Fibers

Fibers professionals add the finishing touch from new textile inventions to fashion and accessories collaborations.

From the artisanal and analog to the SCAD fibers graduates work in Creative careers. digital and mechanical, SCAD fbers students in the largest program in the demanding and inventive roles, developing thermal insulating blankets for Color/material/fnish U.S. shape their own career path — and NASA, automotive interior surface specialist our experience of the material world. fabrics for Chrysler, innovative athletThese captivating student collections ics materials for Nike, medical textile Color/trend forecaster parade down the runway in annual therapies for health care innovator Fine artist/installation artist SCAD fashion shows across locations L&R USA, and custom fabrics and Knitwear designer in the form of woven, knitted, handbeaded, embroidered, and adorned installations for fashion houses and retailers. Alumni launch their own Print and pattern designer printed fabrics. studios, products, and clothing lines; Soft goods designer As part of the fibers curriculum, they are commissioned by brands such as Anthropologie, The CocaSustainable product SCAD arranges exclusive, intimate Cola Company, and Google; and they developer

conversations and studio visits with exhibit at prestigious international Textile designer artists who forge their own professional paths. Guests include acclaimed art fairs. Visual merchandiser Woven designer couturière Guo Pei; designer Michael Cinco; Arantza Vilas of Pinaki Studios; Rowland Ricketts of Ricketts Indigo; Hire education. Rebecca Burgess, founder of Fibershed; alumna Maura Ambrose, founder Stuart Weitzman of Tapestry Group of Folk Fibers; alumnus Chuck Chewn- Dorothy Draper SCAD alumna Trish Andersen’s (Dalton, Georgia) tufted artwork ing, principal of Charles H. Chewning Interiors and consultant at Studio Elizabeth Emerson Designs Steady Stream debuted at global Rubelli; and artists Andres Bedoya, Jaclyn Apparel design forum Design Miami/. Liz Collins, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Chiharu Shiota, and Barbara Earl Thomas. Ruggable William Kesling

SCAD flm and television students have access to industry-standard equipment to shepherd projects from scripts to screen like the short Let Loose, a 2020 Coca-Cola Refreshing Films program fnalist.