Heidi Gustafson is an artist, master ochre forager, and necromancer who lives and works in the rural Pacific Northwest. Her highly collaborative and intuitive projects include the Ochre Archive, an internationally renowned collective of over 900 natural ochre and iron-earth pigments.

Her research and practice have been featured in the New York Times, American Craft, Art Das Kunstmagazin, The Dark Mountain Project, 读者, The International Database for Artistic Research, The Soil Keepers and much elsewhere. She’s the author of Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color.

A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Gustafson studied forensic science at the University of Baltimore, and received an MA in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Find her at earlyfutures.com and on instagram @heidilynnheidilynn.