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Friday March 20<br />
8 AM - 9:30 AM<br />
Regional Section Communicators<br />
Meeting<br />
Duke 213<br />
Regional section editors and webmasters<br />
share common problems and extraordinary<br />
solutions in keeping section members up to<br />
date on regional activities.<br />
Chair: Barbara ER Lucas<br />
Do I Have the Right Textbook?<br />
Duke 207<br />
An evaluation of various course packets, effective<br />
texts, and other resources being<br />
used to teach design. Do textbooks provide<br />
a necessary structure or are they an<br />
unnecessary subjective environment? What<br />
are the current needs of a design class?<br />
Chair: Dave Nofsinger<br />
Presenters: David M. Makuch, Eric L.<br />
Marsh, Adam Mendelson, P. Gibson Ralph<br />
Out There: Architecture<br />
Beyond Building<br />
Duke 211<br />
Aaron Betsky, Director of the Cincinnati Art<br />
Museum, will present the inspirations behind<br />
the Museum’s recent mounting of Venice’s<br />
11 th International Architecture Exhibition.<br />
Chair: Scott D. Pfeiffer<br />
Presenter: Aaron Betsky<br />
Codes and Standards<br />
Duke 212<br />
The latest information on codes and standards<br />
that affect workers in the entertainment<br />
industry. What you do not know can<br />
hurt you (or others).<br />
Chair: Jerrold S. Gorrell<br />
Promote Safe Sets - Train, Inspect,<br />
& Maintain Your Rigging System<br />
Duke 260<br />
As we take on more complex productions,<br />
and add new equipment to our theatres, we<br />
need to look at how this affects back<strong>stage</strong><br />
safety. With changing technology, regular<br />
training on new equipment and safety procedures<br />
is essential, maintenance requirements<br />
change, and inspections become<br />
more important than ever. This panel discussion<br />
will cover how training, inspection,<br />
and maintenance fit into your back<strong>stage</strong><br />
safety plan.<br />
Chair: Tom Young<br />
Presenters: Eric McAfee, Van Phillips<br />
FRIDAY HIGHLIGHTS<br />
9:30 AM – 5 PM Stage Expo Open Duke Exhibit Halls A & B<br />
2 PM – 4 PM Designs Jules Fisher Book Signing USITT Boutique, Stage Expo<br />
2:30 PM – 5 PM Young Designers’ Forum and<br />
Young Technicians’ Forum on View Hilton Rookwood<br />
6:15 PM – 11 PM Tech Olympics Duke Grand Ballroom A<br />
Also<br />
Portfolio Reviews Duke Press Rooms<br />
Contributing & Sustaining<br />
Members Breakfast<br />
Hilton Continental Ballroom<br />
This special breakfast honors and thanks<br />
USITT’s Contributing and Sustaining members<br />
for their ongoing generous support of<br />
the Institute. The buffet-style setting provides<br />
a friendly atmosphere for informal<br />
conversation.<br />
Chair: Holly D. Monsos<br />
Draping and Teaching in Half Scale<br />
Duke 205<br />
A presentation and question/answer session<br />
about working on the half scale dress<br />
form and half scale flat pattern. Presentation<br />
will include: teaching advantages,<br />
techniques for working in half scale,<br />
‘padding’ out the form in half scale, solving<br />
difficult silhouette problems and techniques<br />
for sizing up patterns to full scale. Session<br />
intended for intermediate audience, primarily<br />
teachers.<br />
Chair: Pamela Rehberg<br />
Scenic Choreography: Dynamic<br />
Movement in Scenic Design<br />
Duke 206<br />
<strong>Pan</strong>el and discussion for scenic designers<br />
interested in learning to incorporate moving<br />
scenery into the design process. Emphasis<br />
on using motion as a design tool.<br />
Chair: M. Justin Barisonek<br />
Presenters: John C. Huntington, Mark C.<br />
Rapach, Stirling Shelton, Tom Umfrid<br />
HD Makeup - Be prepared for your<br />
next high definition production<br />
Duke 232<br />
As of February 17, 2009, all television stations<br />
are airing in HDTV. Come see and<br />
learn the dos and don’ts in makeup applications<br />
when your production is being<br />
taped for television or film, a method that is<br />
already being used for editorial and professional<br />
photography work<br />
Chair: Claudia Longo<br />
Presenter: Craig-Ryan French<br />
The State of Design and Technical<br />
Theatre in the Kennedy Center<br />
American College Theatre Festival<br />
Duke 233<br />
How can KC/ACTF better serve the needs<br />
of design and technical theatre students<br />
and faculty.<br />
Chair: Kip Shawger<br />
8 AM - 11:20 AM<br />
Hands-on Pneumatics<br />
Duke 202<br />
How to hook up pneumatic circuits that include<br />
cylinders, rotary actuators, flow control,<br />
and pressure regulators. Walk through<br />
how to safely choose components and<br />
where to find them. Also talk a little about<br />
Pascal’s law and the distribution of force in<br />
a fluid power system.<br />
Chair: Stirling Shelton<br />
Presenters: Jon Jensen, Jeff Leesley, Sam<br />
Skelton<br />
9:30AM – 10AM<br />
<strong>stage</strong> <strong>expo</strong><br />
<strong>only</strong> <strong>time</strong><br />
10 AM - 11:20 AM<br />
Tuning your Color Palette<br />
for Stage Lighting<br />
Duke 260<br />
Session will incorporate a panel of lighting<br />
designers brought in to discuss how they<br />
approach color use and how they approach<br />
creating the color palette that they<br />
use for their show designs. Real-life experiences<br />
in color choice will also be discussed.<br />
The audience will also be invited to<br />
discuss their thoughts on color.<br />
Chair: K.C. Hooper<br />
Presenters: Kevin Dreyer, John J. Horan,<br />
Michael Kimmel, Lisa Weinshrott<br />
Golden Pen Award Winner Deborah<br />
Nadoolman Landis<br />
Duke 232<br />
This session will explore the current state of<br />
teaching of motion picture costume design<br />
to filmmakers and designers. Ms. Landis<br />
will briefly describe the process she employed<br />
while writing the Golden Pen Award<br />
winning book: Dressed: A Century of Hollywood<br />
Costume. Through a visual presentation,<br />
the author will introduce us to motion<br />
picture costume designers that she identified<br />
in her book.<br />
Chair: Martha A. Marking<br />
Presenter: Deborah Nadoolman Landis<br />
CINCINNATI 2009 33
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