Wild Things

“Maurice Sendak was not a puppeteer per se, but he was a huge proponent of movement,” said Matthew Sorensen, co-director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of ...

The exhibition “Swing into Action: Maurice Sendak and the World of Puppetry” runs through Dec. “Spike and Maurice were very close,” Sorensen said. “Jack did the engineering, and Maurice did the artistic design. The exhibit also focuses on Sendak’s love of collaboration with other creative people. He was also very fond of pop-up books and any kind of two-dimensional art that had a little more three dimensionality to it, a little interactivity.” Sorensen said that fascination goes back to Sendak’s childhood. “Maurice Sendak was not a puppeteer per se, but he was a huge proponent of movement,” said Matthew Sorensen, co-director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut.