The Costumer's Manifesto is written by Tara Maginnis, and proudly hosted by William Baker.

THE MANIFESTO IS MUTATING!  IT IS TURNING INTO A WIKI THAT CAN BECOME THE HIVE MIND OF ALL COSTUMERS, FINALLY LIVING UP TO IT'S SLOGAN: "COSTUMERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!" YOU CAN HELP IN THIS PROCESS BY MOVING PAGES TO THE NEW SITE AT THECOSTUMERSMANIFESTO.COM, HELPING TO EDIT THE PAGES THAT ARE THERE ALREADY, AND ADDING YOUR OWN ORIGINAL INPUT.

 

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Tara Maginnis, Ph. D.

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Instructor: Tara Maginnis, Ph.D
email: Tara@costumes.org   
web site: http://costumes.org  

Tara was a professor and costume designer in the Theatre Department of the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 1990-2007.  She now is living in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is care giving for a family member and is also a part time costume design specialist at Diablo Valley College.  However, she is best known for her creation of The Costumer's Manifesto, one of the World Wide Web's largest, and most eclectic, costume sites.

 You can view her portfolio of Costume and Makeup designs online.  Her resume is also online, as well as images from her latest shows, updated regularly.  

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You can support my site by buying products offered by my affiliate sponsors:

Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes, Albert Racinet.

Tara has written numerous articles for Theatre Design and Technology, the Journal of The United States Institute of Theatre Technology, of which she is a member.  Tara also was the computer columnist  for The Costume Research Journal, the former quarterly publication of the USITT Costume Commission. Tara has published articles in Costume, Theatre Crafts, and the Ladies' Gallery as well as other magazines. She is also a member of The Costume Society of America, The Costume Society (UK), The International Costumer's Guild, and Costumer's Guild West.

Tara is available for conference presentations and workshops.  She has given workshops at USITT, NWDC, Costume Con and other venues on items as varied as Putting your Costume Program Online, The Stripper as Sexual Ideal, Alaska Native Dress, Faculty Web Page Design, Putting Design into the Hands of the Actor and Multimedia in Theatre Education.  She has experience in authoring online classes, and teaching using the web and other computer applications.

Tara enjoys dumpster diving in the summer months to find home decorating materials.  Most summers she travels to costume museums to take photos for the Manifesto site.

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There is also now an online interview with Tara in

Literati Magazine

And a Fairbanks Daily News Miner Article On Tara 10/18/04

The Costumer's Manifesto is proudly hosted by William Baker.

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