This is our first sheet - it is a combination of Roxane from Cyrnao de Bergerac combined with interior design elements.
If you’d like to post your completed page make sure to use #designforlines so that we can view your progress.
I hope you are keeping safe. We will get through this. There is a huge gorgeous world out there just waiting.
This week’s coloring page for @designforlines is a combination of “Surf the Musical and “The Barber of Seville”. The costume designs are looks from two scenes in “Surf the Musical”, a world premiere Beach Boys musical at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas. It was a love story of Brooke and Tanner from childhood neighbors to high-school sweethearts set in a southern California beach town in the 1960s.
The scenery for the coloring page was designed by @shokolatnyc for a co-production between Opera Philadelphia and Opera Theatre St Louis! The production was taped on opening night in Philadelphia back in 2014 and will be airing this week - 8pm on Friday, May 15 on YouTube.com/operaphila as part of their digital festival.
Shoko Kambara and I put this page together picturing the two of us dancing away at an imagined opening night party for Barber! In this fantasy version, I have a long 60s shag haircut and retro sunglasses! I hope you can join in the fun by coloring us in and hopefully for the viewing of the opera on Friday!
Bonus coloring page for @designforlines. This page is a new combination of “Surf the Musical and “The Barber of Seville”. The costume designs are looks from the finale of “Surf the Musical”, a world premiere Beach Boys musical at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas. It was a love story of Brooke and Tanner from childhood neighbors to high-school sweethearts set in a southern California beach town in the 1960s.
The scenery for the coloring page was designed by @shokolatnyc for a co-production between Opera Philadelphia and Opera Theatre St Louis! The production was taped on opening night in Philadelphia back in 2014 and will be airing this week - 8pm on Friday, May 15 on YouTube.com/operaphila as part of their digital festival.
This week’s coloring page for @designforlines is a combination of “Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure” and a Celtic frame inspired by the Scottish kilt.
The costume design is for the production at @dallastheatercenter for Little John once he becomes a member of Robin Hood’s gang of “Merry Men”. The first reference to this fable is in the mid 13th century, but the story has been told in many forms ranging from poems, ballads, plays, novels, films, animations, new concepts, and adaptations.
We put this page together with the hope that you could have some fun putting together your own personal color combinations.
There is a fascinating and wonderful world out there, and I hope this timeless story of a group of renegades that right the wrongs of the day to create a peaceful and balanced society will continue to inspire us.
Bonus coloring page of Maid Marian from “Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure” and a Medieval inspired window and frame by Shoko Kambara.
Here is our version of social distance seating: in pairs, with a 6’0” bubble around the pair, and we went conservative and decided that it should also avoid people in the aisles… which put us at under 10% of the seats being used.
This week’s coloring page for @designforlines is a combination of “An American Soldier” at Opera Theater of Saint Louis and a building façade that was originally designed by @shokolatnyc for “Native Gardens” at @syracusestage.
Shoko and I felt that this is an appropriate coloring page this Memorial Day to commemorate the military personnel who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Additionally, May is the Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage month.
“An American Soldier” is a remarkable and important opera about Danny Chen, a New York City Native, “the son of Chinese immigrants, and a proud American. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2011, eager to serve his country. In boot camp, Danny was welcomed by his band of brothers. But in Afghanistan, his own base became enemy territory as military hazing turned deadly. Based on a true story, this opera asks powerful questions about what it means to be an American”.
Pictured here: on left Mother Chen, on right: Danny in his Army Service Uniform.
This drawing is a combination of costume sketches from “An American Soldier” at @operatheatrestl and a building façade that was originally designed by @shokolatnyc for “Native Gardens” at @syracusestage
Shoko Kambara and I believe in the power of protest.
Shoko Kambara and I created this coloring page to talk about the tearing down of statues around the world.
For me, art historian Erin L. Thompson said it well: "the current attacks on statues are a sign that what’s in question is not just our future but our past, I think, as a nation, as a society, as a world.
These attacks show how deeply white supremacy is rooted in our national structure — that we need to question everything about the way we understand the world, even the past, in order to get to a better future.
I think a lot of people assume that since I’m an art historian that I would want everything preserved but I know that preservation is expensive. It’s expensive literally in that people have to pay for maintaining these statues — a couple of journalists in 2018 did an amazing investigation for Smithsonian magazine and found that in the previous ten years, taxpayers had spent at least 40 million dollars preserving Confederate monuments and sites.
And then at U.N.C., when protesters in 2018 tore down the ‘Silent Sam’ Confederate statue, U.N.C. proposed building a new museum to house it that would cost over 5 million dollars and almost a million dollar a year in ongoing maintenance and security. So I look at these statues as money sinks. And think about all of the amazing sites of African-American history or Native American history that are disintegrating from lack of funding and think those dollars could be better spent elsewhere".
We did it! Last Monday the Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and transgender people from workplace discrimination!
“Until Monday’s decision, it was legal in more than half of the states to fire workers for being gay, bisexual or transgender. The vastly consequential decision thus extended workplace protections to millions of people across the nation, continuing a series of Supreme Court victories for rights”, Adam Liptak, the NY Times.
The decision if the first major case on transgender rights. We have a lot of work to do, let’s keep moving forward!
@Shokolatnyc and I designed this page using a mash-up of designs from my previous projects, and Shoko created the background of the Supreme Court and protest signs. We want to lend our voice to vitally important changes that need to occur in this country.
In 1868, Two Nations Made a Treaty, the U.S. Broke It and Plains Indian Tribes are Still Seeking Justice, By Kimbra Cutlip Kimbra, smithsonianmag.com November 7, 2018.
“The pages of American history are littered with broken treaties. Some of the earliest are still being contested today. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 remains at the center of a land dispute that brings into question the very meaning of international agreements and who has the right to adjudicate them when they break down.”
“In 1868, the United States entered into the treaty with a collective of Native American bands historically known as the Sioux (Dakota, Lakota and Nakota) and Arapaho. The treaty established the Great Sioux Reservation, a large swath of lands west of the Missouri River. It also designated the Black Hills as “unceded Indian Territory” for the exclusive use of native peoples. But when gold was found in the Black Hills, the United States reneged on the agreement, redrawing the boundaries of the treaty, and confining the Sioux people—traditionally nomadic hunters - to a farming lifestyle on the reservation. It was a blatant abrogation that has been at the center of legal debate ever since.”
“In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. had illegally appropriated the Black Hills and awarded more than $100 million in reparations. The Sioux Nation refused the money (which is now worth over a billion dollars), stating that the land was never for sale.”
“We’d like to see that land back,” says Chief John Spotted Tail, who works for the president of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. He was speaking at the unveiling of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, parts of which are now on display at the National Museum of the American Indian. On loan from the National Archives, the treaty is one of a series that are being rotated into the exhibition “Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations” view through 2021.”
Never been prouder to be a New Yorker than seeing Black Lives Matter emblazoned on 5th Avenue. Someone defaced it today, but as Mayor de Blasio tweeted: “To whoever vandalized our mural on 5th Avenue: nice try. @nyc_dot has already fixed it. The #BlackLivesMatter movement is more than words, and it can’t be undone.”
Shoko Kambara and I created this coloring page to celebrate the momentous occasion, and took a little creative liberty by adding the “Stronger Together” and “Choose Love” murals on the west side of the street and Gucci Beauty’s “Unconventional Beauty” series ad to the East side of the street.
What is your protest? We took inspiration from The Guardian article “Masked not muzzled – the art of the political mask” when @shokolatnyc and I created this coloring page to highlight some important protests that are going on worldwide. What protest would you like to bring attention to?
Included in our coloring page protests are #BlackLivesMatter; #LGBTQIA; #BlackTransLivesMatter; better working conditions in France: #MasqueePasMuselee; Black and Indigenous Lives matter in Manaus, Brazil: #vidasnegrasimportam, physicians and nurses calling an end to 26-hour hospital shifts in Tel Aviv, Israel: #nomore26, and #HongKongIndependence.
Picture here through the arrow of time are three important protests:
1) The Women’s Suffrage Movement, or the right for women to vote, in the USA started in the 1840s and not won until the 19th Amendment became part of the Constitution on August 18, 1920. It took a mind-blowing 80 years to win a right that should have always been in place. Can you imagine how different the government would be today if women were voting for those 80 years?
2) Shoko Kambara and I decided we wanted to say something about school segregation, and while researching I found that the largest civil rights demonstration of the 1960s was the New York City school boycott, a.k.a Freedom Day. 464,361 students and teachers stayed home from school and held demonstrations and rallies on February 3, 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations, although a loophole allowed school segregation to continue in large Northern cities including NYC.
3) Black Lives Matter is a massively important movement against police brutality and racially motivated violence with protests that continue to circle the globe.
The ability to protest and make your voice heard is vitally important for a democracy to flourish and make significant changes for it’s citizens. It is through these coloring pages that I am lending my voice to major issues of the day.
Shoko Kambara and I were discussing our weekly coloring page this morning and taking a page from @_scene_change_ how about we start a movement here in the United States that brings attention to the thousands of theater artists that have lost their livelihood since Covid hit the US? We are proposing a #MISSINGBROADWAY and #MISSINGLIVETHEATER theater wrapping campaign. What do you think of either IRL or virtually?
Pictured here: @shokolatnyc imagined a tape design for the Majestic Theater, wrapped by characters I designed for previous productions and films.
If any of you are interested in creating a design and pushing this idea forward, dm either of us with your email address and we will send you a photoshop file with the tape design.
You can swipe the coloring page on my site (link in bio) and on Shoko’s site: shokokambara.com.
Feel free to repost and tag anyone that may be interested.
The past several months have been tough for everyone, so Shoko Kambara and I thought a little break was in order. We decided to create something fantastical and designed a coloring page that combines costume design from “Surf the Musical” and set design from “The Little Mermaid”.
Surf was a world premiere Beach Boys musical at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas. The design was from a cut scene that included aerial artists, men in wet suits, and the iconic song “Surfer Moon”. The aerialists look imagined a cross-section of the ocean rising from the seabed to the coral reefs, and wondrous sea life that broke into waves inspired by Katsushika Hokusai’s 19th-century masterwork “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”.
The frame is the show portal design from “The Little Mermaid” at Arkansas Rep. It was based on Art Nouveau illustrations for Hans Christian Anderson's stories.
Shoko Kambara and I created this coloring page to celebrate the @demconvention which begins tonight and runs through Thursday each night from 9-11pm Eastern time! Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders are headlining tonight along with an amazing group.
This week Shoko Kambara and I thought a little magical thinking was what we needed as students and staff head back to school and trickle back to work. That lead us to a mashup of the “His Dark Material” animals and magical creatures in “Harry Potter”.
In our mystical universe, it is totally safe to go back to school and work because each person is protected by a pair of guardian spirits who have created a protective bubble around them.
Pictured here: the large bubble is from “An American Soldier” at @operatheatrestl for the character Josephine and is protected by two jaguar characters from “Oh, Figaro” that I designed for The National Theater of the Deaf. The play that was a mash up of “The Marriage of Figaro” and “The Barber of Seville”. The medium sized bubble contains a design for Silvio from “El Milagro del Recuerdo” at @hougrandopera and is protected by the Friar and falcon I designed for @hoodmusical at @dallastheatercenter. The small bubble is Aracelli from “El Milagro del Recuerdo” and is protected by Moth from “Fairycakes” and the Queen of the Night from “The Magic Flute” at @chicagooperatheater.
We have important decisions to make to lead us through COVID and to a healthier and more inclusive future. The presidential election is in 64 days. Vote!
Peaceful protesting is a vital part of the government that allows individuals opinions and experiences to be heard and integrated into policies. Shoko Kambara and I created this page to lend our voices to a few of them. Stay tuned for the other half of the world later in the week!
Upper row left: Black Lives Matter & LGBTQIA Pride sign. From the start, the founders of Black Lives Matter have always put LGBTQ voices at the center of the conversation. The movement was founded by three Black women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of whom identify as queer.
By design, the movement they started in 2013 has remained organic, grassroots, and diffuse. Since then, many of the largest Black Lives Matter protests have been fueled by the violence against Black men, including Mike Brown and Eric Garner in 2015, and now George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.
But it's not only straight, cisgender Black men who are dying at the hands of police. Last month, a Black transgender man, Tony McDade, 38, was shot and killed by police in Tallahassee. On June 9, two Black transgender women, Riah Milton and Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, also were killed in separate acts of violence, their killings believed to be the 13th and 14th of transgender or gender-non-conforming people this year, according to the Human Rights Coalition.
In 2019, Layleen Polanco, a trans-Latina woman who was an active member of New York’s Ballroom community, died while in solitary confinement at Rikers Island jail.
Upper row middle: on August 23, 2020, Jacob S. Blake, a 29-year-old African American man, was shot and seriously injured by police officer Rusten Sheskey in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Sheskey shot at Blake's back seven times during an arrest, with four of the shots hitting Blake. He was shot when he opened the driver's door to his SUV and leaned in. Unlike so many of the people who have become grim symbols for a movement, Mr. Blake survived and has begun to tell his own story.
“Your life — and not only just your life, your legs, something that you need to move around and move forward in life — could be taken from you like this, man,” Mr. Blake says from his hospital bed, snapping his fingers for emphasis, in a video released over the weekend. In the video, he speaks publicly for the first time about what happened to him. His injuries are severe, and his family says he was paralyzed from the waist down in the shooting last month.
“Every 24 hours, it’s pain — it’s nothing but pain,” Mr. Blake says. “It hurts to breathe; it hurts to sleep. It hurts to move from side to side. It hurts to eat.”
For demonstrators seeking broad changes to American policing, the prospect of Mr. Blake’s presenting the public with a personal voice to his experience was encouraging.
“My son is gone,” said Monique West, whose 18-year-old son, Ty’Rese West, was shot and killed in 2019 by a police officer in Racine County, not far from Kenosha. “He’s not here to tell nothing. There are only two stories — either the officer or the person that’s gone.”
Upper row right: on March 23 Joe Prude, called 911 seeking help for his brother Daniel Prude's unusual behavior in Rochester NY. He had been taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation earlier that night but released after a few hours. Daniel died after police found him running naked in a street, put a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, then held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing. He died a week later after he was taken off life support.
His death sparked outrage after his relatives on Wednesday released police body camera video and written reports they obtained through a public records request.
Seven police officers were suspended Thursday, and state Attorney General Letitia James said Saturday she would form a grand jury and conduct an "exhaustive investigation” into Prude's death.
Police union officials have said the officers were following their training.
Protesters have demanded police accountability and legislation to change how authorities respond to mental health emergencies
Bottom row left Brazilian women have taken to the streets to protect a 10-year-old child who was being persecuted by religious extremists for trying to legally undergo an abortion after being raped.
The child told police she had been abused by her uncle since age six and had stayed silent out of fear. When the girl reached the hospital where the termination was to be performed on Sunday afternoon, it’s entrance had been occupied by far-right anti-abortion activists and politicians who were filmed hurling abuse at hospital staff and the child, and trying to stop them entering.
“When you see a 10-year-old girl being criminalized for terminating a pregnancy resulting from rape and because her life is in danger, it really gives you a sense of how religious fundamentalism is advancing in our country,” said Elisa Aníbal, a Recife-based feminist campaigner.
Bottom row middle: The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of present-day south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of present-day Patagonia. The native Mapuche population, most of whom live in poverty, have been in conflict with authorities since the Spanish conquistadors forced them into Araucanía in the late 19th century after some 300 years of conflict. Protestors demands revolve around three themes: jurisdictional autonomy, the return of ancestral lands, and cultural identity.
Bottom row right: Black Lives matter - political and social movement advocating for non-violent protest against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people and systemic racism.
Today Shoko Kambara and I are revealing through our coloring page a few important protests in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Africa: Protesters took to the streets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) capital to express support for Denis Mukwege, a Nobel laureate who says he has received death threats. Mukwege was co-recipient of the 2018 Novel Prize for Peace, recognized for his efforts to help war rape victims and "end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict" in eastern DRC. Mr. Mukwege supported “investigations and prosecutions for atrocities that took the lives of millions of people in the region and have included the mass sexual violence that caused thousands of women and girls to seek and receive treatment from Dr Mukwege and his colleagues at Panzi Hospital."
Europe: There was a fourth Sunday of protests in Belarus. Tens of thousands of “protesters flooded into towns and cities, signaling the depth of anger at President Aleksandr Lukashenko, who has shown no sign of bending despite repeated calls to resign”. The protestors waved red and white flags, formerly the national flag until Mr. Lukashenko replaced it a year after he took office with a more Soviet-looking standard.”
Asia: Hong Kong police broke up protests over delayed election. Nearly 300 people were arrested during protests in Hong Kong on Sunday, the scheduled date for a legislative election. The election was postponed for one year because of the pandemic, but many in the pro-democracy camp accused the government of stalling to avoid the defeat of establishment candidates. The protests were also an expression of public anger at a draconian security law imposed by Beijing that is silencing dissent.
I am hopeful that the current unrest in the world will result in inclusive and balanced societies.
“Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg was a titan – a relentless defender of justice and a legal mind for the ages”, Kamala Harris.
Shoko Kambara and I designed this coloring page to celebrate the legacy of RBG. The steps of the Supreme Court have been blanketed with a collection of flowers, signs and prayer candles left by thousands of mourners who visited the steps of the court to pay their respects in the wake of Ginsburg's passing this last Friday.
As a law professor and leader of the ACLU project she took on groundbreaking cases to build constitutional protections against gender discrimination. The legal crusade quickly unleashed profound changes in the law and daily life. But Ginsburg took decades and a lot of lobbying by her husband. After getting passed over 3 times President Clinton nominated Ginsburg to be a federal judge in 1993. People were surprised that the ACLU activist turned out to be a very moderate judge, a centrist who often sided with conservatives.
She was a champion of gender discrimination, abortion rights, search and seizure, and international law. As a gay man I was thrilled to see the court rule on June 15 that the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1962 protects gay and transgender people from workplace discrimination. “Until Monday’s decision, it was legal in more than half of the states to fire workers for being gay, bisexual or transgender. The vastly consequential decision thus extended workplace protections to millions of people across the nation, continuing a series of Supreme Court victories for rights”, Adam Liptak, the NY Times. The decision if the first major case on transgender rights. We have a lot of work to do, let’s keep moving forward!
The notorious R.B.G. with be missed. The president that wins the election must name her successor.