Saturday, August 15th, 2026 at

6pm

A community event at the Noisy Waters Mural Festival inspiring sustainable fashion

Portal container village, Bellingham, WA

Design Team

Range | Art by Darcie Gray
Darcie is a Bellingham-based artist and muralist whose landscape paintings are inspired by the mountains, forests, and coastlines of the west. Working with a signature palette of just blue, green, black, and white, she creates artwork that captures the balance of calm and energy found in nature.

Each up-cycled garment is hand painted and one of a kind, blending the impact of large-scale murals with everyday fashion. Designed to be worn, shared, and experienced, these pieces carry forward what murals are all about: being bold, unique, and made for the world to experience.

Danielle Martin
I am a Latin instructor and textile artist specializing in free motion satin stitch embroidery and appliqué. While I use a machine to embroider, every design is drawn and every stitch guided by hand in my Bellingham studio. I take inspiration from all over: folk art, mythology, vintage tattoos, nature guides, children’s’ books, fashion and costume design, iconography, etc. Sewing and drawing are part of the same process for me and I enjoy the challenge of creating striking visuals with recycled fibers and fabrics. My goal with custom work is to help people create one of a kind heirlooms, whether they are celebrating new life, a new chapter, or the memory of someone dear. 

Ayla Joy Love | ElevenNW
Joy Love is a sailor, writer, lifelong maker, and owner of ElevenNW, crafting custom marine canvas and upholstery for Pacific Northwest yachts. Inspired by flying fish encountered while sailing the open ocean, her collection BirdFish Funwear turns thrifted and reclaimed textiles into wearable art. 

Always inspired by Suzanne of Goat’s Coat, the two have collaborated on “Waste Wallets” and other projects.. This year’s BirdFish line was designed to celebrate adaptability and freedom. Comfy & eco-conscious clothing for everyone who feels connected to the water, the land, and the sky. Joy also made a companion book about up-cycling called “Birdie The BirdFish and The Thrift Shore!” Socials: @BirdFishFunWear @JoyLoveHoops ElevenNW.com

Katie VanDorp

Hi there! It’s very possible you’ve seen my wood burnt art around Bellingham, which is typically my creative focus for the public eye. However, in my every day life I can’t be satisfied with just one medium. I just so happen to love the finding, the reusing, and the challenge of working with trash to make it glimmer glamour! A million years ago I studied apparel design and very slowly I’ve been letting those skills work their way back into my life. I’m so excited to be apart of this whole experience and thrilled to design ensembles that are wild, fun, and trashy! @vandorpkt_art @vandorpkt

Sulai Lopez

Sulai Lopez is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, thespian and educator specializing in natural dyes, utilizing textiles as a means to cultivate connection and creativity within communities.

Having spent over a decade as a professional and award winning costume designer in Los Angeles, Sulai now makes upcycled clothing, costumes for local clowns and is PUMPED for the opportunity to create a collection for the upcycled fashion show!!!!!!!!

A Bellinghamian for the past 5 years, Sulai has performed and installed art at Paper Whale’s Fire & Story festival, the Bellingham Circus Guild, and is a regular contributor to the Lookout Arts Quarry’s ‘Sh’bang! Festival of Ideas’. 

Along with being a teaching artist with the PNW Museum of Quilting & Fiber Arts in La Conner, Minimart City Park Artivism program in Seattle, Green Arrow Co-Lab in Los Angeles, Allied Arts, and Mothers of the Amazon in LA/Acre Brazil, Sulai leads regular workshops including a touring indigo vat community visioning experiment called Indigo Spell. Upcoming workshops are shared via instagram @sulaiazul and can be found on her website SulaiLopez.com  

Aside from arting around at this year's Sh’bang, her next stage debut will be in a new interactive dating show small bites dinner theater,  Mmmatchmaker starring ‘Big D’ Deanna Fleysher September 18 and 19 at the Lookout Arts Quarry. 

Madison Stump | Stump of Approval
The Stump of Approval makes unique upcycled clothing and accessories! Find yourself a dose of nostalgia, creativity, color and fun! www.thestumpofapproval.com @stumpofapproval

Madeleine Shaw

Everyware designs is a slow fashion design and education venture based on unceded Coast Salish territory | Vancouver BC. Our collection of one of a kind items are made with 100% upcycled textiles, with an emphasis on vintage household linens. Making these goods is an intuitive, alchemical process that honours the energy carried by the original textiles, including who made and wore them. Our design philosophy views upcycling as creating "new" useful and beautiful items from discarded or no longer "fashionable" items. We further see it as a creative act of resistance against mainstream fashion's obsession with youth, conformity and disposability. Everyware: where old is venerated, used is exquisite and second hand is just the beginning. everywaredesigns.ca @everywaredesigns by @ohmadeleine

Jane Davenport

Gaudy By Nature is the sewn work created by Jane Davenport. Jane enjoyed a few great years living in Bellingham, WA and now resides in her home state of Ohio. 

Jane began sewing in her late teens, inspired by her mom, aunts, and grandma- who are Mexican American. She is a self taught sewist endlessly inspired by the natural world. She primarily works with vintage, secondhand, and discarded textiles.

She's happy to share this collection of work with you. @guandybynature

Brandi Hutton
I am a Bellingham based waste reduction specialist, who's day job is to teach community members and business how to reduce and divert waste.
Carefully re-examining the vast amount of materials our society disguards everyday as useless, is eye opening. One plastic bag doesn't seem like much, but what about 2 tons of them? It's hard to stare at mass collections of materials and not see potential for more.
This inspiration has pushed me to create whimsical performance persona's that turn trash into treasure to delight crowds.

Emma Finney

Emma is a Bellingham local and loves to bring used items back to life! She enjoys DIY projects, sewing, thrifting, crafting, cooking, and music. She discovered her love for sewing in high school and started sewing fun festival fashion. A decade later, after becoming a mom, she realized how satisfying it is to upcycle used items/garments and give them a new purpose that brings back joy! Although Emma just got back into sewing, she hopes to inspire others to find a love for creating art of any kind and thrifting new fits instead of buying new. Follow Emma’s newfound love of sewing on instagram: @sewwhatwhat 

Alaina Broekhof
Hi my name is Alaina! I am an art student and a fashion lover, living in Bellingham Washington. Throughout my life I have picked up many creative interests with one of my favorites being sewing. I am very inspired by vintage aesthetics and incorporating them into my work. I cannot wait to take on this new challenge and share my collection with the Bellingham community and beyond! @missalainious

Aurora Abbe

My name is Aurora of Quantum Sewing. I’m from Bellingham. I learned to sew when making face masks for my students during quarantine. That same year I began teaching myself how to make clothing. Now, you may find me downtown at Wonderz Market and other local art markets selling clothing I made out of secondhand materials. For this fashion/trashion show I wanted to give myself a creative challenge. This process has completely changed the way that I've looked at and interacted with recycling/garbage and I never knew it could be so fun too.

Hildi Larson | Lammergeir Studio AKA Lammergreir X Art
Hildi is the owner/artist at Lammergeier Studio, a Tattoo & Permanent cosmetics shop in Downtown Bellingham. She is a creative in many facets of her life and is a self taught artist who has been sewing off and on from the age of 10. Her style ranges from feminine and flowy to dark and gothic, often inspired by Japanese street fashion. Hildi screen prints her art on clothing and is excited to use this opportunity to sew one-of-a-kind patterned garments using the "seconds" from her screen printing endeavors. 

Julia Houle | Off Tangent

Off Tangent is an ode to many things: Julia’s engineering background, the freedom of letting your mind wander, and a nod to her younger self… A reminder that having the courage to be different and show up as yourself opens more doors than you’d ever expect.

As of late, Julia loves blending inspiration from streetwear, pop cultural influences, and the great outdoors. Find her on Instagram at @offtangentofficial

Suzanne Lundberg | The Goat’s Coat

Suzanne Lundberg is a Bellingham-based textile artist and founder of The Goat’s Coat. She creates one-of-a-kind wearable art and accessories from found, thrifted, and donated textiles. With an ever-evolving design process and no rules to follow, her work celebrates freedom, texture, and the unexpected beauty of repurposed materials. She began organizing upcycled runway shows in Bellingham in 2012 where she ran a small seasonal coffee stand, The Wailing Goat Espresso. IG: @thegoatscoat