During her tenure, she oversaw the Henson Family collection of objects from Henson productions at the Smithsonian Institution, Center for Puppetry Arts, Museum of the Moving Image, The Strong, and Museum of Pop Culture. From 2007 to 2010, she served as president, and then Executive Director until 2014. In 1994, Erickson became a trustee of the Jim Henson Legacy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and perpetuating Jim Henson’s contributions to the worlds of puppetry, television, motion pictures, special effects and media technology. BONNY LOCKIT PROFESSIONALĮrickson designed many professional sports mascots, including the Phillie Phanatic and Youppi!, now in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. In 1977, she and Wayde Harrison established Harrison/Erickson, Inc., a design and marketing resource for national sports teams, television production and the advertising and toy industries, with Jim Henson Associates as their first client. In 1986, Erickson became Vice President of Creative Projects for The Jim Henson Company in which she worked on productions such as The Tale of the Bunny Picnic and The Christmas Toy.Įrickson served as a Creative Director for the product division of The Jim Henson Company and Children's Television Workshop from 1987 to 2000, in which time she art directed the creation of the popular children's toy Tickle Me Elmo. BONNY LOCKIT SERIESIn 1983, Erickson served as Design Consultant and Workshop Director for the Jim Henson series Fraggle Rock. Įrickson served as Head of the Muppet Workshop for Jim Henson Associates, and set up the original London workshop for The Muppet Show. She continued with the company, specializing in puppets made from carved foam like Miss Piggy and Statler and Waldorf. After working in legitimate theater as assistant to costume designer Patricia Quinn Stewart, she was hired by Jim Henson in 1970 to provide costumes for the Muppet characters in The Frog Prince. 2.4 Notable toy and product manufacturer clientsīiography Jim Henson Company and The Muppets Įrickson began her career with a background in theater and art, having studied at the University of Minnesota and the Art Students League of New York.“But actually, I feel confident again and I feel happy and I can’t wait to get up in the morning and do a TikTok, or do this collab, or do this podcast, and I feel like myself again. The last six or seven months I’ve not felt myself at all and it’s been really hard to get that motivation to do content because I really didn’t want to look at myself," she said. I just don’t love it when I don’t feel confident. Thankfully, Bonnie was able to overcome these setbacks and after recently revealing that her dad is proud of her work, she stressed that she is starting to become happy with her appearance again. In fact, this had led to her using a large proportion of her salary on her surgeries, and she admitted: “I spent thousands of pounds trying to sort it out.” BONNY LOCKIT FREETo get lifestyle stories from Daily Star delivered straight to your inbox sign up to one of our free newsletters here. Bonnie suggested that she is now happy with her appearance and career choice (Image: Bonnie Locket/Instagram)
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