Surfaces : Visual Research for Artists, Architects and Designers. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Surfaces : Visual Research for Artists, Architects and Designers

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JUDY A. JURACEK works as a scenic artist in New York City. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she worked in the Design and Production Faculty at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she was a co-founder of the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. She has also given classes at Parsons School of Design, New York, York College, Toronto; and Webster College, St. Louis. Juracek has designed scenery and costumes for regional theatre, opera and ballet, and for theatre in New York City. As a scenic artist she has worked on productions such as La Bohème, Don Giovanni and Salome at the Metropolitan Opera; and the films A Chorus Line, The Money Pit, The Glass Menagerie, Dead Man Walking and Night Falls on Manhattan. Desmond Heeley, David Hockney, Tony Walton and Franco Zeffirelli are among the many artists for whom she has worked. She lives in Connecticut, USA.