A trip to the West Coast then home to hustle

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Today, I’m writing this blog post from Los Angeles. I headed out to the Bay Area to teach an indigo dyeing workshop and have a pop-up show at Celery Space in Berkeley.  The workshop was amazingly fun and successful. I had a group of 11 interested and talented individuals take the workshop. The goods that were created excites me greatly. The pop-up show was a large success as well where I sold two weavings. This is very uncommon for me as I usually don’t sell a large amount of work. I always say I don’t get paid for my art, I get paid to be an artist. So it was a nice surprise for the trip. I’m on LA now connecting with weavers and an interior designer. The trip has been great but I’m ready to get back home and solidify some projects there. When I return I will be solidifying the date of my solo show at Vulpes Bastille which I am incredibly excited for. But for now, I gotta keep trucking. We can’t slow down, there is too much to fight for currently.

live and dye naturally,

Neil Goss

About liveanddyenaturally

Neil Goss lives in Lawrence, KS where he concentrates his work around natural Earth processes while responding to human impacts upon those processes. In 2012 he received two BFA's in Design with concentrations in Textiles and Ceramics from the University of Kansas School of the Arts. Goss has focused the last 5 years of his life to researching and practicing sustainable arts processes such as natural dyeing, weaving (backstrap weaving), utilizing hand dug clay, and foraging art materials. Goss has taught workshops, completed public art installations and done artist talks from coast to coast in the United States. He currently is a practicing professional artist, artist-in-residence at the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO and teaches pottery and natural dyeing at the Lawrence Arts Center.

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