Jocelyn Rice is a regenerative clothing designer and artist whose work exists at the intersection of garment-making and Black speculative futures. Through her practice, Black Earth United, Jocelyn transforms reclaimed coveralls and designs garments that function as vessels of memory, protection, and cultural storytelling for us to wear.
Jocelyn
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Advocate
Jocelyn’s practice begins with recovery. She gathers reclaimed materials, deadstock fabrics, and personal archives as a way to return to nature and to remember who we are and where we come from. Through construction and reconstruction, garments become vessels, carrying story, ancestry, and place, inviting a deeper relationship to land, lineage, and time. Influenced by Black Quantum Futurism, nature, Harriet Tubman, ancestral craft traditions, Jocelyn approaches time as nonlinear. Past, present, and future exist simultaneously within her work. Domestic craft becomes a language. Through these transformations, she challenges dominant design systems rooted in extraction and mass production, proposing regenerative models grounded in relationship, land, and community care. Her design work has been recognized in Vogue and OK Magazine and has won awards from Ski Magazine, Outside Magazine, and Backpacker Magazine. She is dedicated to raising Black Women's voices in outdoor design fields, providing mentorship, sharing her stories, and activating communities. Jocelyn believes we are more than our roles and titles. She's a storyteller, an enthusiast of wild spaces, and a champion of Black outdoor history. Through her work, she invites us all to explore narratives of liberation in outdoor apparel, appreciate the wild spaces within and around us, and see the power of every story finding its place.
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