Sustainable Fashion Design

Emma Rae Armstrong is a native San Franciscan artist and Costume Designer. Her drive for exploration and attention to detail contributes to her enthusiasm for making the impossible - possible. 

Over the past two years she has taught for SCRAP’s, Sustainable Fashion Design program. She’s worked with children of all ages, making their design’s come to life while they learn sewing foundations and how to use up-cycled materials to create clothes. She continues to find the most creativity working with recycled unconventional materials, coming up with new ways to bring art into San Francisco’s community. 

Emma is a CalArts Alum, she graduated in 2022 with a BFA in Experience Design, Production Design with a focus in Costume Design. After graduating she has continued to focus on designing for local Bay Area performers and LGBTQIA+ artists while educating others on sustainable fashion practices. 

Ariana Martinez-Cruz is a fiber, textile, embroidery artist. Her textile and visual art work has been featured at Brava Theater, the Annual SF Carnaval parade,Galería de la Raza, Mission Cultural Center and the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, TX as well as many artisan markets throughout San Francisco. Sewing and creating since the age of six exploring and pursuing knowledge in all forms of fashion, design, garment construction, textile creation and embroideryart. Current creator of Sew Frisco a wearable thread art brand inspired by memories and life growing up in San Francisco through hand embroidered iron on patches and pins. She shares her love of sewing through various community workshops from hand sewing to creating costumes.

Christine Haynes is a sewing author, teacher, and pattern designer. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After college, Christine moved to Los Angeles, CA and sold ready-to-wear garments for many years. When Random House approached Christine to write her first book in 2006, she left ready-to-wear, and turned her focus to teaching others to experience the joy of making clothing for themselves, through her patterns, books, and workshops. Christine teaches at retreats around the world, and teaches virtual garment workshops from her studio in San Francisco, CA. Learn more about Christine at www.christinehaynes.com 

Vega Vosbek (they/she) is a nonbinary transfemme creator, educator, and organizer based in Oakland, CA. They received a BA in Cognitive Science and Education from UC Berkeley in 2020 and worked as a public school teacher before dedicating themself to creating. A self-taught jeweler, June crafts transdisciplinary bodily adornments through chainmail, metal casting, wire working, and a variety of other mediums, toying with expectations of appearance and material. Their work is deeply inspired by queer bodies and expression, ancestral/traditional craftwork, and our (dis)connection with land and nature. 

Honoring the importance of community in the arts, June stewards communal makerspaces for QT/BIPOC artists, organizes community-based fashion shows and art markets, and teaches various workshops intended to cultivate community and facilitate access to jewelry-making materials and knowledge