September 9, 2015
All Day
Roy Bowen Theatre, Drake Performance and Event Center
Textile and costume designer Dr. Simona Rybákovástudied at the College of Applied Art and Design, and then pursued her schooling at Studio of Textile Design of the Academy of Art and Design in Prague. In 1990, she spent six months as a visiting graduate student of textile design at the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki, Finland. In 1995, she won the SwarowskiAward (graduate study at the Rhode Island School of Design at Providence, R. I., USA). Between 1997 and 2009, she was the Czech Republic’s representative on the executive board of the International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Artists and Technicians (OISTAT), and since 1997 she has been a member of the same organization's commission on stage design. In 2007, she became a member of the European Film Academy. At the Prague Quadrennial 2011, she curated the international exhibition Extreme Costume. Apart from costume design and individual textile design, she has been involved in the media of designer textile prints and carpets, jewelry, sculpture, and drawing.
Sponsored by the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute Lecture Series
NO TICKETS REQUIRED - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
