Colleen Atwood

Coleen Atwood is an award-winning costume designer. She has won Academy Awards for her work on "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Chicago." In 2008 she founded the Design Center to Promote Design in the Arts Center at Penn, New York, with the intent of opening in the very near future with a focus on visual design/design in education for younger generations through a global program of education that combines computer-assisted design/design, teaching and workshops. She holds BA in Architecture from the School of Art and Design from...

• Born: ( 1948-09-25) September 25, 1948 (age 72) Yakima, Washington, U.S.
• Alma mater: Cornish College of the Arts
• Occupation: Costume designer
• Years active: 1981–present
• Children: 2