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Promoting Art To Wear since 1989
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The Wearable Art Connection of Southern California (WAC),
a non-profit organization, was founded in 1989.
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Fiber artist
and Fairfield Fashion Show Designer, Cheryl Trostrud-White founded the Wearable Art Connection of Southern California (WAC),
a non-profit organization, in 1989. She served as it’s first President.
Wearable
Art Connection (WAC) holds quarterly Saturday meetings (on the 3rd Saturday of Feb. May, Aug. & Nov.), inviting
nationally known guest artists to present programs and workshops on a variety of topics such a quilting, dyeing, painting
and surface embellishment. Designed for professionals and amateurs alike, WAC is a group where wearable artists can
relate to and share with each other on a regular basis. The WAC membership includes many award winning artists in the
field of wearable art, teachers in the fiber arts, weaving and sewing as well as a number of Fairfield and Bernina Fashion
Show Designers.
WAC activities include
the Annual WAC Challenge, a wearable art competition open to all members, with awards for winning garments chosen by the membership
at the November meeting. In 2005 members of WAC put on a Art
to Wear Exhibition called “Opulent Splendor” at the Brand Library Art Gallery as a celebration of ornamentation,
pattern and fantasy through painting, fiber art, costume and fashion. In 2000, WAC members' garments were
in an exhibition of wearables at the FIDM Museum LA. Also in 2000 WAC co-sponsored a lecture at LA County Museum of
Art given by Melissa Leventon from the M H de Young Museum in San Francisco. In 1997 and 1998 members' wearable art
was displayed in "ART WRAP" at the World Quilt and Textiles Shows in Pasadena.
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WAC MEETINGS-3RD SATURDAY IN FEB, MAY, AUG, NOV - MEMBERS FREE, GUESTS $10
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