Mask Arts Company

Custom Masks and Props

Working with leather and other materials I can create many things.

If you have a need or idea of something special for me to create, e-mail me or give me a call.

These are some of the interesting custom order masks and props I have created for private clients:

A leather Top Hat for high wire walker Philippe Petit, a strange full-headed mask for a private client, a doctor's black plague mask for Patch Adams, pig snout mask for a private client, custom mask for international magician Jeff McGride, and a mask for the cover of the book for best-selling author Jeffery Deaver, The Vanished Man.

Philippe Petit performing in Washington
Square Park in New York City with the Top 
Hat I created for him in 1983.  He 
collected many dollars in that hat.

Philippe crossed World Trade Center 
buildings on the high-wire in the 70's.

"I have been street-juggling on five continents for the past 19 years and all that time I had trouble with my top hats: too light, too heavy, too fragile…I tried making them out of cardboard, papier-mâché, celastic, even fiberglass, until I decided that leather was the solution.

And until I met Artist-Craftsman Stanley Sherman, who succeeded in manufacturing to my specifications-out of one hide, without cuts or seams--- the perfect top hat."

Philippe Petit / High-wire walker and street-juggler. NYC 1983

Jeffery Deaver

book cover

The Vanished Man

These types of masks I usually do not make. But I created this mask for the book cover.

They were looking all over the world for an off-the-shelf mask and could not find it.

They ended up commissioning me for this one-of-a-kind mask.

Getting all those shapes just in the right place to work together and give the right feeling was a fun challenge.

The world famous and funny healer, Patch Adams, MD called me one day and ordered a doctor's mask similar to the masks they wore during the black plague of Europe in the 1500's and 1600's.

The nose of the mask is stuffed with flowers to filter out the smell of the dead.

Patch Adams tours the world brings healing through laughter. I highly suggest you go to his wonderful web site and learn what great healing is. You can also learn about participating in his clowning, healing adventures and supporting his work.

http://www.patchadams.org/home.htm

I will sell copies of this mask designed for Patch Adams and 20 percent of the price of the mask will go to Patch Adams organizations to support healing through laughter and his free hospital.

This mask I sculpted from photographs of a very religious groups late Rabbi. This is a neoprene mask that was a very quick job and finished this year.

Outlandish, strange, difficult, wonderful, historic, imaginative things to create are my specialty.