Los Angeles Daily News: See portraits of Black life, as told by puppets, at new LA exhibit

The new “Spirit of Play: Craft and Imagination” exhibit at Craft in America is running through Saturday, March 2.

2/22/24

Full, original article in the Los Angeles Daily News here.

When puppets speak, people listen, says artist, educator and puppeteer Schroeder Cherry.

Cherry uses puppet play to teach people about the U.S. African diaspora. Organizers of his new “Spirit of Play: Craft and Imagination” exhibit, featured at the Craft in America nonprofit center in Beverly Grove, say that Cherry uses the “disarming quality” of play to both educate and engage viewers. His “family of idiosyncratic characters” tackles topics like the history of slavery, and contemporary life in America as a Black person.

The new Los Angeles exhibit — now running through Saturday, March 2 — showcases realistic-looking puppets and assemblage to educate both children and adults about Black culture and history in the U.S.