IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE CAMPBELL CENTER Anyone interested in taking this year's Mannequin Workshop needs to act immediately. The class will be cancelled unless two more people sign up within one week. The deadline for applications to attend the Mannequin Workshop at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation has been extended to May 22, 2002. The popular four-day workshop teaches students how to measure historic garments and use those measurements to determine the size of a mannequin support, then offers a number of cost-effective options for creating the support. Students complete up to three mannequins in as many days. The mannequins are made using Coroplast, Ethafoam and Buckram. Demonstrations show casting and molding techniques for realistic details. Lectures cover museum-quality materials, materials testing, reusing old mannequins and dressmaker forms, human proportions, historic silhouettes, undergarments, casting from a live model, and examples of many successful and unsuccessful museum mannequins. The instructor, Helen Alten, is one of the authors featured in Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit, edited by Margot Brunn and Joanne White (2002). The book will be available to students attending the class. Students leave with a large, comprehensive notebook containing all the information needed to create perfect museum-quality mannequins for any garment in your collection. To register for the Mannequin Workshop contact the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation, 203 East Seminary, P.O. Box 66, Mount Carroll, IL 61053, (tel) 815-244-1173, (fax) 815-244-1619, (e-mail) [log in to unmask] Be sure to ask about the available scholarships. For the Campbell Center catalog go to www.campbellcenter.org. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).