While this Juan Bobo is only a few feet tall, over his left shoulder is a larger-than-life processional costume depicting an older woman traveling with a young girl, and over his right, a pair of menacing vejigante puppets look on. The beloved character Juan Bobo, with his distinctive straw hat and white T-shirt with the Puerto Rican flag, greets visitors at the entrance of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, welcoming them to the world’s first puppetry display dedicated to the Caribbean island. The puppets on display in the "Hecho en Puerto Rico" exhibition at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry range in date from 1960 to the present, and reflect a variety of styles, artistic media, and purposes. Tom Breen / UConn Show More Show Less 4 of9 Kimberly Phillips / UConn Show More Show Less 3 of9 "Little Red Riding Hood" and the "Big Bad Wolf" are rod puppets by Edward Cardenales that were used in school and neighborhood performances in rural Puerto Rico. Kimberly Phillips / UConn Show More Show Less 2 of9 On the right is an oil painting of Pura Belpre, a Puerto Rican puppeteer, librarian and author. Retrieved 21 April 2016.Table-top puppet "Juan Bobo" by Jose Alejandro Lopez is one of the first puppets on display in "Hecho en Puerto Rico: Four Generations of Puerto Rican Puppetry" at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. ^ "Puppetry Museum Opens at Storrs Center".^ University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts."UConn To Present MFA Puppet Arts Festival". Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. "John Bell aims to bring puppetry to the public through Ballard Institute". American Puppetry: Collections, History and Performance. UConn is the only institution in the United States that offers a master's degree in puppetry. Previously located on UConn's Depot Campus, the Ballard was moved to the newly constructed Storrs Center in 2014. Its managing director is John Bell, a former Bread and Puppet Theater company member and an associate professor of Dramatic Arts at UConn's School of Fine Arts. Ballard (1929-2010), founder of UConn's Puppet Arts Program, which are the first graduate and undergraduate programs in puppetry in the United States. The Institute also conducts puppet-making workshops and participates in local parades and cultural events. In addition to collecting materials to support research, the Ballard hosts frequent puppetry festivals, exhibits, and dramatic performances, most notably the 2015 National Puppetry Festival. The Janney Library is open to visiting researchers by appointment. These media are housed in the Kay Janney Library and Archives, which also is home to a small research collection of more than 2,500 books, scripts, manuscripts, clippings, posters, and audio-visual material related to the history of puppet theater worldwide. In addition, the Institute houses the Puppeteers of America’s Audio-Visual Collection, which is the largest media collection (over 700 items) on puppetry in the United States. Its permanent collection of over 2,500 puppets from all over the world includes marionettes, glove puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets, body puppets, and stage materials. The Ballard houses one of the three largest puppetry collections in the United States. The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry ( BIMP) is a public museum of puppetry operated by the University of Connecticut and located in Storrs, Connecticut.
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