Shadow Girls Cult Presents: ‘Unraveling’ @ Cebreazy Paints Gallery

Shadow Girls Cult — the puppetry/projection duo of Cass Bray and Zane Exactly — is back with “Unraveling,” a delightfully spooky detour into small-town paranormal activity. The show lands at Cebreazy Paints Gallery, a community-centered space dedicated to BIPOC and queer artists — a fitting home for a performance that reshapes what puppetry can be.

Recently honored with a 2025 Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant (yes, that Henson) and a 4Culture Project Grant, Shadow Girls Cult leans into analog magic: overhead projectors, hand-cut silhouettes and found objects that flicker between noir drama, comic-book panels and the spirit of a séance. It’s shadow play, but make it cinematic.

Their work blends humor and heart with more thoughtful themes — queerness, fatness, otherness and how we navigate a world that doesn’t always know where to put us. That grounding keeps the spectacle from floating off into abstraction; instead, the images feel strangely intimate, like someone whispering a secret just out of frame.

“Unraveling” shines because it treats puppetry as both ancient craft and constantly evolving art form — never static, always shifting. If you love eerie storytelling, inventive visuals and cozy-creepy vibes, this one’s worth the haunting.