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Materials Innovation and New Traditions Panel
October 19, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm PDT
An indy and startup perspective on material innovation.

Join Carly Mick, Director of Manufacturing Innovation at Skyscrape, Michael Markesbery, CEO of OROS and Materials Designer, and Textile Artist Sarah Wertzeberger as they discuss new approaches and traditions to materials innovation.
Sarah Wertzberger is a textile artist, designer and educator who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Exploring the relationship between craft, technology and design, her hand-woven textiles delve into spatial perception, color play and the surreal, while embracing the foundational structure of weaving. She received her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited at Field Projects (New York, NY), The Oregon College of Art and Craft (Portland, OR), The Design Center (New York, NY), Holding Contemporary (Portland, OR) and has been a resident at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Deer Isle,ME), The Weaving Mill (Chicago, IL), and AZ WEST – Encampment Residency (Joshua Tree,CA), and Praxis Fiber Workshop. She is a recipient of the 2020 Oregon individual Arts Fellowship.
Carly Mick is the director of Manufacturing Innovation at Skyscrape where she focuses on creating novel and defensible fabric technology that is thermally responsive. Carly has deep expertise in technical fabric development and pushing the limits of game-changing textile innovation. Carly has spent most of her life building textiles in one way or another, from craft based knitting and weaving practices to programing high tech knitting and weaving machines.
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