The Odyssey Project

Costume Design Mentor for The Odyssey Project at University of California Santa Barbara Department of Theatre and Dance. Custom Hand Painted T-shirts using Jacquard Textile Paints. A collaborative design process between actors and costume designer, used as a sort of armor for their journey through the re-telling of Homer's Odyssey. From The Official Odyssey Project Website http://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/projects/odyssey/ "The Odyssey Project™ is a collaborative theater process between youth from a juvenile detention facility in Santa Barbara county and undergradute students from the University of California Santa Barbara. Using the template of Homer's Odyssey, the participants gather on the university campus to explore the mythic elements in their lives in order to reconstruct the epic poem in their own voices. The project leads to a public performance at a local theater. Everyone on this creative journey is a hero or heroine. The project is designed to honor youth in identifying their heroic life mission and map a course of action. It employs theater arts as a strategy for inspiriing life affirming choices."