{"id":10908,"date":"2015-07-10T07:36:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:50","slug":"sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=10908","title":{"rendered":"Carolina students bring sci-fi to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carolina graduate students bring sci-fi to life\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X5V9FHxrvcU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>With hours of hand-sewing and creative crafting, Carolina\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/drama.unc.edu\/general-information\/costume-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graduate costume production<\/a> students are working their way onto a platform even bigger than the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington, D.C.-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofsciencefiction.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museum of Science Fiction<\/a> was in its early developmental stages when subcommittee chair Steve Dreyer was tasked with finding precise costume replicas from famous science-fiction feature films and television shows. Dreyer and the museum found what they needed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want the best and we want experts in the field to develop these things,\u201c Dreyer said. \u201cWhen I found the faculty at UNC and saw their qualifications and what they brought to it\u2026 it was a win-win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Assistant costume director at UNC-Chapel Hill Jennifer Guadagno said the University\u2019s graduate students are seeing a benefit as well. UNC\u2019s costume production students, in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/drama.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Dramatic Art <\/a>in UNC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College of Arts and Sciences<\/a>,\u00a0were tasked with creating two replicas that will go into pop-up museum exhibits. Those replicas will eventually find a home in the brick-and-mortar museum in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10910\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/07\/scifi-pic-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10910 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/scifi-pic-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"scifi pic 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduate student Denise Chukhina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNormally after a production the costumes go into storage,\u201d Guadagno explained. \u201cThis is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the work and the level of skill that we produce here in our graduate students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First on the production line was a flight attendant suit from the film \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey.\u201d Graduate student Denise Chukhina handcrafted the replica with guidance from department instructors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d estimate this will be about a hundred hours of work,\u201d said Chukhina.<\/p>\n<p>Her process included mock-ups, cutting and stitching the actual fabric, and creating shoes from scratch. One new tool, however, proved to be a time machine of sorts: the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.unc.edu\/makerspace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Makerspace<\/a> 3-D printing lab at the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.unc.edu\/science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenan Science Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instructor and costume crafts artisan Rachel Pollock said recreating the Pan-Am medallion on the flight attendant\u2019s turban would have taken hours of tedious labor. But with the help of librarians at Makerspace, 3-D printers churned out the piece in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited that digital fabrication \u2014 3-D printing \u2014 as another tool in the kit is something our students are learning about from the get-go,\u201d said Pollock. \u201cHere at Carolina we are figuring it out. We\u2019re part of the ongoing research for applications of that technology to our art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chukhina\u2019s flight attendant suit is scheduled to go on display with other sci-fi artifacts and re-creations in August at a pop-up exhibit at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Students have more time to artfully fashion a stillsuit replica from the film \u201cDune.\u201d That project is slated for completion in the summer of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the stillsuit, we will allow first-, second- and third-years to participate in whatever they can,\u201d said Guadagno. \u201cIt allows first-years to foray into something they never had a chance to, and for the third-years to stretch a skill they\u2019ve already learned in a new way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Story and video by Carly Swain, UNC Office of Communications and Pubic Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hours of hand-sewing and creative crafting, Carolina\u2019s graduate 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