Featured Artist : Tony Urbick

Who you are? Tony Urbick

What do you make? Dharma Trading Procion ice dye, liquid tie dye and Shibori technique garments and tapestries with and without fabric markers, stencils, fabric paint.

What inspires you to create? Local rocky mountains flora, fauna, seasons and the physical and inner worlds of wave interference pattern, topography, flowers, clouds, and making color do the heavy lifting in abstract and evocative works.

Which Dharma Products you use to do it? Dharma Procion Fabric dye and soda ash fixative, Dharma brand garments, fabrics and sarongs, sinew, PVC pipes, recycled aluminum foil and cleaned aluminum or stainless steel bike parts and gears.

Please take the time to share something of yourself and inspire or help or motivate others! I teach summer art camps and make art with my son, putting mine in local art shows and on commission. I try to find something good in every mistake I make to build from, work on being okay with the limits of control of the dye process (ice dye especially) and work to show local kiddos in my camps how to create a bit of confidence and courage to try big or new artistic efforts. Knowledge that mistakes or falling short of expectations are valuable information to inform future success, and changing as few variables as possible in pursuit of the artistic craft helps with progression and understanding of what went right as well as what didn't quite make it this round.