CALL TO WITNESS THEME

The fashion, art, and accessory line from the Arts Collide group will have a multifunctional attitude since it will be capitalizing on the diversity of the group’s interests.  Members of the group have been schooled in the sciences and the arts.  They have chosen diatoms as the main theme for their inspiration.  Diatoms are microscopic, single celled sea creatures that are iridescent and are as elaborate as snowflakes in their designs.  They are a major food source for a number of ocean animals.  Due to global climate change and ocean warming, they are decreasing in size.  Smaller diatoms will in turn, increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  By using them as the inspiration, the Arts Collide group wants the project to ultimately be a call to witness the miraculous beauty of the natural ocean environment.  Even the smallest creatures play an important role in our ecology.

Expect the Arts Collide project to utilize more than just fabric in the final construction.  This group is eager to meld not just art and fashion, but art, fashion and science as well – all the way from the inspiration to the final execution.  The theme will lend itself to using the dichroic glass Debbie Solan and her business partner; Paul Fernandes have made elaborate works of art with at Fusionglass Co.

The name of the group, Arts Collide, is meant to evoke the idea of disparate ideas coming together, whether it is the combination of fashion and art or the even bigger collision of art, science and fashion that will occur in this project.