Artists & Exhibitions

• “Of Seed, Soil, and Stars: Meditations on Land, Body, Resistance, and Regeneration” at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

• Melissa Rogers

• Kiyan Williams

• Jackie Amézquita

• Melissa Ladkin

• Hannah Chalew

• Heather Bird Harris

• Ashley Weitlauf

• Stephen Hamilton (present at the workshop, demonstrated sorghum dye-making and histories of iron oxides)

Articles & Essays

• “Building Good Soil” (Robin Wall Kimmerer)

• “Soil’s Metabolic Rift: Metabolizing Hope, Interrupting the Medium” (Huiying Ng)

• “The Plantation Imagination: Studies in Salt, Oil, and Sugar” (Robin McDowell)

• Gathering Earth Pigments: An introductory guide for tangata Māori (Nā Sian Montgomery Neutze)

• Pigments as Catalysts for Action, Decolonization & Healing (Tilke Elkins)

• “Dust to Dust: A Geology of Color” (Heidi Gustafson)

• Using Soil to Make Art (Smithsonian)

Videos

• (At Home) On Art and Soil: Artist Talk with Kyan Williams

• Seeking Histories and Futures in Soil

• AIR-INK: First inks made from air pollution

More Resources

• Urban Soils Institute

• How to make a lake pigment

• Preparing earth colour: From whenua to powder

• The Wild Pigment Project

• Pigments Revealed International

• How To Become A Caretaker

• The Art of Soil

• Beam Paints