About me

An artist down to my bones, I love nothing more than to create. Whether it is handcrafting one of a kind textiles or creating a pleasing ambiance my surroundings; I see all of life as art. After training in Fine Art and sewing during adolescence, I attended my first two years of university at Pratt Institute. There I studied in the rigorous and highly-selective fashion design program. It encompassed learning the entire process of creating garments from draping and pattern making to utilizing couture sewing techniques. With major focuses also in CAD, fashion illustration, costume & art history, spec sheets, and millinery. I moved to California College of the Arts to study Textiles. I delved as deeply as possible into the art of fibers. I learned advanced weaving, natural & synthetic dyeing, textile conservation, fiber sculpture, experimental fabric manipulation, sustainability, advanced knowledge on every major fiber and screen printing. The technique that captured me the most was botanical dyeing and using natural processes to color, print, and alter fabric. Through this practice, I have gained coveted and precious knowledge. I continue with this self-motivated research daily. I am creating my own textile-driven fashion line and am looking to work somewhere that I can share these skills I have sculpted.

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Projects

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  Botanical TextilesAll textiles handmade with love and 100% natural dyes. Some of the dye materials included eucalyptus, poppy flowers, redwood cones, begonias, lavender, turmeric, artichoke, camellias and indigo. As well as processes like rust dyeing and ecobundling which entails burying bundle in the earth for 1 to 4 months and using the heat, pressure and moisture of the earth to imprint cloth.
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  Apparel DesignA combination of my apparel and fashion illustrations made during my time at Pratt Institute studying fashion design as well as my years at CCA studying textiles and natural plant dyes
• Screen PrintingA collection of hand-printed textiles. Made using techniques such as silk screening/screen printing, velvet burnout, discharge printing, & hand-carved block printing.
• Hallowtransformed pig gut, wrapped around wire forms, decorated with henna, hanging in a mobile, swaying & resonating above, creating wonder and meditative musings
• FloatSuspending thread and crystals in wax, they softy float on water. Ebb and flow with the natural pulse of sound and movement. Freedom to flow with the tides.
• Astral WeaverAt Due Process Stables & Artist Colony, in Colts Neck, NJ, I designed & built (with the help of talented woodworkers) a 4'x7' Native American-inspired Sycamore frame loom. I naturally dyed all the yarn using cochineal, cutch bark, onion skins, and ivy. From building, stringing the warp, dyeing and weaving every thread, it took about 400 hours to complete.

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Work history

Textile Artist & Fashion Designer
Jan 2013
I am the creator of the Earthly fashion and lifesyle line that uses botanical dyes and natural processes to create textiles that I then use in apparel and life products. Every piece is handmade and one of a kind, infused with the essence of medicinal and common plants.
Volunteer & Textile Guest Artist
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Care-taking for a heard of 16 alpacas. I taught natural dyes to the women of the village and helped with sheering, felting, and product creation.

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Skills

• Installation Art
• Pattern Making
• Textile Design
• Photoshop
• Draping
• Garment Construction
• Fashion History
• Surface and Pattern Design
• Tailoring
• Illustrator
• Teaching/mentoring Experience
• Advanced Weaving Building Looms
• Natural Dyeing
• Word/excel/powerpoint
• Sewing by Hand Machine

Education

BFA Textiles
Jul 2011 - Dec 2015
Fashion Design
Jul 2009 - May 2011