Faculty and Staff

Jan Doyle
Email: VAVLKYRIE@aol.com
Jan has a BA and MA in psychology from RIC and a NEA sanctioned Master Weaver designation. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of the Carolina Fiber and Fiction Center in Richmond RI. Her works have appeared in museums in the US, Canada and the UK and currently are featured on www.dmoma.org the Digital Museum of Modern Art. She teaches TMD 358 and the master weaver program.

Deborah Baronas

Email: Dbaronas@baronasart.com

Deborah graduated from RISD in Textile Design and worked in New York City's apparel textile industry in fine women's apparel, to the West Coast to begin her own design studio working with representatives from Turkey, India and China. She returned to Rhode Island in the 90s to work with new European fabric printing technology in Cranston, a mill in Lyon France, textile consulting in Mexico and later in home furnishings. Her commercial design work in bed and bath as well as table top and dinnerware, is balanced with a more serious pursuit of painting and landscapes layered, both figuratively and literally, with images of her past or the history of the site itself.  Currently she works as an artist and designer out of her studio in Warren, RI.  Deborah is teaching TMD 346, CAD for Apparel

Kerry O'Hara

Email: kerryohara@live.com

Kerry has a BS degree in Textile Technology and a Minor in Fashion Merchandising from UMass Dartmouth. She has worked in the Textile Printing Industry as well as Textile Design where she helped design prints for the apparel industry.  During the past ten years she has worked in the furniture retail industry as a designer and recently became a color consultant for Benjamin Moore where she provides In-Home color consultations. She owns 'Color Perspectives' an Interior Decorating company that provides Interior Decorating, Space Planning and Custom Window Treatments.  Kerry is currently teaching TMD 226, Interior Design I.

 

Rachel LoMonaco

Email: rachelomonaco@gmail.com
Rachel has her B.S. in Textiles, Fashion Merchandising & Design and B.A. in French Language & Literature from URI, as well as her M.S. in Historic & Cultural Textiles in which she studied the vital role of sustainability topics within textile and apparel education. Sustainability remains her passion andRachel currently works as the Customer Service Specialist and Office Manager at Preserve, a company that designs and produces sustainable home products and innovative recycling systems. Her additional interests are printed textiles produced for the African market, West African apparel design, and secondhand clothing markets. She teaches TMD 313, the companion lab to the Textile Science lecture and TMD 103, Textile Products.

Meg DeCubellis

Meg is a graduate of RISD's Apparel Design Department, class of 1983. She started her career in NYC at Jack Winter, Co.
then moved on to Mast Industries and the Limited Corporation. Meg became Design Director at Cherry Tree, Inc. where she directed the design and production of their infant/childrenswear line. While there, she received an Earnie Award from Earnshaw’s magazine for excellence in children’s outerwear and design. She is still producing a line of children’s outerwear aptly called “Nutmeg” which is produced domestically.

Currently, Meg is an owner of Illuminite and the Vice President of Creative Design. The collection consists of reflective running
and cycling gear for men and women which is produced both domestically and abroad.  She is teaching TMD 355 "Draping for Apparel"

Richard Malachowski

Email: rmalachowski@mail.uri.edu

Richard Malachowski holds a BS in Chemistry and a MBA from Providence College.  He recently retired after working 35 years for Cranston Print Works Company as a Plant Chemist, Director of Research and Engineering and Technical Manager. He has been a member of the American Association of Textile Chemist and Colorists for 36 years and recently received the AATCC Chapn Award for outstanding service to the organization.  He is a past member of the TMD Department's Advisory Board. Malachowski taught TMD 303 Textile Science in the fall, and is teaching TMD 403 Textile Performance in the Spring.

Diane Martin
Diane Martin has taught for twenty years in the Master Seamstress program offered through URI's cooperative extension service. She is teaching TMD 325, Apparel I. Currently she also performs contract work for Cranston Print Works, is the Program Chair for the Rhode Island Sewing Network, is President of the Association of Custom Clothiers.She runs her own business, "Sew that's how". She was formerly a patternmaker for Royal Robes (leisurewear and lingerie), Stevens Sportswear (childrenswear), and Philippa of Boston (Bridal). She has a degree from the School of Fashion Design, Boston

 

Deb Siravo

Email: Deblily@cox.net

Deb is teaching a section of URI 101 to TMD majors. She has BA in Art History from URI (Magna Cum Laude), Master Seamstress I and II Certificates, and an MS in Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design. Her thesis ("Reflections of Modernism: Textiles from the Tirocchi Dressmakers' Shop, 1915-1947") explored the connections between modern art and textile design, and led to an exhibition in the Textile Gallery in Quinn Hall. She is currently principal conservator of DL Textiles/Conservation and Restoration Services, and primary assistant conservator at ArtCare Resources.She serves on the board of directors of the Seabee Museum and Memorial Park in North Kingstown.