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Deanna Morse is an independent American experimental filmmaker and media artist.[1][2][3] Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[4][5][6]
Deanna Morse | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 26, 1950[1] Sioux City, Iowa, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Animation |
For the period of 2022–2024[update], she is president of the International Animated Film Association.[7] She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2020.[8][9][10]
Morse graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in telecommunicative arts and distributed studies in 1972. She received an M.A. in film and teaching at Goddard College, and in 1992 received a Master of Fine Arts (art and technology), with a merit scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[citation needed] In 1995, she was awarded an outstanding alumni award by Iowa State University.[11] [12]
After graduation she became an assistant editor at WGBH-TV in Boston,[13][14] and also worked as a scriptwriter for the Virginia Department of Education,[13] and on a series about desegregation for Virginia PBS. She was then hired as an artist in residence for the South Carolina Arts Commission,[13] where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976.[14][15]
She taught at the College of Charleston, at Regis College, and then at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, for thirty-three years, retiring as an Emerita Professor in 2013.[16] During her time at GVSU, she released the retrospective and interactive DVD Move Click Move in 2001[17] and used the proceeds to fund scholarships.[16] There she also created, together with some of her students, a Flash animation for the international participatory project Flag Metamorphoses[18]
Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show.[19] She was chair of the SIGGRAPH 1994 Art and Design Show,[20] and a juror for the art show in 1998.[21][22]
She has judged festivals and computer graphics competitions including the Hiroshima International Animation Festival[23] in Japan and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.[24]
She has published articles in Animation World Network.[25][26][27][28]
She has made several films for Sesame Street,[3][2] including Dogs (1991),[1] Monkey's T-Shirt (1991),[1][29] and Night Sounds (1992).[1][2]
Hyperallergic wrote about her 1989 animated film Plants that "The play of light, color, line, and shape can be mesmerizing ... vegetal patterns move and spin to evoke plants".[30] Plants was also reviewed by the Chicago Reader, which noted that she " ... creates still-life portraits of flowers using rudimentary (but then-sophisticated) computer drawing tools".[31]
| Year | Film | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Clear, Deep, Quiet | Video installation |
| 2015 | Angels in Maui | DVD |
| 2015 | Bird Dreams | DVD |
| 2014 | Animation Collaboration | DVD |
| 2014 | Perch | DVD |
| 2013 | Mindful | DVD |
| 2013 | Whispers of the Prairie | DVD[29] |
| 2013 | This present moment | DVD |
| 2012 | Skin | DVD |
| 2012 | Kindred | DVD |
| 2012 | Skies of Mist | DVD |
| 2011 | Wish you were here | DVD |
| 2010 | Traces of Light | DVD |
| 2009 | Breathing Room | Video installation[1] |
| 2009 | Ancient Woodland | DVD |
| 2007 | Forced Perspective: Odessa | DVD |
| 2007 | Time Flights | Video installation[1] |
| 2007 | Postcards from my backyard | DVD[1][29] |
| 2002 | Kitchen Creature Feature | Film[2] |
| 2001 | Move Click Move: a DVD Compilation | DVD[2] |
| 2000 | A Mother's Advice | Film[2] |
| 1993 | Digital Aquarium | Video installation |
| 1992 | Lost ground | Computer animation[2] |
| 1992 | Sandpaintings | Film |
| 1991 | Self Portrait: Artist With Pets | Film |
| 1991 | Dogs | Film |
| 1991 | Night Sounds: Imagination | Film |
| 1991 | From The Sand | Video installation |
| 1990 | The A.M. Dream | Computer animation[2] |
| 1990 | Monkey's T-Shirt | Film[29] |
| 1989 | Plants | Film[30][31] |
| 1991 | Artist In The Schools | Film |
| 1988 | Main Street M | Film |
| 1987 | The Lumberyard | Film |
| 1985 | August Afternoons | Film[1][2] |
| 1984 | Camera People | Film |
| 1982 | Hand | Film[1] |
| 1981 | Reality Check | Film[2] |
| 1981 | Recycle | Film |
| 1981 | Help!...I'm Stranded... | Film |
| 1980 | Charleston Home Movie | Film[1] |
| 1978 | Starcycle | Film[2] |
| 1978 | Jimmy Brown The Newsboy | Film |
| 1978 | Ranky Tanky | Film |
| 1978 | Cats At The Door | Film |
| 1975 | The Midnight Dance | Film |
| 1972 | Marriages | Film |
| 1972 | Dejeunez, Mon Amour | Film |
- 1993 - Named a distinguished professor by the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities.[32]
- 1995 - Outstanding Alumni Award from Iowa State University[33]
- 2002 - Addy Award for Move Click Move DVD[34]
- 2003 - Omni Award for Move Click Move DVD[35]
- 2005 - Selected as an outstanding woman in the arts by the YWCA[36]
- 2015 - Hyperion Award, 9th Eclipse Awards honoring Michigan's filmmakers and television creators[37]
- Honored in the Plaza of Heroines at Carrie Chapman Catt Hall at Iowa State University.[38]
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