![]() Learn more about NWPC – Alan Cook collection going toĬalifornia Community Foundation Newsletter A very kind and visionary contribution by the Jacqueline Marks Fund of The California Community Foundation has been made to support the endeavor. Jacqueline has been one of these dedicated volunteers and a generous benefactor. In 1999, a group of friends gathered in California to help Alan with the important task of organizing the collection and helping decide on a permanent home. The Cook/Marks Collection is named for Alan Cook and Jacqueline Marks. After a panel of artists, consultants and advisors carefully considered institutions across the West Coast, the Northwest Puppet Center was chosen to become the permanent home for the collection. Included are traditions from around the world and works by prominent puppeteers from the past few centuries. Over the past six decades, Alan Cook has amassed an internationally acclaimed collection of over 5,000 puppets. The Northwest Puppet Center provides a valuable resource and fascinating entertainment for children and families. The center presents a family season of puppetry by the Carters and selected guest artists with over 250 performances each year. In 1993 they purchased and renovated a charming church in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle. The Carters are especially known for their mastery and preservation of the traditional Sicilian Chris and Stephen Carter were the Directors of the 1999 Puppeteers of America Festival of the Millennium held at the University of Washington August 1999. The company has been awarded the "UNIMA/USA Citation of Excellence" (the highest award in American puppet theater) for three of their productions. They have presented their plays in five different languages and have also been invited as guest director/designers internationally. The Carter Family Marionettes have been featured performers at National and World Puppet Festivals from Scotland to Uzbekistan. Stephen Carter received the Fulbright Award for puppetry studies in 1984 and holds a postgraduate degree from the Institute of Theater and Cinema in Bucharest. They trained with master puppeteers of Romania, Sicily, and China. The Carters have been professional puppeteers since 1976. International Performing Arts Festival of Brasil International Puppet Museum of Holon, Israel In 2002, Dmitri participated in the pilot session of “Technology Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders” after which NPower, one of the nation’s leading technology focused nonprofits, invited him to serve on the Advisory Committee.ĭmitri has also assisted with various outside puppet projects including: In addition to fundraising, Dmitri also conducts research, curates exhibitions, teaches educational programs, writes articles, documents a variety of puppetry techniques with video and photography, designs publicity materials and still performs regularly. In 2003, Union Internationale de la Marionette awarded Dmitri one of only two International Scholarship Awards to conduct research in China on the ancient tradition of marionettes. In college, he served a term on student government and served on the tenure committee for professor of cultural anthropology and ethnic studies. At 16 Dmitri went on to attend college through the recently established Running Start program resulting in combined high school and college graduation, both with honors. Upon returning to Seattle, he attended Summit Alternative School where he and a few fellow students established the still successful potter program. During second and third grade, Dmitri lived in Romania and traveled throughout Europe picking up foreign languages and learning cultural traditions. ![]() NEW HOME OF THE COOK/MARKS PUPPETRY COLLECTIONĭmitri Carter has been performing professionally as a puppeteer since childhood and currently serves a Development Director and Associate Artist for Seattle’s internationally acclaimed Northwest Puppet Center, established in 1986 by his parents, Chris and Stephen Carter. DMITRI CARTER AND THE NORTHWEST PUPPET CENTER
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