Xander Marro (born 1975) is an American artist, underground puppet maker, and arts non-profit director based in
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence () is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Rhode Island, most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The county seat of Providence County, Rhode Island, Providence County, it is o ...
.
Work
She is a member of the
Dirt Palace, a feminist art collective, where she makes movies, puppet shows, prints, and phone calls. She curated the long-running "Movies with Live Soundtracks" series and toured with "Bird Songs of the Bauharoque," a two-woman puppet operetta starring her alter-egos, Lady Longarms and Madame von Temper Tantrum, as well as the alter-ego of
Becky Stark
Becky Stark is an American artist, singer, songwriter and entertainer from Los Angeles, California. She is the voice of the band Lavender Diamond.
Career
Becky Stark has performed extensively as a solo artist and leader of the Lavender Diamond b ...
, who is Marro's other half in the band
Lavender Diamond
Lavender Diamond is an American, Los Angeles-based band, fronted by singer Becky Stark.
History
While living in Providence, Rhode Island, Stark began performing as Lavender Diamond in a play that she and puppeteer Xander Marro wrote, created ...
. In her spare time she works as the Managing Director of Providence Not-for-Profit arts organization
AS220. She graduated from
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
in Art/Semiotics.
[Tannenbaum, Judith, and Maya Allison. (2006) ]
Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the Present
Museum of Art, RISD. Print.
Marro is described by the ''
Providence Phoenix'' as a "puppet-maker and projectionist steeped in the underground."
See also
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Pippi Zornoza
References
External links
Official websiteDirt PalaceRuffles, Repair & Ritual: The Fine Art of Fixing. RISD Museum. June 02, 2019.Marro's works at the RISD MuseumMarro's works in the Brown Digital Repository
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Living people
American puppeteers
American artists
Brown University alumni
1975 births