B.F.A., Visual Communication Design, Dr. Shariaty University, Tehran, Iran, 2020
Niloufar Abdolmaleki is an artist and designer and is
currently pursuing her MFA in Design at University of California,
Davis. Her research interests include the experiential and
environmental graphic design. She is interested in creating
social interventions and public arts and sparking
human interactions. She greatly enjoys working on
multidisciplinary projects, the ones that involve creative
thinking and visualization strategies.
B.Sc., in Fashion Design and Technology from BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Hafsa is an M.F.A. in Design student at the University of
California, Davis. Her interest is in fashion design. She
worked on sustainable design to create zero-waste patterns,
upcycling garments, and exploring ethnic clothing to design
contemporary fashion.
In her M.F.A thesis, she is planning to expand her research on
functional apparel and 3D printing.
B.A., English Literature, University of California, MercedM.A., Interdisciplinary Humanities (emphasis on 1930s Cinema and Fashion), University of California, Merced
Cristina (Cris) Gomez is an M.F.A. Design student at the
University of California, Davis. Her academic background includes
Literature, Cinema, and Fashion studies of 1930s America.
Cristina’s area of focus is on costume exhibitions and on the
analysis of clothing’s social role. Her planned thesis project is
an exhibition on the Central Valley of California’s field
workers’ clothing to discuss their working social
conditions.
Justin Marsh is a visual artist and designer with an expansive
history as an exhibition specialist. Over the past decade, he has
supported the inauguration and growth of multiple museum
institutions and gallery cooperatives in Northern California. His
practice at UC Davis intersects interior and exterior spaces of
cultural production, seeking to embrace marginal, liminal, and
heterotopic territory. His research is informed by critical
design, counter-archival methods, and emerging exhibition and
urban design strategies.
B.I.D., Industrial Design, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Damien is a multidisciplinary designer who for the last decade
has worked in the fields of industrial design, graphic design,
and leather craft. His current focus at UC Davis is understanding
the intersection of Design and Craft through the art of
shoemaking by integrating new technologies and materials with
traditional craft practices. He is the recipient of a Eugene
Cota-Robles Fellowship.
B.Arch., Architecture & Design, American University, Asuncion Paraguay
Pedro Ortiz is an architect passionate about using design &
architecture to promote social justice, tackle inequality, and
address urgent socio-environmental issues such as climate change
and the affordable housing crisis.
B.A., Fashion Design, Universidad Pontificia, Bolivariana
As a designer, Alejandra has been interested in exploring,
performing and reflecting on alternative practices that can
derive from her academic background. This has led her to
collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to propose and
experiment in projects related to sustainability and circular
economy, development of alternative materials, education and
learning, geosciences communication, craft-art-design
interaction, collaborative arts and creative activism.
During the MFA she will be exploring material design, its
lifecycles and possible applications.
B.S., Apparel Design, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Quinessa Stibbins is an apparel designer and dancer from St. Paul
Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a
BS in Apparel Design and a minor in social justice. She then
worked for a dance costume company called Kelle Company for
two years. Quinessa is passionate about designing through a
social justice lens and using both apparel and dance for
storytelling.
B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Pachia’s (Puh-chee-uh) design work is informed by her experiences
as a Hmong-American navigating culture, art, trauma, and society
with a pluriversal imagination that speaks from Hmong-centered
knowledge. She is a paj ntaub maker exploring concepts of
indigeneity, diaspora, and dress through an interdisciplinary
practice in textiles, fashion, digital media, and exhibition
design to create place and space for marginalized communities.
B.S., Architecture and Ubranism, Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Peru
Ofelia is an M.F.A. in Design student at the University of
California, Davis. Her background includes architecture,
landscaping, furniture, and digital fabrication. Her area of
interest is focused on sustainable design and interactive design,
in pursuit of creating a merge between nature and technology.
With more than 25 years of professional practice and 15 years of
teaching, Marcy returned to UC Davis to explore design’s
“gaps”—overlooked, avoided, and ignored spaces. Her work
acknowledges and amplifies forgotten objects, people, and ideas,
investigates how they reveal and influence our human experience,
and reimagines how we teach design and why. Her current research
focuses on creating design teaching resources with and for
educators and students.
B.S., Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical UniversityM.B.A., Sabanci University, IstanbulA.A.S., Fashion Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Rova Yilmaz is a designer interested in smart clothing and
functional clothing design. She studied fashion design and
civil engineering as an undergraduate. She prospects to
combine design, engineering, and art. Her research is biased
toward actuated clothes with functionality and purpose for being
smart.
