I just recently learned that my high school drama teacher, Hilda Imhoff, died . She was 86 and still living in Baltimore. I had looked...

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...

I had an absolute blast designing this opera at U-M, directed by the fabulously creative Greg Keller. Great process overall with amazing...

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...

One last post as I reflect on teaching Advanced Costume Design last term. I developed another mini-project that disrupts the “paper...

Next up in my series of disrupting the paper project model- a collaboration with the Dept. of Musical Theatre on their New Works...

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...

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...

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...

Things I've missed: the power of the 5 minute check-in & in person meetings. How much subtler communication and community building has...

Classroom shift to process, not result. A partner to the previous “Deadline” post. So much of my own education involved projects with a...

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...

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...

After nearly two years, there is a virtual public gallery synthesizing the radial symmetry prompt developed during my Winter 2019...

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...

For the last two weeks, I've participated in two workshops with the Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival. The first workshop,...

As part of the Design Rendering course I teach, one of the last assignments before students start their final projects is a costume...

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...

Back in May, Chloe Chapin & I co-led a 4 day workshop on Costume History Pedagogy. One participant, Michelle Souza, wrote a lovely...

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...