Paulette Richards
Ayamedia Independent Researcher
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta-based teaching artist and independent researcher, Paulette Richards survived a ten month stint in Senegal as a 2013/ 2014 Fulbright Scholar without contracting any tropical diseases, but sometime during her service as an artist in residence at the Institut français de Saint Louis, the puppet bug bit her hard. Co-curator of the Living Objects: African American Puppetry exhibit at the University of Connecticut’s Ballard Institute and Museum with Dr. John Bell, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Her book, Object Performance in the Black Atlantic is forthcoming from Routledge in 2023.
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