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Environmental Artist Isabel Varela Launches Sustainable Fashion Exhibit at ChaShaMa

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sustainable multidisciplinary artist Isabel Varela will host her second solo art exhibition, Clothes: Minded and Repurposed, from August 11 - September 23, exposing audiences to the dangers of waste in the fashion industry and how her personal experiences helped shape her position as a passionate environmental activist. Varela has partnered on the event with ChaShaMa, an organization that helps create a more diverse and inclusive world for community-centric artists.

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  • Varela has partnered on the event with ChaShaMa , an organization that helps create a more diverse and inclusive world for community-centric artists.
  • Clothes: Minded and Repurposed is a follow up to Varela's debut solo art exhibit, Clothes: Minded, which ran in 2018 at the Caelum Gallery in NYC.
  • The event featured Varela's work alongside like-minded sustainable artists, working together to captivate the reality of wasteful fashion and what we as a community can do to help improve things.
  • Isabel Varela began her career as a fashion designer in her mid-twenties, intent on becoming a global sensation when the reality of $100K debt caused her dreams to come crashing down.