This year’s LA County Fair was themed “Art Unleashed.” Several fiber and textiles activities showcased intersections between fashion and agriculture during May 2025. A hand-woven community-based textile was created based on the leadership of apparel student Angela Becerril. The textile was exhibited at the annual Home Arts exhibit and showcased a variety of students’ hand-spinning…
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Engaging in Fiber Arts: U.S. Wool Spinning & Weaving
By Isabella Andrade, Apparel Merchandising and Management Undergraduate Student and Research Assistant Working with Wool Fibers For the past year of my undergraduate college experience, I had the opportunity to work with different types of wool materials from U.S. sheep farms as part of Cal Poly Pomona’s USDA Education research project. My first task as…
Exploring Wildlife Habitat and Family-Friendly Activities at Sarvodaya Farms
This past week, I visited the CA Native Garden Grand Opening at Sarvodaya Farms in Pomona CA. It was interesting to see it is certified as a wildlife habitat for “its commitment to sustainability” providing vital elements to the habitat, including “food, water, cover and places to raise young.” Activities In this context, there was…
Fibershed Symposium: Evaluating Factors of Fashion towards Sustainability
By Malia Chang, Apparel Merchandising and Management Undergraduate Student and Research Assistant Fibershed hosted a symposium to discuss the topic “Relationships of Change.” It explored different avenues of the apparel industry that include the topics of people, policy, and materials that have various impacts and contribute to transforming the “soil-to-skin processes.” Critical matters of focus…
US Wool Outreach with Yarn Spinning & Textile Weaving
By Sharon Jane Wong, Apparel Merchandising and Management Undergraduate Student and Research Assistant At this year’s LA County Fair – Cal Poly Pomona faculty and students gathered to demonstrate as part of the annual fair’s Schools’ Agriculture and Nutrition Program exhibit through Cal Poly Pomona Agriscapes. I had the opportunity to work as an Undergraduate…
Sharing Wool Research @ the International Textile & Apparel Association Conference
By Malia Chang, Apparel Merchandising & Management Undergraduate student Towards the end of October, I had the opportunity as a Student Research Assistant to attend the International Textile and Apparel Association 2022 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. I was able to attend several sessions that were offered at the conference. Throughout the conference, many gathered…
Community Outreach with US Wool, Textiles & Demonstrations
During the last week of the LA County Fair in May, I shared US wool research project activities along with my Apparel Research Assistant and recent Cal Poly Pomona alumni, Katia Quiroz. Katia was in my AMM 4630: Apparel Research project course in Fall 2021. Student projects focused on exploring US sheep and wool farms…
Continuing Seams of STEAM
COVID-19 has caused many abrupt changes over the past few months and it has definitely changed my approaches to teaching about Apparel and developing educational content. One aspect that I was worried about was the Seams of STEAM summer youth empowerment program where I usually develop and lead workshops with 3 Latina youth from San…
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