09/23/2026
Bread and Puppet
Bread and Puppet was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann based on an anti-capitalist, community-driven cultural movement that simply spoke out against the atrocities within our communities and governments based on art, societal protests, and simply, ways of life. He began to create puppets and theater to exemplify the government as we know it. I beg you to look into Bread and Puppet Theater to understand the extent an artist will go/grow, and the way they live their lives to promote freedom and liberty through art.
My own personal note:
This artist has given everything of his knowledge of his time on this earth into his art and performance. This is clear. Everything he has put out on the streets and on his own property in Glover , VT, he has erected puppets and riots, and protests that you and I could not even fathom. He has insinuated what we could never. He has brought community together that most of us would never understand how to lead. Every masterpiece has come come out of refuse, and materials on hand, paper, paper, refuse. . Peter's motto , as I know it, is "Art should be a basic necessity for physical and spiritual sustenance, not a commercial commodity. "
In my opinion, we should all have access to art, or access to artists.
