Alexa Yurianna Anderson is a textile artist and natural dyer based in Port Townsend, Washington. She creates one-of-a-kind garments, art works, and textiles for the home using recycled and found materials. She intentionally works with second-use materials and natural dyes 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.

Alexa worked for twelve years as an art handler for institutions and artist studios including the Seattle Art Museum, Donald Judd Foundation SoHo, 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 with Texere in Oaxaca, Mexico and Centrum in Port Townsend. This June she will be a Studio Assistant Fellow at Haystack School of Crafts for a fiber workshop titled Brokenness: The Craft of Garment Repair + Alteration.

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

alexa@lightwiggler.com

@lightwiggler