Anna Joyce is an artist, textile designer and author based in Portland, Oregon. Joyce is best known for her colorful hand dyed clothing and housewares collections. She has published two books, one on printing and painting called STAMP STENCIL PAINT (Abrams NY 2015) and HAND DYED (Abrams NY 2019) on dyeing by hand using indigo and fiber reactive dye.  Joyce leads hand dyeing workshops and artist retreats in Marrakech, Morocco twice a year and her work has been featured in Elle Decor, COOL HUNTING, The Zoe Report, the Drew Barrymore Show, The Today Show, RealSimple and Martha Stewart Living.Com. and Etsy's 2019, 2020 and 2021 trend forecast, plus many more!

Find her work here. And make sure to grab youself a set of our newest dye by Anna Joyce: Hot Hibiscus.

Burcu Köleli is a visual artist and freelance illustrator based in Washington, USA. She is a passionate intersectional eco-feminist. She creates gouache paintings and digital illustrations. Her works are mainly inspired by activist movements and mindfulness practices. She creates inclusive artwork that celebrates women and nature. Her works aspire to bring joy with vibrant colors and playful style. She provides illustration, branding, graphic design, and content creation services. She works with art directors, NGOs, and companies with good values. 

Check our Burcu's website here. Find her print Bodies in Motion here.

Elana Gabrielle is a multidisciplinary illustrator, maker, and designer of printed textile and paper goods. Her work is influenced by the wild and varied landscapes of the West Coast where she grew up, from misty mountains and foggy beaches to dusty desert valleys. Using cut paper collage, painting, screen printing, and textile design, she weaves the natural world into her creations.
Elana is descended from a lineage of artists, and she grew up immersed in music, dance, and traditional art. Her family encouraged freedom of expression and self-exploration through various art forms, movement, and spiritual practices. She spent much of her childhood outdoors building driftwood forts, river bathing, hiking, and exploring. This is expressed in her work as a celebration of connection between humans and the earth and small moments of joy; a plant dancing in the breeze, an evening in the summer sun, a foggy walk along the beach, tending to the land. 
Her handmade goods mirror the environment by focusing on form and function, as well as using sustainable practices and natural fibers, dyes, and inks. Elana’s goods invite mindful interaction with nature both in the home and in the wild as a nurturing of self and space, and encourage care for the world around you.
Elana also works with many wonderful clients including Crate and Barrel, Terrain, La Tierra Sagrada Hair, Olipop and more, using illustration to create all kinds of collaborative projects.

Elana's newest print, Autumn Equinox is available now. She's also designed many of our past prints and we hope to have more from her in the future.

Lisa Congdon is an internationally known fine artist, illustrator and writer. She makes art for clients around the globe, including Target, Amazon, Google, Warby Parker, Method, Comme des Garcons, REI and MoMA, among many others. She is the author of ten books, the host of her own podcast: The Lisa Congdon Sessions, and the cofounder of The Long Table Foundation. 

Lisa is self-taught and didn’t achieve momentum in her career until she was nearly 40 years old. Despite her untraditional path, Lisa has achieved recognition, not just as an artist, but as a leader in the industry for her work in social justice, knowledge sharing, mentoring and teaching. 

In March of 2021, she was named “One of the 50 Most Inspiring People and Companies According to Industry Creatives” published by AdWeek. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon. 

We are honored to be partnering with such a wonderful human! Find her print Balance by Lisa Congdon.

Lisa Rogers is the owner and natural dyer behind SlowDigz in California. She's inspired by nature, hand dying on natural fibers using raw botanicals, insects, and metals. She uses flowers, leaves, stems, and roots from her own dye garden along with local leaves to create color and design.

Follow Lisa on her botanical journey on Instagram @SlowDigz and check out her website www.SlowDigz.com.

Her botanical dye Wild and Free was a beautiful addition to our Limited Edition hand dyed line-up. We don't currently have any of her hand dyes in stock (they sell out really quick!) but expect more floral and botanical dyed Thundies by Lisa this Summer!

Vibrant Valley Farm is completely independent in the growing and cultivation of their Indigo. Their techniques and planting methods have evolved throughout the years and they're fine tuning their system to assure they have sufficient amount in cultivation for their extraction goals, fresh dye workshops, body products (they have an fantastic indigo body product line: Vibrant Valley Blue), seed saving, and overall art form and exploration.

They extract pigment roughly 8 times throughout the season and have saved an average of 25 gallons of pigment annually with a goal of 45 gallons. More pigment allows Vibrant Valley Blue to study the extraction process, cleaning of the pigment, and the ability to make dye vats for their own projects and collaboration with other artists and companies. Having the pigment extracted on site enables them to have their own recipes for the entire process of from to textile production.

The deeper they dive into growing and producing pigment, the more they're inspired to be advocates for slow textiles and fashion design. Making our collaboration with Vibrant Valley Farm a perfect fit.

Find our more about Vibrant Valley Farm and their practices here.

Kanda (she/they) is a model, musician, birthworker and artist local to Portland, Oregon. Kanda has always had an eye for crafts and loves to get their hands dirty During the pandemic they started a tie dye business almost by chance as they only started dyeing for fun. When they are not dyeing, Kanda can be found working on their art, talking of liberation for people in a world ruled by capitalism and spending time with the folks they hold dear. 

You can find Kanda's art and dye work on her instagram: @psychedelic_baddie

We adore Kanda here at TPUSA and are honored to be partnering with them for our Limited Edition Ice Dye collection and hopefully more hand made collections in the future.