Sometimes, when you follow your curiosity, you land in a creative oasis. That’s what happened to Melissa Halvorson when she answered the call of adventure in 1998. "I tagged along with some friends who were headed to New Paltz. For people like me, who are from the Northwest," she says, "there’s a real romance about living on the East Coast. Now I have a profession, a career here – one that I never intended – and I feel like the luckiest person in the world." Halvorson, a knitwear designer who lives in Uptown Kingston, has developed patterns for Vogue. Her work has been shown in art galleries. Her primary job these days is as visiting professional lecturer in Fashion Merchandising and Textiles in the Fashion Program at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. "I see education as a creative act. In an institutional setting, you can do things that you can’t do individually because you don’t have the means to do them," says Halvorson. As a teacher, she describes hers...
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