Career
After graduation she became an assistant editor at WGBH-TV in Boston, [13] [14] and also worked as a scriptwriter for the Virginia Department of Education, [13] and on a series about desegregation for Virginia PBS. She was then hired as an artist in residence for the South Carolina Arts Commission, [13] where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976. [14] [15]
She taught at the College of Charleston, at Regis College, and then at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, for thirty-three years, retiring as an Emerita Professor in 2013. [16] During her time at GVSU, she released the retrospective and interactive DVD Move Click Move in 2001 [17] and used the proceeds to fund scholarships. [16] There she also created, together with some of her students, a Flash animation for the international participatory project Flag Metamorphoses [18]
Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show. [19] She was chair of the SIGGRAPH 1994 Art and Design Show, [20] and a juror for the art show in 1998. [21] [22]
She has judged festivals and computer graphics competitions including the Hiroshima International Animation Festival [23] in Japan and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. [24]
She has published articles in Animation World Network. [25] [26] [27] [28]
Filmography
She has made several films for Sesame Street , [3] [2] including Dogs (1991), [1] Monkey's T-Shirt (1991), [1] [29] and Night Sounds (1992). [1] [2]
Hyperallergic wrote about her 1989 animated film Plants that "The play of light, color, line, and shape can be mesmerizing ... vegetal patterns move and spin to evoke plants". [30] Plants was also reviewed by the Chicago Reader , which noted that she " ... creates still-life portraits of flowers using rudimentary (but then-sophisticated) computer drawing tools". [31]
| Year | Film | Format |
|---|
| 2017 | Clear, Deep, Quiet | Video installation |
| 2015 | Angels in Maui | DVD |
| 2015 | Bird Dreams | DVD |
| 2014 | Animation Collaboration | DVD |
| 2014 | Perch | DVD |
| 2013 | Mindful | DVD |
| 2013 | Whispers of the Prairie | DVD [29] |
| 2013 | This present moment | DVD |
| 2012 | Skin | DVD |
| 2012 | Kindred | DVD |
| 2012 | Skies of Mist | DVD |
| 2011 | Wish you were here | DVD |
| 2010 | Traces of Light | DVD |
| 2009 | Breathing Room | Video installation [1] |
| 2009 | Ancient Woodland | DVD |
| 2007 | Forced Perspective: Odessa | DVD |
| 2007 | Time Flights | Video installation [1] |
| 2007 | Postcards from my backyard | DVD [1] [29] |
| 2002 | Kitchen Creature Feature | Film [2] |
| 2001 | Move Click Move: a DVD Compilation | DVD [2] |
| 2000 | A Mother's Advice | Film [2] |
| 1993 | Digital Aquarium | Video installation |
| 1992 | Lost ground | Computer animation [2] |
| 1992 | Sandpaintings | Film |
| 1991 | Self Portrait: Artist With Pets | Film |
| 1991 | Dogs | Film |
| 1991 | Night Sounds: Imagination | Film |
| 1991 | From The Sand | Video installation |
| 1990 | The A.M. Dream | Computer animation [2] |
| 1990 | Monkey's T-Shirt | Film [29] |
| 1989 | Plants | Film [30] [31] |
| 1991 | Artist In The Schools | Film |
| 1988 | Main Street M | Film |
| 1987 | The Lumberyard | Film |
| 1985 | August Afternoons | Film [1] [2] |
| 1984 | Camera People | Film |
| 1982 | Hand | Film [1] |
| 1981 | Reality Check | Film [2] |
| 1981 | Recycle | Film |
| 1981 | Help!...I'm Stranded... | Film |
| 1980 | Charleston Home Movie | Film [1] |
| 1978 | Starcycle | Film [2] |
| 1978 | Jimmy Brown The Newsboy | Film |
| 1978 | Ranky Tanky | Film |
| 1978 | Cats At The Door | Film |
| 1975 | The Midnight Dance | Film |
| 1972 | Marriages | Film |
| 1972 | Dejeunez, Mon Amour | Film |
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