Join SEATTLE CREATES and guest instructor Brenda Palomino for a fun night of biomaterial fashion and Creative Exchange.

We will experiment and explore biomaterials in fashion and textile design with Brenda.

Brenda’s practice sits between garment, sculpture, and material research, using biomaterials as autonomous systems that shape silhouette, movement, and meaning. They develop sea moss and alginate based leathers, testing pigments and substrates to produce controlled shifts in texture, translucency, and tone. Rather than hiding process, their work preserves traces of gravity, tension, seams, and joins, treating construction as both structure and visual language. Sustainability is approached through method as much as material, with an emphasis on iterative prototyping, low waste workflows, and upcycling residual fragments into finished looks. They aim to expand biomaterials beyond “fabric substitutes,” positioning them as expressive, durable surfaces suitable for real wear and performance contexts. Ultimately, their goal is to build a vocabulary of biomaterial garments that move between intimacy and spectacle while remaining technically resolved.