Puppets

Pittsburgh Weatherman Jon Burnett Puppet, 2019

Rip Van Winkle, set for the first of four shows at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 2015.

Performing Part 1 of Rip Van Winkle and the Crazy Quilt, an original puppet show with Mike Cuccaro, Grande Re-opening of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, October 25, 2015.

Touring a steel mill. Part 2 of Rip Van Winkle and the Crazy Quilt, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, 2015

Carnival Time! Part 3 of Rip Van Winkle and the Crazy Quilt, Grand re-opening of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 2015.

A Nautical Adventure. Part 4 of Rip Van Winkle and The Crazy Quilt. October 25th, 2015 in the new cantilever wing of the Westmoreland.

Family art making and appearances by my puppets at the Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival, 2014. Image by Rebecca Lessner Photography.

January 20th, 2014 at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Performing an African folk tale at the Carnegie International Children’s Day, with Mike Cuccaro, January 20th, 2014.

Art activities at my show The Occasional Market, May 17th and 18th, 2014, during the Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival. Image by Rebecca Lessner.

Performing an adaptation of Aristophanes’ Peace with Mike Cuccaro, April 12th, 2013, Modern Formations, Pittsburgh.

Flight Out of Time, Performed at The Carnegie Museum of Art for the 2013 Carnegie International event, Culture Club: These Aren’t Your Kids Puppets, January 16, 2014.

Gallery shows by Tom Sarver and Mike Cuccaro, Scaife Galleries, Carnegie Musuem of Art, April 27, 2013.

Hall of Architecture, CMoA, April 27, 2013.

Announcing the formation of Puppet Happening (2011-2014), February, 2011.

Puppet City, Installation at James Gallery, Pittsburgh, 2010.

Puppet Archives at The Tom Museum, 2008. Photo by Larry Rippel.

Puppet Archives Room at The Tom Museum, 2008. Photo by Larry Rippel.

The Puppet Archives Room, Located on the second floor of The Tom Museum. Photo by Larry Rippel.

Djuha Stories (Middle Eastern Folktales), Mattress Factory, November 2007.

Performing at the Mattress Factory Family Day, November, 2007.

Mattress Factory Family Day.

Setting up another show.

Preliminary sketch for the Ninth Annual BSPF.

Performing: Little Tricker The Squirrel Meets Big Double The Bear, at Mattress Factory.

Pittsburgh puppeteers in a tech meeting for Black Sheep Local #9, Brew House Theater, 2007.

Brochure illustration for a puppet workshop at The Tom Museum, 2006.

Puppet Sketches, 2006.

Backstage at the 8th Annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival, October 20th, 2006. Photo by Larry Rippel.

With Mike Cuccaro at the American Shorts Reading Series, Brew House, 2006. Photo by Larry Rippel.

Black Sheep Puppet Festival program designed by Dave Wallace.

Gallery Opening performance for the 7th Annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival, Oct. 7, 2005.

Preparing to perform Perseus, Medusa and the Magic Frisbee at the 5th Annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival, October 2003.

Puppet practice, 2001.

Gallery Opening for 1st Annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival, Brew House Space 101, 1999, Pittsburgh, PA.

Performing a Kafka-inspired tale at my exhibition, From Puppets to Paintings, AAP Gallery, 937 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, 2001

Life in The Big Cities, performed at the 1st Annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival, The Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999

Card for 1st Annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival with logo by Rick Bach.

Black Sheep Puppet Festival team, 1999 (Liz Hammond, Rick Bach, Suzanne Pace, John Latell, Tim Kaulen, Thad Bobula, Tom Sarver, George Davis, Rob Long, Michael Mcfadden).

My first public puppet show at Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA, 1997.