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Texoma’s Trashion III to be featured at the Sherman Earth Day Festival
By Steve O. Black
Apr 23, 2016
Sherman -- The Grayson College Visual Arts Department will host its third “Trashion III”, a runway style trash fashion show, in conjunction with the 2016 Texoma Earth Day Festival in Sherman, Texas, April 23 at the Sherman Municipal Grounds.
According to wiseGEEK.com “Trashion is a word which is used to refer to objects and garments produced from discarded, unwanted, and leftover items. Trashion encompasses everything from home décor to garments, and public interest in trashion started exploding in the late 1990s, when being environmentally ethical while staying chic started to come into style.
While anyone can look around a thrift store, someone interested in trashion might explore trashcans, boxes, piles of discards intended for the dump, and other more unconventional sources for potential artistic inspiration.
Trashion jewelry often uses discarded and waste metals, using things like bottle caps, discarded containers, and so forth to make their jewelry more interesting.
Trashion clothing often involves custom sewing, integrating old sheets, towels, fabrics and other discarded textile materials in designs which can vary widely, from sleek and hip to more casual and laid-back.”
The runway trash fashion and accessories show was open to all area artists, designers, college art students and high school art students in their junior and senior year. Work had to include no less than eighty percent (80%) recyclable trash, found objects, and discarded fabric material.
Models will be lining up at 2:30 p.m. and the runway show will begin at 3:00 p.m. in front of the gazebo.
For more information contact Steve O. Black at (903) 463-8662 or blackst@grayson.edu
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