TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1997- present The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Assistant Professor of Media Arts
1993-1996 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Instructor: Storytelling and Animation, Time & Motion, Animation I
1993-1995 The Art Institute of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Instructor: Animation I, Animation II, Film Survey ,Communication Survey
1992-1993 Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ Visiting Instructor, Communication: Media Criticism, Theory of Communication, Rhetorical Criticism, Understanding Persuasion
Spring 1992 Tufts University, Medford, MA Visiting Lecturer, Experimental College: Film: Dream, Fantasy, and Hallucination
EDUCATION
1989-1991 The Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA M.A., May 1991.
1988-1989 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA M.A. in Art Education and Animation, Dec. 1989
1984-1988 Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, Ithaca, NY B.A. with Distinction in All Subjects, May 1988 English Major, Visual Studies concentration.
Spring 1987 University of London, Queen Mary College, London, England
FILMOGRAPHY
Ripe
A six-minute experimental 35 mm animated film about expectation, fruitfulness, and
pregnancy. Obtained rights to Sylvia Plath's poem, "You're," for narration.
Work-in-progress.
Age Spots
Two-minute painterly animated spots for PBS exploring aging. In pre-production.
Reading Changes Everything
P's Please
Clay-on-glass, 1995, 1:15 and 45 secs.
Two spots for Sesame Street, the letter P, and early literacy and imagination.
Summer Kitchen Animation:
The Same Moon, A Smart Crow, Mixing Colors, Water, & Frog Harmony
Clay-on-glass, 1995, 30 secs. each
Funded by Independent Television Service (ITVS). Broadcast nationally on PBS children's programming.
Screenings include: 1996 National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple Award; 1996 Black Maria,
Director's Citation.
BreakThrough
Clay-on-glass, 1995, 2 mins.
Three animated sequences on cell behavior for Blackside, Inc.'s PBS series on scientists of color.
Spotlight Man
Stop-motion, 1995, 1 min.
Opening for the TV12 Spotlight series.
Cauldron
Clay-on-glass, 1994, 5 mins.
Funded by Pittsburgh Filmmakers Mid-Atlantic Region Media Arts Fellowship,
the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and PIFVA Subsidy Grant.
Screened at Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, Festival of Independents
WHYY Independent Images Series
WHYY-TV12 Animated Station I.D.s
Mixed media, 1993-1994, 10-60 secs.
A series of award-winning animated station ID s produced by PBS station WHYY.
MTV Free Your Mind Spot
Clay-on-glass, 1994, 30 secs.
Produced, directed and animated a 30-second spot for MTV Network.
Paper Walls
Mixed live action and multi-media animation, 1993, 6 mins.
Spotlight film for WHYY, based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman s story, The Yellow
Wallpaper. Live-action film mixed with clay-on-glass and other experimental
animation techniques tells the story of a woman losing touch with
reality.
I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died
Clay-on-glass, 1989, 1.5 mins.
Moody swirling images interpret an Emily Dickinson poem.
Distributed by Picture
Start and Chicago Filmmakers, broadcast on Bravo, WHYY-TV12, and
WYBE-TV35.
Screenings include:
MTV Logo - Adventures in a Fishbowl
Clay-on-glass animation, 1989, 18 secs.)
Leased by MTV Network, 1989-1991. Broadcast on MTV and MTV Europe.
No Monkey Business
3/4 video, Clay-on-Glass Animated title, 1989, 24 mins.
Educational video on careers at the Philadelphia Zoo for high school career fairs.
Z-Rocks
Mixed-media Animation, 1988, 5 mins.
Animated photocopies, rotoscoped and drawn images are used in this experimental
music video. 1989 WHYY Independent Images Program.
Fire: A Vili Myth
Cameraless Animation, 1986, 1 min.
Images drawn directly on the film tell an African myth of how humans found fire.
1989 WHYY Independent Images Program.
MEDIA ARTS INSTALLATIONS
Boxed In
ArtFronts project funded a storefront installation in center-city Phila., Sept.-Nov.
1996.
Collaboration with sculptor Bill Tomlinson.
A 25 foot-long man crouched in the store window, holding a television monitor that
captured the images of the passers-by. Reviews appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The City
Paper, and the Philadelphia Forum.
AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
1996 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Media Arts Fellowship: For artistic development & support for production of Ripe, an experimental animation on fruitfulness, anxiety and pregnancy.
1996 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts - Specific Support Grant: For production of Age Spots, a series of painterly animated interstitial spots for PBS on the subject of aging.
1996 Director's Citation, Black Maria Film Festival, The Same Moon
1996 Silver Apple Award, National Educational Film and Video Festival, The Same Moon
1996 Mid-Atlantic Region Emmy Nominee for Promotional Announcement, Spotlight Man
1995 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Project Grant: Funds for pre-production and planning for a personal animation.
1995 First prize for Best Dramatic Short, South Beach Film Festival for Paper Walls; Screening of Cauldron
1995 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Nominations: Outstanding Animator, Promotional Campaign, Promotional Announcement
1995 PBS Advertising and Promotion Award, Isolation
1994 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards: Outstanding Feature, Paper Walls; Outstanding Promotion, Jazz Performance, Nominations: Promotional Campaign, Clay-on-Glass IDs, Technical Achievement, Paper Walls
1994 PBS National Advertising and Promotion Award, Clay-on-Glass IDs
1994 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award for Special Achievement, Paper Walls
1994 Feminist Film Series: Community Education Center, Cauldron
1994 Women in the Director's Chair Screening, Cauldron
1994 Black Maria Film Festival: Director's Choice Award, Cauldron
1994 Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema's Festival of Independents screening, Paper Walls and Cauldron
1994 BDA International: Bronze Award, Performance ID
1994 PIFVA Subsidy Grant for completion of Cauldron
1993 Cine Golden Eagle, Paper Walls
1991 Medicine Wheel Animation Festival, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
1990 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Prize for Best Animation, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
1990 Black Maria Film Festival, Director s Choice Award, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
1990 Bucks County Film Festival, Honorable Mention, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
1989 WHYY Independent Images Program: I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died, Z-Rocks, & Fire
1990 Pittsburgh Filmmakers NEA/AFI Mid-Atlantic Region Media Arts Fellowship
1990 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts - Specific Support Grant, for Cauldron
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, AND RESIDENCIES
University of the Arts - Visiting Artist - Summer Painting Workshop, 7/94
Freshman Forum: Presented films, 1993-1996
Artist in Residence - Animation Dept., 9/91
Cornell University - Animation Workshop, Filmmaking Class, 2/92
Harvard University - Guest Lecturer, Animation Class, 12/91
OTHER PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
I2/9I - 3/92 Blackside, Inc. Boston, MA
Research Intern for producers of Eyes On the Prize Series.
I/92 - 3/92 Heliotrope Studios, Ltd. Cambridge, MA
Production Assistant on film and video shoots for the NOVA series and
other PBS productions.
Summer 1989 The Philadelphia Zoological Society
AV Intern. Created a careers video for the Zoo's education department.
ART EDUCATION
1994-present Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Arts in Education Roster Artist.
Visiting Artist in Public Schools.
Summer 1992 JKST Creative Arts Camp Bryn Mawr, PA
Directed and implemented Visual Arts program.
Summer 1990 The Children's Aid Society, Lower West Side Center New York, NY
Arts Specialist in a Visual Arts program for inner city children.
Summer 1989 Abington Art Center Abington, PA
Teacher in a multi-cultural arts program.
1988-1989 Allen s Lane Art Center Mount Airy, PA
Specialist and Art Teacher for after-school arts program.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society for Animation Studies, ASIFA East, Philadelphia Film and Video Association