Huer Magazine Issue 1

MAGAZINE

TEAM MEMBERS

President - Alessandra Taranta

Head Staff Writer / Editor - Arienne Stoye

Creative Director - Nathaniel Bos

Creative Director / Social Media Manager - Morgan Wendlend

Creative Director / Social Media Manager - CJ Smith

Head Editorial Graphic Designer - Lexi Seidel

Co-Editorial Graphic Designer - Emilee Holzwarth

Creative Concept Graphic Designer - Maelynn Anderson

Photographer - Bee Vrieland

Photographer - Jack Schwartz

Makeup Stylist - Istria Alic

Hair Stylist / Guest Collaborator - Jenna Palma

Faculty Advisors - Lori Faulkner, Natalie Wetzel

A Special Thank You

Ingrid Hop, Delaney Mott, Sarah Schafer, Will Chatlosh, Emma Benson, Liliana Castro, & Tayler Harms

ABOUT THE ISSUE

For the very first Huer issue, we wanted to express the true meaning of why this project was created. Huer magazine was founded by a group of students at Kendall College of Art and Design who wanted to express and promote their creativity along with their peers’ by founding a platform for student work to be shown. Throughout this issue, you will see work from the talented students of Kendall College of Art and Design, ranging from many of the different disciplines offered here.

Along with capturing student work, our main story covers the importance of sustainability in fashion. This practice is becoming more common in not only the Fashion Studies program at KCAD, but also in the fashion world. This past year has been a whirlwind of ups and downs, lots of do-overs, and different approaches. Through long nights and endless hours of hard work, we are excited to bring to you the very first issue of Huer magazine.

Outfit

Made by: Rickelle Haller-Zamora

Photographer: Delaney Mott

Ronan BAUMHARDT

LEXI

WIEReNGA

EMILY BEEMAN

Wheredoyoufindinspiration?

I’m inspired by mortality—the idea that every feeling and physical state is fleeting, while death, on the other hand, is definitive, infinite, and inevitable. I can also cite my upbringing in Michigan rurality as a big part of my work and the person I’ve become. I grew up watching life and death cycle through one another on smaller animals. I have a deep appreciation for the natural world and our human relationship with it.

Whatdoyouhopetoaccomplish inthefuture?

In the next few years or so, I want to go on to receive a graduate degree in the studio arts and eventually teach or find a career in the museum industry. I have a unique opportunity as a recent graduate with no salaried career—I can move to cities that interest me relatively freely, pick up a handful of odd jobs, and allow those experiences to inform my whoIamasaperson(which,inturn,informs myartwork).

Socials: Instagram: @emilybeeman.art Website: emilybeeman00.wixsite.com/artwork

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CROSKEY ABBY

CROSKEY ABBY

SYDNEY HIggins

Outfit

Made by: Will Chatlosh & Elizabeth

LACEY BRIGGS

Daenerys Averett

KEEGANMOORe

How did you get started with art?

I have been drawing and sculpting ever since I was a little kid. I was always especially fascinated with monsters. I remember watching Godzilla movies and Star Wars movies over and over and filling up sketchbooks with them. Eventually I got my hands on an early version of Photoshop, probably when I was 10 or so, and that started my digital painting phase. I am colorblind, so physically painting and mixing paint was always really difficult. Having a color wheel and the ability to test my colors makes it much easier to focus on creating.

Are you ever trying to express something in your art? If so, how do you feel when an audience interprets the message differently?

I think I go between wanting to include detailed or leveled expressions in my art and just wanting to make something that I enjoy. I used to get really stuck when I couldn’t think of a deep meaning to attach to the work I shared, but eventually I grew to be okay with making for the sake of making. I actually enjoy seeing different interpretations of things I make. If there was a message I really wanted to express that got missed, I would just take it as a learning experience and communicate better in the future. Overall though, I think it is most important for me to share the connection with my art and be able to express myself, regardless of how it is interpreted. People who take the time to decipher or relate to the themes I communicate are some of my greatest motivators. They keep me moving forward.

Outfit

Made by: Rickelle Haller-Zamora

Photographer: Delaney Mott

SUSTAINABILITY

in KCAD’s Fashion Studies program

These ensembles were constructed from reclaimed suit jackets.

CLOTHING WITH

The Rise of Sustainable Fashion in Grand Rapids

By Arienne Stoye

In the past five to ten years, the topic of sustainability has grown in popularity exponentially. With rising concerns about the state of the planet and demands for inclusive and ethically made clothing, many emerging designers are extremely passionate about responsible fashion. To many, sustainability plays a huge role in the Grand Rapids area. There is a strong sense of community aiming for a greener city. While Grand Rapids’ goal is to reach total carbon neutrality by 2050, organizations like the Grand Rapids Climate Coalition believe community- wide carbon neutrality can be achieved by 2030. Bringing people together spreads a lot more awareness about these issues.

Here at Kendall, sustainability is a massive priority for students enrolled in the Fashion Studies Program. Chair Lori Faulkner has dedicated her personal work to sustainability. Utilizing deadstock fabric, recycled consumer goods, and zero-waste patternmaking, she created garments for her Sustainable Seventies Sabbatical Collection which was featured in the KCAD Alluvium Gallery last February and on the runway for the Unique Models Gala last August. She also has garments on display in the current Fashion and Nature Exhibit at the Grand Rapids Public Museum through May 2024. Faulkner’s mission as a professor is to get students excited about responsible fashion, ensuring that it is taught in the Pamella Roland DeVos School of Fashion. In her sustainable fashion class, Faulkner informs students of the many ways our choices impact the environment and offers alternative design methods including recycling consumer goods, zero-waste patterning, and subtraction-cutting methods. Because of this, fashion students at KCAD are deeply inspired by the idea of changing the fashion industry for the better.

As sustainability continues to thrive in Grand Rapids, fashion students can draw inspiration from many local businesses. Huer was able to sit down with Doug Philips, owner of Conscious Clothing. Founded 20 years ago by Philips’ wife, Rose, Conscious Clothing is the perfect example of a successful slow fashion brand. All their products are produced locally on a small scale, and a lot of care is put into sourcing their organic materials from all over the world. Philips was able to provide insight on creating and maintaining a sustainable brand: “As larger corporations are eating up that special marketplace you need to set yourself apart by showing that you are a brand that’s trying to do everything you’re doing in the right way,” Philips explains. “We’re doing this made in America. We’re using our own labor. Every step of the process is something that people can see on our Instagram. It’s important for students trying to do sustainable fashion to be transparent with their customers and network with other brands.”

Philips’ goal for the future of conscious clothing is to become a nonprofit and make sustainable fashion more accessible in Grand Rapids. He aims to establish a “coalition of brands” that can network together and create a strong community. In doing so, Phillips hopes to spread awareness and encourage people to support small and sustainable businesses. “I think it’s important to build that community that’s working towards a common goal of encouraging people to realize that they do have the power in what they choose to purchase and getting people to expect more out of the brands they support.” Conscious clothing is also featured in Fashion and Nature at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. By creating this strong sense of community in the business of sustainable fashion, we can step away from capitalism and change the way that we consume clothing in the modern world.

Pictured: Doug Philips, owner of Conscious Clothing

Pictured: KCAD Fashion Studies Professor, Lori Faulkner, working with students

Photographer: Delaney Mott

Graphic Design

INGRID HOP

What made you decide to be a graphic designer?

I have always been interested in art and before I was a designer, I was going to school for fine art. But I always wanted to have something to do with my life that felt purposeful. I took a design class at my school and realized that it combines all the things I love: psychology, human behavior, strategy and art. I love everything about design— how it influences our daily lives and makes life better. Now I spend my time taking in as much design as possible, whether that be while I’m out walking or in a grocery store, design is present in every aspect of existence.

Describe your creative process. While the majority of people think graphic design is a purely technical skill, all of my design work starts on paper. I start with mind mapping or brain storming before initial sketching which leads to research. Researching can span over the whole project or can be really quick depending on the circumstance. After that I go back and forth between physical sketching and drawing and taking things into digital programs. My process is flexible to allow for me to do what feels right for specific projects but the components of my process always stay the same: concepting, research, physical sketching and digital design!

Lexi Seidel

How do you stay inspired and keep coming up with creative ideas?

I stay inspired by looking at the work of other artists and designers. Whether it be at galleries, in magazines, in advertisements, or in posters, there is never a shortage of designs to look at. Each project also inspires different challenges, helping me to form different concepts and ideas depending on what I’m going for.

What do you hope to achieve in the next two years?

In the next few years I will be graduating and I hope to land in a smaller design firm. I also think it would be cool to move to Chicago or a big city for a couple of years. My overall goal is to be somewhere in the advertising realm, doing a wide variety of designs for all sorts of events, companies, and people.

EMILEEHOLZWARTH

Graphic

Model: Sarah Kuhnert Hair: Morgan Wendland

Makeup: CJ Smith Creative Direction: Morgan Wendland, CJ Smith, & Nathaniel Bos

Photographers: Jack Schwartz & Bee Vrieland

What is your favorite part about being a fashion designer?

My favorite part about designing fashion is the closeness I feel with God as I am designing. I know God to be the greatest designer and artist of all, and I feel honored to have the ability to be a cocreator with Him when I am designing fashion. He gives me the purpose and inspiration that drives what I put my mind and hands to create.

Why did you choose to pursue a career in fashion?

I love how fashion is one of the biggest ways that people can express themselves. I chose to pursue a career in fashion because I want to design clothing that is not a covering, but a revealing and expression of who someone is on the inside. Wonderfully and uniquely made. I want to design garments that bring out the essence of who people are.

SALINA DALLY

Models: Salina Dally & Gillian Becker Creative Direction: Morgan Wendland & Nathaniel Bos

Photographers: Jack Schwartz & Bee Vrieland

Fashion

Model : Hailey Pursifull

Outfit Made by : Salina Dally

Hair by : Jenna Palma

Model : Hailey Pursifull

Outfit Made by : Emma Ryan

Hair by : Jenna Palma

Makeup by : Istria Alic

Arienne STOYe

Joanna

Bronicki

Jordan Thompson

GILLIAN BECKER

SKYLAR SPEEDWELL

BEE VRIELAND

What details do you believe make the best photographs? How do you go about focusing on them in your work?

For my personal style, my best photos have a strong focal point that really stands out and catches someone’s eye. I usually have a bit of negative space in my pieces to create the focal point, and a strong pop of color adds more emphasis to that focal point as well.

How did you get your start in photography?

Freshman year of high school, there was a distinct moment when I wanted to discover my “thing.” Everybody seemed to have something they were passionate about, but I couldn’t think of anything for myself. I don’t know what clicked, but at some point, I realized that something I do all the time without noticing was taking pictures. Capturing a moment that I loved or something I found really pretty, I always took a picture. And I made that my thing.

DELANEY MOTT

JOSE BARRIOS

K A T

NIKODEMSKI

What is the significance behind Guts?

I’ve always had problems digesting food. I’ve had this issue for years, but this summer was the first time that I really started limiting myself in terms of what I allowed myself to eat. I can only have one heavily breaded thing per day. I couldn’t wake up, eat a bagel, and then have pizza for dinner… because my body would just blow, and it would be uncomfortable. … it’s a chronic and painful condition.

But I look at it like, there’s a few options. I can sit around and complain about it and cry, and let it devour me, or I can do something productive with it… I don’t want to waste my time. I’m only here for a few years.

What would you like your body of work, the stuff that you produce in the future as well as the projects that you’re working on currently, to say?

The things you’re insecure about or uncomfortable with, accepting that these are things you can’t control, and there’s no need to hide it because it just is what it is. And granted, I feel like a lot of times people are appreciative when you’re honest.

That’s the idea of my art: I guess if I can be a resource for some people to feel comfortable, that’s what

makes me happy. Being open and honest with these things, I have had many people come to me saying that they also suffer from X, Y and Z, and they haven’t had any other resources or outlets to be comfortable expressing that. I don’t feel like the purpose of my life is making others happy. I do find a purpose of continuing to live. When I know that other people are going to be given a sense of community or safety or acceptance or understanding.

To boil it down, everything that’s in here: my work is about self-acceptance.

Made by: Elizabeth Ojeda

Hair: Jenna Palma

Makeup: Maelynn Anderson & Istira Ali c Creative Direction: Morgan

Wendland, CJ Smith, & Nathaniel Bos

Photographers: Jack Schwartz & Bee Vrieland

What is Small Earth Vintage?

Small Earth Vintage was born in the 1980s when Andy Drasiewski was in college. With his massive collection of vintage clothing, Andy used to dress participants of “Mock Rock” lip sync competitions, recreating many iconic looks from David Byrne (in his famous oversize suit) to Madonna.

After graduation, Andy started selling vintage clothing for the first time in order to turn his collection into a more officeappropriate wardrobe. But office work was boring. In 1993, Andy quit the corporate world and began selling vintage clothing full time. Rather than deal with the responsibilities of owning a store, he supplied existing vintage stores with clothing and rented spaces in antique malls to sell vintage. He was able to buy a home based on the huge success he had selling vintage Air Jordans, Adidas, and other athletic shoes and vintage clothing to the Japanese market. In the late 1990s, Andy met his life-and business- partner, Karen, who expanded the business to include internet sales. Nearly 40 years old, Small Earth Vintage is currently selling vintage clothing online and at the storefront Lost and Found in Grand Rapids. They have even expanded to shops in Detroit, Vermont, and New Jersey. Small Earth Vintage will continue to evolve with the changes in the world of vintage fashion.

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