Jean Hicks - www.jeanhicks.com
With her own distinctive style of hand-blocked felt, Jean Hicksʼ work is held in numerous private and museum collections. She is a 2002 NEA Warhol Foundation Visiting Artist at Penland, and a 2005-2006 Artist Trust and Washington State Arts Commission Fellow. Nationally, her work has appeared at the Smithsonian, in Boston, Sante Fe and Salt Lake City. She has exhibited widely in Europe.
Izzie Lewis - www.izzielewis.com
Mingling influences of her formal training in architecture with a love for textiles, Izzieʼs hats are distinguished by precise construction, attention to detail, unique use of materials, innovation, geometry and purity. Izzieʼs hats are included in the permanent collections at the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle and the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, deYoung Museum.
Carol Campbell - www.ccchapeau.com
Carolʼs millinery studio in Ballard is a nexus for aspiring and established milliners. It acts as a co-op supporting the cross-pollination of artistic ideas, collaboration and resource sharing, with workshops by visiting master milliner, Wayne Wichern. Carolʼs speciality is romantic hats, with a focus on Ragtime and Jazz era styles. She shows annually in the Pacific Ragtime Festival in Sacramento, CA. Locally, her work has been featured at Seattle Community College exhibits and the Rainier Club.
Annie De Vuono - www.devuonohats.com
Like stories passed down through generations, each time a hat is worn the narrative changes, says Annie. Annie has received an Artist Trust GAP award and an award for outstanding craftsmanship from the Palos Verdes Art Center. Her work has been showcased in Vogue, Women's Wear Daily and Fibre Arts Design Book Six, and her headwear was featured in 2010 at The Royal Amsterdam Gallery in The Netherlands.
Mikele Keiffer - www.tuzziemuzzie.com
Versatility characterizes Mikeleʼs hats, especially between the playful and the dramatic. She loves integrating vintage elements and striking combinations. Her confections range from bridal wear to party tuzzie muzzies. Mikeleʼs bridal hats have been featured in every issue of Seattle Bride for the last five years. Her work frequently appears in Seattle Magazine. Mikele has exhibited at the Bellevue Art Show for five years and has been a judge for Seamless in Seattle for three years.
Daria Wheatley Wayne Wichern - www.waynewichernmillinery.com
Millinery depends on wooden hat blocks, the forms over which the hat makers steam and stretch the fabric by hand to make hats. Hat block makers are a dying breed. The Millinery Artisan Guild revitalized the art of hat block making by turning in this recession to the Seattle marine community, training shipwrights to carve new and repair old blocks.
What does a ship and a hat block have in common? Thereʼs nothing square about either of ʻem, says Shipwright Brian Johnson. Brian will set up his workbench beside the millinersʼ tables and the dance floor, and demonstrate his new trade.
