Puppetry Residencies
Caravan’s residencies use puppetry as a doorway to the arc of a creative process.
This includes making age appropriate puppets, developing skits, practicing and performing.
Visualizing a goal, and working to bring a project to fruition, can be an empowering and joyful experience that can help as a guide to completing any project!
The residency is formatted for K-6th grades with age appropriate activities. We have had great experiences adapting the residency to smaller and larger schools.
Teachers also gain experience working with puppetry in the classroom and our skit writing method.
Everyone takes home a puppet!
STARS Residencies (Massachusetts) are welcome! Please contact us to explore possibilities.
“Working with Jonathan and Karen was an absolute pleasure! I would highly recommend them for any future Mass Cultural Council Grants. We appreciate this opportunity for our school community!”
Karen Albano, Principal, Ryan Road School, Florence MA
A unique aspect of our residencies is that we bring TWO experienced artists/educators to you your program!
– Karen Schumer As well as working with Caravan for the past decade, Karen brings seventeen years of experience teaching art in Springfield Mass. She brings a wide variety of teaching techniques, organization of materials, and classroom management to Caravan’s residencies.
– Jonathan Keezing brings 30 plus years of experience in puppet design, performance and teaching. He has toured nationally and internationally and conducted scores of well received workshops/residencies, classes and thousands of performances.
Caravan’s team teaching style makes for relaxed, focused, inspired and happy classrooms.
Unleash Creativity with Our Residency Program!
Experience the complete creative arc – *envision*, *create*,* practice*, and *perform!*
Everyone leaves with a puppet!
