Press, Awards, & Honors

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Press:

Bollwitt, K. (March 6, 2015) Katie Thompson Wins Designer Showcase. Omaha Fashion Weekhttp://omahafashionweek.com/blog/friday-night-designers

Peters, C. (March 13, 2015) Omaha Fashion Week: Ingenuity the main fabric of 2nd designer showcase. Omaha.com. http://www.omaha.com/go/omaha-fashion-week-ingenuity-the-main-fabric-of-nd-designer/article_4edcbe4e-c9f9-11e4-aa71-d76066b9dc55.html

Pollitt, M (November, 20, 2014). ISU students at Omaha Fashion Week. Iowa State Daily. http://www.iowastatedaily.com/style/article_fd53482e-69d4-11e4-8e39-d792bdb76cdb.html

(March 13, 2015) Katie Thompson Wins Designer Showcase. Omaha Fashion Week. http://omahafashionweek.com/blog/katie-thompson-wins-designer-showcase-ii

(March 6, 2014) Omaha Fashion Photography- Find Your Muse. Hooton Images. http://blog.hootonimages.com/omaha-fashion-photography-find-your-muse/

(March 24, 2015) AMD graduate student Katie Thompson wins Omaha Fashion Week’s second showcase. Iowa State University- College of Human Science http://www.aeshm.hs.iastate.edu/2015/03/24/amd-graduate-student-katie-thompson-wins-omaha-fashion-weeks-second-showcase/

Image of dress from Through a Tuscan Garden on the cover of Inspired Living Omaha. (Spring 2014 Issue).

Omaha Fashion Magazine. (Spring 2015 Issue).

Omaha Fashion Magazine. (Fall 2015 Issue).

Omaha Fashion Magazine. (Spring 2014 Issue).

Awards:

Top designer Omaha Fashion Week

Honors:

Guest designer at Style and the City- Dress for Success fundraiser - Sioux Falls, SD - May, 14, 2014

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

Thompson, K. (November 15, 2014) DATS Rules. Private Collection. Digitally printed dress with 50 skirt panels created from pictures of geode rocks under a microscope as well as 15 other repeat textile designs representing the apparel design process. Buttons, rhinestones, and beads were sewn on to the 50 panels for surface design. Design Exhibition, International Textile and Apparel Association. Charlotte, North Carolina.

Thompson, K. (November 15, 2014) Through a Tuscan Garden. Private Collection. A digitally printed silk dress with an organza overlay. The textile design was created from photographs taken while traveling Tuscany in Italy. Design Exhibition, International Textile and Apparel Association. Charlotte, North Carolina.

Thompson, K. (November 09, 2015) Scaled. Private Collection. A laser cut neoprene 2 piece garment including 72 hours of laser cutting, 7 laser cut designs, 30 scale-like panels, and hand bead work. Design Exhibition, International Textile and Apparel Association. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Thompson, K. (November 09, 2015) All around the World. Private Collection. A digitally printed dress mimicking the globe with 24 bendable skirt panels and a textile design created from acrylic paining and the world map. Design Exhibition, International Textile and Apparel Association. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

McKinney, E., Stanley, A. E., Plummer, B., Thompson, K. & Rorah, W. (February 24-25 2016). Tacit magic: Understanding the principles behind Nakamichi's creative pattern cutting. The Second International Conference for Creative Pattern Cutting. Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

Thompson, K., Rorah, W., & McKinney, E., (February 24-25 2016). Integrating Textile Design & Surface Design into the Pattern Cutting Process Incorporating the use of Multiple Technologies. The Second International Conference for Creative Pattern Cutting. Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

Sanders, E. & Thompson, K. (January 30, 2015). A Corny Idea: Use of Corn Production as Inspiration for a Collaborative Technology Based Mini Apparel Fashion Line. TechStyleLAB Symposium, Kent State University. Kent, Ohio. Full paper was to be published.

Thompson, K. (January 30, 2015). Peeling Back the Layers: Creating a “Zero” Waste Garment through Digital Textile Print and Natural Dye Processes. TechStyleLAB Symposium, Kent State University. Kent, Ohio.

Thompson, K., Xiang, C., Sanders. E (November 9, 2016). Laundering Suggestions for Woven Cotton Fabrics Digitally Printed with Reactive Inks International Textile and Apparel Association, Vancouver, Canada. Full paper to be published.

WORKSHOPS GIVEN

Sanders, E., Thompson, K., Rorah, W., & Hwang, C. (January 2-9 2016). African American Fashion History: Past and Present. I’ll Make Me a World in Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa

PUBLISHED SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES

Hwang, C., Zhang, L., Thompson, K., Rorah, W., Sanders, E. "Efficacy of critiques in an apparel design studio" International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology, and Education.

McKinney, E., Stanley, A., Plummer, B., Thompson, K., Rorah, W. "Tactic magic: understanding the principles behind Nakamichi's creative pattern cutting" International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology, and Education, vol. 9, no. 2, 2016.