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Rosa Weinberg is a design educator and artist based in Massachusetts.



CREATIVE PRACTICE

Attunement
Shimmer
Digital Polished
Breathing
Love is About
Anna’s Delight
Stethosuit
(more)

TEACHING

Beaver Centered Design
Extraordinary Ordinary
User-Centered Design
Juxtapose
Intro to Architecture
Easing Cerebral Palsy
Neighborhood Marvels
(more)

misc.

Speaking + Writing
 Press
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Shimmer

2020

ROLE

Inventor, designer, and fabricator

COLLABORATORS

Joy Davis of the Davis Sisters, Ethan Vogt

MATERIALS + METHODS

3D printing, sewing, waterjet, Spandex, aluminum, silicone, resin

PERFORMANCES

Boston Center for the Arts Shimmer Fundraiser

PHOTOGRAPHY

Tobi Makinde, William Dailey, OJ Slaughter

RElated Projects

Classp, Flip-Flop, Nasturtium Dress  

Paris Hilton’s 21st birthday party took place in 2002. The dress she wore was an extraordinarily minimal garment, its silver halter top allowing for an exposed back. The Boston Center for the Art used this dress as inspiration for its 2020 fundraiser “Shimmer”.

For this fundraiser, I was commissioned to create a silver open-backed dress for dancer and choreographer Joy Davis of the Davis sisters. No thin strip of fabric haltered the dress; it had a completely open back. To accomplish this, I used the Classp, a mechanism I had developed in 2018. The Classp was waterjet out of aluminum and embedded in sparkly spandex, which provided the necessary spring to hold on tight but not too tight.

The Classp’s loving but firm silicone “fingertips” adhered to Joy throughout the night, withstanding trampoline jumps and the dance floor. A further iteration of the Classp, FlipFlop can be found here, and previous versions of this dress can be found here and here.

Shimmer

2020

ROLE

Inventor, designer, and fabricator

COLLABORATORS

Joy Davis of the Davis Sisters, Ethan Vogt

MATERIALS + METHODS

3D printing, sewing, waterjet, Spandex, aluminum, silicone, resin

PERFORMANCES

Boston Center for the Arts Shimmer Fundraiser

PHOTOGRAPHY

Tobi Makinde, William Dailey, OJ Slaughter

Paris Hilton’s 21st birthday party took place in 2002. The dress she wore was an extraordinarily minimal garment, its silver halter top allowing for an exposed back. The Boston Center for the Art used this dress as inspiration for its 2020 fundraiser “Shimmer”.

For this fundraiser, I was commissioned to create a silver open-backed dress for dancer and choreographer Joy Davis of the Davis sisters. No thin strip of fabric haltered the dress; it had a completely open back. To accomplish this, I used the Classp, a mechanism I had developed in 2018. The Classp was waterjet out of aluminum and embedded in sparkly spandex, which provided the necessary spring to hold on tight but not too tight.

The Classp’s loving but firm silicone “fingertips” adhered to Joy throughout the night, withstanding trampoline jumps and the dance floor. A further iteration of the Classp, FlipFlop can be found here, and previous versions of this dress can be found here and here.