How do you bring a puppet to life? What patterns, materials, tricks, and techniques must come together? Learn this and more from puppeteer and puppet maker Cedwan Hooks (Helpsters, Apple TV+; Doom Patrol, HBO Max), who performed the role of Ollie the rabbit in His History of Art. Hear from Artist-in-Residence Jayson Musson and the FWM Studio team about the process of envisioning and creating the puppets for the exhibition, followed by a master class in puppet making with Cedwan Hooks! Participants will leave with their own custom-made hand puppet.
Organized in conjunction with Jayson Musson: His History of Art.
Cedwan Hooks is a puppeteer and puppet artist from Kansas City, KS whose world-class work has appeared internationally. He spent two years as a puppet designer and costume character trainer for the DreamWorks Experience in Macau. He also headed up the puppet workshop for Warner Brothers/DC Universe’s Doom Patrol and worked as a puppeteer on the show. He was also a puppeteer, puppet builder and wrangler on Helpsters, a show created for Apple TV + by Sesame Workshop. He was an assistant puppeteer and puppet wrangler on BBC’s Moon and Me (created by Teletubbies creator Andrew Davenport). Additionally, Cedwan has created walkaround and puppet works for Comedy Central, the Georgia Aquarium and The Public Goods Projects. He has also been a puppetry consultant for 20th Century Fox World in Malaysia. He continually performs as a puppeteer on stages and screens all over the world.
