USITT Costume Design & Technology Commission

At every Annual Conference & Stage Expo as many as twenty presenters stand beside their posters, each illustrating an innovative or imaginative design or construction technique, a solution to a problem, a classroom or management technique, the results of research, or other ideas, discoveries, or developments in the field of costuming.

Poster presentations are widely accepted as meeting the requirements for scholarly publication. That means if you are employed by an educational institution, you might be able to get your school to fund some or all of your expenses to the USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Minneapolis. Poster presenters also have the opportunity to publish their ideas in TD&T.

If you have an idea, even if you are not sure it's "good enough" or "significant enough", send it to us. Each submission will be juried by past Costume Commissioner Debra Krajec, past Poster Session chair Gwen Nagle, Betty Blyholder (first chair and originator of the Poster Session), Donna Meester, and Joel Ebarb. Send us your idea in the form of an abstract--a brief, concise summary of the information to be presented in the poster--typewritten, and no more than 200 words. Email, FAX, or mail your abstract to Donna Meester. If you have further questions, would like to have an official rules document, or need the deadline date please contact Donna at the contact information below.

Poster Guidelines: Posters should be no smaller than 2 by 3 feet and no larger than 4 by 6 feet. They should be designed to be mounted on the wall. In the past we have also managed to have some table space in front of each poster for displaying realized projects plus handouts. Posters may be in several sections for easy transport. As people will be walking by, your poster should be easily readable from at least six feet away. We ask each presenter to prepare a summary handout to distribute. This session usually receives an average of 200-250 people attending.

Donna Meester

The University of Alabama

Box 870239

235 Rowand-Johnson Hall

Tuscaloosa, AL 25487-0239

O: 205-348-9032

Fax: 205-348-9048

Email: dmeester@bama.ua.edu