Imagine a world where everything is capable of coming to life, with you as the creator!
Puppet Arts is a multi-disciplinary art form, involving aspects of acting, sculpting, scenography, directing, creative writing, and storytelling. Students of the discipline explore the relationship between and among people and things; grapple with the artistic conventions and established performance modes for gifting inanimate objects with the appearance of life; and work to find their own artistic voices. Puppetry has been taught at UConn since 1962; our BFA, MA, and MFA degrees in Puppet Arts are recognized world-wide for their excellence.
The newly-inaugurated Minor in Puppet Arts welcomes applications from students from all academic backgrounds and trajectories who wish to enrich and enhance their education through studying the traditions and contemporary practices of puppetry.
We hope to welcome aspiring teachers aiming to formulate and deliver lessons through puppet shows; future nurses and social workers see value in engaging with patients and clients through friendly and approachable puppets; film animators who desire also to animate puppets in live performances they script, design, build, and perform; aspiring public historians intending to use puppets to explain complex historical ideas; creative writers desiring to see their stories come to vivid life before their eyes; engineers and sculptors capable of imagining their handiwork as living beings with personalities. The possibilities really are endless!
For further information on how to start studying in the Minor in Puppet Arts in Fall 2021, see https://drama.uconn.edu/puppet-arts-minor/.
For more information, contact: Nisha Joshee Hardnett at nisha.hardnett@uconn.edu