The University of Southern Maine Art Department is excited to welcome Spring 2026 Artist-in-Residence Peter Bruun. Working under the aegis of Bruun Studios, Peter Bruun is an artist, writer, curator, and cultural organizer whose work spans painting, drawing, publishing, and … Read More

In this full-day workshop at the Kate Cheney Chappell Center for Book Arts, participants will learn how to incorporate various mechanisms and rigging points into paper pop-ups to turn them into animatable or puppeteer-able, hand-held (also known as: direct contact), and/or table-top puppets with instructor Sarah Frechette.