Fibers
Fibers professionals add the finishing touch from new textile inventions to fashion and accessories collaborations. Creative careers. Color/material/fnish specialist Color/trend forecaster Fine artist/installation artist Knitwear designer Print and pattern designer Soft goods designer Sustainable product developer Textile designer Visual merchandiser Woven designer
SCAD alumna Trish Andersen’s (Dalton, Georgia) tufted artwork Steady Stream debuted at global design forum Design Miami/.
From the artisanal and analog to the digital and mechanical, SCAD fbers students in the largest program in the U.S. shape their own career path — and our experience of the material world. These captivating student collections parade down the runway in annual SCAD fashion shows across locations in the form of woven, knitted, handbeaded, embroidered, and adorned printed fabrics. As part of the fibers curriculum, SCAD arranges exclusive, intimate conversations and studio visits with artists who forge their own professional paths. Guests include acclaimed couturière Guo Pei; designer Michael Cinco; Arantza Vilas of Pinaki Studios; Rowland Ricketts of Ricketts Indigo; Rebecca Burgess, founder of Fibershed; alumna Maura Ambrose, founder of Folk Fibers; alumnus Chuck Chewning, principal of Charles H. Chewning Interiors and consultant at Studio Rubelli; and artists Andres Bedoya, Liz Collins, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Chiharu Shiota, and Barbara Earl Thomas.
SCAD fibers graduates work in demanding and inventive roles, developing thermal insulating blankets for NASA, automotive interior surface fabrics for Chrysler, innovative athletics materials for Nike, medical textile therapies for health care innovator L&R USA, and custom fabrics and installations for fashion houses and retailers. Alumni launch their own studios, products, and clothing lines; they are commissioned by brands such as Anthropologie, The CocaCola Company, and Google; and they exhibit at prestigious international art fairs.
Hire education. Stuart Weitzman of Tapestry Group Dorothy Draper Elizabeth Emerson Designs Jaclyn Apparel Ruggable William Kesling
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