Meet our Faculty

ALISON HERYER

The Sue Horn-Caskey & Charles F. Caskey Professorship of Textile Arts & Costume Design

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Alison Heryer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines costume, installation, performance, and community engagement. As a costume designer, she is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. Her design credits include productions at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 59E59 Theaters, La MaMa, The New Victory Theater, Portland Center Stage, Portland Opera, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, ZACH Theatre, The Hypocrites, and Redmoon. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, World Stage Design, and The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.

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www.alisonheryerdesign.com

SHELLEY SOCOLOFSKY

Weaving: Pattern & Structure / Digital Weaving

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Shelley Socolofsky is an interdisciplinary artist based in textiles and installation. Her work develops within a gossamer connecting metaphysics, ritual, science, and technology to explore a layered perception of the embodied experience. Socolofsky’s work can be found in numerous public collections; locally and abroad. Recent residencies, fellowships, exhibitions, and publications include the Astra Zarina Fellowship, the Jacquard Center, The Material Turn, Motherboard and her Satellites and Artist magazine. Shelley is the president of American Tapestry Alliance; an international non-profit organization representing members from 27 countries.

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www.shelleysocolofsky.com

FUCHSIA LIN

Instructor

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Fuchsia Lin is a first-generation Taiwanese-American who works in the mediums of textile arts, costume design and film. She’s a 2024 Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights Award winner, and has been called a “Portland visionary” by The Seattle Times.

 

Last year, PBS featured Fuchsia’a story as a first-generation American artist on their OPB Art Beat TV program; this story was nominated for an Emmy Award.

 

Fuchsia studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design in NYC. She’s
been commissioned by creative agency Wieden+Kennedy, The Oregon
Ballet Theatre and Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival to create fashion for
social activism campaigns and dance performances. Fuchsia’s textiles,
fashion and films are an ambassador for water environmentalism and the
sustainable fashion movement.

 

fuchsialin.com

ALICIA DECKER

Textile Design / Sewn Construction

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Alicia is a freelance designer and educator with over 15 years of experience working in textile-based product creation for major U.S. brands such as Target, Macy's, Mountain Hardwear, and Nike. Beyond industry, her research-based studio practice involves storytelling through textiles that aims to understand and implement the power of textiles to engage with community, and to inform culture. Alicia holds an MFA from the University of California Davis, is on the Board of Directors of the Surface Design Association, and is Embellishment Volume Editor for Bloomsbury’s Encyclopedia of World Textiles to be released in Spring 2023.

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www.aliludesign.com

TRICIA LANGMAN

Instructor 

 

Tricia Langman has over eighteen years of experience designing for prestigious fashion companies worldwide, including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Halston, Kashiyama, Donna Karan, Nicole Miller, Anthropology, and Banana Republic. 

 

Tricia leads workshops internationally on Circular Fashion, Biomimicry, and Biomaterials, as well as specialized Design Thinking and sustainability lectures at Cambridge University and the United Nations High-Level Political Forums. Tricia is a consultant and content and curriculum leader at Sovereignty’s BIPOC-focused circular fashion accelerator based in Los Angeles

LIZA RIETZ

ART 216 Sewn Construction

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Liza Rietz began designing and sewing custom and retail garments in 2001. Captivated by shape, texture and volume, her designs are continually inspired by the sculptural elements of Japanese design, the elegance and exaggerated shapes of the 1920's, and the interplay between body and garment.

 

After 15 years of designing and running a boutique, Liza gravitated towards teaching as a means to reconnect with the artistic and experimental side of fashion while engaging with individuals in her community. She has taught Innovative Design classes and workshops at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and Nike, she is a mentor for the Applied Craft and Design program, and currently teaches at Portland Fashion Institute, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and in the Textile Arts Program at Portland State University. All her garments are handcrafted in Portland, Oregon.