Mirela Rupic

Fashion and costume design in Rupic Gallery

Exhibition "EDU workshops / costume - Fashion - Performance - Contemporary Art", in collaboration with Mirela Rupic is displaying works created by RISD students studying costume and fashion design. These designs were produced during the international student costume workshops and workshops of fashion design. The exhibition opens on Tuesday at the Rupic Gallery.

With this exhibition project will be completed students' final thesis. It is another project in the portfolio of Mirela Rupic in order to provide participants with easier connection to education institutions and acquire higher artistic skills.

This partnership workshop is a project between the Woodbury University of Art and Design, Faculty of Applied Arts in New York and the RISD Faculty of Design of the independent higher education institution in California.

Costume workshops were held in New York, San Diego and Fullerton and the final one was at Rupic Gallery where will be presented selected costume designs of the students. Also will be presented all the phases of the final work, for which were used only environmentally or recycled materials.

In New York, in early November was held a workshop of fashion designs "fiction in fashion designs", organized by Berkeley, Williams and South Alabama University galleries in consultation with Mirela Rupic, the founder and owner of Rupic Design. It was a joint cooperation with photographer Silvia Hank, with fashion designer Mary Dellas and model Tina Spanya. Rupic has outlined her approach to art and design in theater plays in a relationship between artist and fiction, as well as the process of cooperation between writers and designers in realizing costumes for plays.

In addition to the students' works that were created during the workshop, will be presented the work from previous editions of similar design workshop held in May in Brooklyn.

As an additional dimension to this story the main theme of this exhibition will "come to life" by the smells arising from recycled natural materials, a project signed by the author Sasha.

Following the opening of this project, from 14 to 16 December will be held workshops for art criticism "How to write about contemporary art", led by art historian Silva Thomas.

This workshop is organized by Mirela Rupic, her Studio and American Section of AICA and TTF gallery. It is open for participation to all students of Textile Technology, Faculty of Art and Design, Faculty of Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts and Dramatic Academy and interested art historians, designers and architects.

"Although there is no formula to writing about art, through a joint visit to target exhibitions, reading reference from literature and independently writing about the project works of this workshop, participants will face the fundamental aspects and principles of writing art criticism," said Rupic in the announcement.

The exhibition at Rupic Gallery will be open until 19 December, and admission is free.

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