Sparkle Up! An Immersive Upcycling Workshop Experience

About this event

Embellish your favorite denim jacket or hoodie and Create a Sustainable Brooch out of shapes from plastic water bottles!

Workshop is hosted by:

Caprece Ann Jackson | Sustainable Fashion Programming

Guest Host | Upcycler/Wearable Artiste

Evette Monique for Evette Monique Couture | Baltimore

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Upcycling workshops now emerging across the U.S. represent the latest in the trending

Sustainable Fashion category of immersive programming.

This novel workshop experience features selected upcycling fashion designers, wearable artistes, makers and crafters, who share their embellishment and maker techniques with workshop attendees; collaborating with them 1-on-1, to refresh the item they have chosen to recycle and/or create with resources provided.

From painting on unconventional materials, integrating alternative fibers and adding found objets, to applying novel accents and layering different textures on gently worn jackets, shoes, sneakers, hoodies, hats, handbags and coats -- upcycling workshops are taking hold like paint parties did a few years ago. Instead of painting on canvas, upcycling enthusiasts are embellishing and refreshing the relevancy of worn Wear, connecting with their aesthetic impulses, releasing their creativity, minimizing the devastating impact of Fashion Waste on the health of our planet, and for many, without knowing it – connecting them with the emerging era of Sustainable Fashion.