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Pet-a-Puppet: Past, Present and Future

April 1 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT

The campus community and the public are invited to attend Pet-a-Puppet: Past, Present and Future on April 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It will be held outside Schoolfield Hall (weather permitting) as part of the Inquiring Minds discussion series. Attendees will be able to view and manipulate a variety of puppets created and collected by Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Rebecca Crocker and her students, as well as discussing upcoming opportunities to build and perform puppets.

Rebecca Crocker in long robes and Hannah Dix with big snake puppet around her show long purple table display of puppets to two students, standing behind brick and cement back wall of Schoolfield Hall

Click here for more photos of puppets on campus.

Click here for Cardinal News article by Lindsey Hull on making of the puppets and 2023 production of Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.

Click here to read about Crocker’s upcoming summer fellowship to develop a new puppetry project.

Photograph from Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas in 2025 courtesy of Dr. Bob Pohlad.
Photograph from Pet-a-Puppet 2025 by Dr. Tina Hanlon.

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