Diane Matyas - Artist

05/12/2026

My Cohort!
Puppet People are the best.

05/08/2026

Let’s get this passed NYC!
Kamillah Hanks 🐘

A bill to ban elephant captivity has been reintroduced in the New York City Council. The bill, Intro 590, will also require those holding elephants captive in New York City to relocate them to a sanctuary that meets their complex needs.

For decades, elephants Happy and Patty have been deprived of their freedom and forced to live in a small, unnatural enclosure at the Bronx Zoo. Both are confined alone. This is undeniably wrong—but we have the power to make it right.

NYC residents ONLY: take direct action to support this bill by contacting their council members here: https://bit.ly/4wgCphJ

If you’re not a resident of NYC, you can still take action! Help keep pressure on the zoo while this bill moves forward. Use this action alert to contact Bronx Zoo leadership and urge them to release Happy and Patty to a sanctuary: https://bit.ly/3QVrXfK

05/03/2026

Just to change it up a bit:
in Brooklyn. Clowning around… grrls nite out.

04/27/2026

The photographs of my recent performance are in! Thanks to the puppet photo master Richard Termine! (Link in the comments)