Photo Credit: Korey David
Dana Mooney (she/they)
Welcome, Dear Friend. In the art practice unfolding here, ancient crafts of weaving, natural pigment dyeing, and contemporary interdisciplinary arts converge. Each piece that emerges is more than an artifact— it's an offering of interconnected narratives: place, community, time, and spirituality. This journey weaves together past, present, and future with reverence for community and the natural world.
Head Shot Credit: Andy Piper
About the Artist
After over a decade in Mental Health Counseling and a deep dive on the Buddhist spiritual path, I took a sharp left turn into full-time artistry at the end of 2023. A love for fiber arts, self, community and the Earth took root that changed me to my core. Read more here.
Connection to Community
My aspiration is to foster art and creativity as a catalyst for healing and transformation in my local community, rippling toward collective healing for all beings and Mother Earth.
In action, this currently looks like weaving together art and ceremony, organizing and hosting free and financially accessible community art events, participating in local artisan markets, skill sharing, and collaborative art making.
In the future, I hope to offer larger installations that involve community collaboration and explore themes of healing, connection to land, climate resilience, and spirituality.
Local Group Affiliations:
Eyes of Compassion Sangha- Caretaking Committee Member and Wake Up Founder/Leader since March 2022
Denver Art Society- Exhibiting Member since May 2023
Rocky Mountain Weaver’s Guild- Member since March 2024
Pictured Top: Having too much fun at a local Summer Artisan Market
Pictured Bottom: Leading Wake Up Denver meditation group in ceremonial transformation of written regrets into beautiful handmade paper (January 2024)
Photo Credit: Korey David
Photo Credit: Linds Roberts
Connection with Place
Creating always begins with assembling materials from the place that supports me: Denver, Colorado— native land of the Apache, Ute, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapahoe tribes.
Whether foraging sustainably from the land or sourcing from locally owned thrifts like ReCreative Denver or The Craft Box, it's important to me to use materials that, as much as possible, do not create demand for new production. As a means of land stewardship, my art serves as a channel for bringing attention to and giving back to the land, rather than asking for more. Taking time to collect and relate with the materials, knowing their origins, helps me to allow them to tell their stories. My role is as conduit for art to become itself, rather than artist making objects that are mine alone.
Top: Foraged and Eco-Printed Tree of Paradise
Bottom: Solar Dyed Cotton- with foraged Buckthorn Berry and Onion Skin dyes with various pH modifiers
Let’s work together
