SAA-SNAP 2022 Section Meeting and Special Presentation
Inside The Jim Henson Company Archives
Friday, July 15th, 2022
8am Hawaii/Aleutian; 11am Pacific; Noon Mountain; 1pm Central; 2pm Eastern
Registration: https://bit.ly/3nVKx5z
JOIN US on Friday, July 15th at 2pm (Eastern) for SNAP's 2022 Section Meeting!
We will begin our webinar with a brief review of the past year's activities and thank you to all our 2021-2022 speakers and Committee Members.
Then, we will welcome two special guests-Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy; and Karen Falk, Archives Director for The Jim Henson Company and Vice President of The Jim Henson Legacy-for an informal discussion about The Jim Henson Company Archives…
Inside The Jim Henson Company Archives
For 30 years, Karen Falk has been preserving and presenting the work of Jim Henson. Join Karen and Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy for a chat about Jim Henson's work, the origin of The Jim Henson Company Archives, and an inside look at how the collection was used in the creation of Craig's new book, Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson's First Television Show.
Karen Falk has served as the Archives Director for The Jim Henson Company since 1992, and is Vice President of The Jim Henson Legacy. She is the author of Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal and the main contributor to The Jim Henson Company website "Jim's Red Book." With The Jim Henson Legacy, she has organized numerous Henson exhibits. Falk works closely with the Worlds of Puppetry Museum at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta and collaborates with the Museum of The Moving Image in New York on their Jim Henson Exhibition and serves on their Board.
Craig Shemin is a freelance writer-producer in all media and the President of the Jim Henson Legacy, Craig Shemin is the author of The Muppets Character Encyclopedia and an upcoming book about Henson's first television series, Sam and Friends. A noted Henson historian, he produced and directed the award-winning documentary Behind the Scenes in Frogtown Hollow, about the making of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas and curates the Henson screening events at Museum of the Moving Image. Shemin also produced the video content for the permanent Jim Henson exhibit at the Center for Puppetry Arts and wrote the scripts for the sold out Jim Henson tribute concerts in New York's Carnegie Hall and New Zealand's Michael Fowler Centre. craigshemin.com
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Michelle D. Novak, MI
Chair, SAA Students and New Professionals Section (SNAP)
m@mnd.nyc------------------------------