Eligibility

- Participants must have a background in fashion or garment design in womenswear. - Participants must have a basic knowledge of pattern making in the garment business. - Participants must have some experience in garment construction, sewing, and working with a sewing machine. - Ideally, participants are interested in or already incorporate digital approaches to embellishments. This program is open to regional, national and global Indigenous fashion makers, designers and design companies, Indigenous jewelry makers, Indigenous beaders, Indigenous traditional artists including hide tanners and porcupine quillers, provocateurs, disrupters, advocates pushing the boundaries of their artistic practice, Indigenous artists that serve their community, Artistic leaders in Fashion Arts and collaborators of all performing arts disciplines. Applicants over the age of 18 at the program start date and Elders are eligible to apply.

Number of Participants

This program cohort will be made up of 8 participants.

Deadline

November 15, 2023 07:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

January 15, 2024 07:00 UTC

Duration

February 26, 2024 - March 22, 2024

Costs

• CA$35.00 application fee

Housing

Hotel, Private Room

Meals

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

Languages

English

Program Description

The four-week Indigenous Haute Couture Fashion Residency, led by faculty lead D’Arcy Moses, will offer eight Indigenous textile-based artists the opportunity to incorporate upcycled and/or digital embellishments into their work and to develop their designs and pattern development skills. Indigenous fashion makers and designers will explore experimental elements or accomplish finished productions of their work with an haute couture aesthetic in a fully supported environment. Indigenous Haute Couture - Digital Embellishments will have a strong visual arts component adapting silk screening, laser cutting, 3D Printing, digital embroidery, and casting processes as a component to the design process, exploring fashion's responsibility to address its part in the climate crisis through adapting new elements into their designs.