Please take some time and stop in and meet the staff and listen to their story and look at the puppets. The heads the kids get to paint are from that storage lot and over 50 years old, it is awe inspiring that the kids are still enamored with it. October’s performance is A Halloween Marionette Musical.
With new performances each month, it is an ever changing adventure you need to check out. When they closed down, all their leftover stock went into storage and sat until the 1980s when this organization found it and began the process to open this studio. As it states, Puppetry Arts Institute’s mission is to preserve and promote puppetry through education and entertainment for all ages - which it certainly seems to be doing. The history of puppetry is amazing and a little known gem that KC was home to one of the biggest puppet factories in the country in the 1930s- 1950s. They were very knowledgable and kept the kids entertained and laughing. Puppetry distinguishes itself from other arts as an artistic discipline in. They we’re vary patient and engaged with the kids. In honour of its founder, Margareta Niculescu, ESNAM now bears her name (Sept.
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In 1952, to honour the memory and contributions of Paul McPharlin, his family donated 274 puppets to the Detroit Institute of Arts (This collection now includes over 1,000 puppets, plus many props, backdrops, stages, and puppet heads. I can’ tasty enough about Bill, Diane and Anitra were amazing. American museum in Detroit, Michigan, with a significant puppet collection. They had old button down shirts for the kids to wear to keep paint off their clothing. You bring your own refreshments and they provide a party/gathering room and then there is the work room. If you are around kids at all, that is amazing. These are the «hand up the glove» style puppets, but the kids LOVED IT! 8 six year old boys, two six year old girls and one eight year old girl (bday boy’s big sis) were quiet, involved and very complimentary to each other about their puppets for an hour. They pick a plastic/rubber head, paint it and pick an outfit. Each child gets to make a puppet and take it home. I was skeptical at first, but for only $ 7 a child I was willing to try. My 6 year old son had his «friends» birthday party here today.
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