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The @artjoy.creative crew had the best time transforming @citrustowncenter into a springtime dream—complete with giant butterflies, soaring hummingbird puppets, face painting, and a whole cast of colorful, costumed characters. Everywhere you looked, there was movement, magic, and playful wonder. Huge thanks to @creative_marketing_arts for having us out to celebrate the season in such a joyful way. #ArtJoy #ImmersiveArt #WhimsicalArt #PerformanceArt #springvibes

🌻🌈🦋🌱Every day is Earth Day in the Sierra Foothills—a reminder to protect the land and celebrate the beauty that surrounds us, every single day. At ArtJoy (aka Giant Puppets Save the World), caring for the earth and honoring the impact of our actions is at the heart of everything we create. @artjoy.creative @giantpuppetssavetheworld Grateful to all these partners working to keep our earth clean and green! @nevadacitychamber @visitnevadacity @truckee_cultural_district @visittruckeetahoe @tahoenationalforest @grassvalleydowntownassoc @grassvalleychamberofcommerce @cityofgrassvalley @yubariverpeople @bearyubalandtrust @nevadacountyarts @wastemanagement @nevadacountyca @visittahoecity @tahoecitypud @pattiegonia 📸Photos: @lostyetnot 🎭Giant Puppeteers and Rainbow Flag Wavers: @durga_method @11.ellelle.11 👩🏽‍🎤Stilt Walking Giant Puppeteer: @lovetonitone

Radiating joy from start to finish 🌈🌻💛 ArtJoy brought a full spectrum of wonder to celebrate a truly heart-centered human — a 50th Birthday Disco Bat Mitzvah for creative visionary, momma, and community maker, @arutberg1 all set among the pristine vineyards of Sonoma. Our Stilt Walking Sunflower Rainbow Goddesses welcomed guests with vibrant color and movement, while our Champagne Skirt Hostess served sparkling aperol spritzes — weaving performance seamlessly into an atmosphere of incredible cuisine, synchronized swimmers, a Grateful Dead cover band, and so much more. This is what we love most — transforming spaces into immersive, joy-filled experiences that invite connection, celebration, and a little bit of magic. Deep gratitude to the incredible collaborators who brought this vision to life: @jackieoverdorf @kismetevent.co @theluxproductions @baymixesdjtools @dedandbreakfast @thechefandre @aimeelomelidesigns @encoreeventsrentals @artjoy.creative And BIG love to the ArtJoy performance + production team: @giantpuppetssavetheworld @vesper @sabrinarose.sabs @kmasque_11 Stilt walker + champagne hostess costumes, headdresses, and flag designs by @lovetonitone 🦋🌻💛 with sewing support from @maidenmaycostumes #eventdesign #immersiveexperience #eventproduction #ArtJoy #sonomaevents

✨What a joy-filled celebration at Park Winters! ✨ ArtJoy brought the magic with giant bubbles, roaming stilt walkers, a giant puppet parade, and a whimsical giant puppet installation spread across the lawn for an absolutely epic wedding packed with over 30 wildly creative kids. The entire property transformed into a living storybook filled with laughter, color, movement, and play. 🌈🫧🦋 We were so busy making art, dancing, puppeteering, and playing with the families that we barely had time to capture photos and video… but here’s a little snippet of the magic. 💫 Huge love to the beautiful couple and everyone who joined the parade and helped bring the wonder to life. @artjoy.creative @giantpuppetssavetheworld @parkwinters 🎥 @kayla.c #ParkWinters #ArtJoy #GiantPuppetsSaveTheWorld #WeddingEntertainment #northerncaliforniaweddings

Seeking a champagne skirt hostess for your next celebration? Let @artjoy.creative bring the art, the joy, the beauty, and an immersive experience to your guests. 🥂✨ Here is our champagne hostess @sabrinarose.sabs serving up amaro spritzes and champagne for a colorful floral vineyard celebration, wearing a custom champagne skirt, headdress, handpainted silk, floral décor, makeup, and styling by our boss babe @lovetonitone in collaboration with @jovanifashions . From whimsical roaming performers to living art installations, ArtJoy creates unforgettable moments filled with color, elegance, movement, and wonder for weddings, festivals, galas, and celebrations of all kinds. Photography by @kmasque_11 Venue and celebration planning by @arutberg1 and @kismetevent.co #ArtJoy #ChampagneSkirt #LivingArt #ImmersiveExperience #EventEntertainment

What’s bright, towering, and suddenly flying down the street in Nevada City? Not your average bird… 🐦✨ @giantpuppetssavetheworld Giant bird kite puppets, roaming larger-than-life creatures, and stilt walkers in radiant regalia turning the whole town into a living dreamscape. Inspired by the wild magic of the Tahoe National Forest, these creatures don’t just stay in the mountains—they come out to play in this historic Gold Rush town, sparking joy, surprise, and wonder with handmade art in the streets! @nevadacitychamber @artjoy.creative @inntowncampground @visitnevadacity @nevadacityca @nevadacountyarts #StreetArt #PublicArt #Puppetry #KineticArt #NevadaCity

Come join us at @dancechurch.nc today from 12-1pm for a workshop on playful dance, giant puppets, ans giant silk flags! Experience the whirl and swirl of flying a giant silk bird kite, or what it’s like to wear a giant backpack puppet set to groovy downtempo beats by @bibio_artist <3 #dancechurch #dance #immersiveexperience #puppets #silk

With festival season approaching, I’m thinking about Indi’s first festival, @highsierramusic last year. Far from having to stop doing the things we love with a baby, now we get to see them fresh through her eyes. Music, joy, art and community are even sweeter shared with a brand new little human! We met at High Sierra and what a full circle moment to bring our baby back to our original dance floor surrounded by our silly loving community. We especially loved the magical parades and handmade art from @giantpuppetssavetheworld and @artjoy.creative . Can’t wait to bring her to @goldenroadgathering in a couple weeks, and now she’s old enough to DANCE! 🪩

Color. Movement. Magic. 🌈✨ This is what ArtJoy feels like in real life. From stilt walkers to giant puppets, rainbow silks to immersive experiences—we transform events into living, breathing works of art. Every detail is designed to spark joy, connection, and a little bit of wonder. Weddings, festivals, private parties, community celebrations—if you want something unforgettable, we’ve got you. Let’s make something beautiful together. 👉 ArtJoy.org #ArtJoy #EventEntertainment #ImmersiveArt #StiltWalkers #creativeexperiences

ArtJoy at Earth Fest Nevada City 🌿 We showed up in full bloom for Earth Fest—bringing color, movement, and joyful connection to the heart of downtown Nevada City. Our stilt-walking sunflower goddess floated above the crowd, waving a rainbow silk flag through the spring sky, while monarch butterfly and hummingbird puppets danced through the streets. Surrounded by golden petals, bright fabrics, and big smiles, our crew turned the festival into a living, breathing celebration of nature. Everything you see is made with intention—upcycled and sustainably sourced materials including vintage bed sheets, rescued flower decor from the Bay Area’s corporate event industry, and regeneratively farmed silk. Huge love to our incredible team: puppeteers @giantpuppetssavetheworld @lovetonitone @durga_method and @11.ellelle.11 , and costume designers @lovetonitone and @maidenmaycostumes . Video and photos by @lostyetnot Grateful to share this work with such a vibrant community. @nevadacitychamber @visitnevadacity and to all the partners and collaborators @nevadacountyca @nevada_county_library @nevadacountyarts @nevadacountymedia @wastemanagement #EarthDay #NevadaCity #ArtJoy #SustainableArt #CommunityArt

We are making some amazingly joyful new costume pieces for a special event! Here is a sneak peak! Imagine 9’ tall sunflowers goddesses with rainbow ribbons streaming from their hair with hand painted silk rainbow legs and a gorgeous greeter wearing a butterfly gown inside of a giant metal skirt covered in delicious elixer beverages! #artjoy #sunflower #rainbow #silkdye #headdress special thanks to our women led team consisting of @lovetonitone for making these headdresses, painting the silk, and creating the concept @maidenmaycostumes for making these fabulous custom pieces of regalia with precision and excellence.

@bioneers is a gathering rooted in ecological wisdom, social justice, systems change, Indigenous knowledge, creativity, and collective imagination—all values that deeply align with the work of @giantpuppetssavetheworld / @artjoyorg - It is a powerful home for our offering of public art as storytelling, memorial, protest, celebration, and a way of helping people imagine a more just and connected world. As featured artists, Giant Puppets Save the World (ArtJoy.org) brought forward works by Toni Mikulka-Chang, Norma Baum, Lisa Bade, Tami Kurahara, Penny Dierich, Jara Lindsay, and Whealon Costello. One of the central parts of the offering was the giant puppet visioning and storytelling workshop led by @lovetonitone at @themarshtheater - inviting participants to explore how giant puppet theater can embody the core principles of Bioneers with shared values through image, movement, symbolism, and narrative. We listed our most pressing news headlines of today with the visionary utopic headlines we want to see 50 years from now and drafted a series of puppet symbols and storyboard from them. This year we will make the puppets in workshops for Bioneers next year! We installed The Guardians exhibit —monumental puppet heads honoring Rosa Parks, @malala , Wangari Maathai, Helen Keller, Marie Curie, and Dolores Huerta—alongside giant silk memorial flags created to honor souls lost to hate violence. At @ZellerbachHall , our Phoenix puppets were installed and later carried into the @nokingsdaymarch —rising up and moving from installation into action. We gifted our Dolores Huerta puppet to the @protectsattitla Pit River Nation Indigenous community of Shasta with deep respect and gratitude. They will use the puppet and repurpose it for their work in protecting sacred lands. All photography here is by @djfershaw and @lovetonitone . Puppeteers @siri.hueg @laotzusjoke clioanesti @dianeoneal Special thanks to @TheMarshTheatre @visitberkeley and Genie and Polina - for all your work in helping to support our work and bring this art to life! #ArtJoy #GiantPuppetsSaveTheWorld #Bioneers #puppetry #artforchange