Making of a MOOC
What is a MOOC? It’s a an acronym that stands for “Massive Open Online Course” with the goal of reaching a global audience who would not...
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Christianne Myers
Mar 231 min read
Elizabeth Cree
I had an absolute blast designing this opera at U-M, directed by the fabulously creative Greg Keller. Great process overall with amazing...
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Christianne Myers
Oct 28, 20231 min read
Trying Something New
We’re trying a Saturday morning Urban Sketchers class at our local art center. It is very interesting to be a student again. I’m really...
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Christianne Myers
Jul 5, 20233 min read
Fabric as Inspo
One last post as I reflect on teaching Advanced Costume Design last term. I developed another mini-project that disrupts the “paper...
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Christianne Myers
Mar 10, 20234 min read
Lowering the stakes part 2
Next up in my series of disrupting the paper project model- a collaboration with the Dept. of Musical Theatre on their New Works...
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Christianne Myers
Feb 15, 20236 min read
Disrupting the paper project model
Here we are, deep in to winter term- I am continuing to reconsider what skills to practice in an advanced costume design class. The way I...
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Christianne Myers
Nov 24, 20222 min read
Circle Skirt Magic
Bernarda Alba opened a couple of weeks ago and it was so wonderful to be back in the theatre. The content is challenging, but the...
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Christianne Myers
Aug 7, 20225 min read
Whaaatttt??? It’s August???
It’s hard to believe another school year is about to start. I want to get back to writing about process after sharing some news: After 1...
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Christianne Myers
Jun 23, 20213 min read
Top five Teaching in a Pandemic Take-Aways Part 3 - Communication
Things I've missed: the power of the 5 minute check-in & in person meetings. How much subtler communication and community building has...
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Christianne Myers
May 2, 20214 min read
Christianne's Top Five Teaching in a Pandemic Take-Aways Part 2- Process
Classroom shift to process, not result. A partner to the previous “Deadline” post. So much of my own education involved projects with a...
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Christianne Myers
Mar 13, 20211 min read
ReDressing the Narrative Part 2!
We had such a good time building a community of costume educators last, we decided to have another workshop this year! In this year's...
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Christianne Myers
Jan 30, 20211 min read
Drawing Details
When I was in grad school I had this big "ah-ha" moment. I didn't really understand how to draw a suit collar & lapel until I drafted and...
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Christianne Myers
Dec 27, 20201 min read
Radial Symmetry Revisited
After nearly two years, there is a virtual public gallery synthesizing the radial symmetry prompt developed during my Winter 2019...
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Christianne Myers
Dec 5, 20203 min read
One More Demo...
And it's a doozy! For this semester of remote learning I created 45 demonstration videos (a couple have been shared here on the blog). I...
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Christianne Myers
Nov 21, 20203 min read
Playing in the Shadows
For the last two weeks, I've participated in two workshops with the Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival. The first workshop,...
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Christianne Myers
Nov 1, 20203 min read
Rendering Demonstration
As part of the Design Rendering course I teach, one of the last assignments before students start their final projects is a costume...
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Christianne Myers
Oct 3, 20202 min read
Making Some Aaaaarttttt!
Between all the meetings, teaching that takes twice as long, fires to put out, worry for the industry, and worry for the future, I've...
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Christianne Myers
Sep 4, 20201 min read
Building a Costume Community
Back in May, Chloe Chapin & I co-led a 4 day workshop on Costume History Pedagogy. One participant, Michelle Souza, wrote a lovely...
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Christianne Myers
Aug 8, 20202 min read
Teaching Remotely
This pandemic is taking its toll on everything. I have no idea what things will be like on the other side of this, but it will be...
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Christianne Myers
Jul 13, 20203 min read
What I did on my Summer "Vacation" part 1
On my "bucket list" for years has been to participate in a marionette carving workshop at Puppets in Prague. I'm on their mailing list...
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