Meet The Creative Team
Madison Van Der Lingen
Madison Van Der Lingen is the Executive Runway Producer of Albuquerque Fashion Week and the founder of MadVan Design. A New Mexico born artist, she is an innovative fashion designer, producer, and creative visionary known for blending sustainability, inclusivity, and avant-garde design. Madison has produced acclaimed fashion experiences throughout the Southwest and helped transform Albuquerque Fashion Week into a platform that champions emerging designers, local artists, and diverse voices. Her work has earned recognition beyond New Mexico, all around the US as well as at Paris Fashion Week.
Executive Producer
Jakia Fuller
Jakia Fuller is considered a creative force by her community, peers, and colleagues. She is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, writer, and curator based in Albuquerque, NM, with roots in Detroit, MI. Jakia is the Creative Director/Curatorial Director for the Albuquerque Fashion Week 2026. Jakia creates art, clothing, spaces, and experiences that provide moments of stillness, meditation, and introspection. She explores various forms and concepts of landscapes, specifically, themes of intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships and experiences, expressions of self, environmental awareness, and evolving narratives of the Black diaspora. In her clothing design practice, she creates clothing that adds a sense of adventure to one’s everyday life. Jakia made her curatorial debut in January 2026 with the curation of two exhibitions, The Art of ReUse, at the Richard Levy Gallery and Truth. Memory. Joy. Resistance: Black Expressions In New Mexico, at the Santa Fe Community Gallery. Currently, she is showing works in the Albuquerque Juneteenth Exhibition, (Un)bound to Boundless and The Woods Before Sunrise: Environment and Place in New Mexico's Black Contemporary at the Albuquerque Museum, and is the 2026 - 2027 Inaugural SURFACE Curatorial Fellow for Harwood Art Center and Blue Sky Coworking NM. For Albuquerque Fashion Week, she is excited to highlight and support local talent and provide them with opportunities to expand and engage with a larger audience.
Curatorial Director
Marcella Martinez
Hey, I’m Marcella—a proud Latina, wife to an amazing husband, and mama to a beautiful baby boy who keeps me inspired every day. I’ve been a licensed cosmetologist for nearly eight years and a Certified Curly Hair Specialist who believes great hair is about so much more than looking good—it’s about feeling powerful, confident, and unapologetically yourself. Since 2020, I’ve had the honor of creating hair for Madvan Designs, blending creativity, artistry, and a little bit of magic behind the scenes. Whether you’re embracing your curls, making a bold change, or stepping into a new chapter, my goal is to help you tap into your inner chingona and leave my chair feeling like the most authentic version of yourself.
Hair Director
Nicole Rose (Coco)
Makeup DirectorAs a licensed Cosmetologist I offer beauty services for hair, makeup, lashes, mortuary cosmetics and holistic healing practices such as limpia services (cleansings) for people and their homes as well as cord cutting rituals. I currently work in runway, marketing, film, rodeo content, a Scout and coordinator for the Southwest Glow Up Expo and a manager of Team Catrina Bones. Outside of those positions I am a promo girl for 101.3 The Hustle, a marketing manager for local advertising with The Hotspot ABQ, event coordinator, actress and model.
Aldrin Banguilan
Aldrin Banguilan is a creative professional from Atlanta, Georgia, with 27 years of experience in graphic design, branding, apparel design, creative direction, and event coordination. Throughout his career, he has built a reputation for blending authentic storytelling with bold visual execution, creating work that resonates across fashion, music, sports, and culture. His client roster includes globally recognized brands and artists such as Nike, New Balance, New Era, Usher, Chance the Rapper, Future, FIFA, Red Bull, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Hewlett Packard. Aldrin’s design philosophy is rooted in life experiences, perseverance, and passion. Believing that the best creative work comes from staying true to yourself, never giving up on what inspires you, and designing what genuinely makes you happy.
Graphic Designer/ Branding
Jonathan LeBlanc
Jonathan LeBlanc is a multi-disciplined mixed media artist and creative technologist based in the southwest, currently working with technology in project management. An Art Institute graduate, Jonathan's passion is in bringing the technical elements together with creatives to produce wonderful experiences.
Audio Engineer/ Production
Serena Sandoval
Cultural ConsultantSerena Sandoval (she/they) is a proud Genízara that is delighted to debut as a designer for Albuquerque fashion week! After 20 years of making beautiful garments for other people in Chicago as a costume technician as well as Director of Production and Lead Tailor for a demi-couture bridal designer, Serena is overjoyed to finally debut her own vision of feminist, queer, Indigenous futurity in her homelands of New Mexico. Actively earning her MA in Native American Studies at UNM, Serena passionately lends cultural advice to the team centering decolonization by advocating for under-represented voices and stories, maintaining accountability to sacred lands and spaces we create in, and prioritizing intersectionality, collaboration, and community-building. No one creates alone, creativity is always collaborative, thus each of her designs is developed in direct collaboration with and credit to other artists. Moreover, Indigenous fashion has always centered community, sustainability, land-based science and reverence - the opposite of euro-centric fast-fashion too often based in wasteful materialism, privilege, ego, and erasure. With these principles - decolonization, community, collaboration, sustainability, science, and reverence - Serena shares the many layers of how beautiful Indigenous designing can be in the hope that her work inspire others to engage these principles.
Ashley Leblanc
Ashley Leblanc is a New Mexico based artist currently focused on installations, experience, and upcyclying materials into wearable art. They graduated with a BFA in fine arts to quickly expand from traditional mediums to rummaging through junk and collecting art material for inspiration. The southwest landscapes, culture, and Wild West attitude appear as themes throughout the artists assemblages, fashion designs, and installations. Currently they are focused on a large scale LED light sculpture Roadrunner 66, and designing a small run of upcycled wearable incorporating tech waste.
Art department
Adam Rougemont
Adam Rougemont is a photographer and creative director based in New Mexico whose work centers on fashion, portraiture, and documentary storytelling. His experience spans editorial productions, runway coverage, and long-term documentary projects, with an emphasis on creating images that feel honest and engaging. Whether documenting a fleeting moment or building a fully realized editorial concept, his work is guided by a passion for visual storytelling.
Director of Photography
Alex Jack
Alex Jack is a filmmaker from Albuquerque recognized for his innovative short films. While he is most known for his work in the sci-fi genre, he has also directed fashion and music videos for various Albuquerque artists. Bringing his award-winning expertise, Alex aims to elevate the local fashion scene's reputation and help our talented designers shine nationwide.
Director of Video Production
Ian Gabriel Muentener
Production Support/ Artistic AssociateIan Gabriel (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist with nearly twenty years of experience in live performance, who is thrilled to be able to lend their talents to the incredible team of ABQFW. When he isn’t acting, Ian can usually be found in his office editing photos of his cats, local architecture or events, and nature. Some may recognize Ian from recent productions of Othello (NMSF) where they played Iago, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (The Vortex Theatre) where they played Nick, or from various roles in local short film festivals.
Quentin Anderson
Born and raised in Albuquerque, Anderson is a multidisciplinary artist and screen printer whose practice explores themes of identity, community, and self-representation. Influenced by his experience growing up mixed-race, he developed Purp, a visual language that originated in graffiti and has since evolved into a platform for wearable art. Through a process that combines physical collage, digital image separation, and screen printing on upcycled textiles, Anderson creates distinctive works that bridge contemporary art, design, and street culture. His practice is grounded in transformation of materials, images, and personal narratives and aims to foster connection through thoughtful, accessible forms of expression.
Creative Production AssistantAaron Mancha
Digital Display
Aaron Mancha is an Albuquerque-based artist whose work explores media, memory, and technological culture through immersive installations incorporating both analog and digital display technologies.
