Come to our studio to meet Melissa Arnold. Learn about Melissa, the art of shibori, and indigo dyeing.

MELISSA ARNOLD

Melissa Arnold has been working with textiles for over 40 years. She began as a weaver and spinner and moved full time into surface design in 1990, when she moved to Hawaii where she learned the art of shibori and indigo dyeing from the Temari Center for Asian Arts. She spent from 2003 to 2018 collaborating with Fashion Designer Catherine Bacon, producing textiles for her spring and fall collections. Melissa’s work includes many different processes such as dyeing, devore’, discharge, screen printing, shibori, resist scouring, wool collage, felting, and nuno felting. She has taught workshops in Hawaii, at the Big Sky Fiber Festival in Montana, At the Coupeville Art Center on Whidbey Island, Washington, and in Auburn and Loomis, California. In 2016 Felt::Feutre a felt symposium in British Columbia, in2017 Felt it Forward retreat in Penticton, Canada and in 2018 in Edmonton, Canada. Her work has won many awards and is in the collections of the Nippon Silk Center in Japan, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and numerous private collections across the country. In Spring of 2005, her work was on the cover of Ornament magazine in a featured article about designer Catherine Bacon. She now lives in Victor, Montana.