"Over the Top" with Barbara Schoenoff

The Use of Design, Mixing of Prints 

and Color with 

Barbara Schoenoff

a Designer that knows how to take it "Over the Top" 

with Style and Sophistication

Barbara Schoenoff is a costume and art doll designer that expresses a great deal of enthusiasm through the use of style, posture and color.  

Barbara's art work is very powerful in both fashion and figurative design.  She has earned her Master of Fine Arts from Northwestern University in Costume Design and her work shows off her extensive skills. Put together the century old fashion designs with current fabrics, products and techniques her work is quite unique. Barbara’s figures often express the fashions of the past centuries with a twist. When she designs she doesn’t leave any process on the cutting room floor.  Barbara goes all out; every little detail is “Over the Top”. 

She is detailed from top to bottom.  Her teaching expertise in face sculpting and painting will give you hands on experience learning how to inject a personality.  When it comes to clothing she can match any plaid with a print, stripe, bold colors and adding trims to really give her fashions a fun feel.  The amazing part of Barbara’s fabrication it is just right, not too much and that is saying a lot because there is a bunch of techniques and color going on in Barbara’s work.  I love surprises and her work fills the air with amazing work.

If you are interested in her classes, visit the conference website at

Barbara Schoenoff has taught and/or designed at universities in the East and Midwest as well as Interlochen Arts Camp. Adding to these impressive credits she has done costume design for over one hundred theatrical production.  You can get a sense of her design strengths when you realize some of the many stages her work has graced; A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Oliver. 

It is no surprise that her detailed Steampunk class Amanda Cogsley-Smyth offered at Artistic Figures In Cloth and Clay filled up with in the first months of the convention application process.  She still has room in a one day class offering Bon Bon’s a workshop full of technique and whimsy.  If you are interested in seeing these class offerings and more on 
Barbara visit the convention site at CLICK HERE