Alexa Anderson is a textile artist, natural dyer, and teacher working from the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. She creates place-based art informed by craft tradition. Her work incorporates second-use textiles, found natural materials, and plant pigments in an effort to center her values of engaging with what already exists, working within the parameters of place and seasonality, and promoting a healthy relationship to production and personal lifestyle.

She regularly teaches and leads workshops about natural dyes and garment mending - but her events are actually about the value of caretaking, the emotional connections we make with our garments and the stories they connect us to, the meditative and somatic aspects of handwork, and the inherent metaphors for relationship repair to self and others.

Alexa worked for twelve years as an art handler for institutions and artist studios including the Seattle Art Museum, Donald Judd Foundation, and artist Roy McMakin. In 2017-2020 she co-founded and co-directed Level It: Women’s Art Handlers Network, an organization providing technical training to women-identified art handlers and specialty fabricators with the aim of diversifying and creating pathways into the field.

She has participated in artist residencies in Oaxaca, Mexico, Port Townsend, Washington, and Deer Isle, Maine.

To inquire about commissions, workshops, or events please get in touch through email.

alexa@lightwiggler.com

@lightwiggler