{"id":3474,"date":"2025-04-26T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/?page_id=3474"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:05:47","slug":"3-25-25-making-masks-with-melody-anderson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/events-2\/past-events\/3-25-25-making-masks-with-melody-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/25\/25 &#8211; Making Masks with Melody Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3351\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/womenandmasks\/files\/2025\/03\/melody-best-front-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/womenandmasks\/files\/2025\/03\/melody-best-front-cover-491x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/files\/2025\/03\/melody-best-front-cover-491x636.jpg 491w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/files\/2025\/03\/melody-best-front-cover.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melody&#8217;s book can be purchased at https:\/\/www.blurb.com\/b\/11031604-making-masks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 For artists and teachers! The Women &amp; Masks Project hosted a special Zoom event to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/research\/pedagogical-resources\/\">new pedagogical resources<\/a> for artists and teachers featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/melody-anderson\/\">Melody Anderson<\/a>. An award-winning Canadian mask artist and playwright, Melody has been making beautiful masks for theatrical productions for decades using a classroom-friendly technique. While researching non-toxic approaches, she developed a versatile papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 method to make refined masks quickly and with simple materials.<\/p>\n<p>Melody was a featured presenter in our 2021-22 Women and Masks Conference, and we were thrilled to host her again and to be able to share resources that make a wonderful companion to Melody&#8217;s book:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blurb.com\/b\/11031604-making-masks\"><em>Making Masks<\/em><\/a>. During the event, Melody introduced and screened two short videos that she created: an artist talk and a demo of her technique. After the screening, there was a Q&amp;A and a special mini-demo of tips for teachers and teaching artists!<\/p>\n<p>The event was recorded and the videos and supporting materials will be available <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/melody-anderson-techniques\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u2013 For artists and teachers! The Women &amp; Masks Project hosted a special Zoom event to launch new pedagogical resources for artists and teachers featuring Melody Anderson. An award-winning Canadian mask artist and playwright, Melody has been making beautiful masks for theatrical productions for decades using a classroom-friendly technique. While researching non-toxic approaches, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24444,"featured_media":0,"parent":2690,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3474\/revisions\/3478"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}