Ruth E. Carter is a veteran costume designer who has worked on over 40 films that include “Selma,” Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” “Malcom X” and Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad” and “Sinners.”
In 2019, she became the first African-American woman to win an Oscar for costume design for brilliantly capturing the elaborate and vibrant African patterns and designs on the award-winning film “Black Panther.”
Carter will join his year’s Oscar-Nominated Costume Designers for an intimate Conversation at the Egyptian Theatre for 16th Annual Sketch to Screen Costume Design Panel.
Presented by UCLA TFT’s David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design. she will join Oscar-nominated costume designers which include “Marty Supreme’s” Miyako Bellizzi, “Frankenstein’s” Kate Hawley, Deborah L. Scott, Deborah L. Scott of ” Avatar: Fire and Ash” and Malgosia Turzanska from “Hamnet to discuss their creative process.
Now in its 16th year, Sketch to Screen has become a celebrated Los Angeles tradition connecting Hollywood’s most acclaimed designers with the next generation of artists.
