for the annual Halloween event. The Wildman, a co-production of the Mettawee River Company and the Cathedral, was performed at the Cathedral in the fall of 1987. Additional projects Lee's creations were a central part of the Bronx Zoo's annual Easter celebrations from 1980 to 1984. He also created giant figures for the New Year's Eve celebrations in Central Park (1974–1980) and the Fourth of July festivities on the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial in 1975. Since 1993, his creations have been featured at events at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, including Halloween on Haunted Walk (1993–2005) and The Little Engine That Could (1995–present). He has created masks for major theater and dance companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the Phoenix Theater, the Waverly Consort, the Living Theater, Shari Lewis, the Ensemble for Early Music, the New York Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Company, Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Jean Erdman's Theater of the Open Eye, Saturday Night Live (the land shark) and Yoshiko Chuma's School of Hard Knocks. Exhibitions, teaching, residencies, and recognition From February through May 1998, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center presented a retrospective exhibition of Lee's masks, puppets, giant figures, and scenic elements, attracting record-breaking crowds to the gallery. Other exhibits of his work have been presented at the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council in Glens Falls, New York (2004), The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut (2003), the World Financial Center Gallery in New York City (1999), and the City University Graduate Center Mall in New York City (1976 and 1987). In addition to Bennington College, Lee has taught at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Smith College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary, and the Boys and Girls Republic, and has been on the faculty of New York University since 1988. He has had residencies at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Immokalee, Florida, Colgate University, Hamilton College, the Navaho Reservation in Rock Point, Arizona, the University of Rio Grande, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2007/2008, Lee was the Jim Henson artist-in-residence at the University of Maryland in College Park. He has received several awards, including a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 1996 New York State Governor's Arts Award, and a 1996 DTW Bessie Award. His individual grants have included include Dancing