This workshop is an introduction to the skills and techniques of wooden puppet fabrication – with an emphasis on carving with power tools, (dremels and die-grinders). Led by CAMP’s Education Director, Peter Balkwill, students will get a hands-on opportunity to explore the approaches of how to manipulate shape into wood using various carving bits, saws and sand paper.

This manner of carving, made famous by the artistic styles of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, can be used to create unique puppet forms and bodies for all types of puppet performance styles. The workshop includes investigation on various design directions on how you would advance the work into an entire puppet (working toward joints and rigging), although the primary focus of this workshop will be in shape study and carving.