Alayna Rasile
What We Make & What We Grow
This work comes from joy.
Livingston, MT · 2024
This work comes from joy. From moments found and kept over a span of a few years where the world appears to be falling apart. Over this time, I have been creating as a way to savor the sweet parts — to delight in the slow and quietness of my kitchen, my garden, my relationship.
From plants. Stitched by hand.Five engineered garments are entirely made from plants — cotton, linen, milkweed — and just as the hand-stitched silk collages, are dyed with color extracted from my garden. Together, this work celebrates the planting of a seed, the abundance of harvest, and the bliss of summer days spent watching things grow.
Natural fibers, plant dyes, deep listening, and hopeful worldviews.
Alayna Rasile-Digrindakis is a textile artist and apparel designer who works with natural fibers, plant dyes, deep listening, and hopeful worldviews. She has been a resident at the Textile Arts Center, the Women's Studio Workshop, Rockland Woods, and Cabin Time, and has exhibited at the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (Asheville, NC); the Anchorage Museum of Art (Anchorage, AK); and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA).
In addition to exhibiting nationally and internationally, Alayna has done extensive costuming for the stage, for film, and for the site-specific productions of Mountain Time Arts. She was recently selected as one of "Montana's 19 under 39 Emerging Artists" by the Montana Museum of Arts and Culture, and is a recipient of a Tinworks Artist Grant and an Artist Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council.
Alayna teaches at Montana State University in Bozeman and lives in Livingston.