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Alia Knowlan is a Montauk, New York-based artist, educator, and designer exploring the interconnections found within our living world. Her work weaves together art, ecology, and research into earth-based practices spanning natural color-making, collage, printmaking, land art, painting, regenerative planting, and multispecies community-building. In her research on natural color, Alia ethically forages and cultivates plants and earth pigments to create an array of colors and artistic tools through low-waste, non-chemical, and regenerative processes. 

Her work has been shown across the United States and Europe in spaces such as The Arnolfini Museum, The Paris Collage Collective, and The Centre for Print Research. She facilitates art and ecology gatherings globally and has designed for a wide range of organizations such as Brightside Health and Frog Design. She has a B.F.A. in Graphic Design, a Master’s in Multidisciplinary Printmaking, and is a lifelong student of the earth and her stewards. 


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Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design
Savannah Collage of Art and Design

Masters, Multidisciplinary Printmaking
University of the West of England



Talks & Workshops
Natural Dye Event
Everyday Magic
Springs, NY
2025

Printing From Nature: Natural Inks and Colors
5 day workshop series
The Art Barge
Amagansett, NY
2025

Collage Workshop
5 day workshop series
The Art Barge
Amagansett, NY
2025

Botanical Inks and Natural Colors Workshop
Third House Nature Center
Montauk, NY
2025

How can creating art with natural colors build interspecies kinship?
PROOF Symposium
Bristol, UK
2024

Botanical Inks Workshop
University of the West of England
Bristol, UK
2024




Relevant Experience
Artist & Workshop Instructor
2023-Present

Design & Creative Consultant
2023-Present

Director of Design
Brightside Health
2019-2023

Design Mentor, Guest Lecturer
The University of Texas
2018

Senior Designer
Toptal
2018

Visual Designer II
frog
2015-2018

Art Instructor
Summer Camp @ Ross School
2010-2014




ExhibitionsMultidisciplinary Printmaking
Spike Island Gallery
Bristol, UK
2024

BABE: Bristol’s Artist Book Event
Centre for Print Research
Bristol, UK
2024

Don’t Give Them Fire
Centre for Print Research
Bristol, UK
2024

Miniprint Exhibition
Arnolfini Museum
Bristol, UK
2023




Publications & Features
Earth Day
Paris Collage Collective
2024

Not Your Body
Compound Butter Magazine
2021




Service
Advisory Board Member
Third House Nature Center
2025-Present

Community Garden Coordinator
Montauk Community Garden
2024-Present

Lands Arts Collective Member
Land Arts Collective and Agency
2024-Present

Design Mentor, Guest Lecturer
The University of Texas
2018

Dance Teacher
Dance Another World
2015-2016







WORK







In the wind, in the rocks, in the waterCollage
38 cm x 48 cm









Body Tides
Collage of screenprinted papers with marigold and indigo inks
60 cm x 100 cm







Watercolor of Indigo, Rhubarb, Madder Root, and Copper Inks
Watercolor of Indigo Ink
Watercolor of Indigo, Rhubarb, and Madder Root Inks









We Are All Estuaries
Collage of screenprinted papers with marigold, madder root, rhubarb, and indigo inks
61 cm x 48 cm









Memories of Past Forms
Collage of screenprinted papers with marigold, madder root, and indigo inks
48 cm x 64 cm







Red Cabbage, Beet, Coffee, Saffron, Blueberry. and Turmeric Ink Swatches










Rain Bodies, Lake Bodies, Ocean Bodies 
Linocut on paper
14 cm x 21 cm








Botanic
Cyanotype on paper
25 x 30 cm

















Shared Waters
Collage of screenprinted and painted papers with marigold, brazilwood, indigo, and eucalyptus inks
34 x 32 cm







Watercolor of Indigo and Copper Inks







Watercolor of Indigo, Madder Root, and Copper Inks
Watercolor of Indigo, Madder Root, and Marigold Inks










All I See is Ocean
Collage of screenprinted papers with marigold, indigo, and rhubarb inks
38 cm x 48 cm







Watercolor of Madder Root, Daffodil, and Oak Gall Inks
Watercolor of Rhubarb and Indigo Inks
Watercolor of Daffodil, Madder Root, Rhubarb, Coffee, Indigo, Blueberry, and Marigold Inks






  

Screenprint Monotypes with Indigo Ink









Flowing
Risograph
25 x 30 cm







Collage Studies








Watercolor of Indigo, Rhubarb, Madder Root, and Copper Inks






Watercolor of Daffodil, Indigo, and Copper Inks
Watercolor of Indigo, Rhubarb, and Madder Root Inks







Sketchbook pages







Eucalyptus, Red Cabbage, and Blueberry Screenprinting Inks
Rose Hips
Indigo Potato Stamp Prints On Linen







Watercolor of Marigold, Indigo, and Rhubarb Inks






Soil chromatography









To Belong To Oneself
Collage 
28 x 43 cm







Blueberry Ink Studies







Somewhere Distant








Eucalyptus Ink Studies











Tart
Collage
15 x 15 cm







Collage on paper