In the spirit of the NATIONAL PUPPETRY FESTIVAL, take a break and come see SPEAK UP! SPEAK OUT!, a retrospective exhibition of fifty years of masterful protest puppets from Bread & Puppet Theater of Glover, Vermont.
Bread & Puppet was founded in New York City's Lower East Side during the 1960s by Peter Schumann, a Silesian-born sculptor and choreographer, whose style has been described as a prodigious mix of Romanesque, German Expressionism, Cycladic Minimalism, and Potato-Nose Naturalism. Made largely from found materials, the puppets are activist responses to fundamental political and social issues that have defined American culture, 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.
The William Benton Museum of Art is open from 10 am to 5 pm TODAY through Saturday, August 15.
The National Puppetry Festival 2015 is presented by the Puppeteers of America, Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, UConn School of Fine Arts, and UConn Puppet Arts.
ALSO ON EXHIBITION at the Benton
Remembering the Vietnam War
The Best of the Benton
THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART
University of Connecticut
The School of Fine Arts
245 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT
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