A charge

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, t ...

(or charge scenic artist and also head scenic artist) leads and oversees the painting of stage, film or

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scenery Theatrical scenery is that which is used as a setting for a theatrical production. Scenery may be just about anything, from a single chair to an elaborately re-created street, no matter how large or how small, whether the item was custom-made or ...

. In the United States such individuals are typically members of the

United Scenic Artists United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, formerly known as United Scenic Artists of America (USAA), is an American labor union. It is a nationwide autonomous Local of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. It organizes designer ...

union. The charge artist's responsibilities include methods of reproduction of color, texture, preparation and aging of all surfaces. The charge artist interprets the

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and paint elevations, and with a crew of journeymen

scenic artist A charge artist (or charge scenic artist and also head scenic artist) leads and oversees the painting of stage, film or television scenery. In the United States such individuals are typically members of the United Scenic Artists union. The charge ...

s, brings them to life on the actual scenery. The charge artist is also responsible for the

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of the finished sets along with the production designer and the art director.

Scenic artists

Sabrina Jones Sabrina Jones (born on October 6th, 1960, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American painter and comic book artist, writer, illustrator, and editor. In addition to her own graphic novels, she is associated with artist/activist collectives such ...

Yuri Makoveychuk Yuri Makoveychuk ( uk, Юрій Маковейчук, born 1961) is an artist-painter and filmmaker working in the rare field of mannequin animation. Biography Makoveychuk was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1961. He moved to Philadelphia in 1990, and ...

Roman Turovsky Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer,

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* D. Dominick Lombardi

References

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