Lisa Crafts
Lisa Crafts is an American animator and moving image artist whose interdisciplinary work has addressed issues of environmental uncertainty, sexuality, creativity and chaos.[1]
Practice[edit]
Her current body of work focuses on a series of short moving image pieces about the Anthropocene, revealing the horror, beauty, humor and loss of the epoch.[2]
Crafts' work blends animation, video, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. It has been exhibited in galleries, museums, theaters and film festivals including the Museum of Modern Art,[3] Film Forum,[4] Slamdance, Tribeca Film Festival[5] and La Luz de Jesus. She is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow[1] and has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and The MacDowell Colony. One of Crafts' best known works is Desire Pie, a feminist erotic animation which screened widely; was "banned in Boston"; was lost, found, and restored; and ended up in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[6]
Crafts teaches in the film-video department of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
Crafts has collaborated with documentary filmmakers to create animation of dreams, memories and hallucinations. Notable work includes Michel Negroponte's Methodonia and I'm Dangerous With Love,[7] Cindy Kleine’s Phyllis and Harold and André Gregory: Before and After Dinner. She has also created animations in collaboration with Ken Brown for Sesame Street, American Movie Classics, MTV and VH1.[8] One of her Sesame Street animations, done solo, features the voice of the then-unknown anime voice actor Steve Blum.
Selected Animation and Moving Image Works[edit]
- Season of Wonder[9][10], 2015
- Still Life with Golden Apple, 2014
- Spitopia, 2014
- Oil Spill With Bird, 2013
- 3 Natures Mortes, 2010
- Overgrowth, 2009
- The Flooded Playground, 2005.[11][12]
- Shout!, 1985
- The Octopus's Exultation, 1984
- Glass Gardens, 1982
- Pituitary, 1979
- Desire Pie, 1976
References[edit]
- ^ a b "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Lisa Crafts". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ AN EVENING WITH LISA CRAFTS on Vimeo
- ^ "Museum of Modern Art".
- ^ "Film Forum · Film Sources - F". filmforum.org. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ "Independent Women: 15 Years Of NYWIFT-Funded Film Preservation | Tribeca Film Festival". Tribeca. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ "The Collection | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ "Michel Negroponte: Filmography". www.michelnegroponte.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ "Michael Sporn Animation – Splog » Lisa Crafts – Independent Animator". www.michaelspornanimation.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ "Season of Wonder at Imagine Science, Paris". Archived from the original on 2016-06-04.
- ^ "Season of Wonder at Athens Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2016-04-11.
- ^ "Film Forum ·".
- ^ The Flooded Playground awards, Internet Movie Database