[miss velvet cream]: April 2012

Saturday, April 21, 2012

miss velvet cream at Open Make / Swap-O-Rama-Rama / Trashion, The Exploratorium, SF APRIL 21 2012

miss velvet cream invites you....

The Exploratorium presents
in association with Maker Fair
featuring Swap-O-Rama-Rama
with the spectacular TRASHION SHOW
at Open Make April 21, 2012
HERE!

miss velvet cream brings an army of little girls in a capsule collection of mash-up t-shirt dresses, true roots SF hip-hop from Yarrow Slaps and a heavy session of "Jean Therapy"

TRASHION 2012

Live hair/makeup for Trashion Show
1:30pm-2:30pm
Photoshoots for miss velvet cream

2:30-3:30pm
TRASHION SHOW STARTS 3:30pm SHARP
miss velvet cream is 4th in the lineup, right after the Swap-O-Rama-Rama participants strut their stuff!
Featuring the lovely Serendune, and her darling team....
Simone
Bea
Hailey
Kody
Camillle
Molly
Collette

and music "The Kid is Fiyah" by Yarrow Slaps

OPEN MAKE April 21, 2012
Swap-O-Rama-Rama / JEAN THERAPY WORKSHOP

10am-1:30pm with the designer, Scatha G Allison
We're going to work on this specific tote project:

From the book, Jean Therapy

miss velvet cream is preparing a "Jean Therapy LIVE" collection using Levi Strauss and Company reconstructed jeans for this year's Maker Faire Bay Area, May 19&20, 2012 in San Mateo.
And this means 5 years later, reMaking denim and jeans in a whole new way. Almost all of the original Jean Therapy one-of-a-kind pieces from the book are owned by MVC clients. There will be a few samples on site, copies of the book Jean Therapy, and hands-on instruction in the Denim Tote Remake Project.
But even more than this, I'm interested in playing with ideas and inspirations like this.....

And I want you to come and brainstorm with me!
Many thanks to the Sacramento and San Francisco crews for making this happen!!

SEE YOU IN THE EXPLORATORIUM!!!
http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/open-make-trash/

PHOTO CREDITS TOP TO BOTTOM
MVC by Antoi
Jean Therapy Sketchbook
Warren DiFranco Hsu
Jean Therapy Book cover
Various Magazine tears
JPG at the DeYoung

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Amanda Sage x miss velvet cream

AMANDA SAGE was born April 19, 1978 in Denver, Colorado. Starting in 1996, her travels and projects bounced her between Bali, Indonesia and Vienna, Austria. She studied traditional painting and etching for one and a half years with Michael Fuchs, and has been a student and painting assistant to Ernst Fuchs since 1999. Amanda has been blessed with a beautiful studio in the WUK since 2000, a self-go...verned culture house in Vienna, as well as being involved in creating new systems of group-interaction and presentation.

In 2008 she began spending more time in the US and when she’s not traveling for projects & exhibitions she spends most of her time in Los Angeles, laying eggs, in her new blessed studio located in downtown above the HIVE Gallery & Studio’s and the new Temple of Visions Gallery.

Her work has been exhibited and featured in Galleries and various projects/events worldwide since 2001. Most recently being commissioned by the Moksha Collective to paint their family symbol for ‘Art Basel Miami Beach 2009’.

‘Through my work I aim to shatter the ‘illusion of separation’, to challenge the viewer to question, and evolve out of ignorance, conditioning and ingrained genetic habits. In life I strive to take responsibility for the effect of my existence, and through my actions and images, inspire others to think/dream beyond their immediate capacity. Ultimately I seek to create portals that open to the infinite possibilities of being and expressing, so that we may remember and re-discover who we are, where we originate from and where we are headed. My aspiration is to paint messages, visions and narratives that communicate with an ‘older & wiser us’, awakening ancient memory; as well as the ‘present us’, that we may grow up and accept the responsibilities towards ourselves, each other and the rest of existence on this planet… now.’

ARTWORKS BY AMANDA SAGE