Photo courtesy Museum of Craft and Design via Sky Cubacub
Join Sky Cubabcub (Rebirth Garments) and Museum of Craft and Design for a virtual workshop about cripping fashion, inspired by Mode Brut
The Museum of Craft and Design, Longmore Institute on Disability, and the Palo Alto Art Center present a very exciting virtual MakeArt Lab collaboration, in conjunction with the current Bay Area exhibitions, Mode Brut and The Art of Disability Culture. Facilitated by Rebirth Garments founder Sky Cubacub (They/Them/Xe/Xem/Xyr), join us for a DIY, personalized garment alteration workshop, utilizing items found within your own closets!
Sky will consider how artists from both exhibitions creatively incorporate accessibility into the garment design process and discuss the broader significance of cripping fashion – a rising dress movement catering to those whose gender, sexuality, mental, and/or physical ability typically do not fit in with what normative society deems acceptable. Next, you’ll grab a garment that hasn’t been inspiring you for a while, and let Sky spark some ideas for how to breathe new life into your old clothes!
Plus, CE teaching artist and lead designer of Mode Brut Victor Molina will give insights into the virtual collaborative design process employed during the creation of the Mode Brut CE fashion line.
This event will be held in Zoom meeting format so participants can interact with the artist and each other. Facilitators will stream a disability activism music playlist and share images of designs from both exhibitions for extra inspiration.
Free for all, recommended for ages 12+
A limited number of MakeArt Kits containing some basic (and fun!) materials are available via the MCD Store. Please order by Saturday, November 27.
Suggested/optional materials:
Fabric scissors
Needle + thread
Embroidery needle + embroidery floss
Fabric glue
Fabric markers or permanent markers
Fabric paint
Rhinestones + pom poms
Scrap fabric
Fringe
Yarn
Anything else that inspires you!
About Sky Cubacub
Sky Cubacub (They/Them/Xe/Xem/Xyr) is a non-binary queer and disabled Filipinx human from Chicago, IL. They are the creator of Rebirth Garments, a line of wearables for trans, queer and disabled people of all sizes and ages, which started in summer 2014. Sky is the editor of the Radical Visibility Zine, a full color cut and paste style zine that celebrates disabled queer life, with an emphasis on joy. As a multidisciplinary artist, Sky is interested in fulfilling the needs for disabled queer life, with an emphasis on joy. Additionally they are the Access Brat and the editor of a section on ethics and inclusion called “Cancel & Gretel” at literary fashion magazine “Just Femme and Dandy”. Sky has also created a queer fashion program series with Chicago Public Library Called Radical Fit. They have had over 45 fashion performances and lectured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Utah, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University. Rebirth Garments has been featured in Teen Vogue, Nylon, Playboy, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, Wussy Mag, and the New York Times. Sky was named 2018 Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune and is a 2019/2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist and a Disability Futures Fellow.