Wender·Vista
Bread and Puppet Theater Glover
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileVermont
on a hill farm in Glover, in the Northeast Kingdom

Bread and Puppet Theater Glover

— — the giants the hayfield carries on Sunday.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“A red dairy barn turned puppet museum on a hill farm in Glover, deep in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. Peter Schumann started Bread and Puppet on the Lower East Side in 1963 and moved the company here in 1974, onto a 140-acre former dairy. The barn holds papier-mâché giants stacked twenty feet high, kings and birds and washerwomen, some of them fifty years old. On summer Sundays the company performs in the hayfield and serves dense sourdough rye with garlic aioli, free, the same bread Schumann has been baking by hand for sixty years.

from the studio
Bread and Puppet Theater Glover
— bring it home

Bread and Puppet Theater Glover, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— about Bread and Puppet Theater Glover

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

Bread and Puppet Theater sits on Route 122 in Glover, Vermont, in Orleans County deep in the Northeast Kingdom. Peter Schumann and his wife Elka founded the company in 1963 on New York's Lower East Side and moved it to a former dairy farm in Glover in 1974. The company works across roughly 140 acres of pasture and forest, with the old dairy barn converted into one of the largest puppet museums in the world, free to walk through. The company is a National Endowment for the Arts honoree.

— informed by Wikipedia, Bread and Puppet
— the year

The season runs Memorial Day through late October. Free Sunday performances in the hayfield happen most summer weekends at 3:00 PM, with a circus show plus a pageant in the field at dusk. The bread is dense sourdough rye, baked in a wood-fired outdoor oven from Schumann's own starter, served free with garlic aioli at every show. The museum barn is open daily 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in season. Off-season the company tours, with hundreds of shows in over thirty countries since 1963.

— informed by Bread and Puppet season
— the silence

The museum is the quiet draw. Three storeys of stacked papier-mâché figures fill the old hay barn, some standing twenty feet, some hanging from the rafters, painted in raw cobalt, ochre, and white. Kings, generals, washerwomen, fiddlers, birds, a Madonna with the moon on her arm. Many are fifty years old, sagging gently, repaired in the same hand-mixed flour-and-water paste Schumann uses for the new ones. There is no signage, no admission, no audio guide. Most visitors walk through it once and then go back in.

— informed by Bread and Puppet Museum
— where
United States · Glover, Vermont
— position
44.7095° N · 72.1989° W
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
18 km NE
Lake Willoughby
fjord lake
22 km SW
Craftsbury Common
village green
2 km S
Glover village
village
N
Bread and Puppet Theater Glover
Lake Willoughby
Craftsbury Common
Glover village
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Bread and Puppet Theater Glover — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

A political papier-mâché puppet theatre founded by Peter Schumann in 1963 on the Lower East Side of New York and moved to a Glover, Vermont hill farm in 1974. The company makes oversized puppets and performs free in the hayfield.

A German-born artist, baker, and puppeteer who co-founded Bread and Puppet with his wife Elka. He still sculpts puppets, bakes the sourdough rye, and directs the company in his nineties, working from the Glover farm.

Yes. The puppet museum, housed in the old dairy barn, is open daily 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM from June through October, free, with a donation jar at the door. Most Sunday performances are also free.

Schumann bakes dense sourdough rye in a wood-fired outdoor oven and serves it free with garlic aioli at every performance. The bread, like the theatre, is meant to be shared with the audience as part of the same gesture.

Memorial Day through late October. Free Sunday performances happen most summer weekends at 3:00 PM, with a circus and a pageant. The company tours internationally the rest of the year.

Glover is in Orleans County, in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, on Route 16 a few miles south of Barton. The theatre sits about two miles north of Glover village, on Route 122.

— about the piece in your home

Yes. The piece reads true to anyone who has stood in the hayfield on a Sunday afternoon. A Small or Medium with a handwritten studio note carries well for a longtime audience member or a puppeteer.

The cobalt, ochre, and bone-white palette under stained-glass treatment works with maximalist, gallery-wall, and folk-art-modern interiors. It also lifts a quieter studio or reading room where you want one piece carrying real colour.

Yes. The return to handmade, politically rooted folk imagery is well established in maximalist and gallery-wall design. A single Large over a sofa or a 4-tile Mural in a stairwell anchors the room with a real referent.

Above a standard sofa, a single Large or a 4-tile Mural reads at the right scale. Over a console, a Medium or two Smalls hung as a pair sit comfortably without crowding lamps.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are scratch-resistant and built for vertical installation around moisture. The Glossy finish is for framed wall art away from steam and splash.

A microfibre cloth with water is all it needs. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so it will not lift or fade with cleaning.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. Reid Wender chooses each place and the artwork is hand-finished in-house. Nothing is licensed in or out.

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