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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. 16 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
Performance “Words cannot even begin to describe how blown away we were by Duke Ellington’s Cat! ...I could not get over how elaborate the entire production was ...I almost couldn’t believe we were in Atlanta. I felt like I was watching a Broadway show in NYC, only better ... because it was with puppets instead of people.” ~ Monica Randklev, Center Member since 2005 Duke Ellington’s Cat Photo by Bill Jones 17
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