My name is Sariah Park. I’m an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator. My work explores my Indigeneity and addresses issues of waste within fashion.

Now based in New York’s Hudson Valley, I grew up in Texas with a background in visual arts. Growing up in a family of artists and makers, I learned drawing, painting, weaving, and sewing from an early age. It was my appreciation of art and craft that led me to study textiles and fashion at Parsons School of Design.

After graduating with a degree in fashion design, I launched my namesake label, Sariah, featuring hand-painted printed textiles and limited edition pieces for select retailers like Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus and Creatures of Comfort. Over time, I became disenchanted with the current system of making within fashion, and returned to university to pursue a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in sustainable printmaking for fine art and fashion processes.

Fashion

I am interested in slow design, finding connection to the land and nature through my work. I am known for my custom textiles, couture finishes and draping techniques, as well as my creative pattern cutting and garment construction abilities. Fashion for me is a form of soft sculpture and a visual language to express my individuality as an artist and maker.

 

Fine Art

My most recent body of work explores a decayed utopian wasteland. What an abandoned world might look like and what I leave behind – remnants and artifacts of a miscarried future. My work is primarily concerned with addressing issues of waste. I am asking the question – can printmaking and weaving be used as a tool to unmake waste?

 

Teaching

I have been teaching art and design at Parsons School of Design in New York City for the last 12 years. I am fluent in all things fiber and textile related - surface design, dyeing, and printmaking, as well as emergent technologies in 3D design software such as Clo3D and digital jacquard weaving.

Monotype from Printing with Waste series

Today, I teach textiles and fashion at Parsons School of Design in New York City. I have been a designer for a variety of international and local brands and am frequently exhibiting my work around the world. I am currently developing and delivering new courses and curriculum within Indigenous Fashion Studies and Land-based Practices at Parsons.

 

Editorial photos from exhibition at the Ohr-Okeefe Museum of Art.

Clothing by Sariah Park & Headpieces by the French Potager