Move It! is a twice monthly series of kinetic art making nights at The Stringpullers Studio. This week make pull-tab animated silhouette shadow houses. Drop-in making session from 5-8pm, for adults and kids with an adult. Free. The Puppet Library will also be available for on site reading, and the main Gallery with the Artist Alley group show will be open. Part of Third Thursday Open Studios at Artist Alley.

Find us through the red doors at the back of South Hill Business Park, across from Ithaca College. 950 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY. Studio 32-E.

The Stringpullers studio will be open for the first First Thursday Open Studios of the season. The newly plumped-up Puppet Library will be available for on site reading. No kinetic art making tonight, but if you have an unfinished project you started with Linda, this would be a good time to come finish. Chalice Well Creations, Polka Dot Tails, Happiest Days Design, and Sally Ryan will also be open. 950 Danby Road, Itahca, NY, across from Ithaca College. Enter through the back entrance of the South Hill Business Campus.

South Hill Business Campus will host The Community Arts Partnership’s Artist Networking Night on Tuesday, October 17 from 5-8. It will also be the grand opening of the new Gallery at South Hill, the new heart of Aritst Alley where the Stringpullers studio is located. At 6pm, many of the 45 new studios will be open, including the Stringpullers. 950 Danby Road, across from Ithaca College.

ZOOPSIA: the visual hallucination of animals. In collaboration with Chalice Well Creations, the Stringpullers will march in the Ithaca Festival Parade with their quirky kinetic cardboard animal heads, rain or shine. Jamie Love, photo.

Move It! is a twice monthly series of kinetic art making nights at The Stringpullers Studio. This week try making articulated cut-out beasts for shadow plays or animation. Drop-in making session from 5-8pm. For adults and kids with an adult. Free. Part of First Thursday Open Studios at Artist Alley.

This time we’ll turn the lights off at 7:45pm and invite to the shadow stage anyone who’d like to try performing a short scene with what they made that night. Skills not required! Just an adventurous spirit!

Find us through the red doors at the back of South Hill Business Park, across from Ithaca College. 950 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY.

Move It! is a twice monthly series of kinetic art making nights at The Stringpullers Studio. This week try making articulated cut-out beasts for shadow plays or animation. Drop-in making session from 5-8pm. For adults and kids with an adult. Free. Part of First Thursday Open Studios at Artist Alley.

Also at the Alley: the opening of Beast, an exhibition by Alice Muhlback. Plus Jessa Edwards and Margaret Reed and more. Find us through the red doors at the back of South Hill Business Park, across from Ithaca College. 950 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY.

Making art free from the pressure of being good is a tool for liberation. Free your creativity from judgement, drop in from 6-8pm and make bad art. For adults and kids with an adult. Free. At the Stringpullers Studio, Suite 32-E in Artist Alley, 950 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY.

Linda hosts the first in a series of kinetic art making sessions as part of Third Thursday Open Studios at the new Artist Alley art colony. On Thursday, Feburary 21, drop in from 5-8pm and try your hand at making a simple cam-driven automaton (art moved by mechanics) out of cardboard and other common materials. Visit other artists working in their studios that night, including Margaret Reed and Carol LaBorie. Free. Artistic and mechanical mastery not needed. For adults, and kids accompanied by an adult.

In The Stringpullers Studio, suite 36 in Artist Alley. Find us through the back entrance of the South Hill Business Campus, 950 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY. Across from Ithaca College.

Featuring Stringpullers puppets once again, Valley Regional High School’s Cinderella opens March 9. Deep River, Connecticut.

Linda brings her wide variety of puppets to the Bridgeport Art League to talk about materials, construction, and painting objects. At St. Paul's Parish Center on the Huntington Green. 

The Stringpullers bring puppet making and performance to the Connecticut Burn Camp, a summer camp free to children who've survived severe burn injuries. Sponsored by Connecticut Firefighters, run by the Bridgeport Hospital Burn Center. Supply donations of socks and sundries being gratefully collected. Email linda.wingerter@gmail.com. 

A few of Linda's puppet-inspired wood paintings are part of a 12 person group show at the Greater New Haven Arts Council, and Koffee right next door. On Audubon Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Opening night festivities July 9th starting at the Arts Council from 5-7pm, the party keeps rolling till 10 at Koffee!