Interview With Elizabeth Luce, Part 1
Elizabeth Luce is a graphic artist, illustrator and puppet designer. She has a Master of Fine Arts in costume and set design from UCLA and has worked on a variety of film, television and theatre productions. Elizabeth designed puppets for a Children's Fairyland production of The Wizard of Oz and Snapdragon Puppets' Emmy-winning video The Mousecracker. I asked her to share her thoughts on puppet design.
PJ: How did you become interested in puppetry?
EL: Puppets engaged my attention at least by the time I was 5. I had an art teacher named Benjamin Blake who, years later, I learned was a well-known person in the puppet and theatre world who had "disappeared" -- into our world, as it turned out.
Puff the Dragon, who blew smoke, a white mouse, a knight with a chest that opened to reveal a clock that opened to reveal a bird, and more. Whenever my class heard that the puppets were coming out, we hurried to sit in a mesmerized circle. In the after-school art program I had my first chance to build a real puppet -- a rod puppet.
I'm a bit embarrassed to say that halfway through the project I pooped out, and Mr. Blake had to bribe me with a toy from the toy chest to finish. It worked, though, and I still have the puppet. It's pretty funny-looking. Hopefully this doesn't say anything about my current work ethic.
PJ: How did you become interested in puppetry?
EL: Puppets engaged my attention at least by the time I was 5. I had an art teacher named Benjamin Blake who, years later, I learned was a well-known person in the puppet and theatre world who had "disappeared" -- into our world, as it turned out.
Puff the Dragon, who blew smoke, a white mouse, a knight with a chest that opened to reveal a clock that opened to reveal a bird, and more. Whenever my class heard that the puppets were coming out, we hurried to sit in a mesmerized circle. In the after-school art program I had my first chance to build a real puppet -- a rod puppet.
I'm a bit embarrassed to say that halfway through the project I pooped out, and Mr. Blake had to bribe me with a toy from the toy chest to finish. It worked, though, and I still have the puppet. It's pretty funny-looking. Hopefully this doesn't say anything about my current work ethic.
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