Category: Mixed Media: Wearable Arts

This week we finished constructing happi coats and painting designs on them. For those who chose not to decorate their happi coats further, they had time to make felt and fabric plushies as well as yarn Pom poms and shrinky-dink…

This week, we continued sewing our happi coats. We learned how to use heat activated interfacing to hem the edges. We also started designing the surface treatments and embellishments for our happi coats, including embroidered details, tie dye colors and…

This week we had a field trip to the Honolulu Museum of Art where we learned about three different art mediums and had a short interactive tour of some of the galleries in the museum. In class, we began constructing…