Hartford Puppetmaker Anne Cubberly Is The Creative Force behind Nightfall

Anne Cubberly is a visual artist with more than 28 years of experience. Her work includes kinetic sculpture, artist-in-residence experiences, installations, and performance. She has exhibited steadily in solo and group exhibitions and has created performances and pageants for The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. She has worked extensively with school and community groups, always with a focus on creativity, process, community, and re-purposed materials.

Ms. Cubberly is a recipient of an Artist’s Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She was the first and only Artist in Residence at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and The Wadsworth. Solo exhibitions include Paesaggio Gallery, 100 Pearl Street Gallery, Gallery 11, Pond House Gallery, and La Motta Fine Art, all in Hartford, CT.

Ms. Cubberly teaches group performance, mask-making, giant puppet-making, sculptural papier mache, and creating kinetic sculpture or automata from recycled materials. She has been an artist in residence in Ohio, Minneapolis and Connecticut. She has taught at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; BareBones Productions, Minneapolis, MN; Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA; University of Hartford, CT; University of Connecticut: The Community School of The Arts, Storrs, CT; The Pomerene Center for the Arts, Coshocton, OH; and Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. She is one of the eleven Visual Art Teaching Artists for the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.