​Emily Lovdahl is a professional dancer with Festival Ballet Providence, a costume designer, and seamstress. 
She has a passion for creating comfortable, creative, and inclusive clothing. Her project consists of an array of repurposed and recycled fabrics that have been made into leotards, shorts, and leggings for everyone.
"Textile and garment production creates significant waste. When sewing new garments, once a pattern is cut out of a piece of fabric, there is unused “scrap” material that is still good, but not always big enough to cut another pattern piece from."
About The Fabrics
  • Reworked "scrap" fabric is a nylon-spandex blend, and all pieces used for this project are remnants leftover from other projects that have been reworked into new designs. 
  • Remaining fabric is downcycled into a polyester-spandex blend, made from repurposed yarn.

​*Note! This is a limited collection and every design is different depending on the size and shapes of materials and how Emily decides to work them into a cohesive piece.
As seen in photos, patchwork designs are made of "scraps" and larger sections and straps are made from recycled yarn fabric
"One thing we all have in common is that we are here, now, living on Earth as it is today. Our world influences our lives, and our lives influence our art. Climate change has a huge influence on us and this gains more urgency as time passes, yet it feels sometimes that the arts are removed from the conversation and the solution. Artists are determined, open-minded, and creative, our skills and talents are incredibly well-suited to making positive change- be it for the environment, in the fight for equality, and in individual lives." ​
Contact Emily:
​Instagram: @be.by.em
Gmail: [email protected]
Emily's project was generously funded by The Sierra Club Student Coalition at The Ohio State University. This student run organization is focused on educating the public on important environmental concerns and promoting green policies on the OSU campus and in the Columbus area.
Follow them on instagram @sierra_club_osu and
check out their website ​https://sierraclubosu.wixsite.com/sierraclubatosu
Artists Climate Collective is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) charity. Contributions made payable to Fractured Atlas for the purposes of Artists Climate Collective are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. If you receive a reward in exchange for your donation, the fair market value of that reward will reduce the tax-deductible portion of your donation. The value of the reward you receive will be included in your donation receipt.
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