Section outline

    • Course Calendar and Due Dates

      Date

      Topic

      What's Due Today

      1 Sep

      Welcome and introduction. 
      What is design? What is design for theatre?
      Hands On! Overview / Discussion

       

      8 Sept


      Costume Design Process Overview
      A Visit to a Small Planet
      discussion
      I Dream Before… discussion
      Read Like a Designer

      Read: A Visit to a Small Planet
      Read: Chapter 1: The Playscript
      Read: I Dream Before…
      Due: I Dream Before project

      15 Sept

      Research Like a Designer
      Costume History Overview 


      Read: Chapter 2: The Production
      Read: Chapter 3: Research
      Due: Research Project 1

      22 Sept

       

      Sketches + Renderings: Anatomy + Croquis

      Due: Research Project 2
      Read: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
      Read: Chapter 4, Preliminary Sketching and Color Layout
      Bring your art supplies!

      29 Sept

      Sketches + Renderings: Methods + Technique

      Read: Chapter 5, Final Sketches
      Due: Sketchbook Project
      Bring your art supplies!

      6 Oct


      Organize Like A Designer: Process + strategies
      Discuss: Wine in the Wilderness

      Due: Read Wine in the Wilderness
      Due: Wilderness 1 + 2  
      Bring your art supplies! 

      13 Oct


      NO CLASS – FALL BREAK!

      Rest! Great artists take breaks. <3

      20 Oct

                  
      Prepare for Crit
      Crit: Wine in the Wilderness Project  


      Due: Wilderness 3

      27 Oct

      “Good Designers Direct, Good Directors Design”
      Conceptualize like a Designer (or a director!) 
      Discuss: Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea

      Read: Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea

      3 Nov

      ELECTION DAY
      In-Class: Dontrell Group Project (Collaborate Like A Team)

      Due at top of class: Dontrell Research

       

      10 Nov

       

      Crit/Share: Dontrell Renderings
      Discuss: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      Review final project guidelines

      Due: Dontrell Project

      Read: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      17 Nov


      Wardrobe, Wig, Costume Shop, and Other Jobs in the Field
      Final Project Check-In  

      Read: It’s all about Holding Hands and Stitching Hems
      Read: Chapter 6, Pre-Production
      Read: Chapter 7: Production

       

       

       

      24 Nov

      Collaborate Like A Designer: Design as collaborative artform
      Financial Realities from the Field: What is the state of this art?
      Final Project Conference/Check-In  

      Bring your art supplies! 

      1 Dec


      Final Project Conference/Check in
      Early Bird Presentations

      Bring your art supplies! 
      Last week to submit your Hands On! Assignment

      8 Dec


      Last Class! Crit/Presentations  

      Due: Final Project