Iris Sullivan Daire lives with her family next to the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon. She grows traditional dye plants and has been quietly mapping the hidden colors contained within the native and invasive plants of the North Oregon Coast for many years. She holds a BFA in fiber arts from University of Oregon and has been teaching to all ages for over 20 years. As an artist and naturalist dyer, she uses site specific pigments and dyes to add new layers of meaning to the narrative of her work. She relishes using science, metaphor and story to bring the materials to life while teaching.