As the NATIONAL PUPPETRY FESTIVAL continues on campus this week, we hope you'll come see SPEAK UP! SPEAK OUT!, an incredible retrospective 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.
And while you're here, be sure to see these exhibitions:
• Remembering the Vietnam War (Saturday the 15th is the last day to see this exhibition.)
• The Best of the Benton — including works by Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ellen Emmet Rand, Maurice Prendergast, Fairfield Porter and more!
Special museum hours this week: 10 am to 5 pm TODAY through Saturday, August 15.
The museum will be closed August 16 through 31, reopening September 1.
THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART
University of Connecticut
The School of Fine Arts
245 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT
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