Sebastienne Mundheim: Performance Environments
AIMM Building 111
February 12 – March 2, 2025
Catch our artist-in-residence, Sebastienne Mundheim, on campus — she is sharing some puppets in an exhibition, working with TCNJ students, and bringing an incredible touring performance to us this month!
Kea and the Ark will be presented in TCNJ’s Don Evans Black Box Theater on March 1 and 2.
About the Artist:
Sebastienne Mundheim (Lead Artist: Writer, Designer, Director, Puppetry Coach, Performer, Workshop Leader) is a performance-maker, installation artist, and educator with more than 30 years of experience in interdisciplinary arts and arts education. Her work integrates visual installation, puppetry, storytelling, dance, and theater. In addition to making her own work, Mundheim is a thought-partner and consultant for numerous other artists and arts organizations.
Mundheim/White Box Theatre have been commissioned and/or presented by institutions nationally and internationally including: The Rosenbach Museum and Library, The University of Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, The Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, The Arden Theatre, Theatre Exile, PA Ballet, Franklin and Marshall College, Keene State University, Vermont Performance Lab, Marlboro College, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts, and The Irish Ministry of Arts and Culture.
Special Event
Please check back for more information on a special event celebrating the exhibition and the work of visual art students who worked with Mundheim and TCNJ Professor Elizabeth Mackie on projects inspired by Mundheim’s vision.
Related Performance:
Kea and the Ark
March 1 & 2, 2:00pm
Don Evans Black Box Theater
Visual installation comes to life with electric cello, dance, puppetry, and storytelling in a 60-minute performance sharing the true story of a woman who built a 86-foot long, three-story tall ark in the city of Newark. Join us for the exquisite journey of inventive biographic portraiture as artist Sebastienne Mundheim of White Box Theatre deftly crafts a story exploring history, identity, and the “courage to be.” This poetic tale takes us from Japan, to Arizona, to Newark, with paper sculpture, projections, soulful music and follows the life of a self-taught engineer and artist who built an unlikely dream.
This performance was commissioned and incubated at ArtYard (2023), and has since been performed to sold-out audiences at Kohler Arts Center (2023), Delaware Contemporary Arts Center (2024), and Theatre Exile (2024).
For tickets, please visit the TCNJ box office.
Kea and the Ark was originally commissioned by ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey, and performed to sold-out audiences there in 2023.