nature and flowers comes from his childhood in upstate South Carolina. There, his grandmother Frankie showed him the joy of color found in blooms and his grandfather Big Sam instilled a reverence for nature that comes through in his art.

Spurrier grows and forages all the botanicals used in his work on Bainbridge Island. Specializing in eco-printing, a sustainable natural dyeing technique that permanently transfers the pigments and tannins of the flower and leaf directly to the fabric, he incorporates his love of gardening and his passion for textiles to create work that pulls the viewer into a world all its own. Clothing, embroidered tapestries, and artist’s books made from his dyed fabric all explore themes of our connection to nature and our place in the universe. His aim is to capture the fleeting beauty of the blooms of summer—a season on the Island that is brilliant but brief.

Follow Samuel here: @samuelalltheflowers

ABOUT PATRICIA ORELLANA

Patricia Orellana’s journey into the art world started at a very young age in Jersey City, NJ, with endless drawings on walls and coloring her patent leather shoes, much to her mother’s frustration. She lived two brief years in Medellin, Colombia as a young child, an experience that would influence her and her work once back in the United States.

She earned her B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, which is where she also had the opportunity to study Art Therapy. She was able to see first hand the power of art in healing through Art Therapy internships in Manhattan and New Jersey. Orellana relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 1992 and worked in the graphic arts for local corporations. She completed the EDGE Program through the Artist Trust and she continues to grow in the local arts community. Orellana is an artist who currently resides and works on Bainbridge Island.

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Joe Lumarda was EVP and COO of the California Community Foundation. Prior to that, he served as an independent director for Capital Research and Management Company’s endowment funds, portfolios designed for nonprofit organization. Joe served in the US Navy for 8 years, holds an executive MBA from Drucker School of Management at Claremond Graduate University, and a bachelor’s from Saint John’s Seminary College.

In addition to her many years with Capital Group in leadership, Anne Gifford Ewing has worked in private legal practice in Los Angeles, and is recognized as a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law by the California Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California. She received her JD from the University of California College of Law, San Francisco and MA and BA from Stanford University.

Both Joe and Anne serve on various boards of organizations in California and represent estate planning, trust and probate, and nonprofit organizations with esteem.

The narrative threads of Carletta Carrington Wilson’s literary and visual works merge mirroring the melding of language and form. Encountering cloth as a constellation, as a geographical expanse and translator of time, Wilson explores the potential and possibility of engaging with fabric and its fabrication in unexpected ways.

The Pacific Northwest’s moody skies, mountain ranges, and bodies of water are integral to her artistic practice. It is here that her work has rooted itself, has ascended and descended, has formed structures upon which eye + hand, mouth/tongue/mind conjoin to create text & images reaching across realms of time. Her work is sited in and linked to the act of imagining and re-imagining a history in which multitudes of individuals found themselves without the means to transmit the meaning of their journey through the beauty and brutality of life. She uses history as canvas, an eye, camera lens, brush stroke, sculpting tool, pen, and thread.

Wilson’s poems, artist’s books, and artworks and can be found in local, regional, and national collections. She is the author of Poem of Stone and Bone: The Iconography of James W. Washington Jr. in Fourteen Stanzas and Thirty-One Days.

Learn more: https://carlettacarringtonwilson.com