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RWU Call for Black Models

| Saturday, 23 & 30 May 2015 | 2:30pm-3:30pm |

| Carver Museum | 1165 Angelina Street, Austin, TX 78702 |

[In the conference room  ]

Black Women: size 0-6 @ 5'-7" tall & up - 16+
Black Men: 5'-9" & up. Ages: 16 & up. Must be lean & toned
Curvy & Plus-Size Black Women Models: size 8-18 @ 5'-7" tall & up. Must be toned

We are especially interested in casting petite Black women (5'-4" to 5'-7" size 0-4).

Black female models with natural hair (i.e. unprocessed, no weaves or extensions) is a big plus and preference with us but not mandatory.

No previous modeling experience necessary. RWU provides free coaching and development for our signed models. 

We do NOT charge fees to audition nor do we charge our signed models fees for model coaching, workshops, consultations or other model development services...

Minor models must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.

Female models must wear high heels for the audition!

Visit the "Calls" page for more RWU model audition and agency information and what to bring to our auditions. 

RWU Call for Black Models

| Saturday, 28 March 2015 | 2:30pm-3:30pm |

| Windsor Park Library | 5833 Westminster Dr, Austin, TX 78723 |

[In meeting room # 1 ]

Black Women: size 0-6 @ 5'-7" tall & up - 16+
Black Men: 5'-9" & up. Ages: 16 & up. Must be lean & toned
Curvy & Plus-Size Black Women Models: size 8-18 @ 5'-7" tall & up. Must be toned

We are especially interested in casting petite Black women (5'-4" to 5'-7" size 0-4).

Black female models with natural hair (i.e. unprocessed, no weaves or extensions) is a big plus and preference with us but not mandatory.

No previous modeling experience necessary. RWU provides free coaching and development for our signed models. 

We do NOT charge fees to audition nor do we charge our signed models fees for model coaching, workshops, consultations or other model development services...

Minor models must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.

Female models must wear high heels for the audition!

Visit the "Calls" page for more RWU model audition and agency information and what to bring to our auditions. 

| RWU's NTUMA'PA Workroom-Studio | 1000 E. 11th Street, Ste. 110 |

(plenty of free lot & street parking) 

RWU is holding auditions for Black/Afrikan models — male and female.

Black/Afrikan Women size 2-6 @ 5'-7" tall & up and Curvy models - size 10-18 @ 5'-7" tall & up. 

Black/Afrikan Men: 5'-10" tall & up.

We're especially interested in casting Petite Black Women - 5'-4' to 5'-6" tall & size 0-4.

Go to our "Calls" page for important audition details and check back here or follow us on Facebook for additional dates and locations.  

If you have a book, please bring it. Read more important info about this call below... 

No! We do not charge fees to audition nor do we charge our signed models fees for coaching, workshops, consultations or other model development services...

FEBRUARY 2014

NTUMA'PA 2014 Winter Apparel Production Skills Boot Camp Workshops

| 15 February  - 4 March 2014 | @ 1000 E. 11th Street, Ste. 110 |

| Free Boot Camp Info Session | Saturday, 14 December 2013 | @ Carver Library - 1161 Angelina St. (78702) |

| Mandatory Orientation Session: 15 February - 10:00am-11:30am | Location TBA |

For more details, registration and scholarship application deadlines, please click here.

NTUMA'PA  means "A thing made very well" in Akan/Twi language of Ghana, West Afrika.

NTUMA'PA is RWU's Textile Studio, Apparel Production and Atelier Training Program and Fashion Incubator.

Click here to read more about NTUMA'PA.  

This series of Apparel Production Skills Boot Camp is a 18 day intensive session of workshops offered in Hand Pattern Drafting, Manual Marking I and Sample Cutting, Apparel Draping, Sample Hand Making I, Garment Specifications and Costing, Figure/Life Drawing for Fashion Illustration, Fashion Illustration, Basic Flat Drafting Skills and other textile and apparel subjects. To make things interesting (especially for the more advanced students, their will be a couple of fun challenges [for prizes] during the Boot Camp.

Those who enroll in and complete NTUMA'PA Apparel Production Skills Bootcamp Workshops will receive certificates acknowledging their enrollment, hard work and achievements.

Machines, cutting tables, some sewing and drafting supplies will be provided. Students are welcome to bring their own machines especially if it's a new machine, you're a novice sewer and want to become more proficient on your machine or you're just more comfortable on your machine.  Your machine must be in good working condition and capable of sewing several types of stitches, zippers, button holes and heavy weight fabrics. We will also have some fabrics available on site for purchase (at discounted prices for students) provided by TexStyles Designer Fabric Showroom. 

Apparel Production Skills workshops taught by visiting guest instructor Leighel Desirée, a 25-year veteran apparel technician and production workroom manager. Ana currently teaches a variety of apparel skills courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NY and through New York City's Garment Industry Development Corporation  and other programs. This set of studio/lab workshops are the nuts and bolts of most fashion design degree programs and the some of the most crucial foundation elements of any fashion designer or apparel technicians skills arsenal. Many accomplished designers and apparel technicians can have years of experience behind them and still not know how to draft a pattern or the difference between a block, draft or pattern. Somehow who has been sewing for over 30 years may not know how to drape fabric on a dress form and create pattern templates. Designers often don't know how to tell the sample maker the specifications of their designs. If you're a designer who doesn't sew or a novice, how do you know if the money you've shelled out to have a garment professionally sewn was done so well/properly? This set of workshops will begin to provide that knowledge for the first time for some and enhance or update what others already know. These five foundation workshops can be taken individually or all together as a package. Some topics will be presented twice a day (day and evening) to accommodate folks' schedules while others will be taught in long time blocks on a specific day.  

These are intensive hands on workshops. Students will receive a lot of information and are expected to complete assignments in a compressed amount of time. Enrolled students are welcome to attend both day/evening sessions of a workshop if space is available. Students registering for the Apparel Production Skills Workshops (APSW) must already know how to sew. All APSW students will have to come to a skills assessment session in January to evaluation students' construction abilities. More info about the assessments on the NTUMAPA website. 

Full Apparel Production Skills Section Fees† [min. enrollment 6 & max. is 18 per workshop]:

• Hand Pattern Drafting @ $150 pre-reg/$175 late reg
  
• Apparel Draping @ $150 pre-reg/$175 late reg
  
• Garment Construction Master Sewing Tutorials @ $125 pre-reg/$135 late reg
  
• Sample Cutting & Manuel Marking @ $115 pre-reg/$135 late reg Sample
  
• Sample and Making @ $115 pre-reg/$135 late reg
  
• Apparel Specifications (includes costing) @ $65 pre-reg/$80 late reg
  
• Atelier Hand Embellishment Techniques @ $35 pre-reg/$50 late reg [presented by Nailah I. Sankofa]
  

Full Section: $510 pre-reg/$585 late reg [reduced from $650 & $750 for the entire section @ full price]

NEW! Master Couture Garment Making Workshop NEW! @ $75 Lab Fee for Full Apparel Production Skill Section and Entire Boot Camp Series paid students (by invitation) and @ $150 for everyone else with approval.  Fees due by/on 22 February 2014.  

Enrollment in this newly added Master Workshop is by invitation only with approval from RWU/NTUMA'PA lead workroom staff and Leighel Desirée. It is also for designers with advanced garment construction skills and/or apparel technicians only! Students interested in taking this workshop must meet specific skills requirements that will be assessed before enrollment is approved.  Please see theFAQ page for additional information and enrollment requirements.

Sample and Workroom Operations Presentation and Assessment Consultations† Leighel Desirée will also present a lecture-workshop on how to select, assess and hire a good/reliable sample and workroom staff as well as information on setting up a workroom. The presentation will also cover selecting equipment, basic operations, increasing production and revenues while sustaining efficiency, a high quality of work and retaining workroom staff.

$50 pre-reg/$75 late reg

Life/Model Drawing for Fashion Design this 3 1/2 hour workshop is a pre-requisite studio session for those with little or no fine arts background as well as those who need a refresher in drawing the human figure that will translate to fashion drawing. This workshop is also being offered to give those taking our Fashion Drawing workshop more confidence and some fundamental technical tools to understanding the human form. This  workshop will be taught by renowned painter and muralist and UT professor John Yancey. 

$50 pre-reg/$75 late reg

Fashion Drawing studio workshop will be taught by a professional artisan, educator and Art Institute adjunct professor Dr. Honoria Starbuck .This workshops is for novice and experienced artists, designers and illustrators.       

$115 pre-reg/$135 late reg

Basic "Flat" Drafting skills sessions will be taught by Daryl "Keto" Robinson, an adjunct instructor in ACC's Engineering Design Graphics program and a draftsman at  Applied Materials.  This 3 hours session lab workshop will focus on providing designers and sewing techs basic drafting skills needed to interpret constructed garments and illustrations in order to accurately layout flats and spec sheets for garments as well as tricks to produce accurate drafts and patterns. 

$85 pre-reg/$100 late reg

Colour Branding workshop will be taught by painter, designer and colour consultant Luanne Stovall.

$35 pre-reg/$50 late reg

Fashion Design Business & Production Basics A 3 hour workshop on the business side and tools of launching and sustaining a fashion label/business taught by Nailah I. Akinyémi-Sankofa Founder, Executive Creative Director of RunWay Underground, Editor-in-Chief forJisé Fashion Journal and Fashion Designer and CEO of Nama Isé-Ona. The presentation will include basic start up information, sourcing, marketing tools and social media/networking, the importance of building and retaining a good team and interns; design copyright and intellectual property rights; working with production companies; models and model agencies; developing and sustaining a good rapport with other industry professionals, shop owners, editors and clients, keys to being disciplined and focused and much more...    

$75 pre-reg/$90 late reg

Apparel Industry Resourcing, Textile Science & Apparel Manufacturing Fundamentals:  are three 3-hour lecture-presentation workshops on Textile Sourcing and Textile Science and Apparel Manufacturing that will cover the performance of textiles used in fashion apparel. We will also cover resourcing fabrics for collections and samples, the newest most innovative technologies and advances in textile manufacturing, US laws concerning textiles, wholesale buying, managing resource supply chains and how to resource for yourself even when no fabric options seem to be available. How to "test" content of textiles fibers (natural vs. synthetic)...There will be an overview of all of these topics followed by a Q&A session. This lecture-presentation workshops will be presented by Benson Roberts, the Principal Designer of Atelier Benson and Mange la Mode. He has been designing professionally for 30 years. Benson is also a Supply Chain and Resourcing Specialist. He is the Co-Owner of TexStyles Designer Fabric Showroom and the CEO and Resourcing Director at Blue Moon Apparel Manufacturing Services. 

$75 pre-reg/$90 late reg - Each [or all three @ $185 pre-reg/$225 late reg]

Mandatory Orientation, Meet/Greet Breakfast - 15 February 2014 | 9:00am-10:30am

All Bootcamp students enrolled in lab/studio workshops (even if you're signed up for one workshop ) are required to attend this mandatory orientation/introduction and meet/greet breakfast session.

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NOTE: NTUMA'PA Boot Camp workshops can be taken individually from the entire series or as a package (i.e. you may only be interested in taking the Sample Cutting and Pattern Making I workshops and nothing else). 

NTUMA'PA Apparel Production Skills Boot camp Workshops are free to current RWU member/in-house designers with a current/paid annual membership. NTUMA'PA production staff and Fashion Incubator resident-members, Ka-Aso Textile Guild members and (two) Blue Moon Manufacturing lead production staff may participate on full scholarships with NTUMA'PA executive staff approval and a one-time $75 lab fee.

Current ACC, UT, Art Institute of Austin, HTU, St. Edwards, Texas State, CTC and AISD and Del Valle high school (junior and senior) students (with proof of enrollment) receive a student discount with six total full scholarships and four partial scholarships to current students recommended by their program director and/or department heads with final approval by RWU staff. One full scholarships are available for current AAUL after school youth (high school juniors or seniors only) and two AAUL adult education program students.

NTUMA'PA workshops students must be pre-registered prior to the start of the Boot Camp in order to attend. All workshops are taught in English unless otherwise specified.  If you have special language needs, please let us know on your pre-registration form.  All instructional information materials and some tools and supplies are provided.  Workshops are held at the RWU  textile studio and apparel workroom/studio.  Location TBA.  Some workshops require students to have knowledge of apparel construction and moderate sewing skills. 

SKILLS ASSESSMENT: Sewing and other production skills of each student will be assessed in January and early February 2014 in several sessions. Visit the January and February pages of the Calendar page of the NTUMAPA website for specific Skills Assessment dates/times. These skills assessment sessions are to determine eligibility for enrollment levels in any of the Apparel Production Skills workshops. 

REGISTRATION: Pre-Registration begins 20 September 2013 through 31 January 2014. Minimum deposits for individual and full package workshops are required at time of pre-registration to hold your place in workshops. Minimum enrollment in all lab/studio workshops is six (6) and maximum 18. Lecture-Presentation workshops minimum enrollment is four (4) and maximum 35.

Late Registration is 1-10 February 2014.

Click here for NTUMA'PA Bootcamp Workshop pre-registration and scholarship information, guidelines and online registration form.

2014 NTUMA'PA Winter Session Workshop Fee Schedule††:

Individual Courses @ $35 - $150 early registration  

Full Apparel Production Skills Section @ $510 pre-registration by 31 January 2014/$585 Late Registration

Entire Bootcamp Series Package @ $685 Pre-Registration by 31 January/ $785 Late Registration 1-10 February 2014

[† Actual Bootcamp Workshop dates/times are still being fine tuned and will be posted by 27 January. The main Apparel Production Skills Workshops taught by Leighel Desirée will be offered daily from 22-28 February 2014.†††]

[†† Course fees are subject to change. No refunds on missed sessions or cancellations without a minimum five (5) day advance notice. No refund requests after 10 February 2014 for Boot Camp Workshops 15-22 February. No Refund request after 17 February 2014 for individual Boot Camp Workshops from 23 February - 4 March 2014. A 25% service charge will be deducted from refunds of paid fees with proper minimum 5-day advance notice. Full refunds of paid fees will be given if a workshop is cancelled or does not make minimum enrollment numbers. After initial workshop deposits are paid remaining balances can be made in installments up to 10 February 2014.  All Bootcamp Workshops must be paid in full by Monday, 10 February.  Some full and partial scholarships are available. No refunds on Lab Fees.]

[††† Dates of NTUMA'PA Bootcamp Workshops may change or be adjusted based on Ms. Perez's travel arrangements, our other instructors' availability and actual enrollment numbers. We will do our best to update this information as soon as dates are confirmed.]

MAJOR SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 

Austin Revitalization Authority [ARA]

JANUARY 2014

RWU Call for Black Models - Male & Female

|Saturday, 11 January 2014 | 2pm - 3:30pm | Moved to Windsor Park Library | 5833 Westminster Dr. (78723) | In meeting room 2 | 

For additional information on what to wear, do and bring to the audition, please visit to the Calls page of our website. [Please do not attend our auditions without reading the information on the "Calls" page.]

May 2013