The first workshop we attended at USITT-Southeast (held the past weekend on the campus of the University of Georgia at Athens) concerned fabric painting techniques using a special type of transparent paint mixed and sold by Gene Mignola for costume painters like Margaret Peot (the workshop leader ( Read more... )

The past few days, a contingent of us from the UNC-Chapel Hill graduate program in costume production attended the regional conference for USITT-SoutheastRegional conferences can be kind of hit-or-miss, depending on how far you have to travel to go to one, who's running it, and how the luck of th programming draw falls. Sometimes the conference ( Read more... )

I never did get a chance to write up a whole bunch of seminars from USITT National convention, because Big River and the end of the semester carried me away. Now that it's summer though, I can go back through my notes and post about them ( Read more... )

Man-o-man, have i been champing at the bit to share the info about my own entry in this, but since there's an exhibit and a published catalogue that goes along with it, i felt that it would be best for the info to remain exclusive to the conference until after the fact ( Read more... )

My grand plans for writing about the conference while at the conference really went the way of the dodo, given how much truly fabulous stuff there was this year in the programming schedule, and how many old friends, colleagues, and former students i met up with ( Read more... )

This year, the national conference of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology is being held in Charlotte, NC, March 9-12. I'll be there, along with quite a few of my colleagues and students. Will you?

I've got an entry in the Tech Expo on the exhibition floor, "Spontaneous Combusting Parasol for Beckett's Happy Days," which i'll talk ( Read more... )

I found the notes file for the session i attended at USITT hosted by USA 829, the costume designers' union, and realized i'd never posted it. Now that i'm off contract for the season at PlayMakers, i can catch up on a lot of posts i've had percolating. Yay ( Read more... )

In addition to vendors and school info booths and book signings and panel discussions, USITT also featured some interesting exhibits.

• Design Expo is a yearly event, which features costume, makeup, and stage designs.
  
• The Costume Commission sponsored and "Honor Our Mentors" exhibit of costume design and production artists celebrated by their ( Read more... )

I'm about to head out from the conference for a day's worth of driving, but i'd like to share another photoset from the Stage Expo--the main convention floor where all the vendor booths are located, where the schools set up their info booths, and the location of some of the other curated and juried exhibits ( Read more... )

The Costume Design & Technology Commission sponsors a juried exhibition of poster presentations on new and innovative costume production topics at USITT each year. Exhibitors are chosen by a panel of five professionals based on submitted abstracts. This year, we had two entries, my own presentation on the parasols from The Little Prince, and 3rd ( Read more... )