Conversations With Artists: Jessica Giannotti

This online talk is part of the EcoCreative Cluster 2022 Programme: Nurturing Creativity, Piece by Piece. Funded by Creative Scotland.

Online Talk with Artist Jessica Giannotti

Date: Wednesday 20th July 2022
Time: 7.00pm - 8.00pm
Place: Online via Zoom
Age: All ages
Cost: Free

Booking is essential for this event

Join us for the second episode in our new series of EcoCreatives ‘Conversations With Artists’. Every month for five months we will invite an artist/practitioner from a different part of the world to share their creative practice and exchange viewpoints in an informal online talk. All artists use locally sourced natural materials and natural dye techniques for their practice. By exchanging knowledge and experience, we aim to weave a wider network of practitioners and practices with our own community here on the West Coast.

In this free online artist talk, curator Naoko Mabon will be in conversation with seaweed dye artist Jessica Giannotti. Jessica is an Italo-Venezuelan living in Scotland since 2005, with a background in marine science and fashion entrepreneurship. In 2013, Jessica founded Crùbag, a lifestyle brand dedicated to spreading ocean literacy through beautifully crafted textile prints and products.

More recently, Jessica started the Ocean Futures Lab, a new interdisciplinary platform for a more sustainable use of the ocean and a more sustainable fashion industry. In partnership with the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), where Crùbag's studio is situated, Jessica is currently developing Seadyes™, which explores the use of seaweed as a sustainable feedstock for dye extraction and application in the textile industry: screening, extraction and dyeing.

This session is held via Zoom. An invitation link will be shared via email ahead of the event with all registered attendees.

https://crubag.co.uk

Image credits: ©Crùbag

 

Conversations with Artists. Collection of textile art images by the artists.

EcoCreatives: Series 1 Playlist

You can also watch all episodes from Series 1 of ‘Eco Creatives: Conversations With Artists’ on our YouTube channel.

Series 1 Artists:

  1. Deborah Gray, Oban

  2. Monica Haddock, Mull

  3. Fernanda Mascarenhas, Brazil

  4. Nanoko Suzuki, Japan

  5. Boubacar Doumbia, Mali

 

Project Funding

This project has kindly been supported by Creative Scotland.

 

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