Past program
Learn about sustainability while getting creative! This special virtual workshop features professional puppet maker Jhess Knight from Trash Puppets. Follow along at home or in class and construct your own functioning puppet using recycled household materials, add your own unique decorations and share your creation with the group. You could even activate your paper-roll puppets with your friends and family following the live event.
Learning Objectives
- Analyse and interpret themes and ideas in NGV Triennial artworks
- Investigate the materials, equipment and processes used by artists and designers including Trash Puppets
- Create a functioning puppet using found materials and resources
- Take creative risks in a safe and supportive learning environment
- Reflect upon and discuss the artistic process followed throughout the activity
Cost: Free
Duration: 90 mins
Download the printable step-by-step workshop instructions >
A WebEx link to access the live event will be provided via email. We recommend printing the workshop instructions and preparing the following materials for participating students in advance of the session:
Materials
- a paper-towel roll
- thin recycled card
- scissors
- masking tape
- assorted recycled materials for decoration, e.g. coloured card, foil, vegetable net bag, magazines. Be creative!
About the Artist
Trash Puppets is a team of working professionals within the arts industry, from visual artists, actors and improvisers to puppeteers and puppet makers. Trash Puppets believes that the key to sustainable living is in finding creative solutions to problems, empowering people of all ages to get creative using recycled and reused materials. Their workshops give students a creative, hands on experience of core sustainability messages (waste less, recycle right), and complement other learning areas such as visual arts and visual communication design, science and performing arts.