While in New York this summer, i also got a chance to check out the NYC Makers exhibit at the Museum of Art and Design, running through October 12, 2014. The exhibit spotlights 100 "Makers" throughout NYC's 5 boroughs, creators of all different types of art and creatively-designed products ( Read more... )

One of my favorite perks of doing a short-term contract in NYC is getting to check out exhibits at the various museums and galleries in the city. Of course there's cool stuff going on at my stand-bys like the Museum at FIT and the Met, but i stumbled upon a small exhibition at a historic home which turned out to be fantastic ( Read more... )

Another installment in the interview series, this time with Claire Fleming, a 2012 graduate of our program and cutter at the NYC-based costume production house, Eric Winterling Inc. It's funny, this series has become sort of a survey of our graduates, but they all have gone on to such cool jobs in the field, i hope it's not only useful for people ( Read more... )

It's about time for another post in my series of interviews with costume professionals and those in craft-related fields like millinery. In this one, I spoke with Kaitlin Fara, a stitcher in the costume shop of the New York City Ballet. If her name sounds familiar, it's because she's a graduate of our MFA program, so you've seen her class projects ( Read more... )

The final installment of the blocked hat multiples is in the works, but while i'm finishing it up, i'd like to share another interview, this time with one of our MFA graduates, B. Daniel Weger, who currently works as the head tailor at the renowned NYC costume house, Eric Winterling Inc. Daniel received his MFA in Costume Production from our ( Read more... )

Here's the second half of the pile of pictures from the hall of arms and armor at the Metropolitan ( Read more... )

While in NYC a couple weeks ago, one of our grad students and i hit up the Metropolitan Museum for their Costume Collection exhibit, American Woman: Fashioning a National IdentityIt was a pretty good exhibit, though a bit less immersive than i'm used to seeing at the Met--the rooms weren't decorated with any of the usual striking set-dressing that ( Read more... )

Now that Shrek: the Musical has opened on Broadway and images of many of the costumes are out there in stage shots in the press, i think--and especially since Threadbanger trucked through there with cameras recently--i can now share some of the "behind the scenes" photographs i took while working on it at Parsons-Meares, Ltd., in NYC this past ( Read more... )

Just a quick link today, the shop i worked at last summer on Shrek: The Musical was featured on a recent episode of ThreadbangerIt's fun to see my former coworkers talking about various shop processes, and see what's in the shop getting worked on. About halfway through the video, they talk to my two fellow first-hands that were on the Dragon team ( Read more... )