Masks
Mask Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
Mask Restoration & Recreation Research Project
July 2010 - January 2011, University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota
July 2010 - January 2011, University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota
Mask Restoration
For my Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program project I restored masks for the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Theatre Department’s costume shop and masks class. I restored 21 masks that belong to Professor William E. Payne. The existing masks needed repair from years of being used by students in his mask classes and in productions. Some of the masks had small repairs but lacked the structure and surface detail that they once had. The materials that I ended up using were the thermoplastics varaform gauze and medium weight altraform, Liquitex molding paste, and Basics/ Liquitex acrylic paints. In addition to the restoration of the masks I also improved our shops knowledge of different thermoplastic resources.
Below are the images of before and after the repairs. My compiled results are located in a downloadable PDF below.
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