Although this is a project we do a lot, we believe that using materials on a regular basis is important.  We don’t always convey exactly the same information, and in any case, the students who are present shape the direction of the work and the experimentation.


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Little Red in the show, Into the Woods, gets to turn the Wolf into a new cloak, after the part of the story you know. I won’t give it all away, but here’s a sneak peak at how she’ll look when the unexpected part of the story starts.

This play is great with all kinds of archetypical and symbolic overtones. You should definitely come see it if ( Read more... )

The next play is Into the Woods, which is a fairy-tale mash-up. It goes up in a couple weeks, and so we are in construction mode. Not all costume design is done with a needle and thread, and as you have probably guessed, I like building things that people don’t expect.

In the play, Cinderella has birds that help her out, and in most ( Read more... )

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The next play was You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. These photos show everyone onstage at once, during the baseball game. There was a cute bit where the “Woodstocks” rearranged the letters of the word “TEAM” to spell different things, concluding with the actual real spelling.

As you can see we did not go with a super cartoony set of clothes, ( Read more... )

This summer, through a mysterious series of events, I fell back into the world of making and/or sourcing costumes for Theatre.  Since then I’ve costumed a total of 3 shows.

The first show was Lend Me a Tenor, by Ken Ludwig.  The second was You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, by Clark Gesner (inspired of course by Charles Schultz), and the third was  ( Read more... )

Although I would not say that these rugs were inspired by the work of Sonia Delaunay, after a series of drawings I did last year that were circular, someone directed me to look at her work. Of course I knew of her work before, she did both costume and fashion design, and when I was studying costume I stumbled across her renderings of geometrically ( Read more... )

Started a new rug to consign at a local boutique, more about that when I put the rugs and purses in progress into the shop.

Though I love drawing and sketching, often it is not the place where I make breakthroughs. The materiality and spatial relationships of things are somehow distant when they are on paper, and I can visualize something bigger ( Read more... )

Here is an article about Kate Cullen, the 21 year-old sociology student who was studying in Istanbul during the early days of the Gezi Park Protests and the woman in the photograph that inspired this Stained-glass collage.

She describes her desire to participate saying, “My main purpose was just to add one more person to the movement.”

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