To help promote Penn State's "Mask Up or Pack Up" campaign that encourages campus community members to wear a face mask, members of Penn State's School of Theatre were asked to create a special mask for the iconic Nittany Lion Shrine at the University Park campus.
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Penn State President Eric Barron applied a custom-made mask to the Nittany Lion Shrine during an event on Aug. 20 promoting Penn State's 'Mask Up' campaign.
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Charlene Gross, assistant professor of costume design in the Penn State School of Theatre, conducts a final fitting of the mask she created for the Nittany Lion Shrine on the University Park campus to help promote mask wearing.
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Amanda Ferg, draper in the Penn State School of Theatre, transitioned from sewing petticoats and corsets to cloth masks when PPE shortages impacted the campus community this past spring.
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The mask, which took one whole yard of polyester-blend fabric, is approximately twelve times the size of an average adult human’s mask.
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President Eric J. Barron was joined by student leaders Katie Solomon, THON executive director; Zachary McKay, UPUA president; Nora Van Horn, executive director of the Council of Sustainable Leaders; and Alex Zhao, Graduate and Professional Student Body president, to debut a mask on the Nittany Lion Shrine.
