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Costume Designs for Theatre, Diablo Valley College

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Diablo Valley College, 2009

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Diablo Valley College, 2009, Costume Designs by Tara Maginnis

Rendering for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Rendering for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis

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Early Conceptual Rendering for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Early Conceptual Rendering for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Early Conceptual Rendering for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Early Conceptual Rendering for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Early Conceptual Rendering for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis
Early Conceptual Rendering for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Diablo Valley College, 2009, by Tara Maginnis

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Some images from my article Dreams From A Fairy World

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A Midsummer Nights Dream, Diablo Valley College, 2009, Costumes by Tara Maginnis
A Midsummer Nights Dream, Diablo Valley College, 2009, Costumes by Tara Maginnis

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Articles, Costume Designs for Theatre, Theatre UAF

The Importance of Being Artificial: Style as Substance in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, TD&T, Spring 2004, by Tara Maginnis

The Importance of Being Artificial: Style as Substance in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Theatre Design & Technology, Spring 2004, by Tara Maginnis  PDF of Article you can print!

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Crafts, Free Stuff

Free Miniature Books for Dollhouse Use by Tara Maginnis

Free Miniature book #60 Free Miniature Book #60 Costume Designs for Much Ado About Nothing UAF

 

Free Miniature book #61 Costume Design for the Mystery of Edwin Drood

 

Free Miniature book
Free Miniature book #55 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 1 of 5

 

Free Miniature book #56 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 2 of 5

 

Free Miniature book #57 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 3 of 5

 

Free Miniature book #58 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 4 of 5

 

Free Miniature book #59 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 5 of 5

 

Books for Dollhouses #2 : Paintings by Herb Simon, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Miniature book #52 Jacobean Dress in Detail Volume 1 of 3

 

Free printable pattern for making a miniature book for dollhouse use
Free Miniature book #53 Jacobean Dress in Detail Volume 2 of 3

 

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Free Miniature book #54 Jacobean Dress in Detail Volume 3 o

 

#51 Costumes for the 1903 Romanov Ball

 

Books for Dollhouses #3: French Fashions of the 1770s, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #4 : Duchess Anna’s Jewel Book, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #5, Theatre Designs by Inigo Jones, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #6a: Costume Designs for Tartuffe, Version 1 by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #8 : Plates from British Ferns by Anna Atkins, mini books by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #8 & #9: British Algae, and British Ferns by Anna Atkins, mini books by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #7: Plates from Walter Crane’s Flowers from Shakespeares’s Garden, book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #6b: Costume Designs for Tartuffe, Version 2 by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #12 : Plates from Art in Daily Life, 1925, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #11 : 18th Century Banyans, mini books by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #9 : Plates from British Algae by Anna Atkins, mini books by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #10: Costume Designs for the Threepenny Opera by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #13 : Costume Designs for The Grand Tarot by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #14 : Costume Designs by Alexandra Exter for Aelita Queen of Mars, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #15 : Costume Designs for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #16 : Theatre Designs by Buontalenti, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #17 : Plates from a c1900 Theatrical Makeup Book (with racist content typical of that era), mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #18: Costume Plates by Percy Anderson, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #19 : Plates from a c1870s British Theatrical Makeup Book (with racist content typical of that era), mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #20 : Plates from the Hofkleiderbuch, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #24 : Plates from” Dress Worn at Court”, 1903, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #23 : Plates from ” The Funk Wig Co”, Theatrical Catalog, c1925, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #25 : Costume Designs by Daniel Rabel, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #26 : Ersatz Chinese San Francisco Phone Book c.1929 mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #27 : Costume Designs by N. Larmessin, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #28 : Theatre Designs by Leon Bakst, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #32 : Plates from “Ancient Greek Women’s Costume”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #31 : Manhole Covers of the World, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #30 : Costume Designs by C. Wilhelm, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #29 : Costume Designs by Louis-Rene Boquet, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #33 : Plates from “The Book of the Saxon Nobility”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #34 : Miniature Costume Design Portfolio by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #35 : Costume Designs for The Skriker by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #36 : Plates by Wenceslaus Hollar, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #40 : The Dragon Book, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #39 : Theatre Designs by Natalia Gontcharova, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #38 : Plates from the “Trachtenbuch”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #37 : Costume Designs for Zombie Prom by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #44 : Plates on 1920s Dressmaking by Ruth Wyeth Spears, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #43 : Plates on the Manufacture of Costume Accessories From the Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #42 : Plates on the Manufacture of Clothing From the Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #41 : Plates by Georges Barbier for an edition of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #45 : Plates on 1920s Millinery by Ruth Wyeth Spears, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #46 : Portraits by Hans Holbein, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #47 : Plates from “Album Amicorum of a German Soldier, 1595”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #48 : Men’s Plates from “The Milanese Tailor’s Handbook”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #22 : Posters and Graphics of Georges de Feure, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #31 : Manhole Covers of the World, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #49 : Women’s Plates from “The Milanese Tailor’s Handbook”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #50 : Costume Designs for Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #21 : Costume Designs for Guys and Dolls by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #1 : Ceramics by Herb Simon, mini book by Tara Maginnis

Costume Designs for Theatre, Diablo Valley College

The Skriker, Diablo Valley College, 2012, Costume Designs by Tara Maginnis

Costumes for The Skriker at Diablo Valley College, 2012, by Tara Maginnis

Click to go to an illustrated Booklet on the Costume Concept of Skriker

Learn more about the process of making this show from these conference presentations:

Review: “The Skriker” Pushes Boundaries of the Mind

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #35 : Costume Designs for The Skriker by Tara Maginnis

Here is your Easter Egg for Visiting this page! Just print on an 8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper, and cut and paste into a 1.5″ dollhouse book.  Plus there are more Free Printable Miniature Books for Doll House Use!