Volunteers - Center for Puppetry Arts

Off-Site Exhibits
Along with the Center’s on-site exhibits, puppets from the museum collection are on display at
several locations throughout Atlanta.
AtlanTix, Underground Atlanta
Underground Atlanta, a historic retail and entertainment center in Downtown, is also
home to AtlanTix, a half-price ticket booth run by the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts.
Visitors to Underground and the booth can view several of the Center’s puppets, including
Leonardo Da Vinci from Avanti, Da Vinci!, as well as a Gent from the Opening Ceremonies of the
1996 Olympics.
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
Travelers can take a refreshing break while entering or exiting the airport’s International
Terminal and view several cases of puppets from the Center’s permanent collection. The puppets
represent puppetry styles several countries, including Indonesia, China and Egypt.
WSB-TV
On September 29, 1948, WSB-TV went on the air. Among the programs that viewers watched
that night was a children’s television show, Woody Willow & Friends, with marionettes manipulated
by Don and Ruth Gilpin. In 1983, the Gilpins donated puppets and memorabilia from the show
to the Center’s permanent collection. Today, some of those puppets, including Woody Willow
himself, are on display at the television station.
Research Library
The Center for Puppetry Arts’ research library is the largest library dedicated solely to
puppetry arts in the country and possibly the world. The library collection consists of over
2,000 books, periodicals, and audio/visual materials. The library is also the repository for the
Center for Puppetry Arts archives, containing information and material from the Center’s
opening in 1978 through today as well as archival videos of Center performances. The research
library is utilized by scholars, students, teachers, and puppeteers from around the world.
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Museum Advisory
Committee
Chair, Nancy Lohman Staub, M.A.
Puppetry Arts Consultant, Folsom, LA
Mary Jo Arnoldi, Ph.D.
Curator, African Ethnology and Art,
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of
Natural History, Washington, D.C.
John Thomas Bell, Ph.D.
Director, Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry,
Storrs, CT
Kathy Foley, Ph.D.
Professor of Asian Theater, University of California,
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Thom Fountain
Film & Television Puppetry Consultant, Burbank, CA
Raylynn Hughes
Library Consultant, Atlanta, GA
Henryk Jurkowski, Ph.D.
Honorary President of UNIMA International Brazil
Michael R. Malkin, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Theater and Dance Department,
California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo, CA
President, Speckled Koi Productions
Kerry McCarthy, M.A.
Principal, McCarthy Arts Consulting, Brooklyn, NY
Magda Modesto
Councillor for UNIMA International Brazil
Frank Proschan, Ph.D.
Programme Specialist, Section of Intangible Cultural
Heritage, Division of Cultural Objects and Intangible
Heritage, UNESCO
Michiko Ueno-Herr, Ph.D.
Japanese Puppetry Consultant, Honolulu, Hawaii