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Truckin' Along
Tiny Circus is still truckin' along and everyone is making good progress on their projects. We are continuing to develop our circus characters, making adjustments to personalities and materials to...
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Article 23
Our tiny tiny circus is becoming more and more plausible by the day! It took us a few trials, but we are finally getting the strong man to be animate-able after a couple skeletal surgeries...We've also...
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Characters
Our resident hedgehog has headed home to Kansas City - the circus is winding down for the summer. Over the last two weeks, we've been working on character development. Six circus performers evolved...
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Arrowmont School of Art and Craft
Tiny Circus traveled to Gatlinburg, TN, land of swimming holes and bears, to teach an animation class at the Arrowmont school. Class participants began by illustrating an common idiom (a stitch in...
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Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
From Gatlinburg, the circus headed 1004 miles north to Provincetown, Massachusetts to teach another animation class. Our studio was in a renovated lumber-yard at the Fine Arts Work Center. Class...
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Tiny Circus goes Elsewhere...
After raising hell and high water Tiny Circus traveled through an earthquake and approaching hurricane to park our airstream in downtown Greensboro, NC for a month long residency at Elsewhere.Elsewhere...
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An Eventful Weekend
The circus celebrated Labor Day with a weekend full of fun events and even a swimming trip to the local quarry. A few days ago we put on a roadside Tiny Circus show in front of Elsewhere as part of...
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Elsewhere Winding Down...and Beyond!
It’s our last week at Elsewhere Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. We’re still clicking away on the History of Dust, brainstorming Traps with students in Columbia, Missouri and Mount Vernon, Iowa, and,...
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HUB-BUB in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Tiny Circus, rolling on... landed at HUB-BUB in Spartanburg, South Carolina, after driving from our lovely stay at the Elsewhere Collaborative in Greensboro. We went straight to work on our first...
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Citizen Bumper
The Citizen Jane Film Festival comes once a year, and the Tiny Circus spends the rest of the year looking forward to it.We left Circus House in home-base Grinnell at 6 AM to arrive in time for our...
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University of Missouri Student Reflects on Ghost Trap
We're excited to introduce a new feature to our blog: posts by participants and observers of Tiny Circus in action. This week, Sam Jonesi, a student in Joanna Hearne's History of Animation class at the...
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Ghost Trap Premiers at the Citizen Jane Film Festival
Tiny Circus was thrilled to be back at Citizen Jane for a third year as part of the Cirque du Cinema! With Halloween approaching it was the perfect time to try our hand at trapping a ghost. We had a...
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Hello Mount Vernon!
Autumn is in full leaves-falling, crisp air mode, and the drive from Grinnell - 80 miles East - to Mount Vernon, Iowa was a golden and dusty one. Last year over 500 students at Washington Elementary...
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Giraffe. Trapped.
They said it couldn’t be done. They said it was too tall, eats too many leaves, can't be tracked, is perfectly silent. Camouflaged to near invisibility... ferocious to boot. Many had tried, all had...
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A Letter to the Editor in Mount Vernon
When Tiny Circus is on tour, it's one workshop after another. At times it feels as if our magic lanterns (Peanut and Silver Pelican, the airstream trailers) pop out a screen, project a show, and roll...
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Madison Children's Museum
For two days, Tiny Circus landed in the wonderland of imagination and play known as the Madison's Children Museum. We set up shop in the heart of Possible-opolis, right next to the Hodgepodge Mahal, an...
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The Brentwood Boys and Girls Club
Tiny Circus lifted off from New Orleans last week, rolling to Raleigh, North Carolina for a week of animation-making with the Brentwood Boys and Girls Club through Artspace, an art center in Raleigh.In...
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