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Tiprin Follett (Mandalay) is the wearer of many hats: when she is not tending to her 3 children; Orion (6), Asher (4) and Robert (34)... also known as her husband, you can find her painting fences, training dogs or creating art. |
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Smiley is a Virgo with zip. Her talents include wearing
wigs, singing songs, being an earnest freak and toodling around
town on bike. (She won't buy a car!) V sings, makes art on the floor
and writes a blog about smocks - check it out here. |
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Kate Hillseth is a Sagittarius with the most enchanting personality. This year she and her boyfriend started an art gallery in Highland Park called "Young Art". When she isn't running the gallery Kate designs amazing dresses out of her hand painted textiles. | ||||
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Lisa Anne Auerbach Lisa Anne Auerbach is a photographer, writer, knitter, political commentator and a long time collaborator with A-Z enterprises. She is famous for her zines and check out her blog “The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting.” | ||||
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Ashira Siegel grew up Hasidic in LA, Israel and NY. Now she lives in a coop in Silverlake where she is also very much into bicycles and bike culture. Her creative background includes everything from ceramics and glasswork to documentary videography (like this). | ||||
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Molly Keogh is our master smocker who inspires us all with her own designs. She earned her degree in Fashion Design from CCAC and is building enough of her work for a show and book. Molly's own designs often deal with abstraction of form through motion. | ||||
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Mark A. Rodriguez is an artist, teacher, and archivist amongst other professions. He has an interest in playground designs before the 80's, pedagogy, alternative education, architecture, zeitgeists, trap doors, and buildings that serve as fronts. www.youngestprofessionals.org | ||||
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Donna Huanca's best childhood memories are of collaging outfits in the seediest thrift shops in downtown Chicago with her gorgeous Bolivian mother. Now she applies time management to a busy life as a self taught hair stylist, drummer and a creator.http://www.ruaminx.com | ||||
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Peggy Pabustan is a performance artist who has worked as a lifeguard, movie theater attendant (she once caught a man cleaning a fish in the bathroom) at a law firm, and an insurance company. She claims to be a "curvy" smocker so if you are the same, you might like her smock's hip hugging design. | ||||
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Tony Koerner grew up riding and repairing bikes - hence his appreciation of tools and materials. After serving as a Bicycle courier he began making his own bags and became engrossed in sewing machines. Cycling and sewing keep him going to new places like this: www.needlefeed.com | ||||
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Sophie Tusler is a young artist and fledgling Brooklynite who is largely preoccupied with fantasies about nineteenth century French cities. She spends her time sewing, writing and violating unwritten codes of social conduct on a Manhattan-bound L-train. | ||||
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Michelle
Brunnick is born and bread Los Angeles. She surfs, make
sculptures, shoots photos and makes new things from old things (like
this).
Michelle also does something at the Getty but has assured us that
she doesn't earn enough to stop her from wholehartedly participating
in the smockshop. |
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Jason
Villegas is a Leo who lives in New York, but prefers to
romp about as a bear. In addition to fabric sculpture and installation
he also makes clothing which has been featured in TEEN magazine
and on the bodies of fashion forward females and chubby boys. www.jasonvillegas.com |
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Karen Gelardi lives in Maine where she makes and stockpiles all sorts of wonderful customized handmade components to use in her upcoming installations and exhibitions. Some of these things (such as her drawings printed onto fabric) are used to create smocks for smockshop. www.karengelardi.com | ||||
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Sonja
Cvitkovic came to Los Angeles from Berlin for a three month
stint at the Mountain School of Art. She is a Capricorn who makes
installations and sculpture and loves Vitello Tonnato. |
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Mariana
Saldana is a Mexican born under the sign of Aries. When
not conquering the seedy corporate world in Houston Texas, she tends
to real passions; her music projects Medio Mutante & her solo
act Kunst Fascion - all one work of performance art in her mind. www.kunstfascion.com |
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Hadassa
Goldvicht was born and raised in Jerusalem and is currently
living in NY. Since graduating from RISD and SVA she is learning
how to breath deep again. She carries her soul in tin box that ties
to her hand with a long string, like an old helium balloon. Her
soul rattles sometimes when she walks. |
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Emily Bult is a recent transplant to New York who works as a barista with her eye on a future in botany. In the meantime Emily is teaching herself to make hand-drawn animated films, enjoys making things out of paper, and takes photographs from time to time. | ||||
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Carole
Frances Lung, itinerant performer, writer, organizer and
seamstress, travels across the country scavenging materials for
her smocks in the back alleys of uniform factories and textile manufacturing
plants. Check out the actions of her ultimate ego Frau Fiber, @
www.fraufiber.com. |
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Claire
Fong is a nocturnal seamstress who finds inspiration in
unwanted objects, medical equipment, techno-positive green anarchy,
and Bollywood films. After receiving a degree in Fashion Design,
Claire returned to her home town of Chico, where she organizes multi-media
events to promote local artists and build community. |
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Maude Benson lives in the high desert of southern California where she has a horse, a truck and hikes in the hills. She was taught to sew, knit, crochet and tat at an early age by her grandmother. |
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| Dafne Boggeri Aquarius, is another Mountain School Student who hails from Milano Italy. She makes photos, videos, performances and installations. Here is her AC/DSHE Label. | |||||
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