Felicia Cooper is a Minneapolis-based artist working puppetry and performance. Her work has been seen at LaMama Theater's Puppet Festival, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Full Moon Puppet Show, In the Heart of the Beast Theater, and more. Her work has been supported by The National Humanities Center, the Connecticut Sea Grant, the Heinz Foundation, the Pennsylvania State Arts Board, and others. She has held artistic residencies with the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, The Bell Museum, the Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance,  Open Eye Theater, Winterthur Museum and Gardens, folkLAB, the New Hazlett Theater, and others. As an extension of her social practice, she conducts contextual research. She makes work embedded in community and creates platforms for others to create experimental work, including her work with the Minnesota Fringe Festival, where she serves as the Director of Audience and Volunteer Engagement. She holds an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut. Go Huskies. 

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Statement

I make puppet shows and art experiences which allow us to ask questions together, to be complicit in inquiry and mischief. 

My work is embedded in a practice of community and embodied research. I aim to celebrate questions and curiosity in shared spaces through performances and installations which examine the complicated ideations of the glorious and the strange. Subjects have included alterity, 19th century feminist craft, submarines, freshwater mussels, model trains, and the nature of hope.

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