University School of Jackson art studentsshowed off outfits made from recycled materials during “ARTS@theU: The Kids for Kids Fashion and Talent Show” on Thursday night.
Libby Lynch, visual arts department chairwoman, has been using fashion in her artclasses to teach design for eight years, and each year USJ has held a fashion show to highlight the students’ work.
“I had a student who went to Savannah College of Art for a fashion design summer camp, and she came back and showed me what she’d done and she said, ‘Can we do a fashion show here at school?’ and I said, ‘Well yeah, y’all get it together and we’ll do it,” Lynch said.
Lynch designed the fashion unit for her art classes and the students put the fashion show together.
“That was about eight years ago, and it just kind of took on a life of its own after that,” she said.
Every year Lynch looks for new ideas for ways the students can design their garments.
“The year I started doing the recycling thing, the kids kept saying, ‘Let’s do that again,’” she said. “They enjoyed it, and it’s something that can be different even though it’s sort of the same.”
At the beginning of the project, students choose a recyclable material and a designer to inspire their garment.
Hannah Adams, Ty Buckley and Lauren Nicola are ninth-graders in one of Lynch’s art classes.
“In class one day there were two buckets, and we pulled out a designer or an artist and we pulled out a material to use that’s recycled,” Ty said.
After choosing the material and designer, the students began putting together ideas for their outfits and working on how to turn the materials into a workable outfit.
“I got Andy Warhol and playing cards on the first shot, so I decided to choose Marilyn Monroe’s dress because he did a version of Marilyn’s face,” Hannah said. “I painted Marilyn’s face and his (Warhol’s) Campbell’s Soup cans on the back.”
Students were allowed to create an outfit entirely from the recycled material, or use a single garment and attach the recycled material on the outside.
“A lot of people actually bought dresses and put their material on it,” Lauren said. “With mine, I started from scratch and got fabric and actually stapled the cards to the fabric.”
This year’s fashion show was sponsored by All Fiber & Scrap Recycling in Jackson.
“They (AFS Recycling) sought me out to work with us, and I’m hoping he’s going to work with us again next year,” Lynch said. “I’m hoping next year I can actually make packets for the kids to do their recycled projects.”
This year’s fashion show raised over $1,400 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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