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Meet your mentors for the Home Sweet Home fashion competition! We will meet in B201, the Data Studio, right next door to CATalyst Studios in the Main Library.
Feng-Feng Yeh
Feng-Feng Yeh is a chef and multi-disciplinary artist. Yeh’s practice transforms diasporic historical narratives into impactful sensorial community activations. Utilizing food to create dynamic homes for intersectional stories, Yeh offers collective creative acts in the form of culinary experiences, installations, and large-scale public art as a means of cultural reclamation and empowerment against erasure.
Yeh has a substantial background in fashion working during her 15 year career working at luxury fashion houses Rick Owens, Saint Laurent, Celine, and Dior. She has a BFA in Fashion Design from FIT and has studied abroad at Florence’s Polimoda, one of the top 10 fashion schools in the world. Yeh has been featured in Vogue Magazine, Vogue.com, and Womens Wear Daily for her NYC independent womenswear label Savant.
Currently, Yeh’s multimodal award-winning Chinese Chorizo Project (CCP) explores the revival of a once forgotten delicacy from her hometown of Tucson, Arizona called Chinese chorizo. Launched with the annual Chinese Chorizo Festival, the exploration of this symbolic food memorializes the history of solidarity built between Mexican and Chinese immigrants at some 582 Chinese grocery stores that existed in Tucson from 1881-1991.
Ariel Lee Fan
After leaving her job as a Color Designer at Adidas in 2018, Ariel Lee Fan began her own clothing business focusing on handmade all-black garments. She started sewing in 2001, but really became a skilled seamstress after a couple of years into owning her business. In 2019, she participated in the final casting interviews for Project Runway, but was not selected. Her garments focus on comfortable pieces that still evoke emotions and building patterns around zero-waste.
Regina Dante
Regina Dante is a self-taught sewist, textile artist, educator, and founder of Crafting Resilience, a community-based creative initiative centered on sewing, repair, upcycling, and reuse. With 30 years of sewing experience and a passion for making textile arts accessible, she teaches practical sewing skills while exploring the ways clothing and textiles can carry stories of identity, memory, culture, and resilience. Her work combines creative problem-solving with reclaimed materials, community making, and the belief that making and repair can be acts of connection and empowerment.
Niko Sanchez
Niko Sanchez is the Digital Design and Fabrication Specialist for CATalyst Studios he is also a 3rd year PhD student in the Applied Intercultural Arts Research Program. His artistic career started with an apprenticeship restoring murals in Chicano Park. During his undergraduate career at University of Arizona he studied Art History, Studio Art, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He was selected as a 2025-2026 JustArts Fellow for his project “PLAing with Trash: Turning 3d printing polylactic acid waste into art” which focuses on building a network across U of A fabrication spaces to harvest 3d printing waste, failed prints, and prototypes and using that material as the basis for creating sculptures and sculpture workshops.He received his masters in teaching and teacher education, he taught Biology, Biotechnology, STEM, and Precision Machining at Tucson High before returning to pursue his Ph.D. He has contributed to several mural projects at Tucson High and University of Arizona. His current work focuses on teaching methodologies for blending digital and traditional fabrication techniques and representation in library makerspaces.