Maggie Dimmick is an artist, textile designer, Earth-advocate, long distance hiker, and auntie.
Her work is an exploration of intuition and mind states, a study of color interactions, and a commitment to using only found and rescued materials diverted from waste streams. With textiles being at the center of her practice, her work is rooted in traditional textile techniques, yet is oriented towards new methods and connections that emerge through iterations of slow manual processes. She is guided by the energies and colors of the found textiles she rescues, and she layers additional colors and shades onto them with natural dyes, utilizing plants collected from the land. Through this methodical color-adding process using natural dyes, she seeks to co-create with Earth and add to the complexity of my final pieces.
She seeks to find connections to the natural world around us and the nature that is inside of us. She strives to create work that brings an initial sense of calm to the viewer, and then as they linger to look deeper, more emerges from the depths of the work, and in turn more emerges from the viewer’s own inner depths as they continue to experience the pieces.
Currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she has worked in the New York fashion industry for brands including Eileen Fisher, where she designed and developed sustainable textiles, along with Elie Tahari, Donna Karan, and Tracy Reese. She studied Apparel Design at Cornell University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as well as Environmental Sustainability at Columbia University. She was the owner of Ethel Studio, a zero-waste textile studio, which closed in 2023.
maggie[at]maggiedimmick[dot]com