Toy Theaters with Ken Gerleve
Saturday, September 20, 2025
10am to 4pm
About the Workshop
In this class, students will expand on the Tunnel Book to create a larger and fully collapsible toy theatre with paper dolls. We’ll make panels like a traditional stage set backdrop, and also make some translucent screens for shadow puppet play.
Students with Tunnel Books experience may ask to attend without workshop prerequisite
About Ken Gerleve
Ken Gerleve is an interdisciplinary artist who uses narrative and image to tell stories, which are often darkly humorous. His artwork juxtaposes the traditional elements of the Gothic with contemporary culture. This can take the form of an illustrated book of original verse narrative, animation, puppet building and performance, or installation. He often uses Scherenschnitte, or paper-cutting, and dimensional book structures, like Tunnel and Carousel books, to create sculptural scenes reminiscent of the silhouette animations of Lotte Reiniger. Ken earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
10am to 4pm
About the Workshop
In this class, students will expand on the Tunnel Book to create a larger and fully collapsible toy theatre with paper dolls. We’ll make panels like a traditional stage set backdrop, and also make some translucent screens for shadow puppet play.
Students with Tunnel Books experience may ask to attend without workshop prerequisite
About Ken Gerleve
Ken Gerleve is an interdisciplinary artist who uses narrative and image to tell stories, which are often darkly humorous. His artwork juxtaposes the traditional elements of the Gothic with contemporary culture. This can take the form of an illustrated book of original verse narrative, animation, puppet building and performance, or installation. He often uses Scherenschnitte, or paper-cutting, and dimensional book structures, like Tunnel and Carousel books, to create sculptural scenes reminiscent of the silhouette animations of Lotte Reiniger. Ken earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
10am to 4pm
About the Workshop
In this class, students will expand on the Tunnel Book to create a larger and fully collapsible toy theatre with paper dolls. We’ll make panels like a traditional stage set backdrop, and also make some translucent screens for shadow puppet play.
Students with Tunnel Books experience may ask to attend without workshop prerequisite
About Ken Gerleve
Ken Gerleve is an interdisciplinary artist who uses narrative and image to tell stories, which are often darkly humorous. His artwork juxtaposes the traditional elements of the Gothic with contemporary culture. This can take the form of an illustrated book of original verse narrative, animation, puppet building and performance, or installation. He often uses Scherenschnitte, or paper-cutting, and dimensional book structures, like Tunnel and Carousel books, to create sculptural scenes reminiscent of the silhouette animations of Lotte Reiniger. Ken earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago.