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Mascot Restoration: A Q&A With Dale Morton By Ed Avis
Editor’s Note: Dale Morton, owner of Dale Morton Studio Mascot Costumes in Hurricane, West Virginia, will be presenting a session on mascot restoration at the 2019 NCA Conference. In this interview, Dale discusses his business and what he will teach NCA members during his presentation.
do that. The more pieces we would make the better we got at it. I was also involved in theater, doing the make-up prostheses, and I would get my makeup supplies from a costume shop in Huntington [West Virginia] called Magic Makers. I would show them pictures of my masks and so forth, and the more
The Costumer: How did you got involved in mascot design and creation?
I would go in there, the more I got to know them. Eventually they asked to me to come work for them as a mascot sculptor. I worked for them for a couple of years and really taught myself how to do it by experimenting with different materials and molds and things. Then in the mid-‘90s I went back to school and did some other things for a while, but in 2000 I decided to make
Dale Morton: Through most of my youth I was interested in costumes and artwork. Me and my friends would make Star Trek and Star Wars costumes. After high school, we got interested in masks and makeup, and taught ourselves how to M AY 2 0 1 9
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