Specialties:
Costume Design | Fashion Design | Rendering & Illustration | Wardrobe | Theatre | Musical Theatre
Textiles/Dyeing
Textile & Fiber Sciences • Textile Specification & End-Use Analysis • Color Theory • Burnout/Devore • Indigo Vat-Dyeing • Potato & Corn Dextrin Resist • Batik • Shibori • Traditional Silk-Screen Printing • Jacquard Acid Dyes • PRO Washfast Acid Dyes • Procion H Fiber Reactive Dyes • Procion MX Fiber Reactive Dyes • PROsperse Disperse Dyes (Polyester) •
Costuming
Hand & Machine Sewing • Draping • Patternmaking • Alterations • Garment Repurposing • Corsetry • Shoe Repair • Wig Styling & Maintenance • Costume Make-Up • Head of Wardrobe • Quick-Changes • Youth Training • Shopping • Sourcing • Costume Pulling • Costume Rentals • Load-In/Strike • Photoshop • Illustrator • InDesign • PC/MAC • TAJIMA Embroidery Machines (1-12 head industrial/programmable) • WILCOM 3.0 Embroidery Software
Education
University of Wisconsin Madison: Bachelor of Science—Textile & Apparel Design
Additional Major: Theatre & Drama—Costume Design
Fox Valley Technical College: Associates of Applied Science—Printing & Publishing