FULL MOON PUPPET ARTS: Workshop
Mutual Aid Community Workshop Build
July 12 & 19, 2025
Taught by Christopher Lutter
Full Moon is offering two open community workshop sessions designed by teaching artist Christopher Lutter, Full Moon Mutual Aid Lead Staff, to give participants a hands-on understanding of how to design and build large-scale puppets and/or pageant puppets, while combining the power of visual art with community activism.
Working alongside Mutual Aid Lead Artists, participants will help to complete a large-scale puppet and learn about the efforts of Brass Solidarity. These workshops will be in-person at Big Animal Productions.
What is Mutual Aid? Full Moon’s Mutual Aid workshops partner with a social justice organization to design a puppet(s) that will help in their efforts to create change. The puppet is designed with input from the partner organization, an experienced teaching artist and three Full Moon lead artists. Open Community Workshops teach participants about the design process while completing the final steps. The puppet is then donating to the partner organization for their future use.
Enrollment is sliding scale/free. Sign up for a single workshop or come to both. Your donation helps support this Full Moon Puppet Show Mutual Aid Workshop.
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REGISTRATION
$0 – 30
AGE LIMIT: 16 and up
MAX PARTICIPANTS: 20 -
DATE, TIME & LOCATION
July 12 & 19, 2025
1:00 – 4:00pm Central TimeIN PERSON:
Big Animal Productions
Ivy Arts Building
2714 27th St east
Minneapolis, MN 44506 -
MORE INFO
ACCESSIBILITY: Contact Open Eye at boxoffice@openeyetheatre.org or 612-874-6338 for accessibility information and requests.
If you have questions about this workshop, please email
thefullmoonpuppetshow@gmail.com.
Required Materials
Please wear old clothing and closed toed shoes. Masks are encouraged.
Teaching Artist Bio
Christopher Lutter is a designer, sculptor, theater-maker and community educator whose work revolves around the design, construction and performance of puppets, masks, props, costumes, theatrical inventions, kinetic-sets and sculptural installations. He produces his art predominately from waste-stream materials, exploring the unique potentials inherent in a variety of materials.
For two decades Chris has been working to facilitate original thinking in the realms of theatrical, educational and public-art design. A deep emphasis is placed upon eco-consciousness, resource-fulness, collaboration and improvisation.
Chris is founder and artistic director of Big Animal Productions LLC, a public art production company, based in Minneapolis, MN. He also manages and directs Puppet Farm Arts, a humble nonprofit community-arts organization. The mission of The Puppet Farm is “to improve the health of human communities and the Earth by teaching people the process of transforming waste materials into imaginative art.” Learn more at christopherlutter.com.
FULL MOON PUPPET SHOW is supported by:
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.