Fashion: ART . . . Wear Fashion Begins

By Doreen Jung. Room B136 is the Visual Arts Gallery surrounded by classrooms and students at the University of the Fraser Valley. Currently on exhibit is a show of works by eight members of the Fashion Design faculty.
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Editor’s Note: All Photos By Doreen Jung. Please Click On Images For Full Size Photos
Originally published 05/10/10
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Students and visitors are able to view work by instructors of Textile Art and Fashion Design. The pieces illustrate inventive combinations of materials to daring treatments of fibre and fabric. Students will be inspired by the ideas used to create the fashions. Many pieces have stories to entertain and inform their viewers.
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Margaret Blackburn’s “Internet” is a dress created from acrylic net with wool felted embellishments. She has accessorized it with a coordinating hat.
Vicki Bolan fashioned “Artemis” with basket willow, copper wire, glass and plastic beads, and composted silk.

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Rene Corder Evans has combined wool and silk
in her elegant evening outfit. She paired a hand felted, hand dyed merino wool shawl and bustier with a shibori-hand dyed silk skirt.
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Bev Fanzego’s “Painted Lady” is hand painted on silk and rayon satin.

Dennis Greer exhibited three oil paintings in a series entitled “After the Ball”‚ 1, 2, & 3.

Eleanor Hannan created a crow costume entitled “From the Ashes”.

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The cape features individually machine embroidered feathers, paint, and machine embroidered red silk lining.

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Gayle Ramsden’s “Wearing Picasso” is her interpretation of Picasso’s 1931 work called “Girl before a Mirror”. She used various pigments on linen.

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Heather Westergard’s “Tree Dress” combines elegance and grace with an intriguing message about our connection with nature.

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This Fashion Design Faculty Textile Art exhibition can be seen at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford. The show runs until October 8th, 2010. Exhibition hours are Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm.

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For more information contact 604-504-7441 local 4669.
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Editor’s Note: Doreen Jung is a member of the Abbotsford Arts Council and former Arts Administrator. Her column on The Arts in Abbotsford appears here regularly. All Photos By Doreen Jung.
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Cover Art: Gayle Ramsden’s “Wearing Picasso”