Ralph Lee
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Released: March 18, 2010 00:00
If your family is wild about puppetry, then you won’t want to miss Puppets! Family Day: Design • Create • Perform at the Katonah Museum of Art on Sunday, May 16 from 12-4pm featuring special guests Theo, the bibliophile puppet of PBS’s Between the Lions and his creator, Peter Linz. Family Day is free for Museum members, $5 for individual non-members (ages 3 and up), and $15 for non-member families. There is a $2 materials fee for puppet making activities. For information call 914-232-9555, ext. 0 or visit www.katonahmuseum.org. Family Day has become a perennial favorite and the Museum will be bustling with performances, art activities, snacks, gallery games, and opportunities to meet prominent professional puppet designers, makers, and performers throughout the afternoon. Children can make their own rod puppets with museum educators who will lead puppet designing, creating, and performing activities. Join puppeteer Peter Linz and ...
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Released: January 12, 2010 00:00
What do you think of when you read the word “puppet”? The Katonah Museum of Art (www.katonahmuseum.org) will challenge your thoughts and preconceptions with the presentation of The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater opening February 28 and running in all three galleries through June 13, 2010. In every culture man has created stories and myths to explain the forces surrounding him and the fears, hopes and dreams he carries within. For centuries, masks and puppets have been used to add magic to the storyteller’s art. The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater will show that puppets are indeed more than children’s dolls, that within them can be found the illusion of life. They are symbolic mirrors in which we are startled and sometimes delighted to see ourselves reflected. The art of puppetry has been traced back as early as the 5th Century, BC, when figures operated by strings were employed in ancient Egyptian ceremonies. In ...
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