Sometimes it’s a talking white rabbit, and sometimes it’s a disaster victim. When you’re a costume designer, you can never be sure who you’ll be asked to dress next.

This sort of challenge is part of what drew Mallory Prucha to the field. The resident faculty in costume design and Costume Shop supervisor at Mesa Community College started out as a traditional artist, but liked the interdisciplinary quality of costuming.

During her time at UNL, Prucha says she met several students who had come there from MCC.

“I wondered what they were putting in the water out there,” she says. “They were the best trained, the most inquisitive.” So she jumped at the opportunity to join MCC’s faculty, and has been in the Valley for three years now.

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