Ahead of My Class

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We play various roles in life and when things get tough, the faces of those we love pull us through! I am a mom and an aunt, natural and adopted my niece above shows a natural affinity for desig. Simply put fabric gives her joy!

Introducing BSs

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In Fashion.... In Community... In Life...

Until we face the Truth of matters...

There will be no solutions .. no change ... no success... EMBRACE DA BSs

Bonnie Sandy sterling

INTRODUCING BSs...

Creativity comes naturally to Bonnie Sandy Sterling. Her current body of designs was started in 1996 when she came across a traditional Tibetan female garment; this led to the winged series and exploration of the handkerchief silhouette. Her background as an artist led her to explore garment silhouettes as “canvas’. Comparable to soft sculpture, she has amassed a vast collection of original silhouettes and techniques! “Free Forms” and “animated suspension,” are the results of her involvement with Brooklyn’s jazz scene. Her pieces have a strong, recognizable voice much like the designer. Color, flow and ease, heavily influenced by nature, indicative of her Caribbean heritage! There is strong rhythm, and double entendre; most of her pieces serve double duty! MS Sandy-Sterling is an artist whose primary media has been Fiber, as practiced in the discipline of fashion design business today however you will find her heavily involved with the exploration, development, marketing and organizing of Brooklyn’s artistic micro entrepreneurs!

Creative Independent strategies™, B…Ss specializes in individual and group consulting, speaking and design services geared towards maximizing artistic product developing and marketing as well as streamlined operational strategies for small independent businesses. Artist Mosaic™ is an experiential design project that explores the road artist, community groups and entrepreneurs need travel to surpass economic, social and cultural barriers! Recognizing the wisdom of futures planning will appreciate the background and knowledge of new media technologies employed by Bonnie Sandy sterling and affiliates. Atoguna™ and Atoguna-TV Ekanika™ provides marketing and promotional services for creative; artiste and performers. Conception to point of sales we stand by our commitment to Creativity, Community and Culture. Ekanika™ is a virtual marketplace for indie artist and service providers! Contact Us Skype keys

About 20 Yrs ago Ms Sandy-Sterling became active in searching for solutions that helped independent garment designers and manufacturers! She pursued her own creative abilities, studying fashion design @ New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology! Since then she has trained and apprenticed with some of the most skilled craftspeople in the apparel design field. Between developing her own fashion philosophy silhouettes and artistic statement, she sort answers to the questions unique to artistic entrepreneurs. A former art teacher, she views the creative arts as vehicles for giving voice, and just as equally, as means towards self sufficiency and micro enterprise! She subsequently created the Artist Mosaic Project, exploring the development, marketing and organizing of some of Brooklyn’s artistic micro entrepreneurs, later developing products and services that facilitated artistic expression!

1996, Metamorphosis
1997 The Handkerchief series
1998, Exploration of Bias
1999 Bandana Series, In the evening baby
2000, Canvas, Free Forms
2001, Embrace da Bonnie Sandy sterling
2002 Maids Night out,
2003, Embrace Da B...Ss The philosophy
2004, Artist Mosaic the idea
Technology, Art, Design, an experiment in possibilities!
AM Signature ComponentsApril 2005 Artist Mosaic THE A-LINERS
June 2005 Atoguna
July 2005 The A-liners @ Urban Fashion Fest

Creative Independent Strategies The interest in her work, and repeated pleas for assistance resulted in creating strategies for independent artist. Techniques which lead to successful entrepreneurship have been an underlying theme in all her projects. Ms Sandy recently returned to her computer programming roots embracing the open source Green Sinerge.

The creative properties of Designer Bonnie Sandy Sterling are available for commercial use. Ms Sandy Sterling is available for consultation or a contractual basis.

Bonnie has produced many of her research programs under the sponsor ship of the Jazzpazazz Preservation Society (JAZZPAZAZZ PRESERVATION INC), and has been discussing the possibility of collaborating with other supporting organizations, individuals, artist groups, businesses and venues.

2006, launches a new direction that melds creativity, design, community, usability, technology and service! She will return to commercial design, presenting “KANIKA” a collection that reflect and celebrates “black”, her first commercial collection after a three year break..

Pursuing her belief that the ability to provide for oneself is a right not a privilege, Bonnie Sandy has Embraced Da BSs.

Most of her on-line photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial- No-Derivative License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.., Commercial enquiries, Can be directed

Client rosta include

Testimonial & Clientele
Calabar Imports http://www.calabar-imports.com/ :

Naijalife Magazine and enterprises www.naijalife.com,

Brooklyn Free Press, http://www.thebrooklynfreepress.com/ (which we are currently redeveloping). Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium web site http://www.cbjc24.7p.com/ ;

Jazzpazazz Preservation Society Inc:

Trybal Gear www.Stolenlegacy.com

Marlies Yearby’s- (Choreographer of rent); Moving Spirits dance Company,-virtual community;, http://www.movinspirits.com/ -virtual community;

Urban fashion fest http://www.urbanfashionfest.tk/

Urban fashion fes http://www.urbanfashionfest.tk/

Tracing The Events

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Showing Da BSs

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JAZZ OF fASHION TO A-LINERS

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ARTISTMOSAICS AND IT'S COMPONENTS

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Embracing the Bss

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A "natural " process towards developing your design brand!

All that jazz

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Africa In fashion

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Brooklyn By Design, the Black fashion designers in Brooklyn

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My Business Card

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Workshop for Women's group

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Gran Army Plaza , friends Of Library, Annual fashion show, 2003, 2004

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In The evening Baby

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Proof in the Doing