Yan Fang x Austin Chia
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Program Note
The Hyphae-nate fashion collection is a series of outfits made in collaboration with seniors living in the Bolton North Apartment and students from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and Johns Hopkins University. Designers Anaitza Brown and Austin Chia co-created the outfits with the seniors. Each outfit is custom-made for the model and reflects their interests, personality and stories.
As a whole, the collection embodies what is possible when different communities work together. It is also a celebration of our time together.
The Hyphae-nate collection premiered at the MICA Annual Benefit Fashion Show where the seniors modeled the clothes on the runway to music composed by Yan Fang.
Chinese composer. As an active young composer, Fang’s music tracks all over the world like Italy, France, Netherland, the United States and China etc. She hopes that her music will bring the audience multidimensional as a world viewer, explore the ability, touch the unseen, to hear the colorize. Recovering from this impetuous society, focus on the generosity of nature, give back the purest giving. Empathizing music with the audience is her composition drive. Fang graduated from The Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music. After that, she got her education in College-Conservatory of Music in university of Cincinnati (BM, 21, composition), Peabody Institution of Johns Hopkins University (MM, 23, composition and music theory pedagogy). Now she is studying as a doctoral student at Peabody.
Austin Chia (b.1999, Singapore), is a community-based artist who is currently pursuing a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art. His practice involves collaborating with underprivileged communities on art projects that advocate for their needs and celebrates their talents and individuality. Through this, he seeks to make kin with people from different communities and ground himself within the different communities he lives with.