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Stirring Up an Indigo Revival Where Slave Cabins Still Stand

The New York Times
In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history.

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Arianne King Comer: IBILE!: Ancestral Call in Cloth

The Lynden Sculpture Garden
As part of her residency at Lynden, Portia Cobb has invited textile artist Arianne King Comer to Lynden to share traditional batik, adire (Yoruba) and shibori (Japanese) techniques of designing on cloth.

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July Events at the Lynden Sculpture Garden

Milwaukee Community Journal
IBILE! Ancestral Call in Cloth, is the latest iteration of a CALL & RESPONSE residency we began with artist and indigo advocate Arianne King Comer in 2017.

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The Blue That Enchanted the World

Smithsonian Magazine
Indigo is growing again in South Carolina, revived by artisans and farmers with a modern take on a forgotten history

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Indigo is making a comeback in South Carolina—here’s where to find it

National Geographic Society
Indigo was once so vital to the state people called it “blue gold.” As interest in the dye reignites, historic sites are shining a light on its past.

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Their stories were lost to slavery. Now DNA is writing them

WTKR News 3
Artist Stephen Hayes shows volunteers Jonathan Richardson and Arianne King-Comer how to properly hold their hands in a mold in Charleston, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023.

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At Charleston’s City Gallery, visual griots weave and shape truths of Black history

Post and Courier
Arianne King Comer’s art quilt, “The Lowcountry Indigo Story,” is among the four dozen works in “Griots of Cotton, Indigo and Clay” at City Gallery through Feb. 28, 2022.

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