Crafts and Wigs

Designed by J. Howell Russell

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Components: 

Boned bodysuit with engineered embroidery

Quilted stretch leggings

"Stained glass" embroidery

​Spiral steel wing frames

Silk chiffon painted wings using Jacquard water-based resist and acid dyes

Fosshape tiara with wire antennas and additional painted wings

Role: Craft Supervisor and Dye Lead

Director: Tracy Bersley

Costume Designer: Olivera Gajic

Set Designer: Alexis Distler

Lighting Designer: Amith Chandrashaker

Photographer: Huth Photos

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Pieces:

The Weird Sisters dresses and gloves -- dyed using shibori and gradient techniques

The Weird Sisters crowns -- millinery wire frames with fake twigs stitched on

Lady Macbeth gradient dress

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth crowns -- wired buckram bases with 3d modeled and painted spikes stitched on

Lady Macbeth skeletal necklace -- gold-foiled 3-4oz leather

Handmaiden's armor -- asymmetrical Phifertex base with a snake-print embossed chrome-tanned leather

Role: Craft Supervisor

Director: Kevin Rich

Costume Designer: Sarah Zinn 

Set Designer: Matthew S. Crane

Lighting Designer: Katie Gruenhagen

Photographer: Jennifer Koskinen

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Pieces: 

Dyed yardage for Ariel's four costume pieces -- combination of shibori and ice-dye techniques using fiber reactive dyes

Four ice-dyed purchased ensemble costumes with separate color palettes 

Prospera arm base -- Fosshape base wrapped with lightweight metallic leather and anchored to a skin-tone stretch mesh sleeve

20-yards of scenic fabric

Role: Craft Supervisor

Dyer/Painter: Rachel Pollock

Director: Jeffrey Meanza

Costume Designer: Grier Coleman

Set Designer: Regina Garcia

Lighting Designer: Charlie Morrison

Photographer: Huth Photo

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Pieces: 

Modification and repair of rental gas mask and puppets

Removable custom dentist patch

Skin-tone color matching​

Assistance on structure of Audrey II flower backpack

Wired baby buckram petals bound with buckram bias tape. Painted using textile paints and a Preval paint sprayer. Anchored to a Fosshape dome and plastic headband.

1880s Historical Hat

Straw braid stitched to a blocked sinamay crown and a flat-patterned brim. Decorated with a pleated bias underbrim, custom pleated trim, and vintage silk flowers. 

1910 Rendering by J. Howell Russell

Painted silk wings and custom "stained glass" embroidery. Attached to a Fosshape tiara with wire butterflies.

Laser-cut vegetable-tanned leather armor based on Michele Clapton's design for Sansa Stark's armor from Game of Thrones Season 8. Draped using CLO3D. Embossing designed using Adobe Illustrator.

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Base of the armor is made from black Phifertex mesh reinforced with 1/4" and 1/2" rigilene. Leather spines are riveted to the base. 

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See class presentation for this project here.

Owl mask made from EVA foam, foam clay, and black buckram.

Butterfly embroidery design tests for third-year capstone. Designed in Adobe Illustrator.

Victorian-inspired mourning parasol.

Red Lace-front "Sansa Stark" Wig -- ventilated widows peak, curl set, and styled

​Brown 1940s Style Wig

Pink Drag Wig

Brown "Alicent Hightower" Wig

Ombre-Dyed tutu net