Biography of Chris Lutter:

Christopher Lutter-Gardella has been making masks, puppets, costumes, sets, floats and various theatrical accoutrements out of waste materials for over ten years. He has taught the process of transforming trash into imaginative art to communities throughout the upper midwest and beyond.

He has worked extensively in schools, libraries, community centers and other civic organizations as an artist-in-residence. He has presented training sessions and demonstrations at conferences and fairs and the like. He has guided communities in the development of art-making workshops and parades and theater productions. He has extensive experience in facilitating broad and diverse groups of people in the process of collaborative art-making, from conceptualization through to final presentation. He has also produced commission work for theaters, townships, institutions and television production companies.

He was recently a recipient of the 2006 (Archibald) Bush Foundation (3M) Fellowship Grant, which provides artists with significant support to continue their work in their communities. He has traveled as far as Ajo, Arizona and New York City to spread the love and practice of imaginative trash-transformation. He has served on the staff of the Heart of the Beast's "May Day Festival" in Minneapolis Minnesota and serves as artistic director of Puppet Farm Arts, a small non-profit arts education and resource organization.

Contact Information
Chris Lutter
Minneapolis, MN 55407
puppetfarm@yahoo.com
612-721-1395

Contact Information
Chris Lutter
Minneapolis, MN 55407
puppetfarm@yahoo.com
612-721-1395

©2003-2006 Chris Lutter
Puppet Farm Community Arts.