Wear The Resistance Series - Part 2

As the second installment of the Wear The Resistance series, Elevate Your Senses: Fiber Identification Workshop—hosted by Haus and Recovering Hipster Goods — invites attendees to dive deeper into the materials that make up our wardrobes. Led by professors Christian Lazzerine and Karin Soderholm from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, this interactive session begins with a short lecture on sustainable fibers, followed by a hands-on workshop featuring fiber sight-and-touch tests, label decoding, and a fiber burn test in a ventilated space. The event wraps with a fiber scavenger hunt at Recovering Hipster Goods, where participants will identify fibers in real time while shopping sustainably.

Christian Lazzerine, MAChristiana Lazarine is a full-time Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at RMCAD. She is originally from San Antonio, Texas, where she studied Fashion Design at the University of the Incarnate Word, where she also began her teaching career. Christiana attended the Paris Fashion Institute and has studied couture embroidery techniques through Elephant Embellishments. She is passionate about sustainable fashion, bespoke tailoring, couture sewing techniques, product development, technical illustration, and 3D apparel rendering.

Karin Soderholm, MFAKarin is an artist and teacher whose love of education and textiles has led her on a wild adventure around the world. She has a BA in Art Education from Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, and an MFA in Fibers from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. After four years in Daegu, South Korea, teaching in the Craft Design department at Keimyung University, she now calls Colorado home.Always a maker, Karin learned to sew as a young girl with her mother, learned to weave and paint as a young adult with insightful teachers, and learned to embroider with the help of charismatic friends. Her love of textiles is rooted in family tradition, the joy found in materials and process, and the hope of restoration. Karin has twenty years of experience in art education, teaching in public and private schools, facilitating workshops for kids and adults, teaching in art camps, and serving as a visiting artist. Her artwork has been shown in university and private galleries in the U.S., Korea, and China.

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