Kelly Cobb
Instructor

202 Alison Hall West
(302) 831-6132
FAX (302) 831-6081
kcobb@udel.edu
http://www.garmentresearch.org

Complete Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Education

• MFA  The University of Florida
• BFA   The Maryland Institute, College of Art
  

Recent Exibitions

• 2008 
  Dust Collection. Merge Visual Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
  Stuttering in a New Light. Carroll Mansion, Baltimore, MD
  Clothing: Fantasies and Realities. Towson Arts Collective, Towson MD
  Gestures of Resistance: Performance, Craft and the Politics of Slowness. Grey Matters, Dallas TX
• 2007
  Dress Me Slow, I am in A Hurry-Master of Props/Set/Dye. Evergreen Museum, Baltimore, MD
  Sustainable/Responsible Fashion (SoReFa)- Philadelphia Green Festival, Philadelphia PA
  Reenactments-Drawing, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
  Stretched Threads-Sound and Video Weavings, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL
  Homework, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
  Localized Locational Gravity-ICA Philadelphia, PA
• 2006 
  Preferred Burnout Function ox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  Close-Knit: Textile, History, Place. Coral Street Gallery, Philadelphia PA
  2 DOLLAR LOVE AFFAIR, Padlock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  PHILLY love-in-Philadelphia Print Collaborative, Philadelphia, PA
  thread counts project-Gallery Artists Studio Project, Brookline, MA

Research Interests

• Garment Research as Studio Practice
• Fashion as an Interdisciplinary Event
• Fiber Studies: Material and The Body: Textile Process and Structure
• Fashion and Sustainability

Current Research Projects

• The 100-Mile Suit: Costume as an Exercise in Regionalism. 
• Linen Suit: Size 8 or a Quarter Acre of Flax
• Dust Collection: Outfitting JEMA (In collaboration with the John Erikson Musuem of Art)

• Portfolio Preparation
• Drawing and Rendering for Fashion Design
• Textile Science

Teaching Research

• Participatory Design and The Collective
• Open Source Research/Blogging
• Multi Media Fashion 
• Fashion and Sustainability