Conaway is a costume concept artist and professor of entertainment design at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. She’s a Hugo Finalist author, specializing in mid-century fashion, gender and costume, and costume design for entertainment.

As a member of the Costume Designers Guild, IATSE Local 892, her credits include studios such as Netflix, Disney, NBC, CBS, Universal Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Sole Productions, and AppleTV+. In animation and gaming, she specializes in cloth simulation and garment model fit.

Considered an authority on the intersection between clothing and social psychology, Conaway is on the cutting edge of how the entertainment industry thinks about costume and culture as a visual language. Conaway recently co-authored Talking Threads: Costume Design for Animators and Illustrators through Design Studio Press and was invited to speak at the Future Forum by the German Institute of Research and Technology on the future of the fashion industry and sustainability through virtual reality design.

Conaway is faculty at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Her courses include unique courses such as World Costume Design, 3D Costume Simulation & Design, Korean Production Design, and History of Fashion for Entertainment. Her classes explore Conaway's expertise in building cultures for film, television, and gaming from the ground up.

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GWYNCONAWAYART@GMAIL.COM

Select Affiliations:

Costume Designers Guild Local 892 - Member

Art Center College of Design - Faculty

University of California, Irvine - MFA Costume Design Alumna

Clients Include:

  • Disney

  • CBS

  • Sole Productions

  • Adidas

  • NFL

  • Universal Studios

  • Warner Brothers Studios

  • Netflix

  • AppleTV+

  • DreamWorks Animation

  • NBC

  • LightSail VR

  • VNTANA

Institutions and Courses: 

  • ArtCenter College of Design

  • California Institute of the Arts

  • Germany Institute of Research & Technolgoy

  • John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

  • DreamWorks Animation, LLC

  • Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Arts

    • (For the Animation Guild and Costume Designers Guild)

  • University of Hamburg

  • University of California, Irvine

Awards and Recognition: 

  • Hugo Finalist, 2022

  • Teacher of the Year Award Finalist, 2022

  • LA Weekly Nomination, 2012

  • LAStage Ovation Award 2011

  • Barbizon Nomination 2010

  • Barbizon Nomination 2010

  • American College Theater Festival Region III:

    • 1st Place, Collaborative Design 2010

    • 2nd Place, Unrealized Costume Design 2009

    • 1st Place, Unrealized Costume Design 2008

    • 1st Place, Unrealized Costume Design 2007

Special Thanks to:

Photographers:                                                                                                                                                                                      

  • Tim Vo http://fiverings.net

  • Paul Kennedy http://paulkennedy.net

Models:

  • Kelly Ruiz http://eclecticmaniac.deviantart.com

  • Christina Sims http://zerinax.deviantart.com

  • Jessica Dru Johnson https://www.facebook.com/JessicaDruArt

  • Allison Tan, Sunshine Okano, Allison Kim, Vensy March