Calendar

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 First Day of Class. Who am I and Who are you?

Introductions

Discuss Supplies List

Discuss Play Project #1 - Single Rendering from On the Harm of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov

Discuss Hat Project

Remedial Figure Drawing - Paper Dolls and Stencils

Handouts - Paper Doll and Stencil Renderings; Costume Measurements sheet
2 Lecture - Elements of Design and Psychology of Clothes
3 Sewing Tutorial - Show all Machines

Drawing Lab - Play with Art Material
4 Learning to use Machines, Shop Language, Patterns Rendering for On the Harm of Tobacco due. Discuss, critique
5 Watch Mel Gibson Hamlet Movie

Talk About "Concept"
6 Guest Lecturer on Developing Concept
7 Discuss Concept Ideas

Mask Lab
Mask rendering in color for one Hamlet Machine character due

Mask sketches due. Wear scruffy clothes
8 Mask Lab (cont.) Three complete color costume renderings due two days after Lecture 8
9 Begin Discussion of Final Project

Discuss Skirt/Trouser Project - Drafting, Manipulating Patterns, Fittings
Preliminary sketch due a day before Lecture 9

3 color renderings for Hamlet Machine due
10 Begin Drafting Skirt/Trouser Sloper and Building Muslin Swatched skirt/trouser renderings due
11 Skirt/Trouser Lab - Prof. Held Does Fittings on Students
12 Fabric Character Analysis Exercise

Skirt/Trouser Lab - Once Skirt/Trousers Fit, How Do You Manipulate it to Make it the Right Design?
13 Lecture - Research

Show and Tell About Your Final Projects, and Get Input on How to Make Them Happen
Final project sketches due
14 Look at Augustus Research

Discussion of Historical vs. Theatrical Demands, i.e., Differences Between Historical vs. Current Concepts of "Beauty," and How to be True to a Historical Period, But Also Make the Design Work

Impossible Clothing, and the Joys of Garbage - Finding Inspiration in Places Besides a Fabric Store

Open Shop to Finish Hat and Skirt/Trouser Projects
Augustus research due
15 Discuss Garbage Project - Exploring Materials Creatively, Make a Piece of Clothing Out of Found Objects Kiosk Man doodles due. Discuss

Hat and Skirt/Trouser projects due
16 Open Shop for Final Projects Kiosk drawings due
17 Newspaper Day

Improvisational, Creative, Problem-solving

Make a Piece of Clothing Using a Pile of Newspaper, Scotch Tape and Scissors, in 20 Minutes
Color renderings for Augustus due
18 Discuss Thrift Store Project - Budgeting Smash and Crash

Open Shop
Augustus renderings due

Materials due
19 Thrift Store Lab Thrift store materials due
20 Discuss garbage project Garbage project due
21 Open Shop (cont.)
22 Open Shop (cont.)
23 Open Shop (cont.)
24 Final Project Presentation