Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) is thrilled to welcome our inaugural community artist in residence, Jodi De Marcos, for a four month studio residency offering her a shared creative workspace within the museum offices for her creative practice. De Marcos will co-produce with the museum two, six week courses of fashion focused classes this summer with proceeds to benefit future MCASB programs. Her residency will culminate with a dynamic multimedia art, fashion, and music experience, the details of which will be announced shortly. 

Jodi De Marcos has decades of experience as a creative professional and artist in Santa Barbara through her DeMarcos Fashion Academy. Known by many for her pioneering advocacy for the business of fashion in Santa Barbara, her iconic modeling agency De Marcos Productions nurtured career developments for many top models in the 80’s and 90’s and early aughts. Jodi’s career trajectory has led to her passion to educate the fashion forward and fashion curious in our community. Since starting De Marcos Fashion Academy in 2009, she has focused her development on hundreds of aspiring students in fashion design and runway modeling. Many have come to find creative success on an international level thanks to the unique skills and techniques Jodi has developed over the course of her career.

For any questions email hello@mcasantabarbara.org