Bone Broth Soils follows a fawn as it wakes from slumber. It has been laying in a flowery field that sprouted from the remains of a larger predator- absorbing nutrients from the beast’s bones. The surrounding environment is flourishing with flowers and butterflies, but the sleepy deer must reckon with the complex circumstances in which it has been given life. Learning to exist in this new terrain, the fawn explores their surroundings with the freedom of something that is no longer being hunted.
Featured Puppeteers: Emily Batsford and Maria Camia

This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson. In Partnership with Dutchess County Pride.

About the artist: William PK Carter is a quilter and puppet artist based in Central Valley, New York. She bridges the puppet and fine-art worlds by fabricating wondrous creatures that exist at the intersection of queerness and blackness. She received her BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College in 2023 and is the recipient of the Skidmore College President’s Racial Justice Award, the John P. Heins Award: Outstanding Senior Thesis Exhibition, and a Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant. She is a current resident artist at LaMama Experimental Theatre Club, where she is developing a long-form puppetry piece entitled Beautiful Without Consequence.