1st Edition
Teaching Costume Design and Costume Rendering A Guide for Theatre and Performance Educators
1. Overarching Concepts 2. Structuring the Class 3. Costume Design: The Class 4. Costume Design Projects 5. Costume Rendering: The Class 6. Costume Rendering Projects 7. Connecting Costume Design and Fashion History Classes 8. Costume Design and Dance 9. Mentoring Student Costume Designers
Biography
Jennifer Flitton Adams, B.A. Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College; M.F.A. Theatre/Costume Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jennifer also studied art and fashion design in Florence, Italy at the Centro Lorenzo de’Medici and the Accademia della Moda, and has been a costume designer for over 30 years. She has taught and designed as an Associate Professor of Theatre/Costume Design at Shenandoah University since 1999, in addition to professional design work at many regional theatres around the United States.
"Flitton Adams’s book takes the scholarship related to costume design philosophy and pedagogy forward by providing ideas for all teachers of costume, acknowledging the truth that ‘we as teachers learn from our students just as they learn from us’."
Rebecca Pride, Arts University Bournemouth, Studies in Costume & Performance, Volume 9 Number 2
