Special Events and Receptions

  • 5/28 Benton Reception for Bread & Puppet Exhibition

    THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART invites you to
    a PREVIEW OPENING RECEPTION
    for SPEAK UP! SPEAK OUT! BREAD & PUPPET THEATER

    Thursday, May 28, from 4:30 to 7 pm

    The Benton is pleased to be collaborating with the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry to present this exhibition of puppets ranging in height up to 20 feet, masks, paintings, and other works from Peter Schumann’s Bread & Puppet Theater, which has left an indelible stamp on the world of theater and the American cultural landscape over the past half century.  

    The exhibition focuses on Bread & Puppet’s activist responses to fundamental political and social issues that have defined American culture over the past 50 years, including the war in Vietnam; Central American turmoil and Liberation Theology; the politics of black liberation as represented by the Attica prison uprising and the M.O.V.E. family in Philadelphia; opposition to nuclear weapons and nuclear power; and the war in Iraq. 

    SPEAK UP! SPEAK OUT! will remain up through October 11.

    THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART
    University of Connecticut
    School of Fine Arts
    245 Glenbrook Road
    Storrs, CT

    www.benton.uconn.edu

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    For more information, contact: The Benton at 860-486-4520