At The Crucible, we’re never short of inspiration. We have talent: people who create inventive, imaginary, beautiful things on a daily basis – and who help teach us how to find our creative genius along the way. We have community: people who dedicate their time, effort, energy, and whole soul into making The Crucible a special place.

And we have our youths: young folks that come from local schools to learn, discover, grow; youth who come to The Crucible to play with the world around them, to stretch their limits, to grow; people that sometimes come from difficult circumstances and, through their experiences at The Crucible, grow into sophisticated artists and community leaders.

With the fashion back on hangers, the runway disassembled and the fire poofers put away (for now), we wanted to take a moment and thank The Crucible community for helping make our second Hot Couture fashion show even hotter, more creative and dynamic than we dared imagine. 

In our final Designer Spotlight, staff writer Sarah Dabby chats with maker-artist Alex Glowaski to discuss brainwave-reactive headsets, internet-enabled pieces, and her huge dreams for Hot Couture and beyond. She will be showing two pieces at The Crucible's Hot Couture: A Fusion of Fashion and Fire on January 11-12, 2013.

Photos courtesy of Heather Wakefield.

Heather Wakefield has been sewing things since she was a child. It really does not take much to get her going creatively and she describes her studio, Satellite Art Station, as “a large, timeless, magical place with all kinds of fun little bits and fragments in it where it's easy to lose a day or a week.”  There she teaches classes and does custom couture, graphic design and photo portraiture.

She has studied modern dance and ritual fire dance and performance art theater became a passion which translated into four outfits that will be showcased at Hot Couture 2013.