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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 Fine Art, 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, Fine Art
University of the West of England



Talks & Workshops
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




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