Maria Pia Timo as a snail, Federico Ielapi as Pinocchio, and Alida Baldari Calabria as the young fairy, in "Pinocchio." (Greta De Lazzaris / Roadside Attractions) Prosthetic makeup designer Mark ...

Katy Strutz doesn't want to be defined by a single style. As an animator and a puppet maker, she likes invoking disparate influences, whether that means being inspired by the Ziegfeld Follies, '80s ...

With seven kids at home, Bay City’s Margie Gillman began making puppets for some cheap home entertainment and for birthday party favors. Today, the children are raised but Gillman continues to turn ...

ANDOVER — The puppet maker pulls out a small cloth ball from a bag of them. Actually, it is a head, awaiting eyes, ears, a mouth and hair. A body and story, too. Renata Berthold de Bustard turns what ...

A University of Wisconsin film school grad with a knack for crafts and sculpting, Caroline Kastelic was a good fit for the role of puppet supervisor on Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s adult ...

When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...