Center For Puppetry Arts Inc

Museum: in addition to welcoming over 100,000 visitors into the museums two permanent exhibition galleries, the center offered a variety of pop-up and special exhibitions and programming. Special exhibitions included poncili creacins puppetry now exibition, which showcased their abstract and sureal style of improv puppetry; festive features, which highlighted puppets created to celebrate the winter holidays such as two of the stop motion puppets from the 1964 rankin/bass rudolph the red-nosed reindeer television special, nehprii ameniis puppetry now exibition showcasing her powerful and poignant works; and down in fraggle rock, which showcased puppets from jim hensons original 1980s television series alongside some created for the revival on appletv+.

Education: in addition to offering over 1,000 hours of the centers signature create-a-puppet workshops to over 30,000 participants, staff reached over 5,500 children and adults with outreach programming and nearly 2,500 students of all ages and abilities with special workshops. This included partnering with the 2nd grade classrooms of burgess-peterson academy (an atlanta public school) to ensure diverse voices and ideas were incorporated into the centers 2024 production pancho rabbit and the coyote. Meanwhile, the digital learning team used zoom to share workshops and puppet shows with ovrt 4,800 audience members and won another pinnacle award from the center for interactive learning and collaboration (cilc).