Exhibit
Explore, build, and move puppetsin DFI’s Puppets in education exhibit.
October 3 - November 28
Open Monday-Thursday 9-5pm
& Friday by appointment
DFI Gallery, Russell Hall 5th floor
The DFI Gallery was established in June of 2022 with the mission of promoting public scholarship by blending research, media, and art. We invite visitors to explore new ways to connect, imagine, and engage in the immersive experiences designed in this space.
Puppets in Education
October - November 2024
in DFI’s Puppets in education exhibit.
October 3 - November 28
Open Monday-Thursday 9-5pm
& Friday by appointment
DFI Gallery, Russell Hall 5th floor
Reception and Artist Talk
Artist Polina Porras,creator of El Museo del Barrio’s
Three Kings puppets, explores
puppetry in community storytelling
and cultural education. This talk
interrogates the official opening
of the Puppets in education exhibit.
October 14, Monday 5-7pm
DFI Gallery, Russell Hall 5th floor
Register: Reception & Artist Talk on Eventbrite
Puppet Movement Lab
Hands-on workshop exploring themovements of puppets in education
led by Dr. Chris Moffett.
October 23, Wednesday 12-2pm
DFI Gallery, Russell Hall 5th floor
Register: Puppet Movement Lab on Eventbrite
Puppet Symposium and Book Writing Experiment
November 1 & 2Friday and Saturday 1-6pm
Smith Learning Theater,
Russell Hall 4th floor
Contact: dfidesign@tc.columbia.edu
if interested in attending.
Our relationship with puppets goes back both through our earliest memories and our human history. From the earliest dolls to the most complex marionettes, from the classroom curriculum to television programming, from animating an object to the digital armatures of virtual reality, we find our gestures and expression channeled through puppets.
But what is it, exactly, that we are doing when we pick up, move, and talk through an object that is not us? And what is it about this that so captivates our attention? This exhibit asks us—by taking up and playing with the gestures of puppeting—to reflect on what is educative about puppets, and what puppets themselves might teach us about education.
Past Exhibits
Sandbox
June-September 2024
light table covered in black sand with drawings and a pair of children's shoes on it
Boundaries of Adventure Playgrounds
March-May 2024
Photograph of an exhibit showing a three paper dissertation about adventure playgrounds. there are circle tables with researcher drawings, film, books, and projected images of the playgrounds on the white fabric walls.
Playing With Form
November - February 2024
drone image of a gallery with wooden table grass and wooden frames
MODES
June-October 2023
double exposed photo of two the back of two people sitting on a hill in the fog
Undfolding
May 2023
hands unfolding an artbook that is very blurred in the picture
Gestures
January - February 2023
white silhouettes of two groups of people superimposed like shadows on a wall
Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice
October - November 2022
sculpture of three hands different shades, holding a globe, in a fist, and holding a dove with other blurred art dangling in the background
Crossings
June - September 2022
sculptures grown from mushrooms and mycelium in front of circular projected video of hands
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