Janelle Pietrzak (B.F.A. ’03) was featured online in Richmond Magazine’s blog for her weaving work.
Janelle Pietrzak graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2003 with a degree in fashion design and set off for New York to fulfill a lifelong dream of working as a designer’s assistant. But she quickly became disillusioned with the day-to-day grind of the fashion industry. “School was really hands-on and the process of making things was what I liked,” she says.
Following a six-year stint working for Anthropologie in Philadelphia, where she sourced fabrics from around the world, she moved to Los Angeles for another fashion design job. But it wasn’t until she created a free-form weaving in her spare time that she discovered her true passion.
To read more about Pietrzak, read the full article on Richmond Magazine.
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