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

Joy Love is the owner and creative force behind ElevenNW, where she designs and fabricates custom marine canvas, upholstery, and soft goods for yachts in the Pacific Northwest. A sailor, adventurer, writer, and lifelong maker, Joy is passionate about giving textiles a second life through creative reuse and wearable art.

Inspired by years of working with fabric both on and off the water, Joy incorporates sustainability, craftsmanship, and playfulness into her designs. She has also collaborated with Suzanne of GOAT’s Coat to create upcycled portable pocket style bags aka “waste wallets” and Joy credits Suzanne as an ongoing inspiration in her journey toward more environmentally conscious textile practices.

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, Gabriel Arts after school enrichment program, 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. 

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, Gabriel Arts after school enrichment program, 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
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 made with 100% upcycled textiles, with an emphasis on denim and vintage 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 useful and beautiful items from discarded or no longer "fashionable" items. We further see it as a metaphorical 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 Founder and Designer website: madeleineshaw.ca

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

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 Broekof
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. Im 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.

Julia Josephine

Hildi Larson
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

Suzanne Lundberg