L'art De Tais

L'art De Tais is Lena Castro's (they/them) own creative brand and business, based in Dallas, TX, running since March 2015. It's where their design instincts show up outside the theatre: wearable art, jewelry, and hair.

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Lena hand-draws and paints original designs directly onto fabric and ready-made garments, translating illustration work like octopus and jellyfish motifs into one-of-a-kind wearable pieces.

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The brand also includes handmade jewelry, including beaded bracelets designed and assembled by hand.

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Braiding is part of the practice too, with beaded braided hairstyles that carry the same hands-on, detail-oriented approach Lena brings to hair design work in theatrical productions.

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That same hands-on, detail-oriented eye started long before the brand, in years of drawing and painting: portraits, still life, perspective studies, and more.