Produced in April 2008

Angelina DeAntonis, dyer, designer, and proprietor, will talk about her experiences in establishing her clothing line, Ocelot. As an artist driven to express her passion for colour through the dye process, Angelina DeAntonis¹s explorations are born of her intrigue with visually altering the body and pushing cultural constraints of how we dress in our North American culture.

Angelina DeAntonis

Angelina DeAntonis began her career in textiles many years after moving from the family sheep farm. Upon earning a degree in fine arts photography from the University of Oregon, she pursued explorations in textiles at California College of Arts and Crafts. After taking classes for a year, she decided to invest in her own studio.

A grant in costume design in 1995­96 funded her to make a group of costumes. She collaborated with dancers, directing and producing her own theatre production, Moving in Costume: A Circus of Intrigue. Later that year she travelled for five months to study natural dyes and traditional textiles of Western India. Back in San Francisco she began working as an independent costume designer for many San Francisco Bay area dance troupes, as well as designing and making costumes for children’s theatre.