Route 122, Glover, VT
Though you wouldn’t know it from Vermont’s official tourist maps and info brochures, an amazing treasure of art history resides in the state’s Northeast Kingdom. For over 40 years, Peter Schumann, and his collaborative project Bread & Puppet Theater, has produced amazing shows, pageants, and street theater via an infinite amount of imagination, scrap materials, and papier-mâché. Nestled in postcard-perfect rolling hills and meadows, their farm and land serve as a production area and summer performance area. They’ve been there since 1974, and have at least 3 buildings for storage.
The largest building by far is their over-100-year-old, 5 story barn, and it overflows with large and small art from decades of creativity. Only 2 floors are open for viewing, with the top two floors being full of costumes and other things. The bottom area, where the cows used to live, is currently being retrofitted due to a groundwater drainage problem.
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The CarnyMobile’s older sibling, the OreoMobile, awaits a professional photoshoot in the Magic Hat Brewery (founded by one of the creaters of 7th Generation products) parking lot. This ride went to NH and IA last year for six months, complete with a blow-up baby and missle.
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Just got an early lead for this San Francisco show via Jack Rabbit Speaks (the Burningman em list). Puppets from Perversia is a benefit to raise USD to fly 7 Bangkok puppeteers to the USA and to Burningman this year. I say go to this show to support this cross-cultural puppet exchange (I may try to meet up with them on the Playa).
Once again, I arrived to a new place at a perfect time to see nature herself bloom into maidenhood. During my first day in Burlington, VT, my host Bram got his daughter to tell me that Vermont has extra seasons. Seven-year-old Tasha had just met me, so she shyly recited “summer, fall, stick, winter, mud, and spring.” Winter left mildly this year, so mud season wasn’t that muddy. I got to see the last throws of mud season my first few days here.
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Burlington, VT
More of a mobile billboard than an art car, this van and high-striker-as-a-trailer will be my new “home” for the next six months. I shot this photo on the road to Ben Cohen’s house (outside of Williston village) yesterday; a farmer in the orchard behind the van gave a wave as I walked into the muddy field to frame this photo. I had just spent about 15 minutes backing this thing down part of Ben’s driveway, and it wasn’t easy.
The CarnyMobile is the latest addition to the Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities grassroots auto-art fleet: the Oreo Mobile (photos soon), the Piggy Banks van (photos soon), the Pie Mobiles, Pants on Fire, Spank Bush/DeLay Mobile, and a few other earlier buses and autos.
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Finished this flyer just in time before my departure East for Black Mesa Indigenous Support. I initially wanted to go on this caravan to help the people of Black Mesa, but I have been sent somewhere else. I’m glad that I got to be part of this via the flyer design and hope to go out there soon.
A Visit to the Bread & Puppet Museum
Though you wouldn’t know it from Vermont’s official tourist maps and info brochures, an amazing treasure of art history resides in the state’s Northeast Kingdom. For over 40 years, Peter Schumann, and his collaborative project Bread & Puppet Theater, has produced amazing shows, pageants, and street theater via an infinite amount of imagination, scrap materials, and papier-mâché. Nestled in postcard-perfect rolling hills and meadows, their farm and land serve as a production area and summer performance area. They’ve been there since 1974, and have at least 3 buildings for storage.
BMIS Flyer Art
