EcoJam 2015
EcoJam is an annual Fairfield, Iowa community collaboration that showcases local and international clothing designers. However, it’s more than just your typical fashion show… EcoJam only features only sustainable fashion! According to their website,
…EcoJam has kept the emphasis on showcasing sustainable and green design, as well as ever-increasing fun and fashion-splash. We believe that clothes which are good for the earth and fair to clothing workers are clothes which also look good.
Clothing ranges from the practical to the avant-garde, showcasing the amazing range of styles that can be made using sustainable labor and materials. This page features Judy Bales’s line of avant garde artwear created from salvaged, reclaimed and reused materials.
Judy Bales at Omaha Fashion Week
Whimsy
This installation was featured in an exhibit at ICON Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa. The show was curated by Ken Dubin and included 11 artists residing in Iowa who explore play, quirk and a tongue-in-cheek aesthetic.
Visit the Icon Gallery site for more photos from the show>
Interface: Fabricate
The artist was invited to be the featured artist at the the runway show Fabricate, part of the 2013 International Surface Design Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas. She also served as one of three initial on-line jurors for the runway show and one of two final judges at the live event which was showcased in the panoramic Rosenberg Skyroom on University of the Incarnate Word campus.
To view a lookbook of the entire runway show see: