Summer

Fashion Design and Textile Art

10 – 13*

If you love color and design, and want to learn more about sewing, embroidery, beading, textile art and upcycling, then this is the summer fashion camp for you! Come prepared to indulge yourself in creativity as you spend two weeks completely immersed in designing and creating various textile and upcycling projects.

*This is a Junior Artists program and will follow those guidelines outlined in our FAQ section.

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Overview

In this hands-on two-week intensive fashion design summer program, you will learn hand stitching as well as how to use a sewing machine so you construct your own designs. We will learn how to choose the fabrics that best suit your designs and cover sewing supplies, tools, and machines to use in your projects. The program culminates in a runway fashion show to display your innovative creations to family and friends!

All fabrics, trims, pattern paper, and other materials and tools are provided in the class. Students are encouraged to bring their own preferred tools/toolbox if they already own them.

The final culmination is Friday evening, with Saturday being a move-out day

Additional Information

Fashion design summer programs are open admission. Instructors will work with your child at their level. Your child will improve and learn new skills, whether they are a beginner or have been designing for years.

A toolbox should include: a decent pair of fabric scissors, a stitch/seam ripper, a thimble, a packet of sewing needles, straight pins, paper scissors, and a ruler – please have these in a container/box/basket of some kind that can be closed and protects you from the sharp-pointed objects. If you are able to provide this, please bring it with you. Tools are provided for you if you are not able to purchase your own.

Extra buttons, beads, lace scraps, extra fabric scraps you would like to use.

Your own hats, scarves, gloves, boots etc. can also be incorporated into your total look for the fashion show!

Cat Orlando earned an arts degree with an emphasis in three-dimensional design. She’s been teaching bearmaking during Idyllwild Arts Family Week since 2000 and since 2006, she has taught art, drama, movement and design during the Summer Program in Children’s Center. She is the President of F.A.M.E., a non-profit group that raises funds to assist children who want to take classes in the arts and she has been the Director/Instructor for her dance company called “On Your Feet” dance productions since 1998. She absolutely loves teaching young ones as they discover joy in their creative process, in all genres of art. Her motto: “In art, we don’t make mistakes, we create originals!” www.onyourfeet.info.

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