All funds raised go to the guild's scholarship fund. He makes all of his own characters and has presented on puppet design and construction at many puppetry festivals including Puppet Gumbo 2008, Port City Puppet Festival 2010, Great Regional Puppet Festival 2016, Great Plains Puppet Train 2018, and the 2009, 2011, and 2013 National Puppetry Festivals.Ĭost: $10 donation to the puppetry guild suggested, but pay what you can. Kevin is a part-time professional puppeteer and puppet builder who has been performing throughout the southeast since 2003. The presentation will begin with a short demonstration of some of Kevin's favorite creations and a look around his home puppetry workshop A gallery of Kevin's characters can be found on his website at providing a sense of the design styles that will be presented. We will cover the full process from initial design to acquiring tools and supplies to building each component of the character and fitting it all together. Learn how to build fabric-sculpture characters in many forms including body puppets and mascot characters, hand-and-rod puppets, rod puppets, glove puppets, and even marionettes. ** See her Folkmanis Firefly puppet.Save the Date! Join Atlanta area puppeteer and puppet builder Kevin Pittman on Sunday, October 3rd at 2 PM for an online two-and-a-half hour workshop on Fabric Sculpture Puppet Construction with a bonus tour of his workshop and puppet creations. Subscribe to the Puppet Happenings Newsletter and receive a weekly email of Puppet Happenings. ** Her puppets from The Firebird were seen in April 2013 in the closing ceremonial march for the LA Puppet Fest. Natural History Museum was at the opening day of the LA Puppet Festival at the Skirball. ** Her marionette Nibbles, the Saber-tooth kitten built for the L.A. ** Excerpts from The Firebird were featured at the Day of Puppetry at the LA Skirball Museum! Rocked the Hollywood Fringe Festival! Wondering what you missed out on? The Cliffs Notes version: Rudolph is born at the North Pole, with a nose that lights up traffic-light red. ** The Devil and Robin busked at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival playin’ some fiddle tunes! Dive Hand First: Foam & Fleece Puppet Building Online Workshop. A roving puppeteer greets Center for Puppetry Arts museum guests as they enter the Christmas Town area that includes the Rudolph show and exhibit and cheery holiday decorations. ** Her in-progress show, Forgotten Baggage, received a 2016 Henson Foundation Workshop Grant! Will have work in progress performances at the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival!Įxcerpts from her Firebird show were at Skirball’s Day of Puppetry on April 17th. (Yes, this is the bit where the singer gets whapped in the head.)įorgotten Baggage, Stories from the Willard Suitcases Watch Robin’s Dance Silks in action on the 89th Academy Awards! Just opened - I was puppet Designer for an amazing semi-staged “Magic Flute” with Director Rober Neu. She is glad to have a chance to share that magical moment whenever she can. For her, the greatest joy is experiencing that moment when bits of cloth, wood and string truly come to life for an audience. Following in the footsteps of master puppeteer Albrecht Roser, Robin Walsh seeks to take puppetry beyond the realm of children’s entertainment and return it to the multi-faceted, modern audiences of today. Puppetry is an ancient art that has a deep-seated appeal to audiences of all ages. She is currently Head of Puppets at Screen Novelties, a stop motion studio. She’ worked with her hero, Ray Harryhausen, on his last film and got to decapitate the real Rudolph puppet from the Rankin/Bass classic. Her many studies with world renowned puppeteer Albrecht Roser have opened up a whole new way of looking at and working with puppets, and is happy to join his constant search for Puppet Zen. She also designed, directed and performed two original puppet ballets with the Stanford University Orchestra, Stravinsky’s Firebird and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, as well as Rebel’s The Elements for the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. She’s a recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant, and performed her work at last year’s Henson’s Puppets for Puppetry benefit as well as at the O’Neill Theatre Center. The post Rudolph comes to life at the Center for Puppetry Arts appeared. She’s worked in film, (Team America: World Police, Men In Black), television (SpongeBob, Family Guy) and stage. The Center for Puppetry Arts Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer performances offer a unique way to bring Christmas joy to life. Her work has been seen around the world, from here in L.A. She has built, designed and performed everything from dance silks and sock puppets for the Oscars to Hollywood movie monsters. Robin Walsh discovered puppets on her first day of college, and has never looked back.
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