Fiber Art Fashion Series: Tee Upcycling

Give new life to your old Tee Shirts in this fun, fashion-forward workshop led by fiber artist and sustainability advocate Pangea Kali Virga. T-shirts are one of the most discarded garments in the world, creating tonnes of textile waste. 

This is the last workshop of the Fiber Art Fashion Series. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to transform them into entirely new pieces through a variety of cutting, slashing, twisting, braiding, and sewing techniques.

Discover how to upcycle worn or forgotten tees into dresses, bags, redesigned tops, and more. You’ll explore both structural and decorative approaches to reworking fabric, using simple tools and your own creative vision.

Bring 2–3 T-shirts of any size from home to reinvent and transform them into new pieces!  Pangea will offer individual guidance and feedback.

No experience necessary. All are welcome. 

• About the Instructor:
  Born and raised in New York, Pangea Kali Virga now lives and works in Miami. She brings these themes to life through layered fiber artworks, dramatic experiential art and performances, free public sustainable art and skills workshops, and collaborative projects with public and private institutions.

  Kali Virga is committed to transforming the art and fashion industries into more sustainable and equitable spaces. She creates art and wearable pieces from upcycled materials and natural elements using zero-waste practices, reflecting her belief in the power of art and clothing as storytellers, cultural markers, and political catalysts. Before becoming an artist Pangea worked in the fashion industry for 10 years as a designer, stylist, runway producer, and production manager.

  Beyond her artistic practice, Kali Virga is a sustainability advocate, lecturer, arts event producer, and educator, sharing her expertise with hundreds of student artists of all ages.
  Pangea graduated with a degree in Fashion Design from FIT, has been showcased in over 60 international publications, exhibited in over a dozen exhibitions including, but not limited to solo shows at the Deering Estate (2025), and the Miami Beach Botanical Garden (2021), group shows at Green Space (2023+2024), CAMP Gallery (2024), and MOCA (2022+2023), has been awarded multiple grants and residencies, including, but not limited to the Knight Art Champion Grant (2022); Deering Estate Artists in Residence (2023+2024), ProjectArt Residency (2021-2023), Peter Bullough Foundation Residency (2023), Miami Dade Individual Artist Grant (2022+2023+2024) and the first Community Advocate Award for the annual Zero Waste Miami Coalition Awards. Pangea Kali Virga is a current Artist in Residence at Oolite Arts and Foundation House.