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Hi, I’m Jena.

I am a fiber arts artist based in Franklin County, passionate about community building. I share sewing as a liberatory and healing practice to feel more at home in our bodies and help keep textiles out of the landfill by extending their use.

I founded Blushing Mustard Studios in Greenfield’s Madhouse Multi-Arts, offering gender and fat affirming clothing alterations, repairs and custom commissions.

I teach sewing and mending classes at Swanson’s Fabrics, a second-hand textile store and education center in Turners Falls.

I also work as an art installer/fabricator helping artists bring their work to life, most recently at MASS MoCA, MCLA's Gallery 51 and UMass's University Museum of Contemporary Art.

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My Approach

Affirming Space as Integral

Blushing Mustard welcomes your full self in a private studio space that centers queer, trans, fat, and disabled bodies. I understand that being in a body can be complicated, joyful, and painful all in the same day. Bodies change and that’s normal and okay. Your body will be treated with dignity. I always ask consent for touch during fittings.

Your clothes should feel good on your body just as it is and be accessible to you.

Reducing Waste as Resistance

Every garment we keep in use through mending, alterations or custom projects reduces the impact of textile waste in landfills. Taking accountability for our textiles resists the capitalist urge of waste from over-consumption. It situates us in relationship with the earth and labor that produced the textiles.

Sliding Scale as Accessibility

I offer a sliding scale of $25 - $35 for my hourly rate in the efforts to make my services financially accessible and support myself as a worker. The higher end of the scale subsidized the lower end for folks that need it. I am always happy to work with your budget or barter if you need something else.