Xu Qiang (2nd R, front), son of Xu Zhuchu who is a national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Zhangzhou wood puppet head carving, displays carving techniques to students in Zhangzhou ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A stage adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel “Life & Times of Michael K,” about a man’s struggles during a fictional South African conflict, includes actors alongside a puppet ...

Jim Henson modernized the age-old art of puppetry by using foam rubber to coat the puppets’ limbs. Previously, most TV puppets were made of carved wood. But Henson believed that foam rubber and cloth ...

Soon she'd taught herself puppet-carving and making, with the help of her husband and the tools he put at her disposal in his workshop. A band saw is vital for blocking out the figures; a drill press ...

Business owner and artisan Bob Walker, 51, demonstrates how to move one of his Woodbaby puppet creations. Dahlia Ghabour / WUFT News There were body parts everywhere: scattered legs and tails, heads ...

How long does it take to animate a log of wood? For the answer, it is best to retrace the history of a young Narasingh Rao, who, in the late 1800s, happened to watch a team of puppeteers perform a ...

Haines seems like a quintessential Southeast Alaska town. There are eagles, bears, salmon, big mountains and rough water. It’s a picture-book no stoplight, no movie theater, low crime type of ...

Puppet performances by artisans from Bao Ha craft village (Vinh Bao, Hai Phong City). This event is part of a series linked to the "Reimagine the artist/artisan" project which is being carried out by ...

Xu Zhuchu, a national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Zhangzhou wood puppet head carving, carves a puppet head at a studio in Zhangzhou city, Southeast China's Fujian province, Nov 28, ...

Xu Zhuchu, a national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Zhangzhou wood puppet head carving, displays a wood puppet head at a studio in Zhangzhou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, ...