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When I was a graduate student at UGA
, we had a running joke whenever we would do something brilliant but not what you would expect to be part of a graduate curriculum, like making a dress out of hefty bags or feats of engineering to conserve paint and ink. We would cap off the process by saying, "Half of a Master's Degree at work!" or "Two thirds of a Master's Degree at work!" counting down to our graduation date (I think the smallest documented increment was someone turning in their thesis paper saying "15/16ths of a Master's Degree at work!") Now that I am finished, I will still say to students upon doing something like fixing the hot-glue gun with another hot-glue gun or boiling felted wool dreadlocks,
"A Master's Degree At Work!"
​ Enjoy a blog about the weirdo things that make my degree special!

Locks redux

3/2/2013

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For our production of THE BACCHAE at UM in 2011, like a crazy lady with nothing else important to do, like teach a 90-strong section of Introduction to Theatre, and whipped into a creative frenzy by the director's (ever-awesome Tammy Killian) sick and twisted production concept of cyber-goth- I decided to outfit all the maenads with home-made felted wool locks. In technicolor. 

You may be asking- why make them? Can't you buy those or aren't there easier ways to do this?

Yes, but in addition to the 90 Intro students, I had about 20 Applied Theatre students I needed to keep busy. They were willing but beginners, and to harness their amazing work ethic and maximize my teaching time- I decided to create a wool lock sweat shop (actually it was kind of steamy once I started dyeing).

This is how we made them:

The next step is to start putting these into easy to use horsehair pieces so they could be styled into the actor's own hair easily by a student hair stylist. See an example below:
Now the fun part: STYLING! A test on me with the heavy stock piece and a very good sport actor, the ever awesome Mia Shirley, with a much lighter piece, as well as also ever fantastic hair and make-up crew member Alix Black in a trial for a particularly active character.
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  • ABOUT
  • Costume Design
    • Modern- Realistic
    • Historical Period
    • Academic Designs
    • Wigs and Makeup
  • Teaching Portfolio
  • Blog: Master's Degree At Work!
  • FAIREST DAO- EDCP Project
    • Visual Elements
    • The First Run!
    • Bios and Links For More Info
  • The Mobile Pain Clinic- EDCP
    • Process and Development