KU senior and Nebraska neighborhood, Mackenzie Greckel, will exhibit her garments line in the Kansas Union Gallery from Sept. 3 to 17. The show, titled “Summer Camp,” characteristics vibrant colours, unconventional elements, and Greckel’s personalized self-expression.
As element of the exhibit, Greckel framed an essay she wrote about the harms of about-consumerism and quickly style.
From a younger age, Greckel has applied art as a form of self-expression. Although the name behind her assortment is a nod to overexaggerated couture, it was also encouraged by Greckel’s decades put in at 4-H Camp and Hummel Day Camp in Nebraska.
“Summer camp is where by I actually felt at ease with myself and who I was as a person,” Greckel stated. “I by no means felt judged, and I come to feel like just that attitude of becoming at summer months camp is be concerned-absolutely free.”
In 2018, Greckel started out studying visible arts at KU. She commenced producing items for the assortment in KU professor Brandi Lee Cooper’s Spring 2021 Artwork & Ecology class. Nevertheless, her creative imagination was not bound to a semester. When the class ended, Greckel made a decision to pursue an independent undertaking with Cooper as her mentor. With funding from an undergraduate analysis award, Greckel was in a position to curate a collection of 12 seems to be.
Greckel used macramé abilities to create a corset made out of telephone wire that she paired with a skirt designed from a security vest stuffed with trash scraps.
The Kansas Union Gallery is not the initially time Greckel has shown her function to an audience. Greckel confirmed a earlier assortment in Omaha Manner Week in 2020. This August, Greckel was questioned to return as a headlining designer, where by she confirmed 12 looks from the Summer time Camp line.
As far as subsequent calendar year goes, Greckel has not resolved how she desires to carry on to go after art. She stated graduate school is an alternative, but Greckel is also fascinated in expanding her own brand name, Cicada Camp, by starting off a web site and touring to regional vogue weeks.
To study extra about Greckel’s operate, pay a visit to her exhibition in the Union that is open to the general public right until Friday.