Selected Student Work: Photoshop compositions, found spaces, digital designs, physical models, and storyboard (mostly for Naomi Wallace’s play One Flea Spare) from top to bottom by: 1-3 Jesse Ball; 4-8 Susan Flint; 9-13 Fiona Herter; 14-15 Lindsey Barrett; 16 Jesse Ball; 17-18 Lindsey Barrett; 19-20 Phoebe Bell; 21-22 Mikayla Reid; 23-24 Susan Flint; 25 Mikayla Reid; 26-27 Aidan Gerard; 28-33 Mikayla Reid
Undergraduate students built physical models (with the exception of one digital model due to an injury) of their theoretical designs for Anne Carson’s version of Euripides’ “Bakkhai”. Work pictured is by:
Brendan O’Loughlin, Brendan O’Loughlin, Walt Manasse-Latham, Walt Manasse-Latham, William Waisnor, Michael Donnelly, Zaria Cannon, Tam Watzman, Sergio Martinez-Krawiec, Sergio Martinez-Krawiec, Kaitlyn Wilber, Liv Darling, Anna Zaczek, Isabella Vitti, and Isabella Vitti.
Below are examples from various stages of the design process created by Prof. Klepikov’s BA and MFA students at UMass Amherst. In 2020-21 Professor Klepikov’s Graduate (Group Studio) and Undergraduate (Intro to Scenic Design) courses at UMass Amherst participated in THE ONE FLEA SPARE PROJECT: PLAYS, PANDEMICS, & PARTNERSHIPS, a multi-disciplinary, inter-university, community theatrical endeavor led by designer Clint Ramos and organized around Naomi Wallace’s “One Flea Spare” to provide students at these different schools with a sense of community during the isolation of the pandemic. Participating schools included Fordham, Princeton, Georgetown Universities, and SUNY Purchase and offered courses that included “One Flea Spare” in their curriculum. Students could virtually attend open classes and other specially co-organized events. Credits in order of appearance: 1-3) Scenic design and 1/4” physical model by graduate student Carl Bridge; 4) Digital Vectorworks model of Carl Bridge’s design by graduate student Xinyuan Li (Lee); 5) Design process photos by Carl Bridge; 6-8) Scenic design and 1/4” physical model by graduate student Calypso Michelet; 9) Photoshop composition by undergrad Jesse Ball; 10) Photoshop composition by undergrad Lindsey Barrett; 11) Photoshop composition by undergrad Phoebe Bell; 12) Lit fragment of physical model by undergrad Fiona Herter; 13) Photoshop composition by undergrad Susan Flint; 14-15) Lit 1/4” physical model by undergrad Fiona Herter; 16) Lit 1/4” physical model by undergrad Jesse Ball; 17) physical model by undergrad Lindsey Barrett; 18-21) Lit 1/4” physical model by undergrad Susan Flint; 22) “Found” scenic design by undergrad Susan Flint; 23) 1/4” physical model by undergrad Susan Flint; 24-25) Digital Vectorworks model by undergrad Fiona Herter; 26) Digital Vectorworks model and design by undergrad Jesse Ball; 27-28) Digital Vectorworks model and design by undergrad Lindsey Barrett; 29-30) Digital Vectorworks model and design by graduate student Mikayla Reid; 31) Digital Vectorworks model and design by undergrad Phoebe Bell; and 32) Digital Vectorworks model and design by undergrad Susan Flint.
From Top to Bottom:
1) Volume+Speed+Weight by Mary-Frances Cusick, 2) Speed by Alexander Gaura, 3) Speed by Shiye Su, 4) Speed by Ian Adler, 5) Weight by Carl Bridge, 6) Speed by Calypso Michelet, 7) Age by Mikayla Reid, 8) Density by Alma Crawford-Mendoza, 9) Speed by Eliza Maggio, 10) Weight by Alma Crawford-Mendoza, 11) Weight by Yi-Wei Wang 12) Volume by Ben 13) Speed by Chenoa Albertson
SILK VS. POLYESTER: Anya invented this exercise to help students practice seeing and distinguishing the colors of material texture: they first created simple sculptures out of two blue pieces of organza, one - silk, and the other - polyester, and then translated those sculptures into a 2-D colored paper composition. Exercise Copyright © 2020 Anya Klepikov. All Rights Reserved. Student work by: 1) Mikayla Reid, 2) Calypso Michelet, 3) Chenoa Albertson, 4) Melissa Kordha, 5) Eliza Maggio, 6) Carl Bridge, 7) Alma Crawford-Mendoza, 8) Yi-Wei Wang, 9) Aidan Gerard, 10) Tess Beckwith