TRASHion Fashion Show, Friday, September 23

social hour 7-8pm, show starts 8pm

$5.00 donation at the door

Bring your friends! Welcome all member & friends
Presenting Student and self models

Judge for Best of Show is Amy Rosenberg of Fashion Denver!

Meet several of the artists at the show

casual refreshments and circular runway seating...

Steampunk:
Victorian Romance meets Mechanical Science
The Steamed Show has Pulled Into TACtile!
May 5th - August 6th

Find out about the delightfully artful, 21st century
flair of Steampunk!
TACtile Textile Arts Center is changing gears--literally! Steampunk brings past and future mechanical science together with Victorian romance. This exhibit features fine jewelry, clothing and home decor accessories using fiber art interpretations of the Steampunk movement.

You will be inspired to create your own personal interpretation soon!

An ever growing movement of intrigue and fantasy; Steampunk couture is a romantic mix of Victorian lace, silks and brocades, goggles, brass and copper, watch parts, found objects and filigree transformed into a mesmerizing artistic narrative with a mechanical influence.

Working with a myriad of fabrics, lace, roving, yarn, buttons, beads, knit, crochet, needlework, paint, dye, gears, cogs, rivets, and studs the artist creates works engulfed in passion from a fictional world where mechanical science is united with Victorian romance.

Artists have described Steampunk style as:

“Mad Max meets Jane Austen. Sid Vicious shakes hands with Charlotte Bronte. Vivienne Westwood dances with Charles Dickens. These images are how I describe Steampunk. It’s fashion style influenced by science fiction based in Victorian England.” … Jean Campbell

“Steampunk evokes a sense of adventure and discovery, and embraces extinct technologies as a way of talking about the future” according to The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature, by Jeff VanderMeer

“It deals with time travel and Victorian-era technology that’s powered by steam” ELENA SANDERS, Steampunk Designer

Also A Special Thanks to:

Steampunk author and Editor Christopher Ficco who stopped by to sign his new publication, Penny Dread tales, Volume 1: Gears, Coils, Aether & Steam, an anthology of Steampunk stories.