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Instructors

Michael Cepress
Artist, Designer

Cepress holds an M.F.A. in fibers from the University of Washington, has worked on theater productions in New York with director Robert Wilson and has written extensively on fashion's relationship to gender and popular culture. An interest in the classic male wardrobe and tailoring traditions has led him to focus on the design and production of menswear. In October of 2005, his work was featured in the sold-out runway show titled "An Evening of Men's Fashion: New Work by Michael Cepress." Less than a year later, he showed another complete collection of menswear designs in the runway showcase "Michael Cepress Introduces the Modern Gentleman." In 2007, his work will tour internationally and be featured in an accompanying book about paper in fashion.

Layne Goldsmith
Professor and Chair, Fibers Program, School of Art, University of Washington

Goldsmith has been a UW faculty member since 1983. An active studio artist, her work is represented in private and public collections and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Goldsmith has organized and directed unique educational programs including conferences, workshops, interdisciplinary summer art institutes, and study abroad programs. She is currently involved in the Commissions Project, which provides students with opportunities to apply classroom skills in the workplace. Goldsmith is especially interested in ways in which textiles function as social and cultural documents of the people who produce and use them.

Jane Lackey
Artist

Jane Lackey headed the graduate program in fiber and was Artist in Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art between 1997 and 2007. Prior to that, she served as Professor and Department Chair at Kansas City Art Institute. In 2005, she was awarded a Camargo Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship in Cassis, France. Her work has been included in exhibitions internationally, and she is currently represented by Roy Boyd Gallery in Chicago and Lemberg Gallery in Ferndale, Michigan. Lackey's works explore concepts that link our human identities with material qualities. She is particularly interested in fiber's capacity for conveying contemporary concerns of portability, impermanence, intimacy and tactility, while blending both new and old technologies.

Laura Wright
Artist

Wright received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington. She has shown her work at the G. Gibson Gallery, the Capitol Hill Art Center Lower Level, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, and Steve Martin Gallery in New Orleans. She is currently teaching a fiber arts class with the South Park Teen Program with a grant she received from the Mayor's Office of Art and Cultural Affairs. Wright will show at the Gallery 4 Culture in July 2007.

Instructors are subject to change.