‘Speaking of the Arts’: Sam Carter

Sam Carter is an artist and craftsman in Atlanta, fabricating puppets, props and set pieces for the local film and television industry. He’s also co-founder of “Make It Weird,” a kids-centered show teaching young viewers how to “make it cheap, make it awesome, make it weird.”

Interested in drawing and visual art from a young age, Carter pursued stop-motion animation and puppetry in college, leading him to fabrication, mold-making, woodworking and other methods of crafting and creating.

Carter vividly describes the forces that inspire him to make art as “an impending sense of doom” and “a fear of my own insignificance in the universe.” He calls art a “compulsive behavior,” a grappling with existential dread.