In a place like this, you can't just have a normal halloween costume contest. You have to have a form-based costume contest, complete with a parade and presentations timed to music. Students are supposed to be researching the work of Oskar Schlemmer and using only cardboard, white paper, and black trashbags. I designed the poster for this particular one because I am a TA for the class, and my fellow grad students Michael and Mary are coordinating lighting and music.

If all goes well, it will be like RISD meets Bauhaus meets Halloween meets Project Runway.

Or it could be a bunch of angsty art students looking ridiculous and getting heatstroke because they've been wearing plastic bags for four hours in a stuffy auditorium.

On the plus side, Artists Ball is this weekend, and this year a critical mass of grad students decided to go. We are doing a group costume, where the loudest and most gregarious of our group will be Doc Brown, and the rest of us will be identically dressed as Marty McFly, complete with red puffer vests and white high tops.

People have historically gone really crazy with costumes at this thing, so I am looking forward to being a part of it.