Artist Series Archive
The Thuja Artist Series highlights limited-run pocket and cuff designs created in collaboration with talented artists from across outdoor and creative communities. Each artist brings their own unique style to our garments, producing a one-time print run that will never be reproduced again. Through this series, we aim to celebrate creativity, support independent artists, and offer our community truly one-of-a-kind pieces. View each collaboration to meet the featured artist, learn about their process, and further explore their work.
Marissa Petrozza
Marissa Petrozza, owner of MP Mountainworks, is a printmaker and painter based in Connecticut. As a hiker, climber, trail runner, and birder, her work is heavily influenced by her love of the outdoors. Marissa’s art serves as a celebration of nature, both its beauty and the many benefits we receive from spending time outside.
Instagram: @mpmountainworks
Mariah Reading
Mariah Reading is an eco-artist and strong advocate for the existence, preservation, and accessibility of public lands. She was born and raised in Bangor, Maine where the surrounding landscape gave her a deep appreciation of nature’s beauty that was reinforced by her degree in Visual Arts at Bowdoin College. The 2016 National Park Centennial propelled herRecycled Landscapes, designed to bring attention to the need of preserving and protecting the environment.
A note from Mariah:
"This project came about from a linoleum block print I made over the winter of a snowy owl on top of Sargent Mountain in Mount Desert Island, ME. I love complimentary colors so I wanted the full moon to be big and orange against the blues of the landscape. Once I started designing, I loved how the owl and moon became abstracted and turned almost into a traditional pattern, especially when zoomed out. I hope this hoodie keeps you warm and reminds you of all the beauties that winter has to offer."
Instagram: @mariahreading
TikTok: mariahreading
Charlotte Dworshak
Charlotte is a Vermont-based artist and photographer living and working in burlington’s south end arts district. Though her medium of the moment is likely to vary when inspiration strikes, she primarily works in acrylic on paper, canvas, and panel. She is consistently & reliably inspired by Vermont’s ever-changing land and lake as well as the northeastern ocean landscape.
Lucy Rollins
Lucy Rollins is a Burlington-based artist whose ink drawings are inspired by the boundless detail in the natural world and her affinity for repetitive work. Through her meticulous drawings, the artist hopes to create both real and imagined landscapes that evoke presence, awe, and slowness. Lucy hand-draws thousands of circles, whose varying sizes create depth, shadow, form, and scale. When drawing from her imagination, she lets shapes form without much of a plan and finds joy in the resulting abstract patterns. Lucy's process is emergent, careful, time-intensive, and requires a steady hand. As a vegetable farmer for nine years, Lucy cultivated her love for tedious work and integrates concepts of macro and micro into her drawings. In addition to using black ink, the artist makes elements of the land even more integral to her work by using natural pigments including pinecone ink, indigo, wine, and coffee.
Lucy’s stationery line is a manifestation of the delightful, endearing, and awkward nature of human interaction as well as the wonder of the outdoors. She intends to provide honesty and comedy through these spirited creatures and their imagined thoughts.
Instagram: @LucyRollinsArt