Just finished and packed up my collection for CFW.  Can’t wait to show this work!

Link to tickets/schedule below!

The official schedule for Charleston Fashion Week is here!

I’m showing my collection on opening night — Tuesday, March 20th.

Get your tickets HERE.

The insects made the Cincinnati news!

My Watercolor Skirt was featured in a pretty spread over at Pure Green Magazine.

Which is worth checking out in general.  And boy, is that an outfit.

My studio has been transitioned from sculpture to fashion and I’m ready to get to work on my next collection of clothing.

I’ll be making 100 pieces to take out to NuBe Green in Seattle for a show in April.  But, first, I’ll swing by Charleston, SC

to compete in the Charleston Fashion Week Emerging Designer Competition along with 20 other designers.

This collection I’ll be experimenting with hand knotting yarns, natural dyes, dye removal processes, and of course hand stitching.

Just home from installing the show at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Kentucky.  The space is incredible – over 100 years old – with amazing details and architecture. The insects are in a bright, intimate space that perfectly fits the work.  It was a whirlwind few days. On top of installing the show, I also did tons of thrifting in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee to collect materials for the next STATE collection which I’ll be starting…  now…  or maybe tomorrow… Let’s be honest.

I hit the road for Kentucky earrrrrly tomorrow morning for two days of installation at The Carnegie Arts Center.

I photographed the dome pieces before I packed them up today.

Exciting to have it all come together.

See the rest on my SCULPTURE page.

I was asked to contribute to Seattle Met’s Style Resolution list for 2012.  Here’s what I vowed:

See all the resolutions from Seattle’s most stylish here.

The newest STATE pieces are up in the NuBe Green online shop!

Getting my ducks in a row to install this next show in Kentucky.

These gorgeous (and giant!) domes were my Christmas present to myself.

They’ll become homes for my most three-dimensional insects.

Very excited to say I’m showing in the 2012 Emerging Designer Competition at Charleston Fashion Week.

Looks like I’m in some pretty good company.

More info HERE.

Been working away on my pieces for this January show.

Along with 27 new insects, I’m recreating my studio and tools out of hair.

THE ART OF HAIR

The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center

Covington, Kentucky

January 15 to February 10, 2012

Opening Reception – Sunday, January 15, 2012; 3-6pm

Made some felted alpaca hats for the Winter and they’re up on my etsy page, ODLA.

My trip out to Seattle for my Fall 2011 show could not have been more ideal.

(view from my cottage!)

First, a shoot with the talented Amanda Paredes at Discovery Park,

Followed by another shoot – this one with Joe Holdsworth – who shot the STATE lookbook.

Then, I managed to pull it all together for a talk about STATE at the show,

and finally, I rewarded all my hard work with a visit out to the farm.

I missed the alpacas beyond belief and was overjoyed to see them –and them, me.  I like to think.  :)

I’m very thrilled to say that 6 of my insects were recently purchased by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum!

As a kid, I LOOOOVED that place, so it’s really wonderful to have my work there.

It’s also fun to think of my insects next to shrunken skulls and merpeople.

I’m not sure which museum location they’ll end up in, but I can’t wait to visit when they land.

The guys at Graypants Studio in Seattle were kind enough to

let us bombard their amazing space for my last show.

It was a great fit as they repurpose materials as well –

making gorgeous lighting and furniture out of cardboard and plywood.

It was a fantastic night.