About

NÅDE ~ Danish for grace… this is our studio’s mission. To show grace to our Earth, to display grace to others, and practice grace from within on this ever evolving journey.

ARTIST BIO

Maggie Pate born in the 1980’s in rural Tennessee

Maggie Pate the designer + artist behind Nåde Studio. She began her career in textile as international fashion model then retired to work for a clothing label in New York City. She is a self-taught ecological artist whose creative journey began in textiles and has since expanded to explore the broader intersections of nature, materiality, ecofeminism, and human impact. Her work, rooted in a deep reverence for the natural world, fosters dialogue about the relationship between humanity and the environment.

A published author and educator, Maggie has led slow textile workshops around the world—from the high desert of New Mexico to the glaciers of Iceland, and from the Appalachian Mountains to the Adriatic coast of Istria. Her practice has earned her commissions ranging from the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. to intimate galleries throughout New York’s Hudson Valley.

Despite a nontraditional path, Maggie’s work has been recognized with grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and artist residencies in Mexico. Her evolving practice continues to bridge craft, ecology, and storytelling in service of environmental awareness and artistic expression.

ARTIST STATEMENT

As an ecological artist rooted in the Hudson Valley of New York, my practice unfolds across textiles, printmaking, and painting, driven by an enduring inquiry into the entanglements between humanity and the natural world. My work seeks not only to bear witness to these relationships, but to cultivate a space in which reverence, responsibility, and critique coexist.

Through processes that are inherently collaborative with the living environment—botanical printing, the crafting of pigments from plants, the harvesting of materials from fields and wild spaces—I position nature not merely as subject, but as co-creator. Each piece emerges as a quiet conversation between the cultivated and the wild, the ephemeral and the enduring.

In tracing the gestures of care, exploitation, stewardship, and neglect that define our ecological realities, my practice becomes a site of both reflection and resistance—an invitation to reimagine how we live with, and within, the more-than-human world.

PRESENT + PAST EXHIBITS

Simply Sourced, Hancock Shaker Museum, Pittsfield, Mass. April 13 until December 2024

Seasonal Saturation, Hancock Shaker Museum, Pittsfield, Mass. Mid-May until mid-September 2024

PORTALS, PS21, Chatham, New York. Part of Enchanted Ecologies Exhibit Opening July 18-July 21 2024

Sister’s Harvest, Chace Gallery, Hancock, Mass. September 5 - December 1, 2024.

National Museum of Women in the Arts - Washington D.C. (2022-2023)

Pigments Revealed Symposium Exhibit (2022)

Feed Weave. Local Nomad - Phoenix, Arizona (2020)

Feed Weave. Glasswing - Seattle, Washington (2018)

Feed Weave. Annie Hanks Studio - Chattanooga, Tennessee (2018)

TEACHING PARTNERSHIPS

New York Herb Society - Katonah, NY

Berkshire Botanical Gardens - West Stockbridge, Mass

West Kortwright Centre - East Meredith, NY

Sanborne Mills Farm - Loudon, NH

Greenhouse Glasswing - Seattle, WA

Poketo - Los Angelos, CA

NOTABLE FEATURES

New York Times

Where Women Create

Folk Magazine

Dinette Magazine

Gardenista

Domino Magazine

GRANTS + RESIDENCIES

New York State Council on the Arts

MakeWork Artist Grant - Lyndhurst Foundation

Vida Nueva - Teotilan, Oaxaca, Mexico - 2018