- Joanna Priestley
Joanna Priestley is an award-winning, independent animator and teacher. She currently resides in
Portland, Oregon .She trained for printmaking at
Rhode Island School of Design and received a BFA in painting fromUC Berkley , graduating with honors. In addition, she received an MFA in Experimental Animation from theCalifornia Institute of the Arts . She was mentored underJules Engel .During her career, she has produced and directed over 19 animated films, most of which have been screened at film festivals worldwide. Her work has also been broadcast on
PBS and theBBC . In addition, she has done animation pieces forSesame Street as well as for music videos forTears for Fears , andJoni Mitchell .In 1988, after graduating from CalArts, she returned to Portland to fund with the help of her friends, "ASIFA-Northwest", the ASIFA chapter in the Northwest region of the United States which was comprised of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver B.C. and the cities in between. It is now known as ASIFA-Seattle.
She is an ardent proponent of animation as an art form and has presented papers at the
Society for Animation Studies Conference and works to improve the status of animation in academia, museums, galleries and the media worldwiHer influences include
Oskar Fischinger ,Len Lye ,Norman McLaren andJules Engel .She has taught at
Art Institute of Portland ,Pacific Northwest College of Art ,Northwest Film Center /Portland Art Museum and Volda College.Personal life
She is married to animation television show director, Paul Harrod. Among her hobbies outside animation, she enjoys
gardening ,herbalism , andBurning Man .External links
* [http://www.primopix.com/ Primopix-"official site"]
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* [http://www.primopix.com/advice.html "Adive to New Filmmakers" by Joanna Priestley]
* [http://mag.awn.com/index.php?article_no=691 "Joanna Priestley: A Continuing Dialogue"] by Animation World Magazine.
* [http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=cat&category1=People&article_no=2354 "Joanna Priestley: Goddess of Independent Animation"]
* [http://www.itvs.org/external/AW/Priestley.html "Famed Animator:Joanna Priestley Reveals Her Frankly Feminist POINT OF VIEW in Program Two of the ANIMATED WOMEN Series"]
* [http://film.calarts.edu/main/streaming/expanim20.html Student work "Voice" featured in the "CalArts: 20 Years of Experimental Animation" exhibit]
* [http://asifaseattle.com/community/an-in-04.html ASIFS Interview]
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