Community Artist Lab with Deb Trout: Exercising Inspiration

Wednesday, January 23, 4:30-6 pm FREE (but space is limited, please RSVP)

Art Institute of Portland, 1122 NW Davis St in Portland For information or to reserve space: Tim DuRoche, (503) 445-3794

Cosponsored by Portland Center Stage and Art Institute of Portland

Where does inspiration come from? Whether you are a costume, apparel, or fashion designer. . .your next big idea craves the energy and momentum of equally, big and wild inspiration. In this free, informative, hands-on workshop, DEB TROUT, Portland Center Stage guest costume designer for Beard of Avon/Twelfth Night, invites designers/artists to consider the source.

From regular household objects like pencil sharpeners, teapots, and chia pets to sources as varied as nature, history (are we in Katmandu or Elizabethan England?), Japanese Animé, fairy tales, great works of art, the geodesic utopianism of Buckminster Fuller or bridges of Calatrava—discover where world's collide. . .where will your next inspiration come from? You might surprise yourself. Participants should come ready to draw/paint—this is a hands-on workshop.

Participants will need to bring:

water-soluble paint (watercolor or gouache)
brushes
several sheets of watercolor paper
drawing pencils
a small, household object (anything that is not a garment—pin cushion, child's toy, toaster, alarm clock, scissors, blender, fruit, Hummel figure or other tchotchke, etc. —that you can hold in your hand).

Costume Designer Deb Trout
Beard of Avon/Twelfth Night designer Deb Trout is pleased to return to Portland Center Stage where she previously designed Pride and Prejudice and Much Ado About Nothing. Some of her recent work was for Denver Center Theatre Company's You Can't Take it With You, and Intiman Theatre's Uncle Vanya and Heartbreak House. Based in the Northwest, she frequently designs at Seattle's ACT Theatre, Children's, Intiman, and Repertory Theatres as well as The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Trout has also designed for The Minneapolis Children's Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Co., Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Juneau's Perseverance Theatre, among others. She is proud to have been a co-founder of the New York commercial millinery company "Mackey and Trout." A graduate of the Yale Drama School, she now enjoys teaching design at the University of Washington.