MADDIE SHUBECK

is a video and puppet artist from Detroit Michigan.

She earned her BFA in Entertainment Arts from the College for Creative Studies in 2021, specializing in Film and Video, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Puppet Arts at the University of Connecticut.

Shubeck creates work that moves between the playful and the uncanny. Her interdisciplinary practice combines analog video, handcrafted puppets, experimental animation, and art installation to explore themes of play, chaos, nostalgia, and transformation through a specifically childlike lens.

She concentrates on abstracting and fragmenting both big and small ideas through animation, puppetry performance and physical environment. Her work often embraces handmade processes, visual distortion, fragmented narratives, and unexpected objects which allow seemingly simple or familiar things to take on new dominion. 

In 2024, she received the Kresge Gilda Award in Film Directing for her contributions to Detroit’s creative landscape, and her work was featured in the 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival’s Off the Screen installation showcase.

She hopes to connect to the internal unworldly playfulness of the viewer and show them a new lens of observation through dead media, video distortion, and chance.