Decorative Arts class had their final presentations today! I have only three images to share but they are pretty fantastic.

Also, i'd like to congratulate two of them on some awards/honors.

Undergraduate senior Lydia Hanchett received an acceptance of an abstract for presentation at the USITT national conference in Forth Worth, TX this spring. ( Read more... )

Another round of projects in Judy Adamson's 19th century period pattern class, this time the 1890s.

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We've begun a really exciting surface design project for our next show at Playmakers, Noel Coward's Private Lives, in which we are making some fabric yardage inspired by this 1935 Schiaparelli dress in the collection of the Museum at FIT.

For the character of Amanda, costume designer Jennifer Caprio dreamed up a glamorous dress clearly influenced ( Read more... )

Recently i was contacted by Rachel Herrick, a senior in Theatre Design at James Madison University, asking whether she might interview me as part of a capstone project on costume craftwork. I was happy to oblige, and asked her permission to share the responses here, as i thought some of the answers might be of interest to the readership, and ( Read more... )

I completely spaced sharing photos of my students' parasol projects, earlier in the semester. Things got pretty hectic with the repertory shows and it just fell through the cracks! So, here they are, late but nonetheless fun and fantastic.

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My Decorative Arts class is winding up and i have some intial shoe projects to share. They do two pairs of shoes, a "simple" and a "complex," and most of these are their simple projects. Some fun stuff in here!

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In my last post, i shared some pictures of the more "conventional" sorts of body padding projects my students might elect to do for this recent unit--pregnancy pads, gender-crosscast padding, and "permanent" dress form padding ( Read more... )

My Decorative Arts students presented a round of projects this past week, and i've got some images to share. This project is called "Reshaping the Actor," and it covers a range of different topics--body padding, faux deformities, character/mascot bodies, and so forth. So the projects can be all over the map, depending on a student's area of ( Read more... )

Second round of bustle projects in Judy Adamson's period pattern class! I love these.

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We're opening two plays in repertory this Thursday and Friday evening at Playmakers Repertory Company, one of which is Shakespeare's The Tempest. I've got some posts in the pipeline about all the interesting work we've done in and around the production process (those pool water tests were only a drop in the bucket, ha!). Today's installment deals ( Read more... )