Misa Chhan* is an artist and natural dyer who lives and works in Los Angeles.

They work across natural dyes, textiles, fibers, baskets, printmaking, kites, and artists books. Their background in book arts, printmaking, papermaking, lead them to explore natural dyes as a medium to stay engaged with and learn from the natural world. The mindset of domination over nature creates a scenario where we feel detached from nature, as opposed to understanding that we are fundamentally dependent on it and part of nature. Their goal is to collaborate with plants, their surroundings, what is readily available around them, and to work as close as possible to what the world is made of. They spend their time gardening, practicing how to coax color from plants, composting, flying kites, foraging, and researching natural dyes and minerals and how to integrate them in their daily life.

B.A., Book Arts at University of California, Santa Barbara. 2013

CV available upon request

*Chhan is pronounced like “chan”.

Yes, the double H is the correct spelling. It is not an error or a typo. Chhan is of Cambodian origin it is common for Cambodian surnames to have two H’s.