Puppet Manipulation ClassI found an informal class at the University of Texas in Puppet Manipulation in April in Austin Texas. Here is the link, it is pretty cheap.  Looks like Puppet Improv teaches it.

I taught at UT through the informal Class program for several years. Great program and the classes are always good.

Do you live close to Austin too?
I liked the Video clip for the class, the puppets think it is for them.  We heard at work that UT was offering free college level online classes thru this program, but it looks like those are not up and running yet. There was another class about puppets on the list too, looked like video methods.