Painting Projects

Victorian/Edwardian Dressing Screen

Intimate Apparel, Fall 2025

Designed by Jennifer O'Kelly, Built by Maxwell Martin

Show Props Budget of $750

Inspired by the Art Nouveau movement and asymmetry, along with styles from the victorian and Edwardian eras. We wanted to create a blend of the styles to represent how Mrs. Van Buren longs for the new world, but is kept more in the past by her husband.

Built using 3/4" plywood ,moulding, and vinyl spackle

Production Team

Director: Sidney Horton

Scenic Designer: Jennifer O'Kelly

Properties Designer: Maxwell Martin

Lighting Designer: David Fillmore

Costume Designer: Meredith Magoun

Sound Designer: Benjamin Stickels

Shadow play using backlighting during the preformance

When not backlit, the screen stayed opaque

Cut out plywood pieces

Molding applied, and beginning to fill in the gaps with spackle.

Close up of blending the gaps out with the spackle

Piped detailing on one of the side pieces

Piped detail on the middle portion and base painted

In progress paint treatment

After adding amber shellac

Stapling the fabric onto the back, and framing it with gimp trim.

Kenneth's Footlockers,

Clybourne Park, Fall 2024

Designed and Built by Maxwell Martin

Two matching footlockers, one muddy with dirt and the other clean.

One footlocker was pushed down a flight of stairs.

Production Team

Director: Ron McClelland

Scenic Designer: Gordon Olson

Properties Designer: Maxwell Martin

Lighting Designer: Kat Fletcher

Costume Designer: Meredith Magoun

Sound Designer: Madison King