Lisa Crafts

Lisa Crafts


Full Bio
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
Season of Wonder 2015
The Flooded Playground 2005
Shout 1985
The Octopuses Exultation 1984
Glass Gardens 1982
Ungloved Hand 1979
Pituitary 1979
Desire Pie 1976

SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS
NYWIFT 30th Anniversary Shorts, Tribeca Screening Room, NY 2008
HDFest International Tour, 2007
Film Forum, Cartoons: No Laughing Matter, New York, NY 2006
Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival, S. Korea 2006
Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose CA, 2006
Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, Utah 2006
Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, 2005
International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan, 1985
Pacific Film Archive, 1977, 1984
Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 1984
Cinematique Quebecoise, Montreal, Canada, 1984
International Stuttgarter Animated Film Festival, Germany, 1984
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984
Cambridge Film Festival, Cambridge, England, 1983
Los Angeles International Film Expo (FILMEX), 1983
Hirshorn Museum, Washington, DC, 1979, 1983
International Animation Festival, Annecy, France, 1983
Seattle International Film Festival, 1983
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. 1981
International Feminist Film Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1981

AWARDS AND HONORS
Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2008
Best Experimental HD film, HDFest, 2007
Best Short Animation, Arizona International Film Festival, 2006
Best Animation, Reel Women International Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2006
Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, 2004
Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, 2002
Grant, Jerome Foundation New York City Media Arts, 2001
Daytime Emmy award for animation created for SESAME STREET, 1995, 1997
Honorable Mention, American Film Festival, 1987
Grant, CarEth Foundation, 1986
Grant, Women's Project of the Film Fund, 1986
Grant, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund, 1985
Grant, Henry P. Kendall Foundation, 1985
Grant, New England Regional Fellowship Program, 1982
First Prize, animation category, New England Film Festival, 1980

SELECTED ANIMATION COMMISSIONS
Animation for IM DANGEROUS WITH LOVE, a documentary by Michel Negroponte, 2008
Animation for PBS American Masters Louisa May Alcott bio by Nancy Porter and Harriet Reisen 2008
Animation for the film, PHYLLIS and HAROLD, directed by Cindy Kleine, 2007
Opening Title and graphics for METHADONIA, (HBO) by Michel Negroponte, 2005
Wrote, directed, and animated 24 pieces for SESAME STREET 1991-2000
Opening title: W.I.S.O.R. THE ROBO-WELDER by Michel Negroponte, 2000
Twelve station ids: AMC AMERICAN POP, 1998 -2000
Opening title: GRACE UNDER PRESSURE, Health Network, 1999
Animated sequence: CLOSET CASES (Oxygen network), 1999
Animation for installation: Kiki Smith, 1997
Four animated segments: ELECTRIC COMPANY (PBS), 1994
Commercial, EARLE PALMER BROWN, 1992
Ten station ids: VH-1, 1990

SELECTED PRESS
Gonzalez, Ed, Cartoons: No Laughing Matter, SLANT MAGAZINE, May 2006
Jensen, Taylor, Fresh From The Festivals, The Flooded Playground AWN March, 2006
Vasquez, Felix Jr. The Flooded Playground, FILM THREAT , January, 2006
Beckerman, Howard, Animation For Humanity, BACKSTAGE, July 1986
Harrington, Beth, Twisted Vista-Lisa Crafts, BOSTON ROCK, April, 1986
Carr, Jay, Animator Creates Her Own Worlds, BOSTON GLOBE April, 1984
Blowen, Michael, Is Animation a Lost Art, BOSTON GLOBE January, 1981
DeVries, Hillary, Not Made in Hollywood, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, 1983
Peary, Gerald, Boston, A New Hub for Filmmakers, AMERICAN FILM, June, 1981

EXHIBITIONS OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
Digigirls, New York Institute of Technology, 2005
Drawn to the Present, group show, Pace University Gallery, 2004
Wish You Were Here, group show, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, 1999
Small Works, group show, Bridgewater-Lustberg Gallery, New York, 1997
The Widening Gyre, group show, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, 1996.
Split Level, group show, Art In General, New York, 1995.
Accidental Tourists, group show, Bridgewater-Lustberg Gallery, New York, 1994.
Lonely Totems and Boney Fingers, solo show, Luz de Jesus Gallery, L,A., CA, 1992.
Broad Humor, group show, Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, 1992.

ANIMATION TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Pratt Institute 2005-present
Parsons School of Design 1998- 1999
Boston College 1977-1985
Guest Lectures: School of the Museum of Fine Arts 2003 Harvard 1984, 1985 RISD 1985, 1989
University of Oklahoma 2003 Osaka Design College, Kyoto College of Art 1984

MISCELLANEOUS
Curator, Animation Oddities and Grotesqueries, Collective for Living Cinema, 1988
Curator, Dark and Lovely Animation, Collective for Living Cinema, NY, 1987
Judge, New England Student Academy Awards, 1979, 1984, 1985
Curator, American Independent Animation tour, Japan, 1984
Published in Frames, a book of drawings and statements by Independent Animators, 1978

Professional Credits
Director, Animator, Writer: Season of Wonder, 2015
Animator and VFX: Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, doc. by indy Kleine 2013
Animation and Effects: I'm Dangerous with Love by Michel Negroponte, 2009
Animator: Phyllis and Harold, Cindy Kleine, 2008.
Animator, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, Nancy Porter and Harriet Reisen, American Masters, 2008
Title designer,animator: Methadonia, Michel Negroponte/HBO, 2006
Director,animator,writer,producer: The Flooded Playground, Lisa Crafts, 2005
Director, animator: 24 Sesame Street short films, Sesame Workshop, 1991-2000.
Industry Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2012
Women's Film Preservation Fund Grant- preservation of Glass Gardens, 2012
NYFA Video Fellowship, 2008
Women's Film Preservation Fund Grant- preservation of Desire Pie, 2008
Bext Experimental Short: HDFest, 2007
Best Short Animation, Arizona International Film Festival, 2006
Best Animation, Reel Women International Film Festival, L.A., 2006
Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, 2004
Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, 2002
Grant, Jerome Foundation New York City Media Arts, 2001
Daytime Emmy award for animation created for Sesame Street, 1995, 1997
Crew Up Survey
Willing To Travel: Yes
Has Own Equipment: Yes
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