Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers deadline is tomorrow!
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Nov 5, 2024, 9:33:05 AM11/5/24
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Hello!
The deadline for the 2025 Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers is tomorrow! If you, or a friend, is interested in applying there is still time!
Puppet Showplace Theater is offering five $1,000 grants to emerging and early-career Black artists to support the research and development of original puppetry work — plus mentorship and professional development. Past Creative Residency fellows have included puppeteers, visual artists, theater artists, authors, illustrators, and more.
Over a 6-month period beginning January 14, 2025, artists will meet online monthly with their cohort and project mentor, attend skill-building seminars, have individual work sessions with the project mentor, and receive additional support and creative feedback from the community curator and Puppet Showplace’s artistic team. The Residency team will facilitate community-building among members of the cohort to create a supportive environment, where works-in-progress are shared.
Now in its 5th year, this program is entirely virtual and applicants from all over the U.S. are encouraged to apply. At least one grant award will be designated for an artist living or working in New England, and at least one grant award will be designated for the development of a live family-audience puppet show.
Applications are due November 6th; the program will take place January - June 2025. For more information and application details, visit www.puppetshowplace.org/creative-residency-for-black-puppeteers
If you have questions or would like to discuss a proposal in advance of applying, please reach out to the Residency Coordinator, Ash Winkfield (CRBP 2023) at a...@puppetshowplace.org.
MEET THE TEAM:
Tanya Nixon-Silberg (CRBP 2020) | Community Curator
Tanya Nixon-Silberg (she/her) is a Black mother, educator, artist, and radical dreamer. Her work informs the intersection of all these identities.Called a "translator", Tanya has the ability to distill concepts of racial justice to young children in ways that help them imagine and take back a world where with community, they have agency, and can take action for change and has been doing this work for over 7 years.Tanya’s life’s goal is to make sure that Black and Brown children recognize that racism is systemic; that educators not shy away from confronting systemic racism in the classroom and that engaging in this work collectively helps us to heal. Tamya also was in the Residency inaugural cohort in 2020.
Charlotte Lily Gaspard | Project Mentor
Charlotte Lily Gaspard (she/her) is a shadow puppet artist, educator, and children’s entertainer. Her mission is to activate imaginations and celebrate playfulness wherever she goes. Charlotte is the founder and artistic director of Midnight Radio Show, a shadow puppet sci-fi fairytale theater company based in Brooklyn, NYC. She designs puppets for theater, film, and music videos, including award-winning indie film Verses at Work and theatrical adaptation A Snowy Day & Other Stories by Ezra Jack Keats. Along with puppets, Charlotte also creates costumes for theater and film, and leads puppetry and theater workshops all over New York City, and beyond.
Ash Winkfield (CRBP 2023) | Residency Coordinator
Ash Winkfield (xe/xem/xyr) is a multidisciplinary artist from Durham, NC, now based in New York. Ash specializes in new and devised works, which have been presented in New York (Jazz at Lincoln Center, Abrons Art Center, LaMama Experimental Theatre), North Carolina (Duke University) and internationally. Ash was a 2023 Creative Residency fellow and is currently the Artistic Associate at Puppet Showplace Theater.
PAST CREATIVE RESIDENCY ARTISTS IN THE NEWS AND ON STAGE:
Anthony Michael Stokes (CRBP 2020) was the 2023 Jim Henson Foundation O'Neill Artist in Residence, and was awarded a Henson Foundation grant for his project The Scarecrow, which just performed at New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club as part of the LaMama Puppet Festival.
Nehprii Amenii (CRBP 2020) performed her show HUMAN at Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts in January 2024, which she worked on during her Creative Residency.
Dey Hernández (CRBP 2021) used their Creative Residency to workshop scenes from Papel Machete’s On the Eve of Abolition, which has since gained support from the National Performance Network’s Creation Fund and is being performed Fall 2024 at Emerson Collage’s Paramount Center. Dey also performed in the premiere of Feral by Sandglass Theater, directed by Puppet Showplace’s Resident Artist Sarah Nolen, at the 2024 Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival.
Ash Winkfield (CRBP 2023) became Puppet Showplace Theater’s Artistic Associate during our 23/24 season and is currently directing The Harlem Doll Palace, on stage at New York’s Dixon Place in November 2024.
Dirk Joseph (CRBP 2020) was awarded a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant for a new piece titled DEFRAG, which premiered at Baltimore's Black Cherry Puppet Theater in October, 2023.
Tanya Nixon-Silberg (CRBP 2020) has continued to grow her practice rooted in social justice and was featured in the Boston Globe and WBUR.
For more information and application details visit www.puppetshowplace.org/creative-residency-for-black-puppeteers
The deadline for the 2025 Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers is tomorrow! If you, or a friend, is interested in applying there is still time!
Puppet Showplace Theater is offering five $1,000 grants to emerging and early-career Black artists to support the research and development of original puppetry work — plus mentorship and professional development. Past Creative Residency fellows have included puppeteers, visual artists, theater artists, authors, illustrators, and more.
Over a 6-month period beginning January 14, 2025, artists will meet online monthly with their cohort and project mentor, attend skill-building seminars, have individual work sessions with the project mentor, and receive additional support and creative feedback from the community curator and Puppet Showplace’s artistic team. The Residency team will facilitate community-building among members of the cohort to create a supportive environment, where works-in-progress are shared.
Now in its 5th year, this program is entirely virtual and applicants from all over the U.S. are encouraged to apply. At least one grant award will be designated for an artist living or working in New England, and at least one grant award will be designated for the development of a live family-audience puppet show.
Applications are due November 6th; the program will take place January - June 2025. For more information and application details, visit www.puppetshowplace.org/creative-residency-for-black-puppeteers
If you have questions or would like to discuss a proposal in advance of applying, please reach out to the Residency Coordinator, Ash Winkfield (CRBP 2023) at a...@puppetshowplace.org.
MEET THE TEAM:
Tanya Nixon-Silberg (CRBP 2020) | Community Curator
Tanya Nixon-Silberg (she/her) is a Black mother, educator, artist, and radical dreamer. Her work informs the intersection of all these identities.Called a "translator", Tanya has the ability to distill concepts of racial justice to young children in ways that help them imagine and take back a world where with community, they have agency, and can take action for change and has been doing this work for over 7 years.Tanya’s life’s goal is to make sure that Black and Brown children recognize that racism is systemic; that educators not shy away from confronting systemic racism in the classroom and that engaging in this work collectively helps us to heal. Tamya also was in the Residency inaugural cohort in 2020.
Charlotte Lily Gaspard | Project Mentor
Charlotte Lily Gaspard (she/her) is a shadow puppet artist, educator, and children’s entertainer. Her mission is to activate imaginations and celebrate playfulness wherever she goes. Charlotte is the founder and artistic director of Midnight Radio Show, a shadow puppet sci-fi fairytale theater company based in Brooklyn, NYC. She designs puppets for theater, film, and music videos, including award-winning indie film Verses at Work and theatrical adaptation A Snowy Day & Other Stories by Ezra Jack Keats. Along with puppets, Charlotte also creates costumes for theater and film, and leads puppetry and theater workshops all over New York City, and beyond.
Ash Winkfield (CRBP 2023) | Residency Coordinator
Ash Winkfield (xe/xem/xyr) is a multidisciplinary artist from Durham, NC, now based in New York. Ash specializes in new and devised works, which have been presented in New York (Jazz at Lincoln Center, Abrons Art Center, LaMama Experimental Theatre), North Carolina (Duke University) and internationally. Ash was a 2023 Creative Residency fellow and is currently the Artistic Associate at Puppet Showplace Theater.
PAST CREATIVE RESIDENCY ARTISTS IN THE NEWS AND ON STAGE:
Anthony Michael Stokes (CRBP 2020) was the 2023 Jim Henson Foundation O'Neill Artist in Residence, and was awarded a Henson Foundation grant for his project The Scarecrow, which just performed at New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club as part of the LaMama Puppet Festival.
Nehprii Amenii (CRBP 2020) performed her show HUMAN at Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts in January 2024, which she worked on during her Creative Residency.
Dey Hernández (CRBP 2021) used their Creative Residency to workshop scenes from Papel Machete’s On the Eve of Abolition, which has since gained support from the National Performance Network’s Creation Fund and is being performed Fall 2024 at Emerson Collage’s Paramount Center. Dey also performed in the premiere of Feral by Sandglass Theater, directed by Puppet Showplace’s Resident Artist Sarah Nolen, at the 2024 Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival.
Ash Winkfield (CRBP 2023) became Puppet Showplace Theater’s Artistic Associate during our 23/24 season and is currently directing The Harlem Doll Palace, on stage at New York’s Dixon Place in November 2024.
Dirk Joseph (CRBP 2020) was awarded a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant for a new piece titled DEFRAG, which premiered at Baltimore's Black Cherry Puppet Theater in October, 2023.
Tanya Nixon-Silberg (CRBP 2020) has continued to grow her practice rooted in social justice and was featured in the Boston Globe and WBUR.
For more information and application details visit www.puppetshowplace.org/creative-residency-for-black-puppeteers
Thanks so much!
Ash
Ash Winkfield (xe/xem/xyr)
Artistic Associate
Puppet Showplace Theater
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