Artist StatementHannah Regier is a fiber artist and land conservationist whose work explores the profound possibilities of natural dyes and fibers to bring people into meaningful, reciprocal, relationship with the land. Hannah grows and forages dye and fiber materials within a mile of her studio and sources wool from local farms. With reverence, sensitivity and curiosity to learn each living material’s language, she invites their stories and character to speak through her work. This creative process becomes a way to deepen relationships, broadening views, and being of service to natural materials and the environment we share.
Hannah is a second generation professional craftsperson and small scale homesteader, and a third or more generation fiber worker, who lives and works in southern Vermont on the homeland of the Abenaki people. |
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Local Fiber | Foraged ColorAll of the pieces are made from wool and alpaca sourced from local shepherds and custom-spun in small New England mills. The dyes are extracted from plants and fungi, grown and ethically foraged from the landscape around my studio.
The regional fiber producers and processors: Crooked Fence Farm CVM Romeldale sheep Cas-cad-nac Alpaca Farm Snowshoe Farm Alpacas Sallie's Fen Alpacas and Fiber Mill |
About the Place
Sky Like Snow is located along the Bull Creek in Athens, Vermont. The 3/4 acre micro homestead consists of a residence in a c.1820 one-room schoolhouse a small stone studio and many plots of dyes and vegetables. Most of the foraged dyes come from within a couple miles of home base. As a white artist of colonizer descent, engaging deeply with the land, I acknowledge that my studio and surroundings are Abenaki homeland and that the Abenaki are an active and important presence in southern Vermont.