Mask Making & Movement Workshops

Mask Making & Movement Workshops

Making Latex or Neoprene Masks

This workshop covers concepts for strong sculptural design for creating a theatrically dynamic mask. Each participant creates a clay mask positive and completes a plaster negative mold ready to pour a latex or neoprene mask. Because latex masks must dry overnight before painting, for shorter workshops we culminate with a demonstration of basic theatrical mask painting for highlights, emotional impressions and color.
4 to 12 hours

Carving Wooden Masks

This workshop demonstrates an approach to fashioning wood sculpture used by carvers throughout the world. Participants will plan and carve a mask design with increasingly smaller facets of convex, concave and flat planes. Each participant will practice shaping a small wooden maskette using a Northwest Coast Native motif and style. The workshop can also feature demonstrations of both Balinese style chisel-and-mallet as well as NW Coast Native elbow shaping adze techniques.
6 to 32 hours

Performance

“The World Behind a Mask”
A performance inspired by seven mask and puppet traditions features seventeen different characters. Audiences are exposed to the unique theater styles of Renaissance Italy (Commedia del ‘Arte), Swiss Carnival (Basel), Turkish shadow puppetry (Karagoz), Balinese Mask Dance, Liberian village masquerade and Kwakiutl mask dance as well as modern American characters. Each character helps to present a collective story of the many functions of mask theater in each respective culture while demonstrating the individual characteristics of their iconic persona. Craig Jacobrown and a musician tour this show throughout the US during the year.

World Mask and Puppet Traditions Workshop

This workshop is a good follow up to a performance of “The World Behind a Mask” . Participants explore both the artistic mask and puppetry styles and the unique cultural context behind of the use of masks and puppets that are presented in the performance. Participants may arrange for a workshop focused on one or more particular mask traditions. 2 to 24 hours

 

 

 

Workshops
From 2- 24 hours
From $300 and up

Talk to us.  Fees depend on so many things including travel time from Seattle, the number of workshops in your region, length of time, and amount of equipment & materials.

Workshops & Custom Masks

Craig Jacob-Brown has extensive training and experience in puppet making traditions from around the world.

Custom Mask Design

We have worked closely with scores of performers, colleges, theaters and operas to create sets of masks for productions. Drawing on our experience as mask performers as well as artists, we make comfortable and practical masks that also give an amazing look and feel to a production. We work from your ideas or sketches to create first a drawing and then a clay sculpture of the mask for your approval, before making the mask itself.

The cost of a custom mask depends on the size and complexity of the design, and on the number of custom designs and duplicate masks ordered.