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Do you love fashion?
Join us as we explore the intersection between art and fashion. During this camp, activities will introduce teens to textile identification, half-scale draping and patternmaking, fashion and architectural sketching, design development, and introductory sewing and upcycling techniques. These hands-on sessions will culminate in an original sustainable fashion design line created by each participant.
Along the way, we will examine how fashion, fine art, and architecture connect by using Nashville landmarks such as the Parthenon and the Frist Art Museum, as well as the city’s fashion scene. Campers will explore how historic architectural design as well as the Frist’s concurrent exhibition of surrealist art connect to the enduring legacy of haute couture, shaped by early twentieth-century fashion visionaries Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli.
Participants are invited to present their final projects at the annual Teens Take the Frist! event on Saturday, July 18, 2026.
Who: All rising 10th-, 11th-, and 12th-grade students
Where: Frist Art Museum, 919 Broadway, Downtown Nashville
When: July 6–10, 2026, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Class size: 15 students (minimum 10 students)
Cost:
$50 application fee
Frist Art Museum members: $475
Not-yet-members: $525
Financial assistance available
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About the Instructor
Alex Sargent Capps has served on the faculty at Vanderbilt University since 2001, teaching across the Theatre and Fine Arts departments and currently in the School of Engineering. She previously served as the University’s costume designer and costume shop manager. In 2021, she founded the Fiber Arts Build Lab at The Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s Center for Innovation and Design. She has taught courses including Costume Design, Sustainable and Adaptive Fashion, Fashion History, and Wearable Product Design.
Alex approaches fashion design as an interdisciplinary field that integrates applied art, design principles, technology, and creative problem-solving. She is excited to teach at the Frist Art Museum this summer, leading a dynamic program connecting fashion design with principles of architecture, fine art, and the reinvention of twentieth-century couture. Alex holds an MFA from Northwestern University and, in April, she will complete a year-long online program with Fabricademy focused on the integration of textiles and technology.
