TELCS STUDIO INC

Working as a freelance tailor and alterations expert, Telcs, primarily tailors for advertising and ‘on-set’ commercial production work, red carpet, and celebrity. As a costumer, Telcs brings characters and movement to life with deeply researched character studies while using silhouette and materiality to enhance and support a narrative or staged image.

Fitting clothes to our bodies within the changing framework of our lives is nearly enlightening. As we go through metamorphoses, in our lives and in our physical bodies, properly caring for our garments supports us and acknowledges our present moment.

Invited Lectures and Panels:

2018 Women’s Design Panel, Breaking Boundaries, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, CA

2017 Fashion’s New Landscape for Inspired By for marketing firm Possible, Seattle, WA

2017 Fashion’s New Landscape Presented at Olson Kundig Architects, Seattle, WA

2016 Ethical Fashion panel discussion for Edinburgh Fashion Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

2016 Authentic Radicalism, Author and Moderator with Not Just A Label at Maison Assouline, London, UK

2015 1900: Adornment for the Home and Body, The Frye Art Museum, Gallery. Seattle, WA

2015 Monday Morning Meeting: Presentation of The Dowsing, Olson Kundig Architects. Seattle, WA

2015 University of Washington School of Art Successful Alumni Talk. Seattle, WA

2014 Cross Pollination for Creative Mornings Portland Design Week, Portland, OR

2013 The Art of Fashion and Manufacturing, 3 Talks; Lead speaker with guests Nin Truong, Dick Meyer and Strath Shepard, The Henry Art Gallery atThe University of Washington Museum, Seattle, WA

2012 Screen Style Panel Discussion, with Strath Shepard and Robin Held, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA

2012 Toast To Robin Held, Oddfellows Hall, Seattle, WA

2011 Costume and Textiles Gallery Talk, Host with textile artist Mandy Greer, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2003 Industrial Design Society of America Senior Merit Award Presentation, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Grants and Awards:

2014 MAPP International Residency for PICA TBD Festival with Samita Sinha Portland, OR

2014 MAPP International Residency, BricLab with Samita Sinha, Brooklyn, NY

2013 City Artists Grant Awarded by Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. Seattle, WA
2012 Solo Residency, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, A Laboratory For Performance Art, South Hampton, NY

2011 Group Residency w/ Saint Genet, Mighty Tieton, Artist in Residence, Tieton, WA

2009 Finalist for Municipal Bike Parking Design, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle, WA

2003 Boyer and Elizabeth Gonzales Scholarship for Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2003 Industrial Design Society of America, Senior Merit Award Winner, Western District, Seattle, WA

2003 Kenneth L. Striker Scholarship Graduating with Excellence Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2002 Environmental Design Research Grant, awarded by the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2002 IDSA Chapter Chair for the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Solo Exhibitions and Performances:

2013 The Dowsing, 2013, (performance) The Henry Art Gallery, The University of Washington Museum, Seattle, WA

2013 The Dowsing 2013, The Art and Fashion of Manufacturing, (museum show), The Henry Art Gallery, The University of Washington Museum, Seattle, WA

2012 The Dowsing, 2012, (performance) The Americas Society, New York, NY

2012 The Dowsing, 2012, (performance) Robert Wilson’s The Watermill Center, A Laboratory for Performance Art, South Hampton, NY

Art in Collections:

2013 Black Constellations, Shabazz Palaces Film, The Frye Art Museum. Director Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes and Curator Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Seattle, WA

2010 The Bow Dress, acquired by The Frye Art Museum. Curator Robin Held, Seattle, WA

Selected Gallery Shows, Performances and Group Museum Shows:

2023 Saint Genet, Performance TBD Vienna, Austria

2023 Mourning Clothing, Bumbershoot Fashion Presentation, Seattle, WA

2021 Good Witch/Bad Witch, Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA

2018 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Presentation of The Dowsing, Portland, OR

2017 Out Of Sight, group show curated by Scott Lawrimore, Seattle, WA

2017 I Want to Hear the Sea, costume and set design for Earth and Ceremony, On The Boards: Northwest New Works, Seattle, WA

2016 Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, collaboration with Artist Brendan Fernandes. Brooklyn Art Museum. April-Sept, 2016. Organized by Kevin Dumouchelle. Brooklyn, NY

2015 Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, collaboration with Artist Brendan Fernandes. Seattle Art Museum. June-Sept, 2015. Curated by Pam McClusky. Seattle, WA

2014 Cypher by Samita Sinha. PICA TBD Festival, Portland, OR

2014 Fashioning Cascadia, The Museum of Contemporary Craft. May- Oct 2014. Curated by Namita Wiggers and Sarah Margolis-Pineo. Portland, OR

2013 Moment Magnitude, The Frye Art Museum. Curated by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Seattle, WA

2012 The Softer Side of Death, Lundgren Monuments, Curated by Greg Lundgren. Seattle, WA

2011 Saint Genet: Transports of Delirium, (performance) The Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA

2011 No Masterpieces, Dark Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA

2011 Implied Violence: Shorter Are The Prayers In Bed But More Heartfelt, (performance) Curated by Robert Wilson for The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Works and Process Show, New York, NY

2010 Implied Violence: Yes and More and Yes and Yes and Why, Curated by Robin Held, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2010 Implied Violence: The Dorothy, For Better For Worse and Forever, (performance) The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2009 Implied Violence: Flinch Not and Give Not Back, (performance) Donau Festival, Krems, Austria

2008 Implied Violence: The Dorothy K, Curated by Robert Wilson and The Watermill Center, New Island Festival, New York, NY

The Discussion: Lectures and Teaching Work

Anna Telcs has focussed her career on studying the atavistic need to define oneself in clothing. Telcs has worked internationally as a tailor, costumer, speaker, and artist articulating the sociological and environmental impacts of adornment in our modern world. Leading community and institutional projects across the E.U. and the U.S.A., attending fashion events worldwide, and continuing research and consultations with manufacturers, universities and designers alike, Anna has been tailoring in Los Angeles for 5 years and is a 20 year (!) veteran of the fashion industry.

Telcs has lectured, taught, and coached students worldwide with longer engagements at The Royal College of Art, The London College of Fashion, Cornish College of the Arts, and The University of Washington.

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Creative Mornings Portland | Cross Pollination with Anna Telcs

B13 | Student Project with London College of Fashion and Not Just A Label | London