Name: Silvia Sacrestano
Nationality: Italian
Tel: 07930453762
Email: silvia@sacrestano.co.uk
An enthusiastic and friendly freelance art workshop leader with experience in a range of environments including heritage, carnival and fashion with all a variety of audiences, children, young adult, families and adults. Fluent in English, Italian and Czech. Competent with CAD, Photoshop and Macromedia Dream Weaver amongst others
Arts and education employment
Fashion & textile Feb 2014 on going
BTEC Fashion level1 & 2 + creative textile @Richmond Adult Community College
Fashion design course for adults building a portfolio, sewing and patterns skills, felt making, screen printing, creative textile, designing a full fashion collection.
Fashion Associate lecture
@ Fashion Retail Academy (SIR PHILIP GREEN) Sep 2012 – July 2014
Fashion design communication lecture for level2 ABC fashion diploma @ FRA, teaching to teenagers illustrations & fashion, building portfolio for work or advance studies in fashion.
Art tutor
Play Space @ various schools in Westminster April 07- June15
Healthy eating after club for disadvantaged kids with families , creating artistic menus, textile aprons, fashion felt making, jewellery construction, digital designs & healthy smoothies for the final show: ‘the café’. Focused on healthy living sponsored by the NHS. Exploring wet felting technique and designing/ making lovely felted gifts the unique tactile and therapeutic experience working with natural fibres such as wool and silk.
Screen print tutor @Taru.org.uk,@Artedutain.org,@ArtdepoN12 June2009 ongoing
Screen printing facilitator for adults and summer school clubs (OUTREACH GROUPS), creating designs t-shirts- fashion costumes & carnival costumes with a final production presentation
Fashion print tutor @EastSide & Actiondog.net June 10- August 11
Designing& facilitating summer workshops for teenagers (OUTREACH GROUPS), designing, illustrations, constructing, customizing t-shirts, dyeing, creating a collection for the summer fashion show. Aiming to the ASDAN booklet.
Carnival Art Workshop May – September/ 2006-2011
Sunshine International Arts
Carnival arts workshops with young & adults ,to create t-shirts & costumes, puppets and masks which were used in the night Thames Festival, Southwark Youth Festival, Notting Hill Carnival, Luton Festival, Liverpool festival and Oxford Festival.
Art Workshop Leader Feb 07
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms‘Dancing Through the War: The Royal Ballet 1939-46’:Textile printing workshops, creating peg dolls and solders. Inspired by ‘Make Do and Mend’ from the Second World War, when clothes were rationed and people had to use what they had and recycle. mix age with families. Carnival Art Workshop Carnaval del Pueblo Jan-June 07Carnival Costume&Float Design at Southwark college culminating into young & adults people from the Latin American community dressing up and performing at the Carnaval del Pueblo in Southwark, MAKING LANTERNS, POPPETS , COSTUMES & MAKE UP ARTIST
Dreamweaver Tutor Jan 07-Dec 09
Vital Regeneration: Queens Park New Media Centre
Teaching adults how to design & build a web site with Dreamweaver, Level 1, 2 and 3. LOCN Accredited courses.
Fashion Tutor Jan 07 –Dec 09
Timberland project @ Parish School Soho
Developed and lead craft classes (t-shirt- bath bombs- sculptures-felt making-printing-flyer-story mapping) with digital animation performance, for groups of children 5 – 10 years with end of term presentation & display @ Timberland shoe shop in Oxford St.
Heritage Learning Project Worker Oct – Dec 2006
Museum of London, London Wall
Worked with the Access & learning department to design and create a set of Roman and Medieval activity bags to enable special education needs schools visiting the Museum to explore the galleries through a multi-sensory approach.
Art Workshop Leader November 06-May 07
Museum of Croydon Clocktower
Developed and lead a series of printmaking family & young adults workshops inspired by the Sunshine in Suburbia exhibition & maps, in which the visitors were able to learn printing techniques to make wrapping paper and canvas paintings.
Photoshop Photography Webdesigning Tutor August 2006 & 2007
Redbridge Summer University and Wembley Youth Centre (11 – 22 year olds)
Carnival Art Workshop Leader May – September 2006 & 2007
Laburnum Community Street Party
Lead adult and family workshops which involved making costumes, puppets, t-shirts, banners and decorations for a community street procession.
Arts Tutor July – August 2005
Brent Summer University
Taught different groups including SEN, 11 – 14 and 16+ about fashion design. As part of the workshops the participants designed, created and displayed their own designs.
Fashion employment
Freelance Fashion Design Printer February 2006- June 2013
Asudari (fashion label)
Freelance Designer April 2005
Keeler Gordon
Fashion designer 2000 – 2005
Silvia Sacrestano (fashion label)
Fashion Events Organiser January 1999 – December 2000
Aquarium (nightclub)
Junior Textile Designer June 1999 – October 1999
Natasha Kerr (interior design company)
Junior Assistant (fashion print design studio) September 1998 – June 1999
Liberty
Education & Training
City & Guilds 7407 level4
London South Bank University Certificate level4 in Further Education teaching March 2007
Advanced carnival craft skills (Making of the Mas) August 2006
Kinetika (of Atlanta Olympics 96), London
Creating carnival character, carnival design, flying fabrics, contraction, illumination, puppets and event management
Teacher Training May 2004
Empowering Learning Teacher Training & Recruitment Consultants, London
Lesson planning, behaviour management, arts curriculum links.
Business Training September 2002
East London Small Business Centre
BA(Hons) Fashion, Print & Design 1996 – 2000
Central Saint Martins College, London
Interests
Travel is a main passion that has seen me visit many parts of the world. This has further enhanced my desire to build relationships with people of different backgrounds and cultures. I am also interested in alternative therapies & food gardening.