Students in the after-school Costume Design Workshop had the unique opportunity to create the costumes for five actors who were featured in the “Puzzle Puppy” musical performed at the K-3 Spring Concert on April 21. During the five-week workshop, faculty member Rhapsody Hahn-Chaney instructed the students as they designed and sewed the costumes for the elementary students playing the parts of Detective Puzzle Puppy, Pixie Poodle, Police Dog, Mole, and Cat.

“The students were very excited to be involved in creating costumes for a real production and had just five weeks to finish the project, but they worked very hard and met the deadline,” Hahn-Chaney said. She said the students used design concepts that were initially created in the high school fashion design elective class. The after-school workshop students, who were in the 4th-8th grades, then took those concepts and moved forward. They cut fabric using paper patterns and created each costume from scratch, using sewing machines and hand stitching.

The ten students who participated in the after-school workshop were: Megan Connolly, Isabella Cordetti, Hailey Everland, Eve Gibbs, Julieta Gonzalez, Emily Kinch, Zy’Rainalyn Rogers, Geanna Ulerio, Taylor Vola, and Norah Wilson.

In addition to creating the costumes, three students in the after-school class — Megan Connolly, Zy’Rainalyn Rogers, and Norah Wilson — volunteered to work backstage the night of the concert as dressers to ensure the actors were properly fitted into their costumes.