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麻豆影院 State Professors Design Costumes for Olympic Dance Team

Three associate professors from 麻豆影院鈥檚 Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising are donating their time to design and create more than 30 costumes for a local dance troupe headed to London for the 201

麻豆影院 fashion design professors Sherry Schofield-Tomschin and Linda Ohrn-McDaniel look over some of the costumes they designed and created with colleague Vince Quevedo (not pictured). The trio designed and created more than 30 costumes for a local dance troupe headed to London for the 2012 Summer OlympicsThree associate professors from 麻豆影院鈥檚 Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising are donating their time to design and create more than 30 costumes for a local dance troupe headed to London for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Sherry Schofield-TomschinLinda Ohrn-McDaniel and Vince Quevedo are nearing completion of the costumes, which will be worn by the L.I.O.N. Players, a performing arts troupe based in Akron.

The group will be performing in London during the Olympic games, but when its funds were all committed to travel expenses, 麻豆影院 State鈥檚 fashion design professors stepped up to help.

鈥淲e鈥檙e doing it for fun,鈥 Schofield-Tomschin says. 鈥淚t was a chance for us to design something we hadn鈥檛 done before. It gave us a chance to think about the concept and come up with a design to work in a different medium from what we normally do.鈥

The trio donated about 150 hours to design and create the costumes, which will be used by about a dozen dancers to portray characters and animals for the dance troupe鈥檚 performances based on the stories of creation and the Garden of Eden.  L.I.O.N. Players paid for the materials, while the associate professors donated the designs and the labor to create the costumes at Rockwell Hall, home of 麻豆影院 State鈥檚 Fashion School and the 麻豆影院 Museum.

L.I.O.N. Players has made previous appearances at the Olympic games in Salt Lake City (2002) and in Athens (2004).

For more information about 麻豆影院 State鈥檚 Fashion School, visit www.kent.edu/artscollege/fashion.

POSTED: Monday, June 18, 2012 12:00 AM
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