Partners: Climate Creative, Fafafoom
Place : The Dome Center for Performing Arts in Oakland, California
Focus Area: climate advocacy, STEAM
Methods: event photography, styled portraits
Impacts and results:
Visibility: Hem & Jaleo sprang from the imagination of talented textile artist Mira Musank (of Fafafoom)—a way to interact with the work she created during her residency with Climate Creative.
Organizational Assets: These photographs helped document Mira’s fashion show and also illustrated her beautiful vision for funding to help her project grow.
And it worked! You can now see her gathered cloths dress on the cover of Elle—just one more step along the way of bringing Mira’s hope of repurposing textile waste to life.
Hosted at The Dome, the event invited the audience to participate in life drawing as models moved around the space wearing Mira's creations made entirely from textile waste—pre-consumer cutouts, sewing remnants, and pre-owned clothes.
Agua Clara Flamenco then brought Mira's upcycled textile designs to life on the stage transporting a rapt audience through song and rhythm through the music of Andalusia.
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