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Kingsbury goes from designing costumes to designing masks

Nashville news reports on June Kingsbury coordinating volunteers to sew masks for health care workers.

Janel Shoun-Smith | 615.966.7078 | 

June Kingsbury sewing outside by an ironing board

June Kingsbury, costume designer and shop manager in Lipscomb’s George Shinn College of Entertainment & the Arts and a local freelance costume designer in Nashville for 22 years, became the subject of local press after she started a Facebook group called MedThreads Volunteers Nashville and organized locals to make masks for local health care professionals.

"It provides a feeling of hope, a feeling of not being powerless and a feeling of an ability to make a difference to protect those people who are doing something to protect and take care of us," Kingsbury told NewsChannel 5.
 

June Kingsbury working in the costume shop

 

See below for links to the news stories from local media:

Nashville Scene


Tennessean


NewsChannel 5