She has won awards for her work as costume designer and art director of video clips, commercials, and films. Her work has been shown at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC), designlab (Miami), and DORCAM (Doral Contemporary Art Museum), among others. Since then, she has participated in numerous exhibits, festivals, and runway shows, and has designed costumes for theater, dance, and film, both in Cuba and internationally. Ledón graduated from Cuba’s IPDI (Polytechnic Institute of Industrial Design) as a project developer in 2005, continued her studies at ISDI (Superior Institute of Industrial Design) and graduated as an Industrial Designer in 2011. “Art is a path to creating change,” she says. For Ledón however, her designs are more than just about sustainability-they’re also about connecting people and moving forward together. Wortham is actively expanding her work in human-centered design to embrace transition design, or design that envisions sustainable futures.Ĭelia Ledón creates wearable art from found materials and re-used objects, decontextualized from their original purpose. You can see some of their programs on instagram up threads from her dissertation research with Indigenous media artists and activists in Mexico, Dr. Waste Lab is part of the university’s interdisciplinary Sustainable Fashion Collective, coordinated by the GW Textile Museum. As Interim Director of the SEAS Innovation Center, M06, and Lecturer at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, she advocates for studio-based, tactile learning and community-driven innovation that centers creative problem-solving, equity and sustainability.Īt M06, she and her students run a Waste Lab that channels material from the local waste stream into creative projects and learning opportunities.
Erica Cusi Wortham, PhD is a cultural anthropologist with an interdisciplinary practice at George Washington University that spans engineering, social science, art and design.
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