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1First Day of Class. Who am I and Who are you?

Introductions

Discuss Supplies List

Discuss Play Project #1 - Single Rendering from On the Harm of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov

Discuss Hat Project

Remedial Figure Drawing - Paper Dolls and Stencils

Handouts - Paper Doll and Stencil Renderings; Costume Measurements
Amazon logo Baker, Georgia. "The Basic Figure and How Clothes Fit the Body." Chapter in A Handbook of Costume Drawing. Burlington, Mass.: Focal Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780240804033.

Read the monologue play On the Harm of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov (1886). (Download a version of this text online.)
2Lecture - Elements of Design and Psychology of Clothes
3Sewing Tutorial - Show all Machines

Drawing Lab - Play with Art Material
4Learning to use Machines, Shop Language, Patterns
5Watch Mel Gibson Hamlet Movie

Talk About "Concept"
Amazon logo Potts, Nancy. "Costumes for a Repertory Theatre"; Campbell, Patton. "The True Vintage of 'La Traviata'"; and Russell, Douglas A. "Primeval Crystals for 'Prometheus Bound'." In The Theatre Crafts Book of Costumes. Edited with an introduction by C. Ray Smith. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, 1973, pp. 21-29, 133-141, 199-207. ISBN: 9780878570164.

Heiner Müller's Hamlet Machine (1979). (Download a version of this text online.)
6Guest Lecturer on Developing Concept
7Discuss Concept Ideas

Mask Lab
8Mask Lab (cont.)
9Begin Discussion of Final Project

Discuss Skirt/Trouser Project - Drafting, Manipulating Patterns, Fittings
10Begin Drafting Skirt/Trouser SloperAmazon logo Moore, Dorothy. "Lesson 1: Straight Skirt." In Pattern Drafting and Dressmaking. New York: Golden Press, 1977, 40-43. ISBN: 9780307033093.
11Skirt/Trouser Lab - Prof. Held Does Fittings on Students
12Fabric Character Analysis Exercise

Skirt/Trouser Lab - Once Skirt/Trousers Fit, How Do You Manipulate it to Make it the Right Design?
Augustus Does His Bit by George Bernard Shaw. (Download a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.)
13Lecture - Research

Show and Tell About Your Final Projects, and Get Input on How to Make Them Happen.
14Look at Augustus Research

Discussion of Historical vs. Theatrical Demands, i.e., Differences Between Historical vs. Current Concepts of "Beauty," and How to be True to a Historical Period, But Also Make the Design Work

Impossible Clothing, and the Joys of Garbage - Finding Inspiration in Places Besides a Fabric Store

Open Shop to Finish Hat and Skirt/Trouser Projects
Tara Maginnis's Kiosk Man (1994). (Read this script online.)
15Discuss Garbage Project - Exploring Materials Creatively, Make a Piece of Clothing Out of Found Objects
16Open Shop for Final Projects
17Newspaper Day

Improvisational, Creative, Problem-solving

Make a Piece of Clothing Using a Pile of Newspaper, Scotch Tape and Scissors, in 20 Minutes
18Discuss Thrift Store Project - Budgeting Smash and Crash

Open Shop
Amazon logo Holkeboer, Katherine Strand. Patterns for Theatrical Costumes: Garments, Trims, and Accessories from Ancient Egypt to 1915. New York: Drama Publishers, 1993, p. 148. ISBN: 9780896761254.
19Thrift Store Lab
20Discuss garbage project
21Open Shop (cont.)
22Open Shop (cont.)
23Open Shop (cont.)
24Final Project Presentation

 








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