Bread and Puppet Co-Founder Elka Schumann, 85, Dies democracynow.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from democracynow.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Elka and Peter Schumann Thirty-six years ago, Peter and Elka Schumann started making calendars. The collaboration merges the artwork of Peter, founder of Bread and Puppet Theater, and the editorial direction of Elka, his longtime partner in marriage and art. Each calendar has a theme that the two discuss and arrive at together. This is not standard-issue calendar fare but farther-reaching and original, with subjects such as Resistance, Basic Needs, Russian Proverbs, 12 Reasons to Visit Grandma, and Bread and Puppet Museum. Next, Elka plays a particularly crucial role by bugging her husband to make the pictures in time, whether woodcuts or drawings, Peter said. And to criticize those things; to reject some and admit others into the calendar. And so forth. That s how it goes.