Organizers of Hatch, The I.D.E.A. Store’s creative-reuse art festival February 28-March 15, are seeking resourceful, inventive and stylin’ wanna-be fashion designers to enter The Hatch Trashion Show. The runway-style event featuring haute couture made from materials that might otherwise end up in a landfill, will take place at 6 p.m. March 7 at Urbana’s Lincoln Square Mall.
Participation in the Hatch Trashion Show is open to community members of all ages — there’s even a category for kids age 10 and under — but requires advance registration and payment of a $15 registration fee (per entry). Participants must submit a completed online form with payment and submit a garment design description by February 14.
The trashion show is being produced in association with the selection of renowned trashion designer/environmental educator Nancy Judd’s as the Hatch Visiting Artist-in-Residence. Judd, co-founder of the Recycled Santa Fe Art Festival, has exhibited her designs in high-traffic public spaces across the nation — from museums to airports. She will be in residence in Champaign-Urbana February 28-March 1; two of her trash-fashion designs — one made from pop-can cut-outs, the other from cassette and audio tape — will be on view through March 15 in the Hatch Art Exhibition at Indi Go Artist Co-op in downtown Champaign.
To learn more about Hatch Trashion Show and how to register, go to the event website: http://the-idea-store.org/trashion-show-2014-information-page/.
More information on the Hatch festival’s other events, including the art exhibition; art fair at the Savoy Rec Center; Judd’s public lecture, hands-on projects with children at Champaign’s Garden Hills Elementary School, and workshops at The I.D.E.A. Store is available at http://the-idea-store.org/hatch/.
