Press — Jessica Dune | Art + Landscape Architecture for Reverence + Remembrance

Newly minted Artisans’ Row Carmel is a Magnet for Makers“ Monterey County Weekly November 2018 by Pam Marino

“At Anima on Artisans’ Row Carmel, Jessica Neafsey makes patterns for apparel based on native wildlife, like a monarch caterpillar, far right.” Photo by Nic Coury
Take Back Radio Interview 102.3 FM July 2017 Barbara McVeigh

"Meet Jessica Neafsey, ecologist, designer and more . . . and she's doing it! She is creating clothing designs that help feed our curiosity and our conversations about the natural world with her line Anima California. A progressive and compassionate thinker - I look forward to our talk about fashion and what we can do every step of the way. Note - her models stand for what they do in life instead of just outside beauty - it's what you do in life that counts! "
"West End Celebration Loaded with Visual Arts All Over the Place" Monterey County Weekly August 2016 by Walter Ryce

"If the litmus test were not just need, but virtue, Jessica Neafsey’s clothes would warrant reward. She creates clothes with animal patterns uncommon in greater fashion, but native to our landscape – the Western scrub jay, plankton, Pismo clams, the Western fence lizard. “This is one of the most biodiverse places in the country,” Neafsey says. “It’s about promoting a little eco-literacy.” That sounds like a progressive and enlightened fashion statement."
"A local artist introduces her art and philosophy into a health-care space" Monterey County Weekly 2025 by Agata Popeda

“Westland House is a rehabilitation clinic where patients go through recovery, often after a surgery and they often stay for many weeks. The triptych now hangs in the cafeteria and will serve them during much-needed community gathering during long weeks of recovery.
Perhaps the most touching element was a "threshold" song Dune prepared for the ceremony and added to her gift—a simple soothing tune for the end of life—to make the passage easier.”
"Learning From the Land: A Conversation with Jessica Neafsey" Sea Ranch Soundings Fall 2025 by Jennifer Terry, Photography by David Yaeger

“My hospice work helped me prepare for a job in which you’re literally helping a community to navigate massive loss of trees very suddenly in intense storm events or fires, events that take things away that you may never get back. So I feel like it’s very relevant to go to that place of mortality and being attuned to how everything is subject to change.”

*Jessica Dune is a chosen name and represents an evolution from previous business entities JMLA and Anima

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