Andrea Varga shares how her childhood led her to care about the land and, ultimately, to teaching students from all disciplines how balancing people, planet, and profit could help us save ourselves from our climate crisis.
Andrea Varga is an Associate Professor of Theatre Design, a member of the Honors Faculty, and a Sustainability Faculty Fellow at SUNY New Paltz located in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She holds an MFA in Costume Design from Florida State University, and undergraduate degrees in History and Theatre from Utah State University.
For over 25 years she has worked as a costume designer and assistant designer on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television and academia. She previously taught at Montclair State and The Fashion Institute of Technology.
As an educator/artist Professor Varga works to incorporate sustainability education and practice into her craft, courses, lectures and leadership on campus and in her community. She currently teaches sustainability courses in the Honors Program at New Paltz including Ethical Fashion and Intro to Sustainability, as well as adult continuing education classes for The Studios of Key West in Florida.
Her work is informed by years of working with textiles, doing laundry for theatre, working with and in the fashion industry, and growing up on a farm in a conservation-minded and activist household in Utah. She firmly believes that change can be made by individuals, and that optimism is the way forward.
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