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Erin Carignan with her book

Erin Carignan, CSU Costume Design Professor, Releases Dyeing for Entertainment

Erin Carignan, Colorado State University assistant professor of Costume Design, is a versatile costume designer and textile artist whose research centers around her most passionate subjects: costume design, textile surface, modification, and wearable art. She intentionally pushes the boundaries of design and technology using unusual mediums and unlikely intersections.

This research culminates in her book, Dyeing for Entertainment: Dyeing, Painting, Breakdown, and Special Effects for Costumes from Routledge Press.



Bugs Bunny

Dr. John Pippen, Bugs Bunny, and the American Musicological Society

What do Bugs Bunny, Leopold Stokowski, and examinations of socioeconomic class have in common? They are all part of a paper presentation by Dr. John Pippen, assistant professor of Ethnomusicology at Colorado State University. Dr. Pippen presented the paper, “Putting Class Back into Classical Music Studies,” at The 89th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Denver, Nov. 9-12, 2023, held jointly with the Society for Music Theory.






ArtWear

CSU Theatre collaborates on annual ARTWEAR fashion show

The annual fashion event had its 20th iteration at the Fort Collins Lincoln Center on Oct. 7, 2022. Billed as “Where Fashion Meets Fine Art,” the stunning showcase of “wearable art” was made all the more engaging by the talents and labor of CSU Theatre students, faculty, and staff. Lighting Design – Wes Halloran Set […]


‘The Wolves’ at CSU takes hyperrealism to the fields

Reprinted with permission from The Rocky Mountain Collegian Emmalee Krieg, Staff Reporter October 5, 2022 Soccer season at Colorado State University began this year like all others: cleats, warmup drills, drama and stage directions. “The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe, directed by Saffron Henke, was performed on the Lory Student Center West Lawn Sept. 29 through […]