Artists of all levels are invited to join us for a Puppet Mechanisms Workshop with Kurt Hunter!

Free. Registration Required.

Kurt Hunter is a Minneapolis-based puppeteer best known for his innovative solo marionette work. He has worked as a performer, designer, builder, workshop leader and director for In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Z Puppets Rosenschnoz, the Puppeteers of America and the O’Neill National Puppetry Conference. He studied withmarionette masters Phillip Huber and Albrecht Roser. In 2008 he received an UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence in Puppetry for “Sock Puppet Serenade.” In 2018 he was awarded a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation for development of “Penguin in my Pocket,” which has since toured across the US and to India. In 2024, he published “Kurt Hunter’s Simple Little Book of

Marionettes.”

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural fund.