WILD PIGMENT
PROJECT
Wild Pigment Project connects artists to the land through a passion for wild pigments, their places of origin, & their cultural histories.
The project promotes knowledge-sharing & support for artists who seek to align their creative practices with values of land & cultural stewardship, regenerative economies, anti-racism & interspecies equity.
HANNAH CHALEW was the first speaker in the PIGMENTS AS CATALYSTS series. Her talk, Insurgent Pigments: Animate Materiality for a Livable Future, was widely attended. Watch the recording, here.
Marilú Rios Guerrero spoke about her work with pigments, community and ritual in the up-coming PIGMENTS AS CATALYSTS talk on December 13th at noon PST.
GROUND BRIGHT is an offering of monthly support to Wild Pigment Project, and the sole source of the project’s funding. All subscribers receive semi-regular pigments in the mail as gifts of thanks for their support, and free admission to all WPP talks. 22% of all Ground Bright funds are given to land and cultural organizations — 37K in donations since its inception in 2019.
November 2023 marked the final issue of Pied Midden, with issue No.45. Read it here. After publishing almost every month for nearly five years, Tilke is taking a short break from writing. The new newsletter, Pigments As Catalysts, will go to all existing Pied Midden subscribers. Not signed up? Subscribe below for free, or just read it in the archives once it’s published.
The 2023 ~ 2024 Being With Pigments Solstice-to-Solstice course is now officially sold out. Write to Tilke at info@wildpigmentproject.org to join the early notification list for the next course.
Tilke’s hands with painted leaves. Photo by Kelly Moody.
ABOUT WILD PIGMENT PROJECT FOUNDING DIRECTOR TILKE ELKINS
Tilke Elkins (‘TIL-kah EL-kins’) is an artist, writer, and curator based focused on site-specific/responsive painting and social practice art. Tilke has worked with mineral and botanical pigments since 2007, and is the founding director of Wild Pigment Project, which she established in 2019.
In 2022, her work was exhibited at form & concept gallery in O’Ga P’Ogeh Owingeh (colonially known as Santa Fe, NM) along with a Wild Pigment Project group exhibition she curated. A version of the group show was on view at NMSU Art Museum in late 2023. Wild Pigment Project was featured in the summer issue of American Craft Magazine.
Read an interview with Tilke in The Queue, the American Craft Council’s blog. www.tilkeelkins.com