Art Exhibits

Community Room

For more information contact the Easton Arts Council at 203-374-0705 or email.

 

Conference Room, Front & Rear Display Case

Theater Arts Comes Alive
By Suzanne Benton

From the Easton Courier- July 1, 2010

The exhibit will include original costumes created by local artisans, set designs created locally, bejeweled headpieces and wigs made for actresses, and masks used in performance art.

Among those represented in the exhibit are Heidi Erspamer of Easton, who has created costumes for parades and schools; and previously worked as a professional costume maker in Alabama; Richard Harding, who ran the Bustles and Breeches Costume Shop, has designed costumes for theater and opera in the Northeast, and is a theater arts professor; Jason Hayes, who has made wigs and costume headpieces for film, TV and the Radio City Rockettes; and Samuel Staples teachers Amy Traggianese and Allan Bates, who specialize in costumes that depict art history and historic events and often re-enact famous paintings in costumes.

Also, Diane Vander Kroef, who has designed costumes for the Music Theatre of Connecticut, Connecticut Grand Opera and Downtown Cabaret Theatre; Audrey Wellner, known for her Shakespearean costumes for Renaissance fairs and as the costume-maker for the Witches Dungeon horror film museum; and Michael Yeargen, a Yale professor who has done set designs for South Pacific and Lights of Piazza at New York's Lincoln Center.

ToYou can contact the artis through her website, by email or by telephone / fax at 203-438-4650. This exibit will run through Aug. 30.