“Penny really rocked our commission for MIT’s Moving Day! centennial celebration. The challenge: create giant puppet heads based on real people - a dozen luminaries from the celebrated history of MIT. She created a playful caricature style that captured the likenesses and spirit of the individuals, executed it with consistency to make a complete “set,” and collaborated seamlessly with our costume designer and the rest of the production staff to deliver a wonderfully memorable part of our production.”

— Peter Agoos, Agoos D-zines LLC

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Past Productions:

Winifred Sanderson from the cult classic film “Hocus Pocus” takes a job with the National Park Service and makes the front page of the Salem News, after parading through the crowds at the yearly Haunted Happenings Grand Parade in Salem, Massachusett… — Winifred Sanderson from the cult classic film “Hocus Pocus” takes a job with the National Park Service and makes the front page of the Salem News, after parading through the crowds at the yearly Haunted Happenings Grand Parade in Salem, Massachusetts.

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Museum and Gallery Exhibitions:

5/31-6/26/25 Art, Movement, Imagination: 60 Years of UConn Puppeteers. Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry, Storrs, CT. Prancer Curated by Dr. John Bell and Matthew Sorenson

10/22-1/23 Black & White, Town of Windsor Art & Heritage Center, Windsor, CO

8/21-11/21 RRCC Creative Community Exhibit, The Art Gallery at Red Rocks Community College, Lakewood, CO

7/2015-10/2015 “The Work That Follows” • BIMP, Storrs, CT. Curated by Anna Fitzgerald.

8/10-8/16/2015 The Naked Puppet Exhibit, 2015 Puppeteers of America National Festival, Storrs, CT, curated by Heidi Rugg

11/14 • Portrait in the Twenty-First Century at Postmasters, NYC. Sally Smart marionette, Sally Smart, Pedagogical Puppet (Self-Portrait) 2012, http://www.postmastersart.com/archive/portrait21C14/portrait21C14.html

9/2013 Vernon Community Arts Center, Vernon, CT

8/5/-8/11/2013 The Puppeteers of America Exhibition at the National Festival, Strathmore, PA

3/2013 Three Graces Gallery, Stafford Springs, CT

9-10/2012 Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, CT, The Pedagogical Puppet: Projects by Sally Smart