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2015 Young Curators of the Roaring Fork R AW March 15–29, 2015 Artistic explorations of what it means to be in one’s most vulnerable state.

Reception

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Open-Mic Night Friday, March 20 6 PM 2015 Young Curators of the Roaring Fork

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DIrECTOr’S NOTE We live in a very interesting time. Ferguson, Eric Garner, terrorism, global warming and the fragility of humanity juxtaposes with the beauty that surrounds us in the Roaring Fork Valley. This year’s show explores the “human environment,” caught between the light and dark in a world that is transforming. We will journey underground to explore the regions beneath the surface of the earth — gemstones, caves, beauty — as well as the underground that means revolution, discontent, transformation. In between, we will play with shadow and light, black and white. We are so lucky to live in a place where over 80 people will volunteer immense amounts of time to create this message and share their art. That volunteerism leads to more arts programming in our schools and community. Your support of the arts and healthy communities keeps us creating, integrating and moving forward. Thank you.

Amy Kimberly Photos by Beth White

DESIGNEr’S ChALLENGE CCAH welcomes a brand new Designer Challenge has been fundapartner to the Green Is The New mental in motivating local designBlack crew this year! GITNB De- ers to step up their craftsmanship signer Challenge is sponsored by the and create more innovative looks. founders of The Whole Works, a new This partnership between CCAH clothing manufacturing facility in and The Whole Works is an excelRifle that employs womlent fit as “GITNB’s emen who are transitioning phasis is on sustain“The designs able fashion,” expressed from federal assistance.

The Whole Works recruits CCAH and GITNB direcmust be their employees from tor Amy Kimberly. “The made of GarCo Sewing Works, a designs must be made of non-profit design-train- material such material such as organic ing center and entrepresilk, cotton, or hemp, or as organic neurial learning lab in it must be made of upsilk, cotton, Rifle operated by Colocycled or reclaimed marado Mountain College or hemp, or it terial, made by hand, or in partnership with Garmade in the USA.” The must be made Whole Works represents field County.

The founders of the of upcycled a small but growing Whole Works — Kelly Alnumber of businesses or reclaimed that are reinvigorating ford, Julia Marshall, Janie Rich and Sadye Harvey — material, made the American manufacare specifically sponsoring turing industry, which by hand, or was decimated as jobs GITNB’s Designer Challenge as a way of supportsurged overseas in the made in ing the designers who are late 1990’s and early the USA.” on the forefront of design 2000’s. The “Made in in clothing and fashion.

America” movement For the past few years, GITNB has is picking up steam, as brands and offered a Designer Challenge which buyers move away from fast fashion awards participating designers with and towards style with a story. a Best Overall award of $500, a Most It is CCAH and The Whole Works’ Fashion Forward Award of $250, and hope that this partnership encoura Most Original Award of $250. The Continued on page 6

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SPECIAL ThANKS

This show is a huge production of love and energy. The models and dancers have put countless hours into rehearsals. A BIG thank you to all of them.

Special Thanks

We couldn’t do this without you!

Emma Danciger Pam Rosenthal Evan Cree Alpine Bank KDNK The Sopris Sun Bryan Welker and The Agency Sopris Liquor and Wine Steven Moore Stanley Bell Third Street Center Beth Wysong Annie Bell Sarah Wood Maciej Mrotek Andrea Bersson Dan Giese Errko Alm Terri Ritchie Jane Bachrach Beth White Eric Brendlinger The Carbondale Rec Center The Town of Carbondale Dos Gringos Pan & Fork Catering All our volunteers

The Dessert reception

Thanks to all the businesses and individuals that supplied us with sweets!

Allegria Beyond the Bell Kate and Aki Gluten-Free Cookies Red Rock Diner Rivers Restaurant Sopris Elementary PTA Sunshine & Moons Sweet Coloradough Sweetstuff by Frankie Bell Town.

The Village Smithy

The Designer Challenge

sponsored by the whole works Great artists should be honored.

The designers that work so hard to create sustainable designs are great artists. The Whole Works is helping us honor these designers through a cash prize. The Whole Works is bringing fabric manufacturing to our valley. Made In the USA is a sustainable label we need to support!

ThANK YOU TO OUr SPONSOrS

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This production takes a tribe to create. We thank all those who have dedicated so many long hours and amazing creativity to the project.

Director: Amy Kimberly Dance Choreography: Deborah Colley Projection imagery: Laura Stover, Evan Gaspar, Jeremiah Hutchens and Brandon McDuffey of Muse Motion model liaison: Regna Jones model Choreography: Amy Kimberly, Dana Ganssle Ellis stage manager: Ticah Burrows wardrobe manager: Kether Axelrod stylist: Laura Stover set Designer: Chris Erickson music Coordinator: Eric Allen Box Office Coordinator: Alta Otto libations manager: Evan Cree, Shawn Tonozzi Dessert reception: Pam Rosenthal Audio/Visual: Alchemy AVCS Artist in residence: Stanley Bell Body Painting: Melissa Tennent, Chris Ford Puppet Creation: OM Puppet Theater, Soozie Lindbloom, Missy Elzey Judges: Monika Oginski, Owner/Designer of Faboo Clothing in Basalt;

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Christy Interlante, Artist/Designer; Sadye Harvey, Designer/Whole Works Coordinator Art team: Chris Erickson, Stanley Bell, Olivia Pevec, Bill Laemmel, Brian Colley Dancer Costumes: Maria McFarland and Laura Stover with pieces from Samadhi Collection Hair & make Up Coordinators: Jessie Hinker, Hair Stylist & Cosmetologist and Brittany Sutherland, Make Up Artist, G Cosmetics Hair & make Up stylists: Jennifer Eis, Altitude Salon; Meg Harvey, Hair Bar; Chrystal Lough, Salon Terra; Juliette Nelson, A Sanctuary Salon & Spa; Joy Rosenberg, Erin Stephens, Blush Salon & Spa; Nicole Wilcox; Sara Watkins, Hairbrainz Salon; Hilarie Watkins, Altitude Salon Photos by Beth White

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ages local designers to take the next steps in developing their own businesses. As a contract manufacturer, The Whole Works offers pre-production services as well as cut and sew production for emerging and small designers such as the ones that have been participating in GITNB for several years and are on the verge of expanding. Melanie Finan, a longstanding GITNB designer and last year’s winner of the Most Fashion Forward Award, will be launching her brand Soma Threads this year after much investment in developing and refining her designs. Finan, who hadn’t designed clothes prior to her participation in GITNB in 2011, feels that GITNB gave her a jump start. When asked about her successes she says, “The clothes sell, so that’s exciting. And now I’m working towards bringing my once costume-couture designs down to be street-ready so that you can go out for a night on the town with a dazzling little number that’s hip, unique, and ‘styley’.” For now, Finan will work collaboratively with other artists to produce clothing, but plans to use The Whole Works when she goes into full production.

With this new sponsorship from The Whole Works founders, CCAH is hoping that the GITNB provides a stronger platform from which designers can successfully create. CCAH hopes to continue motivating and challenging designers to improve, give them a venue to show their work on the runway, and provide them the opportunity to sell their work at the trunk sale. But this partnership with The Whole Works takes this support to a new level, offering a financial boost and publicity to designers who are demonstrating excellence while at the same time connecting them to a sustainable resource for future production. Thank you to The Whole Works for becoming an excellent partner in Green Is The New Black Fashion.

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DESIGNEr’S CHALLENGE (in order of appearance)

Cyndi Buck

Using multiple vintage slips, Cyndi cut, reassembled and hand dyed each dress, to create fun and fanciful pieces, designed to represent an “underground speakeasy.”

Cyndi Buck Design on Facebook cyndibuckdesign@me.com 303-437-1012

Autumn Teneyl:

Eco Chic Fashion for the globally conscious woman Luscious organics, stretch laces, vibrant colors, soft and flowing, body-conscious details designed with no binding stiffness to disrupt grace and beauty in motion. autumnteneyl.com

Melissa Tennet (Heal Art Movement) & Chris Ford, Hair Feathers by Tracie Wright (Sacred Bird Hair Wraps)

re-in-Vintage by Deborah Macsalka

rOOTED by Vanessa Gilbert & Poiesis Design

Designs by M

Rooted goes underground for inspiration. Looks constructed from folded paper scraps, willow, root dyes and accompanied by geometrically beautiful wood jewelry by Poesis Design. poiesisdesign.com vmgilbert@gmail.com

Soma Threads by Melanie

Upcycled fusion of wearable art, costume couture, and playful performance-wear inspired by tribal nature and the steampunk style.

Soma Threads on Facebook 970-379-6625

Samadhi Collection

reVamp by Lily Guilder Design

Li’l Skirts

Color Creek-fiber Art

Samadhi is an expressive yoga and dance collection whose vision is to empower talented women to share their artistic brilliance around the globe. samadhicollection.com samadhicollection@gmail.com 740-591-3714 Li’l Skirts are one of a kind, reversible Snap’Rap skirts made from fun, flirty and functional fabrics. Handmade in Carbondale, Colorado. lilskirts.com jen@lilskirts.com 970-946-1182

Wilder Design by Loren Wilder

Wilder Design has been creating custom décor for special events since 1996. Our artistic approach to your special event sets us apart. www.wilderdesign.com

Wheels of remembrance: A Colorful Collaboration

by Roaring Fork Locals

Wheels of Remembrance is a cocreated offering to empower humanity to real-eyes the full spectrum of Love embodied! We are remembering together…Soundscape by Chris Ford (PharEye), Skirts by Kat Taylor (Elvin Earthlings), Crowns and Earrings by Lucy Roginski (Sacred Spirals Design), Gemstone Mala Necklaces by Alexa Webster (Seeds of Remembrance), Body Paint by

1940’s damaged gowns reinvented into timeless evening wear.

From Boulder, CO, Designs by M brings you eclectic designs for eclectic minds! Mens and women’s clothing with artistic flair. designs-by-m.com

Sally Converse - slixgrfx

Why be like everyone else? Sally Converse creates playful, one of a kind garments for the playful, one of a kind individual. converse-doucette.com sally@converse-doucette.com 970-433-3360

You are Beautiful… Slip into something more fabulous!!! One of a kind bespoke and upcycled garments for Iconoclasts, Glamour Gals, Dapper Dudes, Faerie Queens & Superheroes. lilyguilderdesign.com Caitlin Stolley at k8spark@gmail.com 847-942-1965 Unique wearable art clothing and accessories made with hand-dyed silks, cottons or polyester fabrics. colorcreekfiberart.com colorcreek49@gmail.com 970-778-5985

Maria Mcfarland

AspenAlterations.com

Stalactite by Delia Bolster

This look draws inspiration from the organic shapes of the cavernous formations of stalactites and stalagmites.

Veszel

Indelible Couture | We share subcultures in street wear with the hope you will embody VESZEL | Made in USA Complete collection at veszel.com

Dena Barnes

1930/40s evening wear designed from reconstructed vintage clothing with original pieces made from collected vintage sari fabric. The pieces are inspired by and accented with peacock feathers. denajanebarnes@gmail.com

Sewitseamed

by Meghan Gillespie

Clashing soft and hard, taking aspects of the safe and the warm. We give it new heart, taking it underground.

Aspen Soleil by Kaylie finnis

Creations of clay, jewelry, inks and colors inspired by nature, fire, water and minerals. Find Kaylie’s work at SAW in Carbondale. asensoleil.com Facebook.com/AspenSoleil contact@aspensoleil.com

Shakti Shala

We believe that life is art and full of art whichever way you turn. What if your outer artistry were as beautiful as your inner existence?

Jayne Gottlieb, owner

Jess Ewart, director aspenshakti.com 422 E Cooper Ave | Aspen, CO 970-925-1655

Samsara Creations & rising Crane Training Center

Samsara, the repeating cycle of birth, life, death, past, present, future.

Embracing your Phoenix and Ninja.

Creating wearable art for ritual and prayer~formance/performance. samsaracreations.com Tanya Black at tanya@ mountainmystic.co or 970-903-9822 Karen Bradford of Rising Crane Training Center: risingcrane.net

Akomplice Clothing

Akomplice is a movement. We are characterized soley by the love inherent in each individual moment.

Our philosophy is simple: Evolution Through Innovation. akomplice-clothing.com info@akomplice-clothing.com

Ironic Dilemma

One of a kind jewelery and clothing made with the environment in mind. ironicdilemma.com

Sail With Me Now

by Chloe Brand

Chloe Brand is a Junior at Roaring Fork High School who sews and designs with rescued fabrics and sails.

C.C’s Brand on Facebook chcooperb@gmail.com

Mitzi rapkin

Mitzi Rapkin started sewing in Home Economics in 4th grade. She has no grand plan with her designs; she just hopes for the best. mitzirapkin@gmail.com

Hard Candy by Laura Stover laura@carbondalearts.com

foxy Moron

Reconstructing the time space continuum one stitch at a time Foxy Moron Apparel specializes in one of a kind upcycled T-shirt couture. Graffiti art in Foxy Moron by Lee Wiliis, a Graffiti Artist and MC from the Western Slope of Colorado whose political pieces are expressed through spoken word, rap and graffiti. etsy.com/shop/moron robinpaz@hotmail.com

Pynk Shoes

Our passion for women’s shoes comes from women’s love of looking sexy and classy, and our desire to create a quality shoe that accentuates women’s unmatched beauty and style. facebook.com/pynkshoes

Arrowsmith Designs (Trunk Sale Only)

Combined Ingredients: Incandescent design, custom silhouettes, performance fabrics & local sewing talent.

100% Homegrown & certified to “Make You Happy”. etsy.com/shop/arrowsmithdesigns arrowsmithdesigns.com 408-892-7524

Two Teutonic Tutu Twats

by Robin Alexandra and Natasha Seedorf

Deborah Lindquist Eco Couture & Green Queen

by Deborah Lindquist

Deborah Lindquist Eco Couture is a line of bespoke eco conscious clothing created by designer Deborah Lindquist. Green Queen is her “younger sister” lifestyle line. deborahlindquist.com greenqueenclothing.com greenqueen@deborahlindquist.com 310-993-3248

Photon by Studio rAND

Studio Rand is a fine art studio concentrating in sculptural ceramics and mixed media art based in Carbondale, Colorado. studiorand.com Studio Rand on Facebook 720-308-0105

At Burning Man 2014 we were inspired to introduce the joyous tradition of Tutu Tuesdays to Carbondale.

Our custom tutus are created from upcycled materials. natashaseedorf.com robin.alexandra1@gmail.com

StOmpN DeSignZ by r2

StOmpN DeSignZ by R2 is a collection of “re-bicycled” clothing, dog collars & accessories made from locally sourced bicycle tires, tubes, hardware & miscellania. facebook.com/StompnDesignzByR2 R2StOmpn@Gmail.com 970-618-1156

Barakat

Collection inspired by the 70’s punk rock era lead by Patti Smith, Ramones...with a new vision for the contemporary urban tribes of today. amhstudio@gmail.com Photos by Beth White