What does care mean to you?
Join Sam Smith, Founder of New Vintage by Sam for her 3-part Summer Wellness Series. We will be having a thoughtful and conversational experience where we invite you to reflect on your relationship with clothing, identity, and care.
Sam has partnered with Patagonia Outlet Baltimore to create the opportunity for exploration of how intentionality connects self-care with caring for our clothing, ourselves, and our planet.
Session 2: Worn Well
Focus:
During an exciting and immersive panel, we will connect with local, environmentally conscious artists/designers and discuss how we demonstrate care through what we wear through a few different lenses.
Guest Conversation will include:
A continued discussion about intentional consumption, with a focus on sustainability.
Creative Visionary & Founder of New Vintage by Sam
Sam Smith is the mind behind a creative wellness playground focused on self-care and sustainable living. The focused is reflection; specifically on a way of living with intention (not urgency) while finding your peace amidst life's experiences.
Sustainable Fashion Programmer, Curator, and Platform Producer, Host/Interviewer, Stylist, Muse, and Baltimore Community Advocate for the last 16-years.
She has produced Fashion programming for citywide events, schools, member organizations, youth programs, senior centers and cultural institutions in Baltimore and cities across the U.S, since 2010, including Sustainable Fashion presentations, performance art installations; professional wardrobing, personal style, upcycling workshops, clothing swaps, and industry-elevating platforms in Baltimore since 2011, to connect Baltimore Fashion Talent with the public at-large.
Between 2012-19 The Fashion Institute of Technology grad produced and collaborated on dozens of Fashion events and industry-elevating platform series including “Wear It Out Baltimore,” “Fashion Comes To Light,” and “The Fashion Block at ARTSCAPE.”
Caprece represented the Baltimore Fashion community in 2022 for VISIT Baltimore’s national Ad campaigns through 2024; and served the arts and cultural arm of Baltimore City as its 1st Fashion Programming Coordinator 2023-24. She is a Fashion Ambassador for Sustainable Fashion Week US, and the global @AdvancedStyle Movement.
Aurora Suryah (b. Baltimore 1996) is a Baltimore-based transdisciplinary artist and is currently a resident artist within Blue Light Junction (2025 - Present) and a 2026 Islam and Print Fellow.. Their work centers on the engagement of earth-based pigments, industrial objects, assembled ritual tools, and protein- and cellulose-based fibers to compose 2-D and 3-D works that re-engineer diasporic and folkloric elements and applications of art and craft-making as resistance and collective actualization against the imperial depression of the mind, body, and spirit. Invoking the spirits of their ancestors who believed that roots, rocks, herbs, bones and psalms would free them from colonial imperialism. Aurora uses their work to both ask and answer the question: What does it mean to believe in something, and what are the consequences of it?
Aurora's work within Baltimore's fashion, design and craft industry has resulted in propelling 18 Baltimore-based fashion brands to 28 markets globally, 4 cohorts of an industrial sewing training program in collaboration with Open Works and SEWLA
B USA through M.O.E.D. Throughout Aurora's career, they have had the pleasure of creative directing and styling numerous regional branding campaigns for brands like Puma, New Balance and Farfetch as well as collaborating with the American Craft Council and the Urban Manufacturing Alliance to center garment manufacturing in Baltimore City on a national stage. As an advocate for local creatives, artists, designers and small batch manufacturers, Aurora has put 1.2 million dollars in the hands of their neighbors designing and making the future for Baltimore and beyond. In June 2026 Aurora was appointed as the Director of SCRAP Bmore a creative reuse center supplying artist, crafters and fashion designers with access to used and new supplies/resources to grow and sustain their practice, pushing forward an initiative that has kept almost 100 tons of art, craft and sewing materials out of Baltimore City's landfill in the last 10 years.
Born in Washington DC, Sehar Peerzada operates from her studios in Baltimore Maryland and Lahore Pakistan. She designs and produces a unique brand of clothing and dolls, which are often hand block printed and dyed with her own patterns. Sehar seeks to flatter the figure with inspiration from traditional international fashion sources which she blends to create a palatable, cultural hybrid. An alumnus of Howard University and Rhode Island School of Design, Sehar studied eastern cuts and block printing in Pakistan. Sehar ‘s clothing line has been carried in stores such as NordstromDept Store , and boutiques such as Toast and strawberries, Zawadi, Maja and Sankofa. Sehar’s talent as a costumer led to her work with the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, Sweet Honey In The Rock, The In Series Opera,The New York Fringe and the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company. Currently, Sehar’s work has been featured in art galleries, such as City Lore in New York City, Sandy Spring Museum, The Walters Art Museum and the Quid Nunc Art Gallery in Maryland. Today her work is available Online and at Retail pop ups.
