Bio

Jordan Gomez was born in 1988 and spent much of her childhood in rural Kansas, USA. Pursuing her interest in fashion design, Jordan studied at Kansas State University where she fell in love with sewing machines and received a Bachelor’s of Science in Apparel & Textile Design in 2011.

She currently lives and works as a Kansas City based sewing artist, using her sewing machine as a drawing tool. The free motion stitching in her work often features her blind contour and gestural sketches that are further explored with color, texture, and reconstructed using her sewing machine. Jordan is a self taught artist and a playfully experimental sewist, using her art practice as a journal or means of reflection. She hopes her work will bring art to the sewing world and sewing into the art world.

Welcome to this segment of Transparency and Things I Care About™.

I’m so grateful I get to make and create for a living and want to pay it forward. When I release a series of works, I will use that opportunity to raise awareness and donate a portion of those sales to something I care about.

• 2016-Present: I donate my time and sewing skills as needed to a local hospice to create memory items for bereaved families, to aid in the grieving process and help maintain memories of their loved ones.

• November 2020: I took $5 from the sale of each piece in my Stitched Hand Series and donated to Suay Sew Shop’s Farm Box Program. I sold 6 pieces from the series so far and was able to donate one (1) CSA style farm box to help feed the family of a garment worker in LA.