Kermit Love will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Artisan Award

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Kermit Love (TDF/Irene Sharaff Artisan Award) worked with the Muppets for many years and is largely responsible for the look of some of Sesame Street's best-known characters. Jim Henson designed the idea for Big Bird, but it is Mr. Love who built much of the character and refined and improved the way Big Bird looks and works. He also built Mr. Snuffleupagus for Sesame Street and created the Snuggle Fabric Softener Teddy Bear, as well as the characters for the TV Series The Great Space Coaster (1981-86). Love has designed costumes for several Broadway and dance productions over the years as well as teaching at the Pratt Institute, Columbia University and the University of Hawaii. He has also created characters for 22 foreign versions of Sesame Street.

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