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Shadow Puppet Workshop
May 21, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$25
Join installation and sculpture artist Jeanne Jaffe, currently exhibiting in our Front Room Gallery, for a workshop exploring Shadow Puppets.
Workshop attendees will learn the history of shadow puppetry, how it’s used in contemporary art, and how to make & manipulate paper puppets. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any drawings, photographs, magazine clippings, etc. that inspire you.
You will go home with a puppet and the skills to create your own!
This class is for ages 18+
Jeanne Jaffe is a multi-disciplinary artist who is Professor Emeritus in Multi-disciplinary Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, a visiting artist/professor at Xian Academy of Fine Arts in China each fall and the coordinator of International Projects at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts. Ms. Jaffe is the recipient of fellowship grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Mid Atlantic/NEA, Mino Artist Residency in Japan, the Leeway Foundation and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation among many others. Works by Ms. Jaffe were reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, and exhibited both nationally and internationally.
More information about Jeanne Jaffe’s Exhibition at Arts Warehouse can be found here
