Puppeteer · Workshop
Center for Puppetry Arts
Build and perform your own puppet at the largest puppetry organization in the United States.
Atlanta, GA
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Potter · Course
Atlanta Clay Works
Spend eight evenings at the wheel in this Cabbagetown studio learning to throw cups, bowls and bottles with clay and firing included.
Atlanta, GA
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Carpenter · Class
Highland Woodworking
Learn hand and power tools by building a real project in the classroom of this beloved Virginia-Highland shop that has taught woodworking since 1978.
Atlanta, GA
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Puppeteer
Among HumansWood and string and a person hidden behind it, and somehow the puppet is alive.
Potter
Human AuthorshipA wheel, some mud, a teacher's hands over yours. Two hours where your phone doesn't matter.
Carpenter
Body & PresenceThe corners you trust with your home.
Jeweler
Human AuthorshipMetal and fire and a magnifier, turned into the thing you will wear for fifty years.
Leatherworker
Human AuthorshipA hide, an awl, and a person stitching something that will soften and last for decades.
Chocolatier
Human AuthorshipBitter bean, human patience, and a shine you only get if a person got the temperature exactly right.
Florist
Human AuthorshipSomeone who translates what you couldn't say into stems and color.
Line Cook
Human AuthorshipA hot kitchen, twelve tickets, a plate that tastes like a place.
Bartender
Among HumansA machine can pour a measure. It cannot read the room.
Weaver
Human AuthorshipThread by thread, on a loom older than the machine age, a person makes cloth mean something.
Barista
Body & PresenceYour name, your usual, and ninety seconds of care poured slowly.
Letterpress Printer
Human AuthorshipInk, metal, and pressure. A page you can feel with your fingertips, made by a person.
Glassblower
Human AuthorshipA breath, held inside molten glass, kept forever.
Arborist
Body & PresenceHigh in the canopy, a climber tends the living architecture of a tree so it can stand another hundred years.
Game Warden
Trust & JudgmentOut where the roads end, a game warden keeps the wild fair, reading the land and looking after the animals and the people in it.
Reflexologist
Body & PresenceThe patient pair of hands that reads a whole body through a single foot and leaves you lighter than you arrived.
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