Lacie Murphy's first models were her barbie dolls. At
the age of five she dyed the ubiquitous doll's hair,
painted its face, and designed garments out of fabric
bits. Lacie's talent and early passion has directed itself
into a love of fashion design. She is an original
CFDC mover and shaker -- and has spent countless hours
dedicated to each exceptional CFDC production.
"If I can't do it, you shouldn't even try" -Daisy Lida Foster
lacie@belief-systems.com | 510-420-1407
Kaibrina Sky Buck grew up playing dress-up and creating
alternate realities with her sisters, Lilia and Anisa
and her brother, Nate. She first came to San Francisco
in 1993, with hopes of becoming a performance artist,
after earning a degree in Dance and Women's Studies from
UC Santa Cruz. A year of making latte's for the good
people of Noe Valley, almost killed her dream and led
her quickly back to school. She fled to Oakland and
studied Textiles at CCAC, where she learned to dye,
print and weave her own fabric. There, she used these
skills to create costumes, sculptural installations,
videos and performance. Around the time of her
graduation, she became a member of Cloud Factory Design
Collective, which was putting on their first show at The
Cell Space. She appeared in the finale, in her "Milk and
Matrimony" wedding dress and felt like a real
performance artist as she symbolically wed her flaming
flower girl, Mark. Since then, CFDC has continued to
create opportunities for her fantasies to become
realities. Today, her dress-up box is over-flowing and
she loves to costume those who want to play along.
kbuck@ccac-art.edu
Melody dos Santos spends days at a time chained to her
sewing machine for the mere glory of CFDC shows. Her
creative outlets also include illustration and web design
(she did this site). Her illustrations will make their
publishing debut this winter with the printing of The
World Belongs to Us, a book by Stephanie Yang of The
Women's Foundation.
melody@concept.org | www.concept.org
Lauren Giniger's style inspiration comes from her
bird, Num Num. Always preening, she believes a mirror
is her best friend.
Lauren hopes to inject her worry lines with a strong
animal tranquilizer, and use the proceeds from the
next CFDC show for a well-deserved tropical getaway.
l_giniger@yahoo.com
Stefanie Gesiorski is a fairly advanced robot who was built by
a team of polish and american monkeys. she makes clothes for
dancing, and is currently obsessed with breakbeats.
sgesiorski@yahoo.com
Nicole 'Presh' Apostoli is graduating from the California
College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland with a BFA in
jewelry/metal arts this winter. She has her own fashion
jewelry company, Presh's Jewels, and takes pleasure in
creating intimate jewelry that can easily become part of
one's everyday attire as well as designing extravagant
body pieces that can be reserved for special occasions.
You can see more of her work at the Toy Meets Girl show
at the Nexus Studio Gallery (2701 Eighth St., Berkeley,
CA.) on December 21st at 7p.m. where she will be exhibiting
with Tony Esola, another unique metal artist from CCAC.
For more information about Nicole or the Toy Meets Girl
show you may contact the artist at preshsjewels@hotmail.com.
REVSCRJ is a Central Californian poet, musician, and
visual artist from whose worship of chaos has made him into
an easy target for Irony and syncronicity, while
simultaneously a sure-miss for popularity and success- this,
he contests, is a sign that the universe loves him.
Occasionally accused of being reptilian. Born in Fresno, he
hopes never to return, and currently resides in Monterey
California either hunkered into a computer, a Big Sur
Cliffside, asleep, or a combination of the aforementioned.
Birthday:11-18-70. Sign: Scorpio. Favorite Color: Light Brown.
Favorite Beatle: Pete Best.
revscrj@cloudfactory.org
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