About Us
The artistic vision of Fuzzy Boundary Productions is inspired by the rich imaginary world of Cheryl Capezzuti and her well-recognized, community-interactive work, The National Lint Project. The National Lint Project is a community art making inquiry that began in 1994 as a sculptural lark for visual artist Capezzuti. Through collaboration, the Project has grown to include critically noted exhibits, installations of human-sized figures, contemporary puppetry and performance events.
Writer Kellee Van Aken finds inspiration in this imaginary world and brings Capezzuti’s visual work and concepts to life through her original plays. Both artists believe that the creation and viewing of art, visual and theatrical, can and should be connected to the lives of regular people beyond a traditional art audience. To this end, their work explores every day experience through the populist form of puppetry with the goal of inspiring inquiry, contemplation and delight. Collaboration with other professional artists and arts organizations to fulfill the company’s mission is critical to the work of Fuzzy Boundary Productions.
Kellee Van Aken
Kellee created the play Mismatched Pair with Capezzuti, which has been performed at the Black Sheep Puppet Festival, Women’s Work Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art and the Philly Fringe Festival. Her play writing credits include Tipton, (Flying Pig Theatre) Ordinary Phoenix, (timespace) Shakespeare for Small People (University of Pittsburgh), an adaptation of The Hudsucker Proxy (University of Pittsburgh) with CT Steele, and 9 Lives Countless Dreams (City Theatre’s Youthworks company). Her directing credits include: the Young Playwright’s Festival (2000-2003), Momentum: new plays at different stages: autodelete; Oleanna (assistant director) all at City Theatre. Mismatched Pair; Red (associate director) Floyd Collins (assistant directing) with Point Park College. She received her M.A. in Theatre History from the University of California-Davis. She is the Artistic Associate at the City Theatre.
Cheryl Capezzuti
Cheryl's giant puppets have been seen on Good Morning America (1999) as well as at The Detroit Festival of the Arts (1994-2003), The Andy Warhol Museum (1998), First Night Pittsburgh (1998-2002) and The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts (1993-2003). Her solo exhibitions include Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery (Pittsburgh 2003), Winchester Thurston Gallery (Pittsburgh, 1997, 2000) and The Art Alliance (Lemont, PA, 1993) and she has been included in group shows at ArtSpot (Atlanta, GA 2003), FE Gallery (Pittsburgh, 2003)The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (2002), The Mattress Factory (2002), The Lancaster Museum of Art (Lancaster, PA 2000) and ARC Gallery (Chicago, IL 1998). Her installations in public spaces have been seen at Butler Street Coin-Op Laundromat (2003), Midtown Laundry and Cleaners (Atlanta, GA, 2003) and Duds ‘N Suds Laundromat (2001-2003).