Starting in 2024, each year the Movement Lab will host a puppeteer to teach students in a multidisciplinary art form with broad historical and global roots. Puppetry engages a range of disciplines, including performance, sculpture, textiles and illustration, with movement and gesture as the basis of identity. Through the generosity of RISD parent Cheryl Henson P 24, whose late father was internationally celebrated puppeteer Jim Henson, the Movement Lab will host RISD’s first visiting puppeteer in Wintersession 2024. Over the course of five years, different visiting puppeteers will help students develop a foundational understanding of puppetry, a multicultural art form with roots in Africa, Asia, Europe, Mexico and the US.