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 designer and builder, puppeteer, artist, HandyNan |
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Annett Mateo has been an artist all her life but was sidetracked by a high tech career for 15 years as a mainframe legacy application programmer. She has been a resident of the Fremont community of Seattle for over fifteen years. Her creative endeavors include designing, building and performing small theater to giant sized festival puppets. She also designs and creates lanterns and lamps, and persues a variety of other artistic works. | |||
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Annett received her degree in Art from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. As a student, one of her ceramic pieces was exhibited in the faculty juried show. She also minored in chemistry. | |||
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In 1997, Annett was co-author/illustrator of Lanterns: Ancient Technology; Eternal Beauty, a self-published book containing a brief history of lanterns and illustrated instruction for a variety of lantern types. The first run has sold out. | |||
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Annett has been an active member of the Fremont Arts Council for many years, serving as one of its charter board members as well as participating in, and assisting organizing the variety of community arts celebrations produced throughout each year. These events include the Fremont Solstice Parade and Pageant, May Day festival, Annual Garage Sale, and Trolloween. Involvement in helping create other community festivals has included the Illuminares Festival in Vancouver BC, the University Street Festival in Seattle, and the Heart of the Beast annual May Day festival in Minnesota. | |||
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Recent work includes building puppets for many productions of Seattle Children’s Theater’s. Annett is one of the co-founders of Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab the folks who produce the more or less annual Drunk Puppet Nite. She was also managing director, puppet builder, and graphic artist for Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab’s production of Frankenocchio. | |||
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