“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. Each of these pieces has emerged out of the pleasure of making and growing and the intimacy of domestic life. 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.”
ALAYNa rasile digrindakis
What we make + What we grow
August 8 - October 4, 2025
Housecoat // Plant Dyed Linen, Milkweed, Ceramic Buttons
Midtown // Plant Dyed Silk
Work Pants // Plant Dyed Cotton, Ceramic Button
Armful // Plant Dyed Silk
Homebody // Plant Dyed Silk and Milkweed
Angler’s Vest // Plant Dyed Cotton, Ceramic Buttons
Sleeping Deck // Plant Dyed Silk
Harvest Bibs // Plant Dyed Cotton, Ceramic Buttons
Flower Picker’s Vest // Plant Dyed Cotton, Ceramic Button
Siesta // Plant Dyed Silk
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 in Asheville, NC; the Anchorage Museum of Art in Anchorage, AK; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA. In addition to exhibiting artwork nationally and internationally, Alayna has done extensive costuming for the stage, for film, and for the site-specific productions of Mountain Time Arts. Rasile was recently selected as one of “Montana’s 19 under 39 Emerging Artists” by the Montana Museum of Arts and Culture. She 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.