Amanda Phelan is a New York-based creative who works across many disciplines and media as a director, producer, designer and textile engineer. Phelan's work is noted for a high level of technical virtuosity and advanced material fabrication research. Drawing on her shared passions for pattern, rhythm, visual and performing arts, her creative direction echoes a life-affirming spirit and strives to inspire and connect a progressive-minded audience. In 2018, Phelan exhibited her first work at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Items: is Fashion Modern? exhibition, one of 111 items of clothing that have had a strong impact on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.