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Menu Close Home page About News & Events PROJECTS ALEWIFE ALEWIFE Gallery SANGUINE BONDS - BFA Thesis SANGUINE BONDS - Design Journal Teaching Contact Search Results Ethan 'EEBEE' Donaldson Ethan is a full-time artist, fashion designer, and creative educator, based in Boston MA He is focused on creating wearables with freelance clients, mentoring the next generation of designers and artists through peer review, and guest teaching, and developing his own fashion brand, EEBEE. in 2024 he graduated from Massachusetts College of Art & Design as a BFA in Fashion Design with departmental honors. Through working with various forms of 2D and wearable media including clothing and jewelry, Ethan strives to represent and advocate for the value of community, creative education, and sustainability. Ethans design philosophy centers around the human experience and interrogating the conditions that bind us to each other as members of a community and make up our collective identity. The use of up-cycled materials and rejected dead stock represents an ideal of redemption, reproach, and the virtue that life is under constant review. Email: EEBEE5400@gmail.com EEBEE the fashion label is inspired by introspection, skateboarding, creative education, Alexander McQueen, Supreme, Absurdism, freedom, the corporeal experience, community, Martin Margiela, Cubism, recycling, getting hurt and dirty, philosophy, psychology, dogs, social infrastructure, Abstraction, Ai WeiWei, Tailors, the colors black, red, blue, and white, the proletariat, etymology, social justice, Flobots, graffitti, squares and grids, negative space, Francis Bacon, Naruto, the MBTA, etc. EEBEE the brand was created as a means of promoting a sustainable and slow approach to fashion, and to garner a community of likeminded artists to collaborate and connect through meaningful projects of various nature. 'EEBEE,' the name, comes from a family nickname that was inspired by E.B White, the American author and essayist of the 1900's likely best known for writing 'Charlottes Web' and 'Stuart Little' and affectionately for myself, 'Here is New York' and other essays.

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Menu Close Home page About News & Events PROJECTS ALEWIFE ALEWIFE Gallery SANGUINE BONDS - BFA Thesis SANGUINE BONDS - Design Journal Teaching Contact Search Results By Ethan Donaldson 01/01/2023 24h 60m Boston About News & Events Projects : Teaching Contact

Menu Close Home page About News & Events PROJECTS ALEWIFE ALEWIFE Gallery SANGUINE BONDS - BFA Thesis SANGUINE BONDS - Design Journal Teaching Contact Search Results Design journal 'SANGUINE BONDS' Moodboards Metal + Jewelry Components Garment development View collection bottom of page Moodboards Principal Moodboard 'Bonds' a relationship between people or groups based on shared feelings, interests, or experiences. 'Sanguine ' optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation. Runway lighting Runway styling Visual references top of page bottom of page Metal + Jewelry Components Metals, in their resilience, have always fascinated me in equal senses of their rigid strength and dependability as a finished refined object, yet excellent malleability, and unyielding in its recyclability. To manipulate metal to its greatest potential requires immense heat, patient attention, repetitive force, and other demands of its craftsperson. It can be liquid, and it can be solid. It can be soft and it can be hard, sharp or dull, light or heavy, valuable or ; with determination it can be anything. The character of metal remind me in many ways of the indomitable human spirit. The same way its former owners stories, methods, and conviction have stood the test of time, most family heirlooms that I own are made of metal and are holding up quite well. Look # 3 Hollow rings The idea of clanhood led me to create these hollow signet rings. I was driven away from creating a set of unified replicas; this set of rings aims to capture a collective identity of individual strengths, values, and experiences. They are constructed with a range of noble metals in different band sizes and surface treatments. Look #5 Nickel ribcage This design is an homage to, and was directly inspired by, the legendary Jeweler Shaun Leane, and the legendary fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen, who together in collaboration created the "Spine Corset" for McQueen's 1998 Spring ready to wear collection, 'Untitled' (Golden Shower) Thematically following the idea of the corporeal experience, I created this armoresque wearable sculpture to nod to the simultaneously vulnerable fragility and boundless strength of the human body and mind. Sheet nickel was partially cut with a water jet cutter and partially by hand. The sections were joined together with brass rivets, and along the spine, joined with handmade brass hinges to close around the body. A leather harness was created with a pocket for the base of the ribcage to sit in, using the tension of its closure to Look # 5 Silver cuffs and ring Cuttlefish bone casting dates back to the 16th century in the Mediterranean, and was utilized by goldsmiths and other metal craftspeople globally until the mid 1900s I connected very deeply with this technique particularly because of the specific nature of the material - it being the remains of a once living creature, It evokes a sense of redemption, succession, and ascension. The bone as a symbol related to death, and employing it to create a new and beautiful object of permanence, holds a distinct poetic quality to me. Additionally, the microstructure of Cuttlebone has a geometric kinship with grid structures which is where the 'EEBEE' logo comes from, and is a metaphor for the connectivity of all things. Metal casting in tufa stone is a technique that was originated in the late 1800s in the southwest americas by native tribes including the Navajo, Zuni, and Hopi. Tufa is an easily carvable material composed of compressed volcanic ash. While I experimented with this technique, I ultimately chose not to pursue it for final designs. Look # 4 Bronze rings The gold ring on the left is a living inheritance bestowed on me from my grandfather, and was used as a model to create the ring on the right, a bronze cast utilizing the cuttlefish bone casting technique. Copper ring This ring was created using Chasing and Repoussé and is meant to represent a shield emblazoned with a coat of arms. Including the motifs of a book and sword, this object represents the virtues of wisdom and justice Stamped across the pages of the book is the motto "My hope is constant in thee" which is taken from the clan Donald of Scotland, a callout to my familial heritage Belt buckle Look #1 overall sliders top of page bottom of page Garment Development Sketch lineup Look #1 Look #2 Look #3 Look #4 Look #5 top of page

Menu Close Home page About News & Events PROJECTS ALEWIFE ALEWIFE Gallery SANGUINE BONDS - BFA Thesis SANGUINE BONDS - Design Journal Teaching Contact Search Results 'ALEWIFE' Gallery 10/15/2023 - 10/28/2023 The 'ALEWIFE Gallery' show was installed over three days and was open to the public for two weeks in the Patricia Doran Graduate Gallery, located in MassArt in Boston, MA. A reception taking place on 10/26 brought the models back for a live showing of the fashion ensembles, and a brief oral explanation by Ethan on the project and a recognition of its contributors. About 100 visitors attended, comprised of local creatives, students, professors, and Cambridge and Boston locals Reception Photos 10/26/2023 Installation extras & BTS Additional gratitude goes to Nick Ortoleva and Owen Greenfield for being my right and left hands in creating this installation, without these two individuals and their dedication and expertise, it would not have taken shape in the ideal way it did.

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Menu Close Home page About News & Events PROJECTS ALEWIFE ALEWIFE Gallery SANGUINE BONDS - BFA Thesis SANGUINE BONDS - Design Journal Teaching Contact Search Results 'ALEWIFE' 2022 ALEWIFE was documented in North Cambridge late in the evening of 9/3/2022, and had been in its design process beginning in April 2022. The work references the gritty station where the Red Line of the MBTA starts: a 5 story parking garage with multiple bus terminals, and well known by for its massive spiral ramp plastered by graffiti. It is a place of presence and transience, people are always coming and going, enabling exploration and exposure to the city's visual identity. New experience brings perspective, as well as unexpected growing pains. Project Credits: Design+Direction Ethan Donaldson Models John Neslusan (MassArt Industrial Design ‘24) Jack Tierney Julian Williams Fidel Nazaire-Hicks Henry Schmitt Film/Photo Benjamin Dealy Izaiah Rhodes Saade Nick Ortoleva Gallery Technical Pro duction Owen Greenfield Onyx Raia Video Score Owen Greenfield Zack Wilson Other contributors Taro O’Holloran Ben Feldman Christian Restrepo Sahjo Jamanka

Menu Close Home page About News & Events PROJECTS ALEWIFE ALEWIFE Gallery SANGUINE BONDS - BFA Thesis SANGUINE BONDS - Design Journal Teaching Contact Search Results 'SANGUINE BONDS' MassArt BFA Thesis 2023-2024 view garment flat file view design journal Every being is spiritual, experiencing corporeality in the world together. This Introspection on having a body, living a life, and observing death turns to escapism. Revelation is alchemy from growing pains, where relationships and aspirations have haunted but not cursed. Harmony and dissonance are equally necessary for strength in character. Growing with grace is impossible for anybody, and there lies a beautiful truth about life. This knowledge is based on coming to understand the constitution of spirit, and confronting the changes and conditions of human tangibility. From innocent boyhood to ambiguous adulthood, change is destiny, and in turn, so is untimely compromise. As more compromises are made, the innocent spontaneity fueling youth and unfocused vigor evolves into the formation of habits that alleviate the drudgery of daily life. The mind changes, as does the body, to accommodate destiny. The face may differ, yet beneath remain the same bones and an aggregate of memories. Models (from left to right) Sophia Re, Owen Greenfield, Rose Cataudella, Darryl Andrew, John Neslusan Hair & Makeup done by Sophia Re, Lily Epstein Garment Flat File