Since receiving her BFA from California College of the Arts in 2016, Elissa Callen has worked in horticulture and researched CA native and ornamental horticultural plants in order to informatively give back to her art practice of using plant material as color or medium. She grows and nurtures her own color in her garden and forages for it in both the wilderness and urban areas. After collecting plant material, or sometimes even earthen material, it is processed into ink, pigment, paper, or another form and then used as the staple material of her work. She currently lives in Oakland and works as a gardener and landscaper. See her work as a gardener here.