On July 23rd and 24th, 2006, I performed my short marionette dance piece, Rango Tango, in the Dina Merrill Theater at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. The performance was part the 2006 National Puppetry Conference where I worked with marionettist, Phillip Huber who choreographed the piece. Funding for my time at the O’Neill was made possible with funding the Kevin Clash Minority Scholarship.
In June 2006, I was the recipient of the Emerging Kevin Clash Minority Scholarship to participate in the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. While at the conference I was mentored by marionettist, Phillip Huber, who directed choreography for Rango Tango, which I performed in the Dina Merril Theater and later at the the Revolving Museum in Lowel, MA.
On April 13th, 2006, The Guilford Courier ran a piece on Art In Motion: Invitational Exhibition of Puppets, which covered Birthday Trauma, an installation of puppets and objects from Growing Up Linda.
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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.
Continue reading “PuppetSlam.com – soft launch”In May 2005, I was a guest teaching artist-in-residence at Oakland Beach Elementary School in Rhode Island working with grades 1, 3, and 6. Lead artist-in-residence, Amy Lynn Budd, had students create a performance response to the film, Yellow Submarine. I came into the class room a handful of times to assist with mask work and puppetry and aspects of the project (both construction and performance).
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On November th, 2004, I presented my artist-talk at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI to Petra Kuppers’s Medical Visions/Medical Performances class.
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December 1st-3rd, 2002, my puppet portraits were shown at the Harm Reduction Art Room, curated by Dopesick SF as part of the the Harm Reduction Coalition Conference at the Sheridan Seattle Hotel.
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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 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.
From September 1994-May 1996, I was the recipient of a Merit Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where I was pursuing my undergraduate degree in Studio Art. 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.