Welcome Nyssa Collins to the UT School of Art MFA in Time-Based Arts Program. Collins comes from Burlington, NC. She has a BA in Piano Performance (2016, Cal Poly Humboldt), and is a largely self-taught multimedia artist. Collins has created several semi-permanent pieces of public art in North Carolina and worked as a giant puppet maker and performer with Paperhand Puppet Intervention for five years. She has also performed puppetry, stilts, and/or music with Fox and Beggar Theater in Minneapolis, The Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, and Busch Gardens. She is the founder of the experimental puppet company, Deep Time Puppet Co.