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Are We Disposable?

Photo credit Charlotte Ostergaard

The Power of Sewing and Making¶

Learning hands-on skills empowers people. Knowing how to make things, especially using cheap recycled materials, allows all people to develop and test out ideas so they can positively impact our world.

Future Projects Vision¶

*Explore collective art making without rigid project end goals

*A “garden,” outdoor or perhaps underwater, made from recycled material, that people can continue to help to build/grow when they enter

Future Projects¶

1) A giant wired fish from plastic bottles 2) Human figures made with trash, in a variety of clear to murky ways of seeing into and through the body

About Me¶

Originally from Philadelphia and now living in Nashville, TN, I have had a career as a Costume Designer and Professor of Costume Design and currently run a soft goods lab at Vanderbilt University’s Wond’ry Center for Innovation and teach in the Fine Art Department. I love collaborating with and learning from students. I have and continue to teach classes in the Theatre, Fine Art, and Engineering programs at Vanderbilt in 1) costume design 2)sustainable fashion 2) adaptive fashion 3)fashion history 4) sustainable fashion as sculptural art 4) designing and making wearable soft goods. My teching focus is and always has been on collaboarting with and supporting students by teaching them hands-on sewing and design skills so that they can work as textile designers and artists in ways through which they can express themselves and be successful problem solvers.

Connection to Fabricademy¶

I am excited that young people today are excited about learning textile arts. I hope to capture their imagination and inspire them through offering opportunites for them to mix technology with old-fashioned handcraft learned via the amazingly supportive teachers at Fabricademy.

Recent Projects¶

Photos by Alex Sargent Capps