Year 16 Presentation: Program, Celebrating the Historic Warren Pageant
Subject
Bart O. Roccoberton Jr.
Subject
Lisa Abbatomarco
Date2014
MediumPaper
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
CopyrightIn Copyright
Object number2015.196.35
DescriptionProgram, Celebrating the Historic Warren Pageant, Summer 2014.
This event was a required public presentation of the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program team in puppetry performance. Teaching artist Bart Roccoberton with apprentice Lisa Abbatomarco.
NotesSubject Note: The Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program is a CCHAP initiative since 1997 that fosters the sharing of community-based traditional (folk) artistic skills through the apprenticeship learning model of regular, intensive, one-on-one teaching by a skilled mentor artist to a student/apprentice. The program pairs master artists from RI, MA, or CT with apprentices from one of the other states, as a way to knit together members of the same community or group across state lines. Teaching and learning traditional arts help to sustain cultural expressions that are central to a community, while also strengthening festivals, arts activities and events when master/apprentice artists perform or demonstrate results of their cooperative learning to public audiences. The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program at the Connecticut Historical Society manages the program in collaboration with the Folk Arts Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council and independent folklorist Winifred Lambrecht who has a deep knowledge of the folk arts landscape of Rhode Island. Primary funding for the program comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, with support also from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Institute for Community Research, and the Connecticut Historical Society.This event was a required public presentation of the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program team in puppetry performance. Teaching artist Bart Roccoberton with apprentice Lisa Abbatomarco.
Biographical Note: Bart Roccoberton was Professor of Dramatic Arts in Puppetry at the Frank Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut Storrs, working and teaching in all forms of puppetry: hand puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets, marionettes, string puppets, masks, etc. Bart studied under famed puppeteer Frank Ballard, whose collection forms the core of this unique UConn organization. In addition to creating puppets, he is a master of puppet theater and formed his own company which toured internationally. He has created and performed characters for television, New York theater productions, and special commissions. He has curated many exhibits of his work and marionettes from around the world. (http://bimp.uconn.edu/).
In Year 16 of the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, he taught student Lisa Abbatomarco the process of creating a puppetry performance including design and construction (working with materials/ casting/ molding/ carving/ costuming), then moving onto various performance types (behind the screen/ in front of the screen with light/ table top/ life size, etc). The apprentice piloted a pageant on whaling she was developing for the 250th town celebration in Warren RI, at a presentation at Tourister Mill, Warren RI.
Additional audio, video, and/or photographic materials exist in the archive relating to these artists.
Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.
Status
Not on view
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