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2025 Upcoming Events

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Jan 12 .................................... Building Shadow Puppets with Maisie, Workshop with the Greater Philadelphia Area Puppetry Guild

 

Feb 5 .....................................We Wiggle Dolls VIII Puppet Slam,  8pm @ Rubulad, Brooklyn, NY

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Feb 21, 22 ............................ Festival of Scrolling Panoramic Art, Confluence Center for Creative Arts, Confluence, PA

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Mar 17 .................................. Guest crankie performance and workshop with Dr. Honglan Huang, Haverford College

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Selected Past Opportunities

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2024            On the Cusp of Revolution, Meenakshi's Bday Fundraiser for families in Gaza @ Dahlak, West Philadelphia

Community Fair @ Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia

Collaborating visual artist / live overhead projections for The Conditions, by Lucy M. May

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Montréal arts interculturels, Montréal, Québec

PHL PuppetPalooza supporting and welcoming Asheville, NC's TOYBOX THEATRE @ The Deep End Studios​

International Puppet Slam in NYC, Presented by the Puppet Slam Network and Green Feather Foundation @ Dixon Place

In-Process Salon with the Philadelphia Animation Ensemble, presented by cinéSPEAK @ Making Worlds Books, West Philly

Arts After Dark Crankie Festival 2024, co-coordinator and emcee @ Historic Smithville Park, Eastampton NJ,

Palabras, Poppies, and Poetry: a Tribute to Palestinian Resistance, Malcom X Park, West Philly. please read and support

Magic Lantern Festival @ Burlington County NJ Lyceum of History and Natural Science

Family Festival: Creature Features @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Ever So Lonely / Eyes / Ocean music video in collaboration with Gingger Shankar, Charlotte Qamaniq, and Amy Lee Ketchum

Crankies with The Lantern Sisters, @ Studio 34. Katherine Fahey & Dan Van Allen, with Elizabeth LaPrelle and Maisie O'Brien 

DORAN @ Studio 34. Elizabeth LaPrelle, Brian Dolphin, Annie Schermer & Channing Showalter with Maisie O'Brien

Guest shadow theater lecturer and workshop instructor with Jacinta Yelland, Temple University

Festival of Scrolling Panoramic Art, Confluence Center for Creative Arts, Confluence, PA

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2023            Ithaca Crankie Cabaret, presented by LilyPad Puppet Theatre, Ithaca, NY

Show of Hands Puppet Festival, with shadow puppetry workshop, presented by Visionaries + Voices, Cincinnati, OH (remote)

Arts After Dark Crankie Festival 2023, co-coordinator and emcee, Historic Smithville Park, NJ

Spirit-Rider & Night Heart, Summer & Fall tour– a music and shadow show created and performed with Georgia Beatty, 

Minneapolis Crankie Festival, Minneapolis, MN, (remote)

National Puppetry Festival, College Park, University of Maryland, MD

Festival of Scrolling Panoramic Art, Confluence Center for Creative Arts, Confluence, PA

The Environment is Generational, shadow short film and workshop series in partnership with Camden FireWorks, NJ

Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Cabaret with the 2023 Chicago International Puppet Festival, Chicago, IL (virtual screening)

 

2022            Meadow Fest, crankie performer opening for the Save the Meadows and Stop Cop City campaigns, FDR Park, Philadelphia, PA

Goldenrod Worship: In Situ Polyculture Beta Residency in natural dyes and pigments, Saxtons River, VT

Mother Water (Mami Wata) short film pilot, shadow puppetry and design, written and directed by Brittany Clemons

Baltimore Crankie Fest 2022, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

Puppet Slamwich at Black Cherry Puppet Theater Baltimore, MD

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2021             CARE: Access, highlighting the role of caregivers in the pandemic, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA

319 Artist in residence at Grizzly Grizzly gallery, Vox Building, Philadelphia, PA

O'Neill National Puppetry Conference, "Making Manual Cinema" strand attendee, O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT (remote)

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2020            Virtual Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam, presented by Katy Williams Design with Theatrical Response Team, Denver, CO (online)

Virtual Slam Extravaganza, presented by Puppet Showplace Theater, Brookline, MA (online)

International Toy Theater Festival Day #5, presented by Great Small Works, Brooklyn, NY (online)

The Codex Project, Works on Paper Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 

2019            Artist in residence at Officina Stamperia del Notaio, printshop and studio residency, Tusa, Sicily, Italy

 

2018            Bread and Puppet Theatre Summer Apprenticeship, Grasshopper Rebellion Circus & Out of Joint Hamlet, Glover, VT

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2015            Independent art and puppetry absorption abroad,  Penn. Academy of Fine Arts Women's Board Travel Scholarship

(A backpacker's quest for art and puppets throughout Germany, France, Scotland, and England) 

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