Paige St-Pierre is a Seattle based Fiber Artist, Natural Dyer and Educator. Her textile art is infused with natural dyes derived from flowers grown in her backyard dye garden.
Her practice moves between art, craft, and fashion drawing inspiration from textures found in nature and humanity’s long history of creative reuse.
Her focus is on exploring how heritage textile techniques such as stitching, dyeing and weaving can be creatively combined and transformed into wearable pieces, contemporary compositions, or conceptual formats.
With a background in education, St-Pierre teaches hands-on, experiential workshops where she helps students reconnect with nature and their own innate creativity.
She is a member of Surface Design Association and Fiber Arts Now.
She earned her Apparel Design Degree from Seattle Central College, Master in Teaching and Bachelor in French Language & Literature both from the University of Washington.
Statement
Growth for growth’s sake has never been a sustainable model for people or the planet. When we cherish materials and the world on which they rely, it has a transformative effect on our hearts, minds, communities and landscapes. Paige's natural dyeing and creative textile reuse practice embraces a post-growth circular textile model which invites us to rethink textile waste and envision a more viable future for the planet.