Our relationship with puppets goes back both through our earliest memories and our human history. From the earliest dolls to the most complex marionettes, from the classroom curriculum to television programming, from animating an object to the digital armatures of virtual reality, we find our gestures and expression channeled through puppets.
But what is it, exactly, that we are doing when we pick up, move, and talk through an object that is not us? And what is it about this that so captivates our attention? This exhibit asks us—by taking up and playing with the gestures of puppeting—to reflect on what is educative about puppets, and what puppets themselves might teach us about education.
Interactive Image with Hover Effects and Logos
Exhibit
Explore, build, and move puppets
in DFI’s Puppets in education exhibit.
October 3 - November 28
Open Monday-Thursday 9-5pm
& Friday by appointment
DFI Gallery, Russell Hall 5th floor
Reception and Artist Talk
Artist Polina Porras,
creator of El Museo del Barrio’s
Three Kings puppets, explores
puppetry in community storytelling
and cultural education. This talk
interrogates the official opening
of the Puppets in education exhibit.