A workforce pipeline connecting American education, research, and innovation
to paid careers, economic mobility, and domestic manufacturing.
Why does it matter?
AMERICA FUNDS THE TALENT. OVERSEAS FACTORIES GET THE JOBS.
Americans spend $560 billion annually on clothing and footwear, yet only 3% of apparel sold here is American-made.
We invest billions in American education, then send jobs, and economic growth overseas.
Atelier Circuit is building the bridge back to American production.
American Annual Donations
$118B to University Research
$92B to Education
American graduates without jobs
Where Are the Fashion & Materials Science Career Pathways? Everyone wears clothes.
America invests billions in education and innovation, yet graduates face limited pathways.
The Atelier Circuit is a nonprofit fashion house building the missing workforce pipeline, connecting university research, materials innovation, and skilled graduates to paid opportunities and U.S. production.
We bring the industry projects, production leadership, technical workflows, mentorship, and cross-disciplinary coordination with workforce funding collaboration, and student and facility participation.
America holds decades of specialized textile and manufacturing knowledge. Universities are advancing new materials and technology, but research needs a pathway into real work.
The Atelier Circuit connects workforce pathways and American production before that knowledge is lost.
THE MISSING EDUCATION TO WORKFORCE PATHWAY
America invests billions in education, research, skilled talent, and manufacturing infrastructure; yet fails to fully connect these resources to paid careers and domestic production. Without workforce pathways, we leave our talent, technology, and investment underutilized. The Atelier Circuit is building the missing link from education to paid employment and American manufacturing.
BREAKING FINANCIAL BARRIERS. UNLOCKING TALENT. BUILDING STRONGER FUTURES.
Atelier Circuit empowers talented individuals from underserved communities to pursue their potential through accessible, hands-on skills development, industry mentorship, and real-world workforce experience; opening pathways to meaningful employment, career advancement, and lasting economic mobility.
Built in Phases
IMPACT
Phase One | Foundation
Fund the missing pathway from education to American production.
Activate the people, knowledge, education relationships and production network already in place. Pay students and experienced specialists to work together, moving art and innovation through textiles into American-made finished work.
Phase Two | Expansion
Turn one proven pipeline into more paid American opportunity.
Repeat the model, expand paid student and specialist participation, advance more materials and textiles, and prove the pathway can deliver measurable outcomes again.
Phase Three | Establish It
Create a year-round bridge from education to American making.
Establish a continuous paid workforce pathway where students and emerging professionals work alongside experienced specialists, carrying art, materials and textile knowledge into American production.
Phase Four | Extend It
Strengthen the American fashion pipeline.
Extend the proven model across more universities, students, artists, scientists, textile specialists and American makers, preserving specialized knowledge while creating more paid pathways into U.S. production.
Expertise
Atelier Circuit has decades of specialized knowledge across fine art, material science, fiber, weaving, scarf design and production, textile printing, education and workforce, brought together to preserve what America knows, advance what comes next, and pass that knowledge forward through real work.
Guided by experience
1970s to NOW
From College & University Study into a Working American Pipeline
The Atelier Circuit works directly with universities, material scientists, fiber specialists and industry experts, connecting their research and knowledge to textile expertise, technology and American production. Students are paid to work alongside these professionals on the actual pipeline, turning education into experience, knowledge into workforce pathways, and innovation into American-made textiles and finished work.
Contact us to for paid student workforce opportunities. We work with national Colleges & Universities
ACC FASHION INCUBATOR | TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | LAKE TRAVIS HIGH SCHOOL FASHION DESIGN
Atelier Circuit - A New American Fashion House
team
Founding Members
VERO lYN eSQUE
Founder | Lead Designer + Pattern Language
23+ years across art, entertainment, technology and creative production
Vero is a multidisciplinary artist, creative director and systems thinker whose work connects fine art, fashion, technology, music and cultural experience. Her original hand painted works translate music, rhythm and emotion into pattern, moving from physical artwork into digital design, textiles, fashion and immersive environments.
Selected Experience: Fashion Weeks • Art & Technology Pipeline Development • Large Scale Events + Experiential Production • Workforce Programming
Vero brings creative direction, pattern language, product development, technology and multidisciplinary leadership, connecting original artwork to a larger system of IP, textiles, products and cultural experience.
Board Member | Heritage + Industry
40+ years in the American scarf and fashion industry. Led one of America’s longest-established silk painting studios, Jan spent decades producing and marketing American-made hand-painted silk scarves. The works were exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery, earned more than 25 national awards of excellence and three Niche Awards, and received commissions from the International Olympic Committee, Hyatt, Hilton, Intel, Boeing and Takashimaya Gallery in Tokyo.
Selected Experience: Smithsonian Renwick Gallery • International Olympic Committee • Boeing • Intel • Hyatt • Hilton • Takashimaya Tokyo • National galleries + exhibitions
Jan brings firsthand knowledge of American scarf design, production, sewing, manufacturing, sales and market development, along with a lifetime commitment to keeping skilled production and creative work in American hands.
His experience represents exactly what The Atelier Circuit is designed to preserve: knowledge earned through decades of making, producing and bringing American textiles to market.
Jan Mayer
Rabbit Goody
Fabrics | Textile Heritage + Weaving Production
40+ years in American textiles and weaving. Rabbit was already earning her living as a hand weaver producing men’s scarves for New York City and Boston stores during the 1970s. An internationally recognized textile historian, Rabbit creates historically accurate textiles for Hollywood, museums, historic sites and luxury clients. Her work has appeared in Lincoln, The Gilded Age, John Adams, Master and Commander, and No Country for Old Men.
Selected Experience: Smithsonian • Mount Vernon • Monticello • The Henry Ford Museum • HBO • Hollywood film + television
Fiber • Yarn • Weaving • Historic Textiles • American Manufacturing • Textile Preservation. Connects generations of American textile knowledge with the materials, makers and production of what comes next.
STEVEN MORENO
Pigment & Dyes | Print + Textile Production
20+ years in digital textile printing and production. Steven brings more than two decades of experience turning original artwork into production-ready textiles across fashion, film, television and entertainment. His expertise spans digital textile printing, color development, fabric development, printing technology and production.
Selected Experience: Disney • HBO • Netflix • NBC • MGM • Universal Studios • Warner Bros. • Met Gala
Steven connects art, pattern and color with the technical precision required for world-class textile production, bringing both creative understanding and hands-on manufacturing expertise to The Atelier Circuit.
MALIA AZURIN
Student Sewing Workforce + Strategic Partnerships
17+ years across business development, sales, partnerships, communications and operations. Malia brings experience across business consulting, logistics and supply chain, sales, marketing, PR and strategic growth, with a career built around developing relationships and moving complex projects forward.
Selected Experience: Priority1 • Houzz • Matrix Visual Solutions • Luxury Marketing
At The Atelier Circuit, Malia connects colleges and universities, paid workforce opportunities, manufacturers, supply-chain partners, funders and cultural institutions, building the relationships that move the Circuit from education into real-world production and opportunity.
DALTON SESSUMES
Technology | Performance Costuming + Materials
Dalton brings an unusual combination of physics, performance, costuming and emerging technology. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in physics, founded MindWorks, and has worked with teams including Cirque du Soleil while developing technology-driven performance experiences.
Selected Experience: Cirque du Soleil • MindWorks • Electric Daisy Carnival • International Performance + Production • Costume Design • Emerging Technology
At The Atelier Circuit, Dalton is exploring costuming and 3D printing with natural materials and fibers, including filament testing and new ways materials can move from experimentation into wearable applications. Connects material experimentation, technology and the human body to explore what the next generation of textiles and costuming can become.
Ralph
Advisor | Material Science + Fiber Innovation
40+ years in material science, fibers and textile applications
Ralph brings decades of technical experience across material science, fiber development, material performance and textile applications, connecting the science behind innovative materials with the practical requirements of textile development and production.
Expertise: Material Science • Fiber Development • Material Performance • Textile Applications • Material Innovation • Technical Development
At The Atelier Circuit, Ralph provides the technical bridge between material innovation, fiber, weaving and finished textiles, His knowledge connects the science of what materials can become with the textile expertise required to actually make them.
