Deanna Morse | |
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Born | [1]
Sioux City, Iowa, U.S. | February 26, 1950
Nationality | American |
Known for | Animation |
Deanna Morse is an independent American experimental filmmaker and media artist. [1] [2] [3] Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [4] [5] [6]
For the period of 2022–2024 [update], she is president of the International Animated Film Association. [7] She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2020. [8] [9] [10]
Morse graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in telecommunicative arts and distributed studies in 1972. She received an M.A. in film and teaching at Goddard College, and in 1992 received a Master of Fine Arts (art and technology), with a merit scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[ citation needed] In 1995, she was awarded an outstanding alumni award by Iowa State University. [11] [12]
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]
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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Deanna Morse | |
---|---|
Born | [1]
Sioux City, Iowa, U.S. | February 26, 1950
Nationality | American |
Known for | Animation |
Deanna Morse is an independent American experimental filmmaker and media artist. [1] [2] [3] Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [4] [5] [6]
For the period of 2022–2024 [update], she is president of the International Animated Film Association. [7] She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2020. [8] [9] [10]
Morse graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in telecommunicative arts and distributed studies in 1972. She received an M.A. in film and teaching at Goddard College, and in 1992 received a Master of Fine Arts (art and technology), with a merit scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[ citation needed] In 1995, she was awarded an outstanding alumni award by Iowa State University. [11] [12]
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]
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 |
This article needs additional or more specific
categories. (April 2022) |