7/13/2023 0 Comments Baltimore shadow puppetrywill present a portfolio exhibition of plaster face casts they made of themselves, papier måché portrait mask, worbla exaggerated portrait masks and leather Domino and Commedia masks. On Thursday, May 6, Mask Fabrication s tudents instructed by Professor Bart. The performances are recommended for mature audiences. These presentations will take place on Ballard Institute Facebook Live ( /BallardInstitute/) and will be available afterwards on the Ballard Institute Facebook page and YouTube Channel ( /channel/UC3VSthEDnYS6ZjOwzT1DnTg). The UConn Puppet Arts Program and Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will host end-of-semester presentations of UConn Puppet Arts undergraduate and graduate work on Thursday, May 6 and Friday, May 7. Posted in Current Exhibitions, Events, Featured, News Spring 2021 UConn Puppet Arts Program Final Presentations, 5/6 and 5/7 Visitors may also reserve a time slot by calling 860.486.8580 on Fridays and Saturdays. To learn more about the Ballard Institute’s COVID-19 protocols and to reserve a time slot, visit: /about/covid-policies/. Please note that restrooms and water fountains are closed to the public. Hand sanitizer is available throughout the museum and staff clean high-touch surfaces once per hour. Face masks are required at all times when visiting the museum for ages two and up. Only one group of up to 6 visitors from a family or quarantine unit will be allowed in the museum at a time during each time slot. She has taught in the fields of theater and fine arts at the University of Roehampton, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Kent.ĭue to restrictions and safety precautions related to COVID-19, the museum will reopen on May 28 on Fridays and Saturdays only from 10 a.m. As a puppet maker she has participated in numerous projects, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Little Angel Theatre’s co-production of Venus and Adonis (2004). In 2017 she edited a special issue of Puppet Notebook on Shakespeare and puppets and was a researcher in residence at the Institut International de la Marionnette (IIM) in Charleville-Mézières, France to lay the ground for a book on Shakespeare and puppetry. Her writings have appeared in Performance Research, Artpress 2, Asian Theatre Journal, and Contemporary Theatre Review. Jungmin Song completed a practice-as-research PhD titled Animating Everyday Objects in Performance at the University of Roehampton in 2014. This exhibition is supported in part by a UConn School of Fine Arts Anti-Racism Grant.ĭr. Exhibiting puppets from the past in the here-and-now of Puppetry’s Racial Reckoning provides an opportunity to learn from past misrepresentations, consider the extent to which such negative images remain in circulation, contribute to the fight against systemic racism, and discuss possibilities for a more inclusive future. Puppets from Asia representing different races and ethnicities offer viewers an understanding of race and racism in wider global contexts. Historical puppets from the Ballard Institute’s collections are juxtaposed with work by contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Alva Rogers, Michael Richardson, Kimi Maeda, Akbar Imhotep, and Garland Farwell. The exhibition examines fantasies of the East and misrepresentations of African Americans used in puppetry in relation to social and cultural constructions of race, and asks how fabricated differences affect the actual lives of people. Puppetry’s Racial Reckoning aims to foster conversation and understanding about the complexities of race, prejudice, stereotypes, and systemic racism by presenting puppets from around the world. The exhibition will be on display through Oct. A virtual tour will air on Ballard Institute Facebook Live on Friday, at 5 p.m. Jungmin Song, along with the re-opening of a redesigned World of Puppetry: From the Collections of the Ballard Institute exhibition, on Friday, May 28, 2021, by reservation only at the Ballard Institute, located at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs. The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will present the grand opening of its new exhibition Puppetry’s Racial Reckoning, curated by Dr.
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