Wooly Mar is the moniker of the interdisciplinary artist and musician Maria Pugnetti. Pugnetti earned an undergraduate degree in painting from UC Santa Cruz and has spent the last decade exploring different creative mediums both material and digital. Pugnetti’s artistic repertoire includes painting, fiber arts, video, sound, lighting design, and shadow puppetry.
Maria Pugnetti works as a lighting, sound and projection designer and has served as a technical consultant, touring technical director and guest teacher for theater companies in and around Southern Vermont for the last six years. View Theater Page
In her productions, Pugnetti often incorporates projection, up-cycled fabric sets, intricate costuming and shadow puppetry to create lush scenes for her sonic folklore. Her original music braids together show-tunes, electronica, rap, and eerie animism.
As a graphic designer she has created album designs for musicians from Israel to the Faroe Islands most notable among them are Mariee Sioux’s “Faces in the Rocks” and Gudrid Hansdottir’s “Beyond the Grey.” View Artist Gallery
In 2018, author Gennarose Nethercott commissioned her to build a custom Crankie with art inspired by the National Poetry Series winner The Lumberjack’s Dove.