

Patchwork Fashion Show Highlight Video
This video showcases the art that was created for the unique community in downtown Ottumwa unveiling the newest piece of art in Canteen Alley. The fashion show will feature multicultural streetwear fashion modeled by local community members. This fashion show, also reveals a projected art piece that celebrates the different cultures that live in Ottumwa and the importance of a diverse community and features over 60 community members.


Black Man Building A Fashion Empire From Iowa
https://urbancitymag.com/2018/07/17/black-man-building-a-fashion-empire-from-iowa/


André Wright: Create As Only You Can, That’s Leadership.
https://medium.com/actworthy/andr%C3%A9-wright-create-as-only-you-can-thats-leadership-f3434ed4483a


Projection Art celebrates Ottumwa's diversity
O TTUMWA — Believing that the diversity of people in Ottumwa is something to be celebrated, Main Street Ottumwa and the Ottumwa Area Arts Council commissioned a projection art piece for the newly renovated Canteen Alley. “It’s all finally coming together,” Holly Berg said. The Iowa Arts Council awarded Main Street and the Arts Council a $10,000 Art Builds Communities grant to help fund the project. “We received the grant last year,” Berg said. “You [have to] tie it into some

Fashion Campaign 'Humanize My Hoodie' Starts a Conversation About Threat Perception
Listen to the interview here: http://iowapublicradio.org/post/fashion-campaign-humanize-my-hoodie-starts-conversation-about-threat-perception#stream/0 Andre Wright, CEO of the fashion label Born Leaders United, saw a post by his friend Jason Sole on Facebook months ago. Sole wrote that as as a culture, we need to stop stereotyping people based on how they dress. In that post, he pointed specifically to the hooded sweatshirt. Wright picked up the phone and called Sole, and the