Sewing Sewing Sewing

ACE Arts and Street Style Dream Seams School of Fashion has partnered with the

East Bay Depot for Creative ReUse to provide participants with sewing machines and fabric for the program.

The program sincerely thanks the Depot for their dedication to Oakland Youth.

 

We've started sewing and in preparation for our first photo shoot on December 19th at the main Branch of the Oakland Public Library. The shoot is titled "Reading is Always in Fashion"

MOCHA recreate competition results

As seen at the Museum of Children's Art  ReCreate competition and exhibition in Jack London Square, our collaborative Newspaper Garments inspired by historical costume designs placed Second overall with an award for Highest Artistic Merit. There were over 125 entries to the competition.

The 7 dynamic pieces will tour Oakland with other Re-create winners.

Youth for Youth Grants

We've just submitted our Youth for Youth Grants to Youth UpRising. We've our fingers crossed but are to be the last grant read by the organization because of misunderstandings about deadlines.

If you'd like to review our application please follow the grant link

Our youth/program fundraising committees will also be applying to the Oakland Innovators Grant offered by Oaklandish.

Recreate NewsPaper Costumes

Street Style and Dream Seams will be entering Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA ). Kyle, a local origam artist gave a presentation and demonstration to the Street Style. Before we started our creative paper costumes using a "draping" technique.

The Dream Seam Class caught up on illustrations, headshots, and biographies and then worked on the news paper Re-creations.

ATTENTION:

We are looking for models for our first photo shoot. Real Size "All sizes" may apply. Potential models must complete an intensive training course. The photo shoot will take place the second week of December. If you're interested please contact Kristi Holohan at ace.arts.eastbay@gmail.com or call 415 420 8028

Oakland Public Library Exhibit

October 12th through November 30th Street Style/Dream Seams will have our first exhibit at the Main Branch of the Oakland Public Library outside of the TeenZone.

Photos, original fashion illustrations, and biographies have received a positive reception from the library staff and interest from the visitors. Included in the exhibit are: Breanna, Kai, Lily, Patricia, Nancy, Melinda, and Tanya, and a biography and photo of Kristi the course facilitator.

We look forward to working with the library on future photo shoots.

Street Style October 6th

We had our first class this week at Rock Paper Scissors Collective .

We had teacher/student introductions and delicious snacks graciously donated by La Farine Bakery. We signed our commitment contracts and took home our necessary paper work for guardian permission for field trips and such.

Then we wrote our initial biographies and took our head shots which will be posted on the blog as of next week.

We had a studio tour and discovered our sewing station with over ten machines (both industrial and home) and our consignment shop where the group will have a rack and take an amazing 80% of the sale!

The information from our first class and the  program will be highlighted at the main branch of the Oakland Public Library just outside Teenzone.