Joanna Priestley - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Joanna Priestley is an award-winning, independent animator and teacher. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

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She trained for printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design

Rhode Island School of Design

Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...

and received a BFA in painting from UC Berkley, graduating with honors. In addition, she received an MFA in Experimental Animation and the Louis B. Mayer Award from the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

. She was mentored under Jules Engel

Jules Engel

Jules Engel was a Jewish-Hungarian American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher...

. 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 the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

. In addition, she has done animation pieces for Sesame Street

Sesame Street

Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...

as well as for music videos for Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...

, and Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

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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 comprised Portland, Seattle, Vancouver B.C., and the cities in between. It is now known as ASIFA-Portland. She is an ardent proponent of animation as an art form and has presented papers at the Society for Animation Studies

Society for Animation Studies

The Society for Animation Studies is an international, interdisciplinary scholarly organization dedicated to the study of animation history and theory. It was founded by Dr. Harvey Deneroff in 1987. As of 2008 its president is Dr...

Conference and works to improve the status of animation in academia, museums, galleries and the media worldwi

Priestley's influences include Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. He made over 50 short animated films, and painted c. 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries and collections worldwide. Among his film works is Motion Painting No. 1 , which is now listed on the...

, Len Lye

Len Lye

Len Lye, born Leonard Charles Huia Lye , was a Christchurch, New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives such as the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific...

, Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren, CC, CQ was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada...

and Jules Engel

Jules Engel

Jules Engel was a Jewish-Hungarian American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher...

. She has taught at Art Institute of Portland

Art Institute of Portland

The Art Institute of Portland is a college in Portland, Oregon, United States that grants bachelor and associate degrees in advertising, apparel accessory design, apparel design, design management, design studies, digital film and video, game art and design, graphic design, industrial design,...

, Pacific Northwest College of Art

Pacific Northwest College of Art

The Pacific Northwest College of Art is a private fine art and design college in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1910, the art school grants bachelor of fine arts degrees and master of fine arts degrees and has an enrollment of about 550 students...

, Northwest Film Center

Northwest Film Center

The Northwest Film Center is a regional media arts resource and service organization based in Portland, Oregon, United States that was founded to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of film...

/Portland Art Museum

Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the United States. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in...

and Volda College.

Joanna Priestley: Filmography

The Rubber Stamp Film (1983, 7 minutes, stamps on paper)

The Dancing Bulrushes (1985, 5 minutes, sand animation)

Voices

Voices

Voices is a 2006 translation of a 2003 crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, another entry in the multi award-winning Detective Erlendur series. It was first published in English in August, 2006. The Swedish translation of the novel won Sweden's Martin Beck Award for the best crime...

(1985, 4 minutes, drawings on paper)

Jade Leaf (1985, 5 minutes, computer animation)

Times Square

Times Square

Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets...

(1986, 4 minutes, computer animation)

Music Video Segments: Sequence director/animator for Blashfield and Associates.
"Good Friends" (Joni Mitchell, 1985, photocopy animation)

"Sowing the Seeds of Love" (Tears for Fears, 1988, photocopy animation)

Candyjam

Candyjam

Candyjam is a 1988 7 minute 35mm short animated film animated collaboration by ten animators from four countries produced and directed by Joanna Priestley and Joan Gratz...

(1988, 7 minutes, drawings, puppets and object animation)

She-Bop (1988, 8 minutes, drawings and puppet animation)

All My Relations

All My Relations

All my relations is a 5 minute long short animation from 1990, made from drawings on paper with 3-D frames. It satirizes the pitfalls of romance, from marriage, childbirth and upward mobility to the disintegration of a relationship...

(1990, 5 minutes, drawings on paper with 3-D frames)

Sesame Street Productions:
"The Lumps: Rejection Victories" (1990, 30 seconds)
"The Lumps: Social Skills" (1990, 30 seconds, drawings on paper with 3-D frames).

After the Fall

After the Fall

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(1991, 6 minutes, drawings on paper, location shooting)

Pro and Con

Pro and Con

Pro and Con is a 1993 9 minute 16mm short animated film produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley and Joan Gratz using drawings on paper, pixillated hands and object animation...

(1993, 9 minutes, 2-D puppets, drawings and clay painting)

Grown Up (1993, 7 minutes, drawings on paper, pixillated hands and object animation)

Hand Held (1995, 7 minutes, drawings on paper with pixillated hands)

Television Series Title: "Making Peace" (1996, 60 seconds, drawings on paper)

Utopia Parkway

Utopia Parkway

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(1997, 5 minutes, drawings on paper. replacement animation)

Surface Dive (2000, 71/2 minutes, drawings on paper and replacement sculptures)

Andaluz (2004, 4.5 min., drawings on paper)

Dew Line (2005, 6 min., 2-D computer)

Extended Play

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

(2007, 4 min, 2-D computer)

Streetcar Named Perspire (2007, 6.5 min., 2-D computer)

Missed Aches (2009, 4.min., 2-D computer)

Eye Liner

Eye liner

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(2010, 4.min., 2-D computer))

Personal life

She is married to director, Paul Harrod

Paul Harrod

Paul Harrod is an American animation director of commercials and episodic television currently working with the animation studio Bent Image Lab, Portland, Oregon.-Works:Harrod's emphasis has been in stop-motion animation...

. Among her hobbies outside animation, she enjoys gardening

Gardening

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, herbalism

Herbalism

Herbalism is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also known as botanical medicine, medical herbalism, herbal medicine, herbology, herblore, and phytotherapy...

, and Burning Man

Burning Man

Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before the American Labor Day holiday, and ends on the holiday itself. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening...

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