Meet our Faculty

Alison Heryer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines textiles, performance, and social practice. She has exhibited work in theaters, galleries, screens, storefronts, and public spaces across the world. Her research focuses on the development of sustainable and inclusive pedagogy to clothing the body for contexts in fashion, entertainment, and contemporary art. 

 

She received a MFA in Costume and Scenic Design from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA in Fashion Design/Studio Art from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, Costume Society of America, and Textile Society of America.

 

​https://alisonheryerdesign.com/

Fuchsia Lin is a Taiwanese-American artist, fashion/costume designer and filmmaker, called a visionary by the Seattle Times for the imaginative art and performance work she has produced. Through her work, she invites people together from across the disciplines of film, fashion, dance and the performing arts into her fantastical worlds.

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Fuchsia studied Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design in New York City. She has lived and worked in NYC, Paris and Taipei. Since moving to Portland, she has received numerous grant awards from the Oregon Community Foundation, Women in Film PDX, Regional Arts and Culture Council and more.

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https://www.fuchsialin.com/

Jocelyn Rice is a mother and the interdisciplinary creative behind Black Earth United. Her clothing blends Black American cultural expressions, shaped by the struggle for liberation in the face of enslavement in North America, with designs rooted in the earth’s evolution and Diasporic history.

 

Her garments have been featured in Vogue and Backpacker Magazine, sold at REI, and included in the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn. Jocelyn honors our ancestors' spirits through the clothing we wear, reminding us of our deep responsibility to our past, present, and future, and of our connection to Mother Nature.

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https://blackearthunited.com/

Shelley Socolofsky is a Portland-based artist whose practice investigates the instability of iimages and the systems through which meaning, knowledge, and authority are produced. Working across woven painting, digital imaging, and hybrid material forms, she subjects images to processes of translation, layering, distortion, and re-encoding.

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Recent solo exhibitions include Vanderbilt University, the QFA Museum, Weaving Data invitational curated by Theo and Nancy Downes-Le Guin at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Material Turn at FOFA Gallery, Montreal; and Innovation Thru Pixels in Sundvolden, Norway. 

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https://www.shelleysoco.com/

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Joshua Sin is a Canadian-born artist/designer living in Portland, Oregon. Trained as an Industrial Designer, he’s spent 10+ years working in corporate America, leading advanced innovation projects in retail, sports, and technology.

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In his practice, he explores the tension between physical craft and digital space. He sculpts textiles from found materials and deconstructed used clothing, sewing new patterns and experimenting with traditional quilting and mending techniques to create new fashions. He then inserts his fashion into digital 3D universes, constructing mysterious characters and worlds around his clothing design.

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https://www.joshsin.com/