Saskia Martínez

PROPERTIES / VISUAL ARTS

The Public Theater

Properties Intern

Painted and distressed props and set dressing and dressed downstage area with water bottles and greenery for Coriolanus. Built and painted puppets for Hercules.

Props Supervisor: Sara Swanberg • Resident Properties Master: R. Jay Duckworth • Associate Props Supervisor: Rebecca David • Asst. Props Master, Coriolanus: Alexander Wylie • Puppet Master, Hercules: James Ortiz

Production Photos: Joan Marcus

SHakespeare in the park: COriolanus

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Painted/distressed cans, did notes/touch ups on water barrel

Painted/distressed cans, did notes/touch ups on water barrel

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Public Works: Hercules

Hydra head pieces (photo: Katie Pyzowski)

Hydra head pieces (photo: Katie Pyzowski)

Hydra head in progress (photo: Katie Pyzowski)

Hydra head in progress (photo: Katie Pyzowski)

Hydra body

Hydra body

Hydra heads and bodies assembled (photo: Katie Pyzowski)

Hydra heads and bodies assembled (photo: Katie Pyzowski)

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Cabaret

Prop Master

Co-Prop Master: Jillian Tone

Music by John Kander • Lyrics by Fred Ebb • Book by Joe Masterof

Director: McCaela Donovan • Music Direction: Catherine Stornetta • Choreography: Olivia Tennison

Scenic Design: Afsoon Pajofar • Lighting Design: Marcy Barbeau • Costume Design: Samantha Garwood • Sound Design Aubrey Dube

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  • Maintained paperwork and budgeting for over 700 props and set dressing of audience areas and entries

  • Did dramaturgical and image research on props and set-dressing

  • Designed paper props

  • Sourced 93 chairs for audience seating for $50 rental cost

  • Sampled and charged prop paint treatments

  • Set-dressed onstage dressing room platform

Fireplace Area: Cliff's Apartment

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Run crew as (candy) cigarette girl & coat check staff

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Antigone

Prop Master

Co-Prop Master: Elizabeth Pattyn

Adapted by Jeremy Sams from the play by Jean Anouilh

Director: Jim Petosa

Scenic Design: Lindsay Fuori • Lighting Design: Aja Jackson • Costume Design: AJ Jones • Sound Design: Stephanie Yackovetsky

Guards carrying metal staff (above) & sample of metal finish on wooden dowel (right)

Guards carrying metal staff (above) & sample of metal finish on wooden dowel (right)

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Bodybag props

Bodybag props

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12' pit into which bodybags were thrown

12' pit into which bodybags were thrown


The War Reporter

Props Master

Boston University Fringe Festival Opera, 2017

Stage Direction by Jim Petosa • Conducted by William Lumpkin

Composed by Jonathan Berger • Libretto by Dan O'Brien

Scenic Design by Michelle Sparks • Lighting Design by Matthew Rogers • Costume Design by Lauren Reuter

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Chair Props

Painted with black semigloss in a pneumatic gun

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Crotales (Pulitzer Prize Medals)

Painted CDs with wooden knob and dyed gray ribbon

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Instrumental Props

Borrowed instruments from BU School of Music

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Visual Arts

2016-2022

Fabric StudyGraphite, from photo

Fabric Study

Graphite, from photo

De Bijenkorf (department store in Amsterdam, the Netherlands)Graphite, from photo

De Bijenkorf (department store in Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Graphite, from photo

Ball JarGraphite, from photo

Ball Jar

Graphite

Stearns Road, Storrs, CTPen and ink, from photo

Stearns Road, Storrs, CT

Pen and ink

Street Scene

Pen, from photo

Commission piece-view from clients’ former apartment window

Acrylic

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, interiorGraphite, from life

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, interior

Graphite

Pointe ShoesWatercolor, from photo

Pointe Shoes

Watercolor, from photo

Architectural Ornament Study

Graphite, from photo

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exteriorGraphite, from life

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exterior

Graphite

MoldingGraphite, from sketch

Molding

Graphite, from sketch

Clarinet ligatureChalk pastel and charcoal, from life

Clarinet ligature

Chalk pastel and charcoal

Costume Design Renderings

The Lady Aoi by Yukio Mishima

Costume Design 2: 2020

THe Respectful Prostitute by Jean Paul Sartre

Costume Design 1: 2017

THe Maids by Jean Genet

Costume Design 1: 2017


Jewelry

2015

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Pitcher Necklace

Nickel Silver and Bronze

Photos by Mira Gordin

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Stone Set Rings

Lapis Lazuli in Bronze (left) and Nickel Silver with Ball-Peen Texturing (right)

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"Light" Ring

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Copper with Hammered Inscription

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Ceramics

2015-2016

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Pitcher Project

Pitcher Project

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Pitcher Project

Pitcher Project

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Geometric Teapot

Geometric Teapot

Udu Drum pre-firing (burnished terra sigillata finish)

Udu Drum pre-firing (burnished terra sigillata finish)

Udu DrumAwarded Connecticut Scholastic Art Awards Gold Key

Udu Drum

Awarded Connecticut Scholastic Art Awards Gold Key