Thursday, December 8, 2011

Celebrating Frank Ballard's Birthday at BIMP

Bart Roccoberton, Richard Termine, and Tom Cariello form a panel discussion of Frank's work and the history of the puppetry program at UCONN.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Scarf Marionettes!

Professor Bart Roccoberton teaches scarf marionette construction. Next class everyone will have a short marionette piece to present.

Monday, October 17, 2011

UCONN PUPPETS make an apearance at the Hartford Marathon


Sarah Hall and Pat Wagner ran the 5K along with many other students from UCONN Puppetry Arts Program!! Thanks to Carianne Hoff for organizing the event!
Follow the link for video of the FOX61 News interview with the chicken and horse and video of other puppets!

Friday, October 14, 2011

Working in the shop...

Harrison Haney and Xingxin Liu are building sets for puppet movies. Harrison is carving blue foam into distant hills and Xing is creating a rotating forest for a chase scene.