Maggie Dimmick is an artist, designer, Earth-advocate, long-distance hiker, auntie, and dreamer.
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 collected plants to co-create with Earth.
She seeks to find connections to the natural world around us and the nature that is inside of us. Her work may bring an initial sense of calm to the viewer, and as they linger to look deeper, more emerges from the work and from the viewer’s own inner depths as they continue to experience the pieces.
“Over the last few years, my practice has been diving into the process of assigning meaning to objects and materials and how they can transform from mundane, to meaningful, to sacred. I am exploring how we use objects in ceremony, rituals, and mourning practices within and beyond historical and religious contexts. As someone without a religion and having been severed from my ancestors’ place of indigeneity and spirituality, what will connect me to my lineage? What are the objects that capture the sense of sacredness I naturally sense around me? How do objects retain memories of the past that continue to haunt me? How do I cultivate a sense of belonging in a place that does not belong to me? My art-making is a quest to answer these questions and more.”
A bit of background:
Currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Maggie 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. She is also currently the director of marketing for Garage Grown Gear.
maggie[at]maggiedimmick[dot]com