The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry presents the grand opening of "The Work That Follows: 50 Years of UConn Puppeteers" on Saturday, July 11 at 2 p.m. at the Ballard Institute, located at 1 Royce Circle in Storrs, Connecticut. The opening events will include two afternoon performances by UConn Puppet Arts alumna Anna Fitzgerald and current MFA student Gavin Cummins at 1 and 3 p.m., and an evening UConn Puppet Arts Alumni Puppet Slam at 8 p.m.
For 50 years, puppeteers have passed through UConn’s unique Puppet Arts Program to study the skills and techniques of imagining, designing, building, and performing new works for puppetry. Though the basic skills of puppetry taught at UConn are perpetually consistent, the work that follows graduation is specific to the hands that created it. "The Work That Follows," curated by Anna Fitzgerald (MFA ’14), highlights the work of Puppet Arts Program alumni, and how these puppet artists have incorporated their own distinctive perspective with skills learned at UConn. The exhibition features puppets and objects created for live performance, film, and video; as well as photographs and video documentation of performances. â�¯
For more information, contact: Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at (860)486-8580 or bimp@uconn.edu