UPCYCLED: A Fashion & Textile Exhibition of Remaking and Reinventing
Friday February 9, 2024 to Friday March 29, 2024
UPCYCLED: A Fashion & Textile Exhibition of Remaking and Reinventing celebrates the creative of work of high school aged artists, designers, and makers. Young artists explored the medium of textiles by taking two-dimensional materials and making three-dimensional forms. Textiles offer innate textures, patterns, movement, colors, pattern, and variety which offer artists and designers a unique “canvas” to work with.
Artists were challenged to utilized upcycled materials in their works. One of the most polluting and wasteful industries in the world is the textile and clothing industry. Additionally, most clothing and textiles end up in landfills especially with the increase of fast fashion. This over abundance of garments and other textile materials, as well as manufacturing waste, offers a unique and available material for artists while participating in sustainable practices.
UPCYCLED: A Fashion & Textile Exhibition of Remaking and Reinventing was juried by the Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery Committee.
