First Fridays: Puppet Making Workshop

Join the BU Arts Initiative as we welcome back nationally renowned puppetry artist Tarish Pipkins, a.k.a. Jeghetto, for an interactive, hands-on workshop on Making Your Own Household Puppet.

Collect supplies from around your space including scissors or a box cutter, masking tape, glue, a stapler, different types of cardboard (corrugated boxes and thin like a cereal box), and a bunch of imagination!

*Open to current BU Students only*

About Jeghetto

Tarish Pipkins a.k.a. Jeghetto, was born in a small steel mill town called Clairton, PA located south of Pittsburgh, PA. He is a self taught artist and has been creating art from a very young age. As a teenager, he moved to the East Side of Pittsburgh and graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School. In the late 90’s Tarish joined the BridgeSpotters Collective and became known for his Live paintings and Poetry. He was also a Barber for over 20 years. He moved to North Carolina in 2005 where he launched his career in Puppetry. There, he fine tuned his skills by doing street performances with his puppets. In 2008 he started working with Paperhand Puppet Intervention. He has built puppets and performed in several Paperhand productions. Most recently, Jeghetto had the pleasure to work with national recording artist, Missy Elliott on her music video, WTF ( Where They From) controlling the Pharell puppet and doing some puppet building. He also worked on the Amazon Echo commercial featuring Missy Elliott and Alec Baldwin as puppets. Tarish is a former teacher at Just Right Academy, a private alternative school for children with special needs. Tarish is married and a proud father of five children. Jeghetto’s passion is promoting Oneness through the magic of Puppetry. Tarish was previously in residence with the BU Arts Initiative and Puppet Showplace Theatre in 2018.

About the BU Arts Initiative & First Fridays

The BU Arts Initiative is an interdisciplinary hub supporting programming and research that advances the role of the arts at the university, engages students, and builds community.

On the first Friday of every month the BU Arts Initiative Student Advisory Council hosts an event for BU students to stay creative, for free! Be sure to follow us on Facebook to stay up to date on future events.

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