CRANKSTERS A - K

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ANNA AND ELIZABETH

KATHERINE FAHEY

DMITRI CARTER

PETER SCHUMANN

Ines Zeller Bass and Eric Bass are Co-Directors of the Sandglass Theater in Putney, VT.  Since 1982, the theater has been producing award-winning puppet shows. In the past few years they have hosted three, sold-out crankie festivals.  Visit their website sandglasstheater.org.

Sam watched Bread & Puppet Theater cranky shows as a teenager growing up in Vermont in the 1970s. This inspired him to begin building cranky theaters and drawing his own cranky shows, as well as teaching countless others to do the same. Sam has made collaborative crankies with small communities  across the country from Gustavus, AK to Plymouth, MA for the past 20 years. Most recently he teamed up with  LoCoArt in Bellefontaine, OH to produce a cranky about the history of The Holland Theater. sambartlett.com

John Bell and Trudi Cohen of Great Small Works performing "Ode to Common Things" at the opening of "Banners and Cranks: Paintings and Scrolls in Performance, Feb. 23rd, 2017. Banners painted by Peter Schumann of the Bread and Puppet Theater are hanging in the background.

John Bell was part of the Bread and Puppet Theater from 1976-1986 where he got his first exposure to crankies.  He is now Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the Univ. of Conneticut. He is also a member of Great Small Works in NYC. They have been performing crankies for decades.

Trudi Cohen was a full time member of the Bread and Puppet Theater's resident company for ten years. She is also a member of Great Small Works.

Puerto Rico - Dave is co-organizer of  Banners and Cranks - A Traveling Cantastoria and Cranky Festival.   The first Banners and Cranks Festival was in 2010.

He has created many crankies focusing on the poertry of Charles Baudelaire (Baudelaire in a Box).

He is also a printmaker davebuchen.wordpress.com  You can see some Banners and Cranks poster's here.

Clare Dolan

Glover, VT -  Clare Dolan is one of the founders Banners and Cranks - A Traveling Cantastoria and Cranky Festival. She was with the Bread and Puppet Theater from 1990 to 2002 and has performed crankies for decades.  She is a specialist in cantastoria performance in addition to crankies and teaches/performs in festivals, schools and community-based programs. She is curator of the Museum of Everyday Life  museumofeverydaylife.org.

This is Ellen's Pretty Fair Miss crankie. Thousands of tiny pieces glued to rice paper. It took 18 months to complete.

Pittsburgh, PA  - Appalachian ballad singer and banjo player. She has made some crankies by using paper mosaic and coordinated several Crankie Festivals in Pittsburgh.  Watch her Pretty Fair Miss crankie here.  Visit her website.   ellengozion.com

Joanna Hruby with one of her miniature crankies.

From Devon in the UK, Joanna Hruby is a musician, painter, puppeteer and folk art artist extrodinarre. joannahruby.wordpress.com