The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Featured Registration for this event closes at 12 PM EDT on Thursday, May 6, 2021. Available on-demand for all ticketholders for 72 hours, beginning on May 6, Join us for the seventh episode of The Spark with Tift Merritt, featuring Robin Frohardt : award-winning artist, puppet designer, and 2017/2018 Carolina Performing Arts/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation DisTIL artist-in-residence. In this livestreamed series, Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter and UNC alumna Tift Merritt returns to Carolina Performing Arts to take us behind the scenes in artist-to-artist video interviews that delve deep into the creative process. On May 6, Tift will sit down with Frohardt for a livestreamed conversation about her boundary-pushing creations, her residency at CPA, the evolution of her work, and more. An innovator in every sense of the word, Frohardt takes everyday items and experiences, adds her creativity and unique sense of humor, and transforms them into thought-provoking art, including one of her most lauded works,