The artists of tomorrow need our support today!

Dear friend,

As I write this, Puppet Showplace is preparing to announce the 5th cohort of our Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers (CRBP). Now led by two CRBP alumni, Ash Winkfield and Tanya Nixon-Silberg, joined this year by Charlotte Lily Gaspard of Midnight Radio Show, this program is expanding from two months to six months so that we can offer more support, mentorship, and community-building to support early-stage works by Black artists.

I am so excited to be celebrating the 5th anniversary of this Creative Residency this year! For many years before I became the director here, I have been moved by Puppet Showplace's long-standing commitment to nurturing the next generation of talented, diverse, creative puppeteers. But, to give these artists the support they need, we need your help.

Will you support next year’s Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers with your year-end gift today?

Each artist receives a $1,000 mini-grant to support their work, and your contribution makes it possible.

CRBP alums are blossoming: 

• Dey Hernández was recently on stage at ArtsEmerson, premiering On the Eve of Abolition, a visually stunning work imagining the end of incarceration

• Anthony Michael Stokes premiered at the La MaMa Puppetry Festival

• Nehprii Amenii’s HUMAN debuted at the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts in a production that ARTS ATL called “a lush immersive experience” and “deep with otherworldly beauty”

• Ash Winkfield directed The Harlem Doll Palace at Dixon Place in NYC

What better time to envision and invest in the future we want to see?

I hope you’ll join me in supporting these revolutionary artists by making your year-end gift today.