Alexis Wong, Christen Tai, and Jesse Kingsley with Moira MacDonald's puppet Svetlana at the L.A. Guild of Puppetry's monthly meet-up at Vista Hermosa Park. (Stella Kalinina / For The Times) Jesse ...

Brant Bollman operates a cat puppet from inside during a "puppet stroll." Brant Bollman doesn’t just make puppets — he brings larger-than-life creatures to small-town Iowa. Bollman, who serves as the ...

Puppeteer Barnaby Dixon takes inanimate objects and turns them into uncannily real characters. Barnaby's creations have brought joy to millions over the last decade. His unique take on puppetry is ...

Jackie Smook, a puppet maker and creator of the show "Dilly's World," stands with a sardine puppet she made in a day at her home workshop. Jackie Smook, a puppet maker and creator of the show "Dilly's ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Hua Hua Zhang is on the cutting edge of contemporary puppetry as the founder and artistic director of her company called Visual Expressions. She says she is creating a "new style" of ...

A professional puppet artist from Heart of the Beast theater in Minneapolis is spending a month in New London as part of the town's first Small Stages Artist in Residency program. During this time, he ...

The attendees for the first Puppet Open Mic Night at Harvester Arts on Tuesday night. Travis Heying The Wichita Eagle You can watch — or participate in — a new kind of puppet show this weekend at ...

Shadow Machine/Netflix In a career spanning more than three decades, Georgina Hayns has been making puppets that have been brought to life through the art of stop-motion animation on TV shows and ...

A three-part workshop, beginning Sunday from noon to 3 p.m., is being offered in Waller Hall to construct giant puppets that will be used during IUP's third annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) ...

Jesse Kingsley was in full geek-out mode. Despite being a puppet builder and enthusiast for more than two decades, he had never peered inside the head of a Chinese lion costume — those vibrant, furry ...