Workshops
Free Workshop with Tony Award-Winning Costume Designer Montana Levi Blanco
Join Albuquerque native Montana Levi Blanco as he talks about his journey from New Mexico to New York and how his home state informs his work.
Wednesday, January 18, 3:45pm
on Zoom so any student or teacher in New Mexico can attend
Use this link to register today.
Montana Levi Blanco
Montana is a costume designer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His grandmother, a lampshade artisan, inspired an early love of fabric, color, and beauty. Montana is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM Oboe Performance), Oberlin College (BA History), Brown University (MA Public Humanities), and the Yale School of Drama (MFA Design). Prior to attending Yale, he was the Robert L. Tobin Curatorial Intern at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
The Workshop
The workshop will be helpful for any costume design student (or teacher or even actor), regardless of budgets. His understanding of story, of character, of people generally, all contribute to his designs. He’ll also leave a lot of time for questions you may want to ask him.
Teachers: Download and print the sign for this workshop to hang in your room.
Join Albuquerque native Montana Levi Blanco as he talks about his journey from New Mexico to New York and how his home state informs his work.
Wednesday, January 18, 3:45pm
on Zoom so any student or teacher in New Mexico can attend
Use this link to register today.
Montana Levi Blanco
Montana is a costume designer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His grandmother, a lampshade artisan, inspired an early love of fabric, color, and beauty. Montana is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM Oboe Performance), Oberlin College (BA History), Brown University (MA Public Humanities), and the Yale School of Drama (MFA Design). Prior to attending Yale, he was the Robert L. Tobin Curatorial Intern at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
The Workshop
The workshop will be helpful for any costume design student (or teacher or even actor), regardless of budgets. His understanding of story, of character, of people generally, all contribute to his designs. He’ll also leave a lot of time for questions you may want to ask him.
Teachers: Download and print the sign for this workshop to hang in your room.
| montana_workshop_sign.pdf |
Free Workshop with the Lighting Designer for Dear Evan Hansen
Join UNM graduate Japhy Weideman as he talks about what he learned from New Mexico and how he applied it to his Tony-nominated lighting designs.
Wednesday, January 23, 3:45pm
on Zoom so any student or teacher in New Mexico can attend
Use this link to register today.
Japhy Weideman
Lighting designer Japhy Weideman visited New Mexico after graduating high school in Asheville, NC as an aspiring photographer. He fell in love with the light here and stayed. He registered at The University of New Mexico and was soon attracted to a course on our relationship with light, taught by legendary theater design professor John Malolepsy. Weideman said that one course changed his life.
After graduation, he worked where he could, including off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway where budgets were tiny and ceiling height was non-existent. He now has five Tony nominations to his name for his work on Broadway, including for Dear Evan Hansen. He told us he still stays in touch with Malolepsy and was excited when we reached out to him to lead a workshop on lighting. He’s also happy to know that his work will be seen in New Mexico when Dear Evan Hansen comes to Popejoy Hall next March.
The Workshop
Weideman’s workshop will be helpful for any lighting student (or teacher), regardless of the equipment and resources available to them. We know he’ll talk about his design for Dear Evan Hansen and share some of the inspiration he gained from John Malolepsy. He’ll also leave a lot of time for questions you may want to ask him.
Teachers: Download and print the sign for this workshop to hang in your room.
Join UNM graduate Japhy Weideman as he talks about what he learned from New Mexico and how he applied it to his Tony-nominated lighting designs.
Wednesday, January 23, 3:45pm
on Zoom so any student or teacher in New Mexico can attend
Use this link to register today.
Japhy Weideman
Lighting designer Japhy Weideman visited New Mexico after graduating high school in Asheville, NC as an aspiring photographer. He fell in love with the light here and stayed. He registered at The University of New Mexico and was soon attracted to a course on our relationship with light, taught by legendary theater design professor John Malolepsy. Weideman said that one course changed his life.
After graduation, he worked where he could, including off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway where budgets were tiny and ceiling height was non-existent. He now has five Tony nominations to his name for his work on Broadway, including for Dear Evan Hansen. He told us he still stays in touch with Malolepsy and was excited when we reached out to him to lead a workshop on lighting. He’s also happy to know that his work will be seen in New Mexico when Dear Evan Hansen comes to Popejoy Hall next March.
The Workshop
Weideman’s workshop will be helpful for any lighting student (or teacher), regardless of the equipment and resources available to them. We know he’ll talk about his design for Dear Evan Hansen and share some of the inspiration he gained from John Malolepsy. He’ll also leave a lot of time for questions you may want to ask him.
Teachers: Download and print the sign for this workshop to hang in your room.
| weideman_workshop_sign.pdf |
Opinion Piece in the Albuquerque Journal
The Albuquerque Journal published an opinion piece by our co-executive director, Terry Davis, on increasing funding for the arts, and specifically theater, in our schools. You can read the article on the Journal’s website. Doing so increases the readership statistics for the piece.
If you cannot access it there, please read it on our site.
If you agree with the opinions expressed in the piece, forward it to your elected representatives. Write a letter to the editor in support of these ideas, and send it either to the Journal or to your local paper. The more people see our opinions, the more support we garner for funding the arts in our schools.
If you cannot access it there, please read it on our site.
If you agree with the opinions expressed in the piece, forward it to your elected representatives. Write a letter to the editor in support of these ideas, and send it either to the Journal or to your local paper. The more people see our opinions, the more support we garner for funding the arts in our schools.