Xander Marro

American artist, underground puppet maker, and arts non-profit director

Xander Marro
Born	1975 (age 48–49)
Alma mater	Brown University
Known for	performance art, activism, film animation
Website	xandermarro.com

Xander Marro (born 1975) is an American artist, underground puppet maker, and arts non-profit director based in Providence, Rhode Island.

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, who is Marro's other half in the band Lavender Diamond.^[1] In her spare time she works as the Managing Director of Providence Not-for-Profit arts organization AS220. She graduated from Brown University in Art/Semiotics.^[2]^[3]

Marro is described by the Providence Phoenix as a "puppet-maker and projectionist steeped in the underground."^[4]

References

^ "Blood from a Turnip Late Night Puppet Cabaret". www.ridance.com. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
^ Tannenbaum, Judith, and Maya Allison. (2006) Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the Present. Providence, R.I.: Museum of Art, RISD. Print.
^ "Art:21 Preview and Artist's Talk". Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
^ "Rhode Island's Most Influential". The Providence Phoenix News. Retrieved 2016-02-08.