At the end of this semester, students in Afsaneh Aayani-Santos’ course on puppetry design — a brand-new offering in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts — will have created their own fully original and fully articulated puppets. On Sept. 8, their characters were just beginning to come to life as students sculpted heads that will eventually be covered with papier-mâché and paint. (Photos by Katharine Shilcutt)
