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Joanna Priestley
Joanna Priestley in her studio in 2013, with the Movieola she used to edit her 16mm films.
Born
Portland, Oregon, United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationRhode Island School of Design, University of California at Berkeley (BFA 1995), California Institute of the Arts (MFA 1985)
Known forfilmmaking, animation, teaching, Burning Man events
SpousePaul Harrod
Websitewww.primopix.com

Joanna Priestley Joanna Priestley is a contemporary film director, producer, animator and teacher. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Early life and education

Priestley was born in Portland, Oregon to Mae Irene and Arthur James Priestley. She grew up in a wooded area near the Willamette River with horses, dogs, a cat and a huge collection of comic books. Priestley began experimenting with animation early in her life. In an interview with Harvey Deneroff[1] she explained: “One of the first toys I was given was a zoetrope, which worked on a little turntable and had little zoetrope strips with it. I loved it! I’m sure I became an animator because of that toy. Then I started drawing on the corners of my textbooks in grade school, and later studied art in high school and college, where I specializing in painting and printmaking.”

Education

Priestley studied painting and animation at Rhode Island School of Design and received a BFA in Art (with a minor in Art History) from the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with honors[2]. During her final year there she produced thousands of posters used in protests against the Vietnam War and she was the Art Department representative to the Ad Hoc Committee to End the War.

Priestley received a Master of Fine Arts in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts, where she received the Louis B. Mayer Award. For two years she was the teaching assistant for famed abstract animator Jules Engel. Priestley made the first computer animated film at Cal Arts, “Jade Leaf” (1985), using the Cubicomp, early animation hardware that was purchased by Cal Arts in the fall of 1984. Priestley and Engel co-directed “Times Square” (1986), also using the Cubicomp[3] to generate images and recording them on a 16mm Bolex camera on a tripod, positioned in front of the monitor.

Joanna Priestley at an exhibition of her animation art (watercolor and ink on index cards) from "Voices", Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts in 1985.

Career

In 1977, Priestley co-founded and co-directed (with Martha Kelley) Strictly Cinema in Bend, OR. They presented film festivals in Bend and weekly film screenings at Bend and Redmond High Schools. She became the Regional Coordinator, Editor of "The Animator" and Coordinator of the Northwest Film and Video Festival at the Northwest Film Center at the Portland Art Museum between 1978 and 1983. Gene Youngblood, one of the jurors of the Northwest Film and Video Festival, encouraged her to apply to Cal Arts. In 1988, Priestley founded ASIFA-Northwest with Marilyn Zornado. This ASIFA chapter included the northwest region of the United States which comprised Portland, Seattle, Vancouver B.C., and the areas in between. It is now known as ASIFA-Portland. Priestley was president of ASIFA-NW for four years.

Priestley founded her own company, Priestley Motion Pictures, in 1985, where she has directed, produced and animated 27 short films [4] , an abstract feature film,[5] (2017) and Clam Bake[6] (2014), an iOS app. In 1995, Animated Women: Joanna Priestley[7],a documentary about her was broadcast on PBS and BBC2[8] and she has done animation pieces for Sesame Street ("The Lumps") and animated segments of music videos for Tears for Fears and Joni Mitchell.

Priestley has received fellowships from Creative Capital,[9] National Endowment for the Arts (USA), American Film Institute (USA),[10] Fundación Valparaíso (Spain), Millay Colony (USA), Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (Canada)[11] and the Caldera Arts Foundation (USA). She was awarded the 2007-08 Media Arts Fellowship from the Regional Arts and Culture Council and her films are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Academy Film Archive and the Library of Congress.

File:Joanna Priestley by kate Sanderson.jpg
Joanna Priestley in 2010.

Priestley's influences include David Hockney, Jane Aaron, Hilma af Klint, Mary Ellen Bute, Len Lye, Norman McLaren and Jules Engel. She has taught animation, portfolio design and cinema history at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Northwest Film Center/Portland Art Museum, Art Institute of Portland and Volda University College (Volda Norway) as well as teaching animation workshops throughout the USA and in Canada, Germany and Norway. She is an active proponent of animation as an art form and has worked throughout her career to improve the status and exposure of animation in academia, museums, galleries and the media worldwide. Priestley has presented two papers at the Society for Animation Studies Conference, including "Creating a Healing Mythology: The Art of Faith Hubley"[12] in 1992 and has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1992.

"I love Joanna's films. They're brilliant, inventive and amazing. She's the queen of independent animation."—Bill Plympton

Filmography

Music videos

  • "Good Friends" (Joni Mitchell, 1985, photocopy animation) Sequence director/animator for Blashfield and Associates
  • "Sowing the Seeds of Love" (Tears for Fears, 1988, photocopy animation) Sequence director/animator for Blashfield and Associates

Television

Apps

  • Clam Bake (2012, mobile app for iPhone/iPad/iPod, 2-D computer/experimental flash art)

Retrospectives

  • 2017. British Film Institute, National Film Theater (London, UK)[13]
  • 2017. Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Stuttgart, Germany)[14]
  • 2016. Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria)[15]
  • 2015. Art Education Conference (Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, USA)[16]
  • 2015. Cinema Pacific Festival (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR)[17]
  • 2014. POW Festival (Portland, OR) Received POW Festival Pioneer[18]
  • 2013. Sisters Movie House (Sisters, OR)
  • 2013. Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR)
  • 2009. Cinemateca Santa Ana (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
  • 2009. REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA)[19]
  • 2005. American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA)
  • 2005. Jeonju International Film Festival (Jeonju, Korea)
  • 2005. Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN)
  • 2003. Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR)
  • 2000. Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
  • 2000. Masters of Animation (Trivandrum, India)
  • 2000. Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA)
  • 1995. Animerter Dager (Oslo, Norway)
  • 1994. Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Stuttgart Germany)
  • 1990. Center for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland)

Awards/accolades

  • 2016: Hiroshima International Animation Festival: Best of the World Program for Bottle Neck
  • 2014: Black Maria Film Festival: Director’s Choice Award (USA) for Split Ends[20]
  • 2014: POW Fest (Portland, OR) Priestley received the Pioneer Award[21]
  • 2013: Ann Arbor Film Festival: Art & Science Award for Dear Pluto[22]
  • 2012: ASIFA-San Francisco Film Festival: First Place, Independent Animation for Dear Pluto[23]
  • 2011: USA Film Festival: First Prize for Eye Liner[24]
  • 2011: Black Maria Film Festival (USA): Second Prize for Eye Liner
  • 2009: Black Maria Film Festival: First Prize (Jury Award) for Missed Aches
  • 2009: USA Film Festival: Finalist for Missed Aches
  • 2008: Media Arts Fellowship, Regional Arts and Culture Council[25]
  • 2005: Big Muddy Film Festival: First Prize for Dew Line
  • 2004: Black Maria Film Festival: Director’s Choice Award for Andaluz (Co-directed with Karen Aqua)
  • 2004: ASIFA Festival: Excellence in Experimental Techniques Award for Andaluz (Co-directed with Karen Aqua)
  • 2001: Tricky Women Animation Festival: First Prize/City of Vienna Prize[26]
  • 2000: Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival: First Place Award for Expression for Surface Dive
  • 2000: World Animation Celebration: Second Prize: Best Experimental Film for Surface Dive
  • 1997: San Francisco International Film Festival: Golden Gate Award for Utopia Parkway
  • 1997: Big Muddy Film Festival: Best of Festival for Utopia Parkway

Personal life

Joanna Priestley is married to animation director and production designer Paul Harrod. Other interests include dancing, practicing medicinal herbalism and designing and producing events for Burning Man and Halloween. we

References

  1. ^ http://www.skwigly.co.uk/joanna-priestley-independent-animator/
  2. ^ http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2724
  3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0893609/combined
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ North of Blue
  6. ^ (http://www.primopix.com/articles/cartoonbrew_12.html)
  7. ^ [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/05/arts/television-review-the-art-of-women-s-animation.html
  8. ^ (http://f.norytimes.com/1995/04/05/arts/television-review-the-art-of-women-s-animation.html)
  9. ^ (http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/202)
  10. ^ Colony, The MacDowell. "The Portable MacDowell". The Portable MacDowell. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  11. ^ http://klondikeinstituteofartandculture.ca/artist-in-residence-program/current-residents/past-participants/
  12. ^ "Animation Journal essays". www.animationjournal.com. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  13. ^ https://www.awn.com/news/joanna-priestley-retrospectives-screenings-set-stuttgart-bfi
  14. ^ http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/joanna-priestley-to-appear-at-stuttgart-british-film-institute/
  15. ^ http://www.trickywomen.at/en/program/focus-joanna-priestley
  16. ^ http://www3.kutztown.edu/arteducation/2015-conference.html
  17. ^ https://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/archive/2015-phillippines-and-wushu/animated-worlds-of-joanna-priestley/
  18. ^ http://powfest.com/an-evening-with-joanna-priestley/
  19. ^ https://www.redcat.org/event/joanna-priestley
  20. ^ http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org/Program_Booklet_files/BMFF-2014-Program.pdf
  21. ^ http://powfest.com/an-evening-with-joanna-priestley/
  22. ^ https://www.aafilmfest.org/single-post/2013/03/26/51ST-AAFF-AWARDS-ANNOUNCEMENT
  23. ^ https://www.awn.com/news/asifa-sf-spring-festival-winners-announced
  24. ^ http://www.indiewire.com/2011/05/interview-enrique-among-top-short-winners-at-oscar-qualifying-usa-film-festival-54260/
  25. ^ https://www.racc.org/team/joanna-priestley/
  26. ^ http://www.trickywomen.at/en/tricky-women-2001
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