Faculty

Justine Woods is a garment artist, creative scholar, educator and curator whose research and creative practice explores epistemological, ontological and material complexities in expansive, loving and caring ways. Stretching across fields of study, including but not limited to, fashion studies, performance and embodiment, and research-creation, Justine's work passionately situates fashion as a pluriversal phenomenon.

Justine holds a Bachelor of Design in Fashion Design from Toronto Metropolitan University, a Master of Design in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design from the Ontartio College of Art and Design (OCAD) University and is currently a PhD Candidate in Media and Design Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University. Centering garment making as a practice-based method of inquiry, her dissertation explores place-based fashion knowledges and their role in re-stitching Indigenous ontologies and bodies to place.

Justine's work has been included in both solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, and in Australia, hosted by the Art Gallery of Guelph, MacLaren Arts Centre, FINA Gallery, Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, DesignTO, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, and UTS Gallery & Art Collection. Her writing and research has been published in a variety of scholarly journals including Fashion Studies, Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education and Scene, and in edited volumes published by Palgrave Macmillan and Rizzoli. To learn more about Justine and her work, please visit her website linked below.

PhD (ABD/in-progress) Media and Design Innovation, Toronto Metropolitan University

MDes Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design, OCAD University

BDes Fashion Design, Toronto Metropolitan University

Woods, J. (in press). "Land as Creative Collaborator: Understanding Relational Accountability in Place-based Fashion Research" in T. Ahmed, R. Khan, I. Parkins, & J. Tynan (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Fashion and the Body. Palgrave Macmillan.

Woods, J. (2026). "Stories of the Moon" in R. Bigolin & T. Robinson (eds.) an index of wearing and reading fashion archives. UTS Gallery & Art Collection, University of Technology Sydney.

Woods, J. (2026) "Fringe, Florals, and Buckskin: Indigenous Aesthetic Influence in Plains Cowboy Fashion" in E. Semmelhack, A History of the Cowboy Boot. Rizzoli Electa.

Woods, J. (2025). "Indigenous Fashion: A Genealogy of Material Brilliance." Unravelling Fashion Narratives, special issue of Fashion Studies, 5(1), 1-20.

Woods, J., Granados, F-F., Gauntlett, D. (2023). "Reframing, embodying, and in-betweening: A conversation about experiences of doing practice-based research and research-creation" in N. Alvarez and G. Sporton (eds.) The Art of Making: Methods that Work for Art-making as Research Enquiry. Scene.

Woods, J. (2023). "Breathing Universe: A decolonial pedagogical praxis toward ethical eco-systems of knowledge." Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, Special Issue: Learning Through the More-Than-Human, Part 1.

Mills, P. & Woods, J. (2023). "Beading Is Medicine: Beading as Therapeutic and Decolonial Practice" in R. Filippello and I. Parkins (eds.) Fashion and Feeling. Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Woods, J. (2022). “I Love You as Much as all the Beads in the Universe: A Garment-Based Inquiry into Re- Stitching Alternative Worlds of Love.” Fashioning Resurgence, special issue of Fashion Studies, 1(1), 1-26.