Final period pattern picture for the year
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labricoleuseClasses are officially over and many of our students have already left for their summer jobs, but there are a trio of period pattern half-forms in the hallway from their last project, so i thought i'd photograph them and share them.
I've got some ideas brewing for a series of Ask LaBricoleuse posts coming up. Our 3rd-years are graduating, one of whom did her MFA with a Crafts Artisanship focus, and they're my first class of students who are going out into the job market having taken craftwork classes with me. I was thinking to myself (because i will miss them and cannot wait to see where their careers go), what do i wish my professors had told me when i got out of school? What advice would i go back and give myself, if i could, and what knowledge do i want to impart that i haven't already?
Because the courses i teach cover skills, artisanship, artistry, and craft--how to do things, how things were historically done, how to create beautiful costume items that will hold up for stage and screen. I don't get to cover practical information about working in this field, stuff like the value of recordkeeping or tips on working various kinds of jobs at various levels of production, etc. I don't presume to do anything on a "Randy Pausch's Last Lecture" sort of scale--i'm not dying and i'm speaking from 15 years of professional experience, not like, on the back end of a 40-year career or whatever. Still, 15 years has taken me a lot of places, so like i said, it's brewing.
But i digress! Pictures!
the front one's missing her petticoat and hanging crookedly as a result!
closeup of sleeve details
I've got some ideas brewing for a series of Ask LaBricoleuse posts coming up. Our 3rd-years are graduating, one of whom did her MFA with a Crafts Artisanship focus, and they're my first class of students who are going out into the job market having taken craftwork classes with me. I was thinking to myself (because i will miss them and cannot wait to see where their careers go), what do i wish my professors had told me when i got out of school? What advice would i go back and give myself, if i could, and what knowledge do i want to impart that i haven't already?
Because the courses i teach cover skills, artisanship, artistry, and craft--how to do things, how things were historically done, how to create beautiful costume items that will hold up for stage and screen. I don't get to cover practical information about working in this field, stuff like the value of recordkeeping or tips on working various kinds of jobs at various levels of production, etc. I don't presume to do anything on a "Randy Pausch's Last Lecture" sort of scale--i'm not dying and i'm speaking from 15 years of professional experience, not like, on the back end of a 40-year career or whatever. Still, 15 years has taken me a lot of places, so like i said, it's brewing.
But i digress! Pictures!
the front one's missing her petticoat and hanging crookedly as a result!
closeup of sleeve details
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Date: 2008-04-30 03:05 pm (UTC)I love your website and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it. I love looking at your projects, your students' work and all the helpful tips and tricks you divulge to us "uninitiated"....thanks, and more, more!
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Date: 2008-04-30 03:10 pm (UTC)I should clarify though that i only teach the four crafts classes (millinery, dyeing, masks/armor, and decorative arts)--these period pattern classes are taught by the head of our program, Judy Adamson (http://drama.unc.edu/people/faculty/jadamson.htm). I started sharing the pix of the period patterning projects because a lot of prospective grads (applicants to the program or folks researching grad schools) come across my blog, and i thought it'd be nice to show more of what the students do than just those in my own courses. And, for people who read it for personal interest, it broadens the scope too beyond just hats-and-shoes-and-etc.! :D
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Date: 2008-04-30 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-04-30 10:27 pm (UTC)be well,
tessalina
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Date: 2008-05-01 05:23 am (UTC)Though I'm envious of you... I miss Chapel Hill so much!