Meet The Board

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For over 15 years now, Heidi Carpenter has been selling her unique puppet creations and performing as InJest Puppets (occasionally recruiting her musician husband Paul and talented daughter Joy to assist)! She currently serves as President of the Atlanta Puppetry Guild. Her favorite performing credit was playing ROCKY in The Rocky Horror Puppet Show! Heidi loves teaching puppet building and performance techniques to kids at various summer camps every year, and has built the masks and puppets for two productions of The Lion King Junior! She never misses the chance to perform at Atlanta PUPPET SLAMS, and is equally excited to do shows for toddlers! Her puppet creations are often made from unusual and unexpected materials such as: oven mitts, wooden spoons, car-wash mitts, gloves, recycled plastic bottles, fuzzy socks, thrift store toys, pizza box shadow stages, etc. She hasn't missed a National Puppetry Festival since attending her first one in 2007

website: www.injestpuppets.com

Imp (they/them) is an MC and producer who posits themself at an intersection between eclectic metaphors, socially progressive content, and a cornucopia of comic book references. Imp is very atypical of most rap music coming out of Atlanta, eschewing triplet flows on trap music for densely compacted rhymes on beats more akin to boom-bap and jazz. 

website: https://theuncannyimp.com/

Kristi is a professional artist with a degree and certification in art education from Georgia State University. She has taught many mediums at all age levels. She has also taught in a variety of venues, including public school systems, art centers, programs, and private lessons. Kristi acts as our Art Education Director.

Heidi is a native of Atlanta and a fan of anything creative, especially drawing, painting, and needle felting. She resides in Tucker and works at Georgia Tech as a remote sysadmin. When not at Heck or making something, she enjoys board games and Doctor Who.

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Michael Orr is an intermedia artist from Atlanta, Georgia(Clarkston). Michael's work encompasses visual poetry, illustration, collage, conceptual, performance and visual arts. Michael's interests include consciousness, poker, magic and non-human intelligence. Michael has been working at Emory University for 25 years, where he is a laboratory manager & technician.

website https://michaelorr.org/

Abby Schomaker is an ATL native, neurospicy, queer, multidisciplinary artist and teacher, who is passionate about art as a means of expression, advocacy, and healing. Abby is thrilled to be a board member and teacher at Heck.house as Head oƒ Diversity and Inclusion for the arts and community engagement. They have roots in both visual arts and performance, and their artistry blends them in performance and exhibition work. She has performed and exhibited work that includes: dance, puppetry, improv, comedy, painting, sculpting, singing, drawing, and more. They are currently teaching workshops with Heck, and working on innovative, artistic personal work.

Abby is known for their sense of style, love of etymology, and for making up silly songs and jokes to bring joy to humans. She/They/Abby holds a BFA from SCAD and a minor in writing.

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