is an annual event hosted by the NC State College of Design highlighting student innovations in fashion and design. In 2021, in lieu of an in-person runway show, Art2Wear was to be held virtually.

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In early January, I was asked to lead the production of Art2Wear 2021, for a final live showing in June. 

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After countless hours in Zoom, many masked brainstorming sessions, scheduling and rescheduling meetings, we decided that our initial concept - an hour's worth of heavily choreographed runway sequences - was an exceedingly mundane representation of the vibrant and exceptional people and projects we were tasked with spotlighting.

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We realized (thankfully,) that we had the unique opportunity to capture the entire design process these 7 designers were about to undertake. 

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For six months we shot, cut, reshot, recut, planned, failed, improvised, lamented, rejoiced, wept with joy, and attempted to do justice to the "beast" we'd just undertaken.