Edwin Salas Art
Edwin Salas is dedicated to introducing the world of puppetry, theater, and dance to make dark worlds and talk about difficult themes from personal to political. Build Puppets in wood or other materials, teacher of puppetry, puppeteer, writer, dancing, and actor.
In the last 24 years, I have been able to perform in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Belize, Guatemala, the United States, and Taiwan.
Edwin Salas / East Asheville, NC
Edwin Salas is working on his visual art project "My Happy Dark Place." Where he mixes the dark humor of Mexico with horror pop art.
Edwin Salas began his adventure in toy art when he arrived in the United States in 2017. As a child growing up in Costa Rica, Edwin did not have the luxury of having toys and relied on his imagination for play. As an adult, he works to rectify this hole in his past by utilizing his creativity to invent toy-art inspired by the pop culture of the many countries he has lived in throughout his life. Edwin has different lines of toys such as “Salas Wars”, “Saddest Children of the Forest”, “Horror Figures” and “Mexican Bootlegs”. In a world overrun with plastic, Edwin utilizes his background as a puppeteer to sculpt toys from wood. His toys have recently been featured by DKE Toys in Comicons around the US.
Caravan Art Bazaar’s ART 4 AID program uses art for good by donating a percent of sales from artwork by participating artists to various grassroots mutual aid programs near and far.
To date, CAB has helped raise over $14,000 in funds for Hurricane Helene disaster relief in North Carolina, rainforest conservation in Peru and Sumatra, community land stewardship near Cherokee, affordable housing in Swannanoa NC, community art experiences in Asheville, cultural preservation in Vietnam, and more!
CAB’s ART4AID Program
