Project PJ’s – ( February ) Service Learning Project where students make pajamas for juveniles ages newborn – 17 years old to donate to three area organizations/facilities that protect children in situations related to homelessness or domestic violence: CareNet of the Palouse, Sojourner’s Alliance, and Alternatives of Violence of the Palouse.
Prom Fizzle – (March) Premiere Fashion Show/Fundraising Event to support the UI Academic War on Hunger and fund a Clothing, Textiles, and Design Scholarship so UI students can submit fiber/wearable art and target market category designs and attend the international ITAA annual conference if work is accepted.
SIDS Product Development Collaboration – (April) ITAA-UI members are collaborating with the Sleepsound Engineering Product Development Project Group to sew infant sleepwear that contains a monitoring device to help prevent SIDS in newborns.
Fiber/Wearable Art Design Exhibition – (April) ITAA – UI members and the Family and Consumer Sciences Aesthetics class will design/construct wearable art apparel products to submit for juried review by the ITAA Wearable Art/Design Competition Committee and for Exhibition at the University of Idaho Library.
