On March 9th, 2006 I launched Puppetslam.com, a website that cataloged, connected, supported, and generated awareness for adult evenings of short-form puppetry and what would evolve into the Puppet Slam Network over the next decade.
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On November 19th, 2004, I curated and hosted Blood from a Turnip, Rhode Island’s only late night puppet salon, with Vanessa Gilbert at Perishable Theatre in downtown Providence. The evening, featured short-form live puppetry for adults, including performances by Bonnie Duncan, Liz Joyce and Tim Lagasse, Jenine Bressner, and Marya Errin Jones.
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In May 2001, I graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with a BFA in Studio Art. At the graduation ceremony, DJ Spooky was a featured speaker and was awarded an honorary degree. While at SAIC, my focus was in Transdisciplinary Studies with a concentration on performance and puppetry.
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On Friday, June 23rd, 2000, I performed Puppet Runway at the Columbus Drive Performance Space at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the culmination of their summer Puppetry Institute. Assisting me with puppeteering in these performances was Maya Press. Later in 2002, I performed Puppet Runway at Perishable theater in Providence, RI
In 1998, I choreographed and performed a movement piece inspired by William S. Burroughs’s Apocalypse at Big Chicks in Chicago, as part of Feast of Fools, a cabaret hosted by Fausto Ferños with the Chicago Radical Faerie Circle.
On April 17th, 1997, I performed The King of Pop’s New Clothes in the Columbus Drive Performance Space at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In King of Pop’s New Clothes, a reclusive pops star’s drug-fueled attempts at being loved through personal reinvention go horribly wrong when his public and private lives collide. The King of Pop’s New Clothes existed as both a live performance with projected video art and as a video art piece that screened at Randolph Street Gallery.
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In 1996, I was the recipient of the Art of Leadership award at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where I was pursuing my BFA in studio arts. At SAIC, I studied a broad range of art including performance, puppetry, video art, sound art, site-specific installation, photography (analogue and digital), sculpture, drawing, painting, creative writing, and art history, theory, and criticism.