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Your Future: Fashion and Textile Careers
Artsfest / Artsfest 2021 / Your Future: Fashion and Textile Careers
We are the fashion and textiles department at the School of Art at the University of Wolverhampton. We work with an incredibly diverse group of students who aspire to run their own businesses and work in a wide range of roles across the fashion and textiles industries.
Three industry leaders have been invited to inspire our current and future graduates by sharing their journey through fashion and textiles careers, and talking about where the industry is today and what might happen next. The last year has been challenging for everyone, and it has been especially challenging for our students whose first love is to be in the studio and workshops designing and making. Every day we are impressed with the tenacity and perseverance of our students as they journey towards graduation ready to emerge into a rapidly changing industry. Our speakers have been chosen to represent a variety of expertise across the fashion and textiles sectors and to give us an up-to-date insight into what opportunities are on the horizon.
This event is open to all, this is an inclusive event – we welcome everyone who is interested in careers in the fashion and textiles industries and the current state of the industry, whatever stage of your education or professional experience.
Speakers:
Fazane Fox
Fazane is the owner of The Production Lab where her team helps start-ups create their first collection, supports fashion designers to develop high-quality, mass-produced commercial products in the UK and enables established brands to upscale their production offshore.
Eileen Gleeson
Eileen is the owner of Design Union Print Studio where her team of textile designers create inspiring contemporary print designs for fashion and interiors.
Oli Royce
Oli has previously worked with Speedo International, he is now Head of Design at Gymshark.
Fashion and Textiles / Careers in the Arts
Fashion, Textiles and Intellectual Property: Patchworks, Quilts or Veils?
Cultural Appropriation in Film, Music and Fashion Creative Industries
Masters in Conversation - Stephen Snoddy
Masters in Conversation: Artist Cathy Wade
Masters in Conversation: Artist Robert Luzar
Creative Futures - Lynsey Harris Designer Maker
Creative Futures: Jason Fernandes, 3D Designer & 3D Design Lecturer
Creative Futures: David Longworth Exploring Careers at the BBC
Creative Futures: VOiD Applications Web Design
Creative Futures: Naomi Jacques Glass Artist
Creative Futures: Nick Cohen Creative Director, Writer and Maker
Creative Futures: Eighty3 Design, Web Design and Branding
How a Manchester Gallery Supports Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists
Artsfest 2021
January 2021 Recordings:
February 2021 Recordings:
April 2021 Recordings:
- Yam Cams: Photography in the Black Country
- Blown Away Winner Elliot Walker Demonstrates Hot Glass at the University of Wolverhampton
- HoPIN Webinar: Illustrated Print for Industry and Commerce
- All the Writing Selves We Have to Be - A Discussion on Writing Careers
- Masters in Conversation - Stephen Snoddy
May 2021 Recordings:
- Intellectual Property Series: Inspiration or Imitation? Copyright & Moral Rights in Artistic Works
- HoPIN Webinar: The Rise of Photographic Illustration 1839-80
- Your Future - Fashion and Textile Careers
- Revisiting a Tonic for the Nation: Introduction to the Festival of Britain
- Lyric Writing Master Class with Xidus Pain
- World IBD Day: When Art and Medicine Meet
- Paul Cox - His Illustrated Life and Career
- The Wrenna by R.M. Francis - Book Launch
- Intellectual Property Series: Intellectual Property and Photography - Creators, Owners and Licences
June 2021 Recordings:
- Intellectual Property Series: What’s in a Name: Trade Marks and Brands – Workshop
- British Art Show 9 and Socially Engaged Art
- In Conversation - Dr Louise Fenton and Artist Paul Cox
- Intellectual Property Series: Fashion, Textiles and Intellectual Property: Patchworks, Quilts or Veils?
- Intellectual Property Series: Intellectual Property and the Music Industry: Mapping the Maze
- Bilston Enamels: Talk and Q ∓ A
August 2021 Recordings:
September 2021 Recordings:
October 2021 Recordings:
- Trans and Non-Binary Representation in Musical Theatre with Andi Lee Carter
- Creative Futures - Lynsey Harris Designer Maker
- East Asian Representation in the Broadway Musical Allegiance
- Creative Futures: Jason Fernandes, 3D Designer ∓ 3D Design Lecturer
- Cultural Appropriation in Film, Music and Fashion Creative Industries
November 2021 Recordings:
- Black Representation in Musical Theatre
- Creative Futures: David Longworth Exploring Careers at the BBC
- South Asian Representation in Musical Theatre
- Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man at Seventy
- Creative Futures: VOiD Applications Web Design
- The Top Secret Poetry Notebook of Willis the Poet
- HoPIN Webinar: Illustrating Industry
- Creative Futures: Naomi Jacques Glass Artist
- Family Planning - The Lived Experience Through Art - Panel Discussion
December 2021 Recordings:
- Creative Futures: Nick Cohen Creative Director, Writer and Maker
- Why Bother? The Art of Disability: Practice Does Not Make the Perfect (Disrupting Bodies)
- How a Manchester Gallery Supports Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists
- Simon Briercliffe in Conversation with Professor Keith Gildart
- Creative Futures: Eighty3 Design, Web Design and Branding
- Poetry on Prescription: Creative Writing & Wellbeing
- The Art of Disability History: A personal view through NDACA (the national disability arts collection and archive)
- It’s An Artists Life: Talk with Artist Tanya Raabe
We are embracing Black History Month beyond the confines of a single month. Our intention is for Black History Month to transcend seasonality and 'tokenism’ so that the original initiative itself is eventually no longer required.
UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) is an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of disabled people's struggle for equality and human rights.
LGBT+ History Month is a month-long annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans,
and non-binary history, including the history of LGBT+ rights and related
civil rights movements.
