One of a Kind Schools
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
This year's participants are:
Vancouver Island University
This year's participants are:
Vancouver Community College
This year's participants are:
- Catherine Hartley
- Kara Yoo
- Stephanie Schneider - Glasnost
- Christine Woollacott
- Jeff Belliveau
- Shannon Munro
- Stephanie Zhang
- Tammy Moerike
Vancouver Metal Art School
This year's participants are:
- Emily Sterling
- Jerry Ma
- Shane Cho
- Morgan Green
- Sherrell Hutchington
- Emily Dorrington
- Lisa Fletcher
- Chelsea Vohanka
- Tamara
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Allison Smith - Alison Wonderland 
Allison Smith's design inspiration can be summed up simply by "how much food and drink you can consume without having your belly pop out." This may or may not be the result of her being born and raised in BC and her love of fine food and wine. But a girl has to live. And a girl wants to look good.
Allison started her own unique line in 1998, following her graduation from Kwantlen College's acclaimed Fashion Design & Technology program and several years spent in Montreal's rag trade. Since then, Allison Wonderland Clothing has continued to provide satisfaction to the style-savvy of North America and Japan. http://www.allisonwonderland.ca/
Osei-Duro is among the new tribe of independent designers who let their designs flow from what they do and where they go. They design clothing for people who care about fashion, art, design, and originality but also want a story behind their garment. The designers traveled West Africa visiting countries recovering from civil war and drought, poverty and desertification. They believe there is value in making clothing in “strange” unknown locales and enabling the women there, while exchanging culture and technique. http://oseiduro.com/
Clothing for those who prefer to be the spectacle, not just the spectator…
Fashion should scream perspective! TrunkShow reflects the modern doppelgangers of a dolled-up times past who see the world as their stage, and prefer their daily costume infused with plenty of glamour, rebellion, and provocation. TrunkShow is what designer Misty Greer describes as “future vintage” attire that’s meant to be worn, treasured, and passed from one seductively rebellious generation to the next. It embodies style and craft, and rejects the fickleness of fast-fashion, all while remaining low-brow and campy in spirit.
Vancouver Island University
Jessica Molcan has been actively showing her work since 2008, and is a recent graduate from Vancouver Island University's visual arts program. Her current series of works evolved from the abstraction of jellyfish and other sea creatures, as well as inspiration from the West Coast and those around her. The pieces are meant to enchant and engage the viewer, with each creature being twisted and reshaped, multiplying and reforming. Marking a return to the fundamentals of drawing, with graphite being the chosen medium, the treatment of the forms presents a tone of methodic preservation of memory; each piece communicating it's own haunted little presence.
Ann-Alise Keeping is currently a student at Vancouver Island University and will be graduating in the spring of 2012 with a diploma in the Fine Arts. She has shown her artwork, for the past three years, at the Nanaimo Art Gallery in the annual Progressions Student Art Exhibition at VIU. She also received the Printmaking award in 2010 from the VIU Art and Design club. Ann-Alise focuses primarily in the disciplines of printmaking and wheel thrown ceramics. Her latest collection of work evolved from a fascination of old world maps, personal geography, and fantastical worlds combined with the delicate intricacy of hand crafted doilies. The muted colour palette brings attention to the amount of detail provided in the texture; which is present throughout the entirety of each piece. Her prints capture an innocence of a child's imagination paired with the sophistication of a practiced artist.
Vancouver Community College
Stephanie Schneider - Glasnost 
Glasnost is a Vancouver-based label that designs and hand crafts clothing and leatherwork. Creating practical clothing that provides a socially conscience option to consumers, glasnost aims to create timeless pieces that wear in with age and function in our ever-changing daily environment.
