Meet the Mask Maker
"The Finest, Most Comfortable Handmade Masks, ANYWHERE," known around the world for the quality and comfort that Jeff Semmerling's professional tools of theatrical transformation offer. Makers of Opera, Theatre, Dance, Magic, Music, and serious fun makers and collectors all instantly and after hours of wearing appreciate the qualities 38 years of professional practice brings to their Semmerling Masks. In 2015 12 of his masks opened on Broadway in Lincoln Center Theater's "Falsettos." After the four year run the same masks now travel with the touring show, never having needing a repair.
Students from around the world come to his Chicago Store Front "Art Side Out Studio & MASK SHOP to learn Art & Mask Making from the Mad Master Mask Maker. There he teaches how to make Leather Masks in Weekend Intensive Workshops, After school and Day Off School for young artists, classes for Special Needs Therapies and more. You can also have him visit groups, clubs, performance ensembles/companies, schools, Libraries and Universities with visiting workshops and residencies or for special projects. Very few mask makers teach all that they know and none as free of nonsense and dogma as silly/serious Jeff Semmerling.
You too can support this loony career by acquiring a mask of your own, or taking classes or bringing the Mad Master to teach, show his masks or perform in them with walk around masks and piuppets or his show "The Magic of Masks."
In Chicago? Come visit Art Side Out Studio & MASK SHOP. It is unique to the world.
Join his Famous Client List: Broadway's Lincoln Center Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, Disney's MGM Studios Theme Park, NBC Productions, The Florida Grande Opera, The Minnesota Opera, Mill City Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Lyric Opera, The Alley Theatre ~ Houston, Goodman Theatre ~ Chicago, New England Youth Theatre, New Canaan Summer Theatre, Filament Theatre, Famous Door Theatre, Ballet Arizona, Joel Hall Dancers, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Mr. Moo-Stach, Jane the Phoole, Dr. John, Harry Shearer, Katie Morgan, Evan Stone, Michael Trautman and many more...
Students from around the world come to his Chicago Store Front "Art Side Out Studio & MASK SHOP to learn Art & Mask Making from the Mad Master Mask Maker. There he teaches how to make Leather Masks in Weekend Intensive Workshops, After school and Day Off School for young artists, classes for Special Needs Therapies and more. You can also have him visit groups, clubs, performance ensembles/companies, schools, Libraries and Universities with visiting workshops and residencies or for special projects. Very few mask makers teach all that they know and none as free of nonsense and dogma as silly/serious Jeff Semmerling.
You too can support this loony career by acquiring a mask of your own, or taking classes or bringing the Mad Master to teach, show his masks or perform in them with walk around masks and piuppets or his show "The Magic of Masks."
In Chicago? Come visit Art Side Out Studio & MASK SHOP. It is unique to the world.
Join his Famous Client List: Broadway's Lincoln Center Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, Disney's MGM Studios Theme Park, NBC Productions, The Florida Grande Opera, The Minnesota Opera, Mill City Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Lyric Opera, The Alley Theatre ~ Houston, Goodman Theatre ~ Chicago, New England Youth Theatre, New Canaan Summer Theatre, Filament Theatre, Famous Door Theatre, Ballet Arizona, Joel Hall Dancers, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Mr. Moo-Stach, Jane the Phoole, Dr. John, Harry Shearer, Katie Morgan, Evan Stone, Michael Trautman and many more...
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Coming up...March, 2019 ~ Mardi Gras
March, 2019 ~ St. Patrick Day Parade, San Francisco April 2019 ~ Exxxotica, Chicago April 2019 ~ Union Street Easter Parade, San Francisco May 2019 ~ After School Classes Start May 2019 ~ International Mr. Leather, Leather Market, Congress Hotel/Gold Room, Chicago July & August 2019 ~ SUMMER ART CAMPS for Young Artists. Monday thru Friday 9 am to 2pm July 27 & 28 2019 ~ Shaping Leather Masks Weekend Intensive August 3 & 4m 2019 ~ Advanced Leather Mask Making Weekend Intensive September 2019 ~ Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco October 2019 ~ Castro Street Fair, San Fransisco ADVANCED LEATHER MASK MAKING ~ Art Classes ~ Custom Work ~ Catalog in our MASK SHOP |