Jocelyn Rice Transforming Reclaimed Materials into Stories of Memory, Ancestry, and Regeneration Redefining Fashion Through Black Speculative Futures, Craft, and Connection to Land and Community
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Jocelyn Rice
Jocelyn Rice is a regenerative clothing designer and artist whose work exists at the intersection of garment-making and Black speculative futures. Through her practice, Black Earth United, Jocelyn transforms reclaimed coveralls and designs garments that function as vessels of memory, protection, and cultural storytelling for us to wear. Jocelyn’s practice begins with recovery. She gathers reclaimed materials, deadstock fabrics, and personal archives as a way to return to nature and to remember who we are and where we come from. Through construction and reconstruction, garments become vessels, carrying story, ancestry, and place, inviting a deeper relationship to land, lineage, and time.
Jocelyn intentionally designs, marks, dyes, writes on, and alters garments by hand, allowing process and ritual to remain visible. Each piece carries evidence of labor and lived experience, inviting viewers to consider clothing as living memory rather than a static object. Her work asks what knowledge survives within material, and what futures can be created when new and discarded objects, stories, and histories are reclaimed and reimagined. Her design work has been recognized in Vogue and OK Magazine and has won awards from Ski Magazine, Outside Magazine, and Backpacker Magazine. She is dedicated to raising Black Women's voices in outdoor design fields, providing mentorship, sharing her stories, and activating communities. Jocelyn believes we are more than our roles and titles. She's a storyteller, an enthusiast of wild spaces, and a champion of Black outdoor history. Through her work, she invites us all to explore narratives of liberation in outdoor apparel, appreciate the wild spaces within and around us, and see the power of every story finding its place.
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